I’m a bit fucked having bought Tom tom apps for half the world. Id like to leave apple but can’t face having to repurchase all that lot.
The Mrs changed from Apple to Galaxy a while back but hated it and has gone back to Apple now. Horses for courses I guess. I was an android person but with Apple now and prefer this over my old HTC phone but things change all the time.
I think a lot of the trouble is often the vendor-altered versions of Android served up on most devices.
Stock Android, as Google intended, has become a thing of beauty over the last couple of years.
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Okay, I have a tatty old iPhone 4S but, like Barry, I find it works fine for what I want and I have a load of apps on it which I don’t really want to repurchase.
My biggest gripe with Apple is their fucking iTunes nonsense. For an organization that seemingly prides itself on simplicity, I find the whole file interface between my windows laptop and iTunes to be astonishingly irritating. I guess, if I was using a Macbook, I wouldn’t have these problems but I don’t and, as a result, I seem to spend untold hours trying to get the things I want on my phone actually on my phone, and then iTunes does a whole load of things I didn’t want or expect it to do.
Why can’t it just be like windows, where I can drag and drop? For this reason, I’m tempted to switch…
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This is the bit that really pisses me off I have bought a programme / App I should be able to transfer it to any of my new devices without paying a new fee or downloading a new licence. I have already paid for it so surely I technically own that bit of software and should be able to place it on any device i own.
Been 4 weeks now and whilst I’m not regretting moving away from Apple, nor am I blown away but the S6 Edge.
Biggest annoyance with new phone is that the text group chats I was in with people who had iphones don’t work now, as they all have imessage which isn’t supported by andriod. That’s been overcome by moving the chat to WhatsApp.
Also, when emails come into the standard email facility, they are white. Once you have read them they are whiteish gray. The colours are so similar you can hardly tell the difference, which I find a bit odd. Apparently there are email apps you can download that offer more options, but I’d rather that the default email facility did this. I can live with it though.
I’ve not attempted to do much with the music I copied across yet, but whereas it was all in albums in the iphone, it’s copied them across as individual files, so I guess I’ll have to sort the tracks back into album groups at some point.
Originally posted by @Barry-Sanchez
I used to be the first in the queue for a new phone, now I have a battered iphone4, it works and I can get the internet and that’s it for me.
My daughter could not understand why my new upgrade iPhone 6s was just sat in it packaging for 3 weeks before I opened it. The reason, my other phone was just about still doing the job for me.
I stuck with Samsung for years until a few years back, but really like the iPhone has all I need in one place. Yes yes, that is what Apple want I know.
I have to say the 6s is the best iPhone I have had and they get better every upgrade. Not sure where any of these mobile phone companies go next, but we will see.
The stupid fuckaty predictive text on this Galaxy is getting right on my tits. At least the iPhone predictive text uses some logic and common sense and it seems to learn from the user and adapt accordingly. I swear this thing is intentionally trying to make me look like a twat.
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Meh, my iPhone is doing the same to me. Not sure if it is the Model (6+) or the newer OS updates (got both around the same time) but it’s gotten noticablty worse lately.
*Most of my posts are on my phone, so you can usually witness this for yourselves.
If you aren’t already using SwiftKey, give that a go.
I know for a fact that it can make twats look like non-twats, but whether it can make complete twats look like non-twats, I’m not sure.
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I downloaded it a few weeks ago, after having it’s virtues extolled by my former boss who is now an employee at Swiftkey, and have yet to actually set it up.
I fail at life in so many spectacular ways 
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You spend too much time playing your own levels to see if you can complete them…
Do you type or swipe, if you type I would suggest you swipe as that is much quicker, you might have to switch it on first in the kwyboard settings though…
P.S. Hows the Colorado Beetle infection going?
This is curiously compelling…
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Pah, standard headphone sockets.
Shit anyway.
On the dog and bone front, I had a Samsung S3 for far too long until it ran out of charge within 4 hours and took an hour to get going. Didn’t fancy another Samsung, really, so went for a Blackberry Priv, which is gurt and i do like the keyboard.
On the tablet front and as a techno dinosaur, I still have a Nexus 7 from a few years ago, which is OK, but some updated operating system fucked it up and it needs re-booting everytime it’s used. My kids lol at me, but there fuck all wrong with it, apart from it’s a bit slow. Bit like me.
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Apple in relying on customers to be like lemmings and spend money on an adaptor for their headphones that they did not need before or with any other device shock
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Lol, what you are saying is by the time you have found the next letter to press, your stoneage tablet has had the couple of seconds it needs to process the previous keystroke.
The new headphones have already been likened to “tampons without strings” 
They’re certainly not the first company to go the proprietary route, not even the first phone company for that matter. I remember one of my old Samsungs being similarly afflicted. Every company that goes this route gets shite though, as they bloody should.
All about creating your own standard and getting people to pay more for the privilege.
In other words, Apple’s entire business model realised in one business decision.
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I do think all this company bashing over a new product is rather funny… Why? Because it’s made out as if consumers MUST now be fucked off because if they WANT the latest tech they have to add other bits and pieces -
Now am no Luddite but if your current phone works why the fuck is there a need to upgrade to the next one ?
Upgrade when you have to surely, not on the latest release ? Yet the media tell us that it’s bad because now everyone will need the pod headphones or an ugly converter… No they fucking won’t - only if you change your phone. If I buy a new fucking Dyson Vac, I don’t expect to keep and fit all the other attachments thingies… Different new model, different accessories usually…
Apple do what they do and arguably rather successfully despite what the bashers say - they have always ignored the current way and done things on their own - the first iPad was slated …
Bluetooth headphones are not new, but probably about time they became mainstream given how fucking annoying the cable can be when you want to hide it or whatever…
Also makes me laugh how folks seem obsessed with saying one brand is better - usually the one they own/have … When they all work, have different features and have pros and cons - just buy the fucking one you like and shut the fuck up Its your money, your choice.
The New Chutters: he also does angry laughing at mobile phone brand obsession
(written and posted on my IPhone6 Plus which pisses on Samsung who copied the fruit Meisters anyway and is fucking great, and makes me more attractive to women)