10-09-2014, 08:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-09-2014, 08:58 AM by Dutz.)
As a software engineer who has had to work under the hood with all three platforms, MAC, (PC) Windows, and Unix, I tend to stay away from all things MAC/Apple. The basic concepts are true that 1) Apple products are good for anyone who needs and knows nothing about computers. You will be happy and never know what your are missing (although you are missing a lot) 2) Windows is good if you know what you want the computer to do. You can always find something or modify something to do it. With Windows it does what you tell it to do, with a MAC you do what the computer tells you. 3) The people who know, i.e. Computer Geeks, Software Engineers, IT people, etc., etc. use Unix/Linux and all forms thereof. But you generally have to know what you are doing.
Having said all that. With a phone it is different. Most of the apps are the same and when you find an interface you like, you are good. For me I use a Galaxy Note 3. I will never use anything else. Since I started using the Stylus I never use notebooks or note paper anymore. I just hand write into my phone and it goes anywhere/everywhere. I also like the phablet size. It is big enough for any media on the go, and small enough to use as a phone and fit in an EDC.
I also like Android because the apps are written in Java, not the silly proprietary language Apple uses. I can write my own Apps and keep my Java skills alive without learning a new language that has no use anywhere else.
And that is the Apple legacy, tools that have no use anywhere else.
....Since most of what I just said probably didn't help, I will add this.
Pay the money. Get the most powerful phone you can afford and get on a good service. AT&T or Verizon.
If you go cheep on either of those, good software and a qualify operating system won't make up the difference.
If you spend a lot of time traveling and/or in the boondocks go Verizon. You will have bars everywhere others don't.
Having said all that. With a phone it is different. Most of the apps are the same and when you find an interface you like, you are good. For me I use a Galaxy Note 3. I will never use anything else. Since I started using the Stylus I never use notebooks or note paper anymore. I just hand write into my phone and it goes anywhere/everywhere. I also like the phablet size. It is big enough for any media on the go, and small enough to use as a phone and fit in an EDC.
I also like Android because the apps are written in Java, not the silly proprietary language Apple uses. I can write my own Apps and keep my Java skills alive without learning a new language that has no use anywhere else.
And that is the Apple legacy, tools that have no use anywhere else.
....Since most of what I just said probably didn't help, I will add this.
Pay the money. Get the most powerful phone you can afford and get on a good service. AT&T or Verizon.
If you go cheep on either of those, good software and a qualify operating system won't make up the difference.
If you spend a lot of time traveling and/or in the boondocks go Verizon. You will have bars everywhere others don't.
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