Big Brand names whose products are way overrated

Paris Skinny Wallpaper wrote: »

You would have to laugh at the android fanboys frothing at the mouth when they inferior devices are called out for what they are. I've never ever come across something that my "locked down" iPhone couldn't do. Yet all you hear from the android plebs is "walled garden" and "locked down". Its fully as they probably don't even realise how superior a user experience it is to be in the apple eco system and how all your device work hand in hand with each other like the android boys could only dream of.

I wouldn't even take a job that expected me to use a windows machine or an android phone, couldn't dealing with that day to day.

Superior devices? Give me a Note 10 over any Iphone. I have a work Iphone, I have a Samsung Note 10 Plus as my own personal phone. The Note 10 wins hands down.

There is more customization with Android, IOS is like a brick wall. It just sucks donkey balls and too locked down.

I would rather a 150 euro Android phone than a 1200 Iphone. There's not even widgets on IOS hahaaha

As for your part in Bold any decent company uses Iphones as they are more secure.

The note 10 plus beats any fecking Iphone hands down.

You would have to laugh at the android fanboys frothing at the mouth when they inferior devices are called out for what they are. I've never ever come across something that my "locked down" iPhone couldn't do. Yet all you hear from the android plebs is "walled garden" and "locked down". Its fully as they probably don't even realise how superior a user experience it is to be in the apple eco system and how all your device work hand in hand with each other like the android boys could only dream of.

I wouldn't even take a job that expected me to use a windows machine or an android phone, couldn't dealing with that day to day.

JL555 wrote: »

Lot of angry people on this thread giving out about certain devices they most likely have never used and secretly wish they could own. Chill out people, each to their own.

Nah, just Apple fan boys overpaying for stuff and falling for advertising.

Its quite funny. They wouldn't even know the specs of the IPhones if you asked them.

L1011

JL555 wrote: »

Lot of angry people on this thread giving out about certain devices they most likely have never used and secretly wish they could own. Chill out people, each to their own.

Standard Apple booster reply circa 1998. It doesn't work anymore. It barely passed then and that was because most people had never used any Apple kit then - now nearly everyone has.

Nobody who criticises Apple kit secretly wishes they could use it - they have and wish they hadn't.

YFlyer

Fizzy drinks companies in general.

Lot of angry people on this thread giving out about certain devices they most likely have never used and secretly wish they could own. Chill out people, each to their own.

L1011

Paris Skinny Wallpaper wrote: »

As someone else said on the thread, look at any real tech people not your bargain basement type - they all use iPhones and Macbooks etc.

Translation - look at anyone who doesn't have to spend their own money yet gets to pick hardware.

And I'd disagree about them using iPhones; its the Macbooks they go for (for looks); and they're running Linux or Windows on them.

iPhones are used by the image obsessed and little else now. They have always been limited, restrictive devices that actual tech people would never want to use. Took three entire OS revisions to fix a minor bug relating to priority email alerts that anyone doing real tech work and getting alerts would find sufficient to dump the device entirely.

First iPhone had about a tenth of the features of the existing smartphones; but had a capacitive touchscreen so it was easier to use that 10% on (it couldn't even run non-web applications for quite some time, jesus). That market of providing a simplified shiny shiny still exists. They're phones for the image obsessed not those who actually need to use them to work.

Suckit

FVP3 wrote: »

It's perfectly legit to use the term Android phone. Everybody knows what that means.

Yep, I was referring to the fact that they aren't specifically android though. They are phones that come with android installed on them.

FVP3 wrote: »

iPhones in fact last far longer than Android phones up to twice as long, and continue to get OS updates for years. It's clear in the data, but just walking around that people are quite happy with the older devices. iPhones are for normal people.

Apple products are way overrated, and that's what this thread is about. They are not worth the premium extra price that people pay for them. No idea where you get the notion that they last twice as long. They were fined (again) this year for forcing updates that cause their phones and tablets to slow down in an attempt to encourage the user to buy a new one.

FVP3 wrote: »

I find the exact opposite, as does the data. iOS is fluid, and most Android devices I have used are buggy, laggy or crashy. To be fair the android phones I use are cheap. I do have both as I said, because I need to use Android where the iPhone's security stops me from some work.

But as I said above, its a certain type of nerd who loves Android. Not the brightest nerds, as someone who is around the campus of Facebook and Google quite a bit because my company does work there, the iPhone predominates, as does the Mac.

