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Every year we watch Apple and its Android competitors (like Samsung, HTC and LG) come out with bigger and better versions of their flagship phones to see which platform reigns supreme. Apple consistently won that battle for over a decade, but now Android phones are steadily becoming more popular and I know why.
My first smartphone was a BlackBerry and I jokingly called it CrackBerry because I was constantly using my phone. One day, I unfortunately dropped my phone in the sink as I was doing dishes. Luckily for me, my brother-in-law is a manager at Verizon Wireless and he was able to get my phone update pushed up a little earlier to help me get a new phone. I didn’t feel like spending any money, so I got the iPhone 4 for free. When I had my BlackBerry, I never really understood why people loved the iPhone so much. Once I got an iPhone, I fully understood why Apple consistently and easily beat their competitors.
The iOS platform is fantastic for people like me who are obsessed with technology, movies and music. A recent study showed that the iPhone and iPad have the best touch screen response times. Us millennials will always be obsessed with our mobile devices, but for some reason I was always a little annoyed whenever I’d use my iPhone to watch TV shows or music videos.
To make a long story short, I switched over to an Android smartphone about a year ago and now I believe that the Android phones (specifically Samsung) are the BEST smartphones available right now. The obvious reason is the fact that Samsung is not afraid to experiment with making their screens bigger and better each time. Apple, on the other hand, is FINALLY going to debut a bigger (approximately 5”) screen on the iPhone 6.
Another problem plaguing Apple is their apparent inability make innovative improvements to their newest phones. The biggest problem the iPhone faithful are really angry about is the blue screen kiss of death.
The iPhone’s faithful 5s users have been experiencing a lot of technical difficulties lately. The majority of people have pinpointed the problem to the iPhone’s inability to stop the phone from experiencing the dreaded blue screen kiss of death that we hate dealing with on our computers.
The crashes seem to happen primarily when users are trying to multitask using Apple’s iWork productivity apps (like Numbers and Pages) and Apple’s new multitasking interface. If I still had an iPhone, I know that this would absolutely turn me off to it. As a business owner, I can’t afford to have my technology fail on me like that, especially technology that used to be the most reliable in the mobile industry.
In my previous post about the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, I raved about all of the newest additions to the Note series, but the one I’m most excited to try out is their multitasking interface. I’ve seen reviews where you can use 3 apps AT THE SAME TIME!! Again, as a business owner, this is equivalent to a diamond mine because I always have at least two projects going on simultaneously. Getting back to the multitasking interface, I am not the least bit surprised that the newest iPhone is struggling to make a comparable multitasking interface. The iPhone neglected to integrate multitasking for so long that the recent inclusion is a little puzzling, to me at least. That’s a tangent I’ll save for another day. Having had a Samsung smartphone, I love their multitasking interface. It took me a while to get used to it since I didn’t have that luxury on my old iPhone, but now I’m hooked.