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What I said is true though. Far superior operating system on Apple.You got him to bite, I wondered if he would!
Android; settings won't open (crashing)
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In what way?
Over the years, I have had to fix/troubleshoot Windows/Android/Apple devices for customers. I recall one iOS update a few years ago that borked a hell of a lot of iPhones, to be fair, the Apple technical helpdesk was pretty good, but the customer wasn't happy when i told her that she would have to wait days for her phone to be able to access iCloud meaning that she couldn't access basic things like her address book or previous text messages. Apple did sort things out, but for 4 days she, and hundreds of thousands of others, had a pretty miserable time.
I have limited sympathy for the likes of MS and Google releasing updates that conflict with 3rd party hardware, but Apple have no excuse. Their updates often cause headaches for people that update early.
In 20+ years, I have personally only had one failed update, a laptop that tried to update from Windows 7 to 10, it was down to the graphics card (which could be turned off and on via a switch). It took me 10 minutes to roll back to W7 and all was fine.
Personally, I find it easier to trouble shoot problems on Windows than Apple machines, largely because MS will give you error codes that you can Google, Apple OSes don't want to admit that there is a problem and hide error codes.
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The tech in the higher end android phones is better that an Apple phone. I just find Apple iOS a lot easier to use and no where near as many issues over the years.
Microsoft is forever updating and sometimes forced too.
I’ve had a lot of people phones and just like Apple. The iOS is slicker and an android to me seems a bit “clunky” and hard work to use.
Just me opinion, each to their own.
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Fair enough.
Long before Apple entered the phone market, I wanted touchscreen phones and accordingly had Windows Mobile devices, they were far from "polished". The OS was born of the Windows CE platform. They could be glitchy, but fair play to MS, they didn't mind if the "community" hacked the OS and tweaked things. Via the XDAdevelopers website, I could download custom ROMs, some promised greater speed but at at the cost of reliability.
As someone that went from Symbian to Microsoft Mobile, to Windows Phone to Windows 10 Mobile, I am happy with Android. I have a mock Windows Mobile 10 skin on my phone, it is a pale imitation of the Windows live tiles, but in my opinion it is better than any other android offering.
It has been 5 years since I was "forced" to jump to Android, and both of my phones have been flagship Samsung phones- I have no substantial complaints. I do have minor gripes, eg. I can disable the Facebook app but not uninstall it, and I can't mute the shutter sound on the camera- actually, I can do both if I root the device, but then my bank app won't work. Personally, I dislike the fact that Apple force you (to give them money) by locking you in to their app ecosystem.
Both Windows Phone and Android let me download apps from outside of the app store. I like to think that I am a grown up an should be given the freedom to act as a grown up.
