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12-21-2015 , 12:13 AM
Have there been any think pieces on Jezebel tying the Bernie Sanders data breach to rape culture yet?
12-21-2015 , 01:05 AM
Apple has Meh mobile operating systems

Android offers great operating systems you will read about all the time but never ever get.

Who here has an android? A million people. Who's read about marshmallow? A million people. Anyone have it? Me neither.

Apple offers way better privacy, Androids offer better hardware.
12-21-2015 , 01:47 AM
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Apple offers way better privacy
Fappening tho
12-21-2015 , 01:58 AM
Privacy and security are different, one is not looking at your personal information, and the other is not letting it out.

And Apple's security was perfectly fine, if you're rich or famous, you should probably use a good password and not use information available on wikipedia or Us Magazine for your security questions.
12-21-2015 , 02:59 AM
Androids are definitely more versatile and offer more flexibility in terms of the content you can get on them but it is this very aspect and the more open development platform that makes your phone useless within a year.

This is my personal opinion based on having tried 3 top of the line androids before switching to iphone 5. My iphone hasnt slowed down or even had the minor most of glitches in the same amount of time that took me to be forced to switch the 3 androids.

If someone can convince me that the overall experience on androids has gotten a lot smoother then i might consider buying one as an auxillary number. Till then the haptic feedback on my last android still gives me nightmares.
12-21-2015 , 04:50 AM
Interesting that you say that SS. My HTC One M8 is 1.5 years old, and the haptic feedback has definitely become worse over time. It's particularly noticeable in the mornings when I first turn my wifi/4G back on - feedback is slow as **** for a minute or so, then normalizes. Interestingly I didn't experience the same on my previous two phones, both Samsung Galaxys.

I might have considered switching to an iphone if I weren't so lazy. I imagine you're not quite as hopelessly caught in the web of everything Apple these days even on an iphone.
12-21-2015 , 04:53 AM
haptic feedback is the 3d of phone features
12-21-2015 , 04:56 AM
I don't even know if you need it any more (I presume not), but back in the day you were more or less forced to install iTunes on your PC if you had an iPhone and wanted to do anything with it... and at the time, iTunes was such a piece of sh*t software that I'm fairly sure Apple outsourced the development to biggerboat's company. On the flip side, the first Android I tried just worked and I could easily put movies and music on and off it. So Apple and iPhone can ggf forever.
12-21-2015 , 04:58 AM
The androids have gotten much better. Right now I am using an iPhone on T-Mobile and an android on Verizon. I am surprised how crisp the android has been working. Still though, iPhone a bit smoother. But definitely a close call these days.
12-21-2015 , 04:58 AM
In other news...

I guess he's on a strength cycle. It's not quite as erection inducing as the deadlifts for me, but I will rotate this through my mastabatorium material.

12-21-2015 , 05:02 AM
When you bros say that the iPhone is "smother". What the hell do you mean? Interface response? I think you must all be using AIDS androids or something... I've never had responsiveness issues with any of my androids (I'm a bit of a HTC fanboi these days, but I've also had two samsungs and Mrs Snitch is currently on an S3).

I will add that I'm a pretty basic user, so I potentially avoid a lot of sociability issues. I use probably less than 10 apps including camera and sms app...
12-21-2015 , 05:11 AM
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Originally Posted by 00Snitch
I don't even know if you need it any more (I presume not), but back in the day you were more or less forced to install iTunes on your PC if you had an iPhone and wanted to do anything with it... and at the time, iTunes was such a piece of sh*t software that I'm fairly sure Apple outsourced the development to biggerboat's company.
This. iTunes forever colored my view of Apple products, what a complete stinker of a bloatware POS. Of course, I handily ignored all issues with lol Windows at the same times.
12-21-2015 , 05:12 AM
That guy is such a beast
12-21-2015 , 05:12 AM
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Originally Posted by 00Snitch
In other news...