:rolleyes:

snoopboggybog wrote: »

What are you talking about? I work in tech.

I know its a matter of opinion but IOS is shocking and completely locked down. Any tech person I know used Android for this reason. Its the not so smart people that go for Apple devices because of the brand name and any tech person hates the lock down on Apple devices.

What I find with Mac Books with people that use them is they think their technical but there not whatseover. I know its good for video editing but apart from that you are paying over the odds just for the logo. Your usual blogger type people.

People just pay over the odds for Apple stuff for the label.

Bit of a generalisation there.

Paris Skinny Wallpaper wrote: »

This is why android will always be inferior, apple co-design their hardware and software to work flawlessly together while android is a mismatch of different companies software and hardware resulting in laggy, buggy devices with poor use-ability and badly utilised hardware. Android is also a horrible operating system to use from a navigating around it perspective etc.

As someone else said on the thread, look at any real tech people not your bargain basement type - they all use iPhones and Macbooks etc.

What are you talking about? I work in tech.

I know its a matter of opinion but IOS is shocking and completely locked down. Any tech person I know used Android for this reason. Its the not so smart people that go for Apple devices because of the brand name and any tech person hates the lock down on Apple devices.

What I find with Mac Books with people that use them is they think their technical but there not whatseover. I know its good for video editing but apart from that you are paying over the odds just for the logo. Your usual blogger type people.

People just pay over the odds for Apple stuff for the label.

Montage of Feck

The whole phone fanboy thing is just about to get more silly, as manufacturers are now starting to put out phones with unnecessary over the top specs.

CosmicFool

Ye really need to get over the Apple V Android thing. Its a phone, the all do mostly the same thing

Wizard!

corks finest wrote: »

404 error must be Apple alright

Must be your Android... Link is live and visible.

vard wrote: »

This little film pretty much sums up the Android vs iPhone debate www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0mm086xqQE

404 error must be Apple alright

Capra wrote: »

Nah, ASICS are a serious quality item. Of course you may have got a bad pair as they literally make hundreds of different styles and they are bound to have some duds. but of all the brands I think they are right up there with the best in their category.

Agree nothing special, I've a pair a few months,same as all the rest

thequarefellow wrote: »

Have to second Dyson. Overhyped, plasticky, but most of all just don't deliver on suction.

Cadbury's chocolate too. Dreadful. I worked in a place where all the old Dears buy me a box of Cadburys Roses at Christmas. They went straight in the bin.

Agree ref Dyson, Miele are better, cheaper and more reliable

vard

Paris Skinny Wallpaper wrote: »

This is why android will always be inferior, apple co-design their hardware and software to work flawlessly together while android is a mismatch of different companies software and hardware resulting in laggy, buggy devices with poor use-ability and badly utilised hardware. Android is also a horrible operating system to use from a navigating around it perspective etc.

As someone else said on the thread, look at any real tech people not your bargain basement type - they all use iPhones and Macbooks etc.

What do you mean by "tech people"? I used to work as a writer for one of the largest tech magazines and websites in the US. I was surrounded by all sorts of tech people. High end android phones are as popular, particularly among people who don't like the walled garden of iOS. Android offers more advanced use cases such as emulation, customization of core features like navigation... and Android has long since matured to be just as buttery smooth as iOS. Even more so, in some cases, as only Android offers high refresh rate screens, and the majority of high end Android devices use the same Qualcomm series of processors.

On the other hand, Windows is the go-to enterprise operating system. Mac has grown to be popular among video editors, but the fastest computer is always going to be a PC, while still being FAR cheaper than the Apple alternative. There are as many people who continue to champion PC for this reason, and windows vs OSX is just a matter of preference. With PC, you have the option to upgrade and customize your build to suit your own needs, and you can dual boot either OS, if you must.

magic_murph

Durex. Simple

Suckit wrote: »

Android phones also are not 'android' phones, they are phones with android installed on them.

This is why android will always be inferior, apple co-design their hardware and software to work flawlessly together while android is a mismatch of different companies software and hardware resulting in laggy, buggy devices with poor use-ability and badly utilised hardware. Android is also a horrible operating system to use from a navigating around it perspective etc.

As someone else said on the thread, look at any real tech people not your bargain basement type - they all use iPhones and Macbooks etc.

