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[Grommet]

[lchen]

lol
wow that's going on to 11mil views

[Natsumi]

awesome

[Cloud]

oh lol my friend showed me this a few months back

[Hosaka-san]

Rocking the HTC EVO. Loving it since day one. As far as screen size, it rivals the Droid X, but just a happier screen to look at. The Droid looks too plain for my tastes.

[lchen]

Can u explain how evos r different from droids

[Illinest]

http://mashable.com/...id-infographic/

they're both made by HTC. The infographic seems to be a little out of date but it's reasonable enough I suppose.

Of course it was made in a fit of iPhone 4 fervor so the iPhone gets a spot of honor and a special yellow column and a bunch of other little things.
For example notice that the displays of the HTC phones are listed the way a normal computer display is listed, but the iPhones display has the vertical component first which subtly suggests that the difference in resolution is much bigger than it really is.

I'll say this for Apple, their marketers are fucking geniuses.

Other examples:
Their processor speed is 'High' rather than listing a number which might look obsolete before a new model comes out.
Their battery is 'internal' which implies clever packaging when in actuality it's a drawback that they're trying to disguise with marketing spin.
They don't list the resolution of the front camera for the same reason they don't list the processor speed.
They pimp the higher built in memory compared to their competitors, which is a pleasant way of hiding the fact that you can't upgrade or swap out memory.
They pimp the higher number of apps, which seems impressive until you find that there's a hundred different 'flashlight' apps that do nothing but turn the screen white.


And of course there's the original conceit of the 'i' which precedes all of their product names, implying intelligence.


And still no flash.
http://sivers.org/itunes
If you haven't read this I highly recommend it. It tells the story of how Steve Jobs strong-armed the owner of a smaller company into giving Steve what he wanted.
So read it and then start thinking about the spat with Adobe. Flash supposedly 'drains the battery too much'? Stop feeding us a fucking line Steve.
Real answer - Adobe and Apple didn't agree on price. Period.
So Steve starts trashing Adobe's product.
He's such a fucking prick.

[Cinnabon]

I have no phone

[Saiyr]

And still no flash.
http://sivers.org/itunes
If you haven't read this I highly recommend it. It tells the story of how Steve Jobs strong-armed the owner of a smaller company into giving Steve what he wanted.
So read it and then start thinking about the spat with Adobe. Flash supposedly 'drains the battery too much'? Stop feeding us a fucking line Steve.
Real answer - Adobe and Apple didn't agree on price. Period.
So Steve starts trashing Adobe's product.
He's such a fucking prick.

Lots of people don't like Flash. Most of them are probably developers/technical people. Watching Facebook games take an entire CPU core is sad.

I still have an iPhone 3GS. Don't know if I'll switch to whatever iPhone comes out in the summer, assuming there is one, or to Android. I like that Apple imposes interface guidelines on people to make things a bit more uniform, but developing on Android is cheaper/more open. Maybe if I get a phone for work I'll have both. Woo.

[lchen]

wait arent u working for google right now. tsk tsk

[Saiyr]

wait arent u working for google right now. tsk tsk

lol shhh. Lots of people there have iPhones anyway...same with MS, which is even better

[lchen]

damn the cellphone gods! so now verizon is getting the iphone in feb and i don't get the 9.99 credit each month(for 24mo) because thats for the 29.99 unlimited plan (deal ends in a week, if i want it). on the up side, i like the droid and it's $100 less than iphone and with the wifi at home i cant really get the most out of the unlimited plan, i'm only using 20%-25% of my $15 150mb a month.