has bundled Farhad Manjoo . The author and columnist incisive Slate , tired of seeing the exchange of accusations between iPhone and Android acolytes, has decided to throw out the middle road and leave behind the smartphone apple to venture into the waters of the green robot. This would be a trip with return ticket, as discussed below.
not an easy task to get into the wolf’s mouth and tell what you think freely in a market totally divided between black and white requires some courage. Many may think that of “bah, it’s just a phone” but the truth is that the legions of fanboys or fandroids jump for the jugular as deemed to be offended its platform.
Manjoo
entered yet. New year, new life. The author was seduced by the siren song of the mobile platform from Google, it dazzles more users with smartphones generation that come out to the market. You know: the iPhone appears beside an antique-art equipment like the Galaxy S4 or HTC One is a cry of that iPhone users can hardly remain indifferent, and one of the biggest threats to Apple: The Battle of image.
Well, as noted, our man decided to start 2013 leaving his beloved iPhone 5 to give Android a serious chance, using either a Galaxy S4 and exactly a HTC One “The iPhone 5 was not charged for months, the poor, “he writes. Manjoo’s argument was sound: as the author of books and articles on technology should prove what took far more. And that is Android.
The experience of ‘switchers’
Coming from a closed ecosystem in which hardware and software live in an indissoluble marriage, Android adventure struck him as risky: many manufacturers who installed different versions of the platform on which also apply their own interfaces. And here the problems started: Manjoo bitterly criticized the amount of applications that manufacturers install in mobile and that, in their opinion, “eat the battery”.
first problem not faced by iPhone users, where everything is controlled under the iron hand of Apple censorship. But possibly the most bitter drink that faced African columnist said gap is platform-maker: by prism, Android developers have an idea in your head of what is mobile, while manufacturers and other always coincide.
But frustration came to a head when on his adventure concluded that “ most Android phones are crap “, and argued this incendiary phrase explaining that the bulk of the moving platform are low-cost and “get the product you pay for”, not like the iPhone, the high price of being within reach of a particular market sector.
More complaints
Another complaint, referring in this case to S4, bound for the number of sophisticated functions incorporating the smartphone , and that in their opinion, most users did not use. “Give me back my iPhone, please” in an article titled desperate exceeding well over a thousand comments and runs at breakneck speeds social networks. Getting into the lion’s den has these things.
But not all switchers (as it is known that change of platform) think alike. 2013 is being, in this sense, a fateful year for Apple, as the battle of the image is giving more trouble than I thought. While authors like Manjoo have much scope in public opinion, nothing to do with the influence of two celeb stars as Guy Kawasaki and Robert Scoble , which this year have said goodbye to iPhone loudly to embrace the latest Android, and both seem happy with the change.
A knock on the waterline of Tim Cook to lose two timing marks on the scene. But if this news was bad, worse are the reasons given by both: in his view, Android has surpassed iOS in their evolutionary process , not to mention the growing supply of next generation smartphones flooding the market against the iPhone-iOS only entity. And that to months to learn the latest model of Apple’s smartphone. This year more than ever, the stakes are high.
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