Capra

thequarefellow wrote: »

Asics running shoes. I was talked into spending almost €200 on a pair of these for their 'superior quality and support; choice of top runners etc etc' when I started running a few years ago. They fell apart after 6 months.

Nah, ASICS are a serious quality item. Of course you may have got a bad pair as they literally make hundreds of different styles and they are bound to have some duds. but of all the brands I think they are right up there with the best in their category.

razorblunt

thequarefellow wrote: »

Asics running shoes. I was talked into spending almost €200 on a pair of these for their 'superior quality and support; choice of top runners etc etc' when I started running a few years ago. They fell apart after 6 months.

How many miles did you cover in them? If it's serious miles you're not really going to be getting that much longer out of them.
If you're into running it's well worth getting your gait analysed and proper shoes fitted, that way you can fork out the cash there and then, keep the name and brand and jump on sales when they arrive.
I got fitted for a pair of Brooks and they were brilliant, if I ever get back to doing serious (semi) miles again I'll get another pair.

corks finest wrote: »

Regatta

They've hit rock bottom though, Debenhams and other outlets were flogging them for bargain prices lately.

thequarefellow

Asics running shoes. I was talked into spending almost €200 on a pair of these for their 'superior quality and support; choice of top runners etc etc' when I started running a few years ago. They fell apart after 6 months.

thequarefellow

Hesh's Umpire wrote: »

You could at least have given them to charity! They aren't inedible.

I honestly tried (I had three big plastic tubs - interestingly I think the quality plummeted around the same time the tins turned to plastic). The second hand shop didn't want them, they don't take food items. A Penny Dinner type charity didn't want them either. They had a surfeit, it being Christmas and they were also trying to promote healthier eating.

Roger the cabin boy

thequarefellow wrote: »

H
Cadbury's chocolate

Hesh's Umpire

thequarefellow wrote: »

Cadbury's chocolate too. Dreadful. I worked in a place where all the old Dears buy me a box of Cadburys Roses at Christmas. They went straight in the bin.

You could at least have given them to charity! They aren't inedible.

thequarefellow

Have to second Dyson. Overhyped, plasticky, but most of all just don't deliver on suction.

Cadbury's chocolate too. Dreadful. I worked in a place where all the old Dears buy me a box of Cadburys Roses at Christmas. They went straight in the bin.

FVP3

Suckit wrote: »

I would agree with the first sentence, but after that.....
They are non comparable. You can buy an android device that costs the same price or less than it's gen version of apple, and it will perform every bit as good, maybe better in some cases.

Android phones also are not 'android' phones, they are phones with android installed on them. Android devices are also far more likely to be repurposed after they have been put in the drawer or wherever a phone usually goes to die. Other OS's can be installed on many of them via communities, and all of them if you know how to.

Apple devices (with the exception of their pc's) aren't usually repurposed and apple themselves make it harder to do it, as they render older versions of their OS's useless within their own ecosystem.

Other OS's may keep them alive.

As for the 'bargain' argument, you can buy an equally, or more expensive 'android' phone.

It's perfectly legit to use the term Android phone. Everybody knows what that means.

iPhones in fact last far longer than Android phones up to twice as long, and continue to get OS updates for years. It's clear in the data, but just walking around that people are quite happy with the older devices. iPhones are for normal people.

snoopboggybog wrote: »

I absolutely despise Apple phones. The OS on them is just absolutely horrendous.

Honestly if i had the choice of the Apple 11 Pro max (1200 euro) and the Hauwei P Smart (130 euro). I would pick the Hauwei P Smart as my daily phone.

The OS is just shocking.

I find the exact opposite, as does the data. iOS is fluid, and most Android devices I have used are buggy, laggy or crashy. To be fair the android phones I use are cheap. I do have both as I said, because I need to use Android where the iPhone's security stops me from some work.

But as I said above, its a certain type of nerd who loves Android. Not the brightest nerds, as someone who is around the campus of Facebook and Google quite a bit because my company does work there, the iPhone predominates, as does the Mac.

Terrontress wrote: »

That newest family sized Peugeot, the 508, is one of the best looking cars I’ve seen in a long while.

I think Peugeot are in the middle of sharing mechanicals with Opel and soon they’ll be in the same company as Fiat and Chrysler. Once the accuntants get their way, anything can happen.

Having had Citroen Peugeot and Renault cars they are comfortable, cheap, but electronically unreliable.
Products from apple overrated
FG/FF

Regatta