I guess he's on a strength cycle
He wasn't kidding when he said ATG. Damn.
12-21-2015 , 05:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Bluegrassplayer
That guy is such a beast
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Originally Posted by Soulman
He wasn't kidding when he said ATG. Damn.
Yeah, he's put up some pretty sick squat vids over the years (including triple bodyweight and 10x210kg when he was lighter/younger)... I also have a feeling he was out of action for a long time a year or two back because he exploded a knee...
12-21-2015 , 05:22 AM
I really don't give a **** about phones except 2 things: 1.) Can I put either a 64 or 128gb card in there to store music/podcasts? 2.) Is the audio quality good? And kinda camera for good nudes to poast on two plus two health and fitness internet forums.


I got a galaxy s5 from taobao for about $200 and it just arrived today. Works great. Audio quality is better than even on my computer and I expanded that **** to 128gb right away so I'm happy. My last one I bought before coming to China was a Blu Studio X which had a dece camera and a lot of storage, but audio quality sucked massive balls and it was insanely quiet. I put the same headphones in galaxy s5 and it sounds super crisp and awesome. Volume all the way up is defeaning.

37/37
12-21-2015 , 05:38 AM
So Clarence is basically Klokov in his prime level strong now. Will he be able to convert it into actual olytarding total? We'll see! Possibly, just depends on how the ole joints hold up.
12-21-2015 , 06:53 AM
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Originally Posted by saw7988
I probably would've agreed with you a year or two ago... But I specifically used the word smoothness instead of fast in my previous post because I think that's more true to what iphones advantage were. But that's just because they elevate the graphics processing priority to mask underlying delays in loading times. I guarantee most high end androids will open and close apps faster.

This argument is probably a bit shaky 2 years ago, but android speed has been improving in leaps and bounds. I just got the nexus 6p and if by some ridiculousness the newest iPhone is faster/smoother than this, then it's negligible.
I don't know what smoothness is. But I do know that iPhones outperform comparable flagship androids in virtually anything that involves "can I do something fast on my phone". I don't know about your opening/closing thing. since that seems based on biased memory rather than data driven analysis. In one case where you could be correct is that iPhones have lower memory and more dedicated to graphics (Hence why they look why better and are faster than Android flagships), so when you have 37 apps and 27 tabs open, you'll start lagging and have some apps crash.

Also, the new 6S is objectively faster at doing mostly everything than a 6P. What you may be experiencing is that lots of Android apps are ****tier versions of iPhone apps designed for lower specs, so they'll have worse graphics and other shortcuts to improve speed on low end devices. You just may not be aware of this. Most people aren't. But most people think popcorntime is "HD". So who cares?

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/...oking-graphics

The two racing games they mention are about the most system taxing games in existence. It is like qqing about your framerates in Witcher 3 at 4k.

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Originally Posted by 00Snitch
When you bros say that the iPhone is "smother". What the hell do you mean? Interface response? I think you must all be using AIDS androids or something... I've never had responsiveness issues with any of my androids (I'm a bit of a HTC fanboi these days, but I've also had two samsungs and Mrs Snitch is currently on an S3).

I will add that I'm a pretty basic user, so I potentially avoid a lot of sociability issues. I use probably less than 10 apps including camera and sms app...
Ya, this is like asking whether you should get a 128gb mem or a 64gb mem kit, and then someone doesn't understand why someone wants more than 4gb. If your stuff works for your use case, great. There is no reason to spend a ton more money for something you'll never use.
12-21-2015 , 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Mihkel05
I don't know what smoothness is. But I do know that iPhones outperform comparable flagship androids in virtually anything that involves "can I do something fast on my phone". I don't know about your opening/closing thing. since that seems based on biased memory rather than data driven analysis. In one case where you could be correct is that iPhones have lower memory and more dedicated to graphics (Hence why they look why better and are faster than Android flagships), so when you have 37 apps and 27 tabs open, you'll start lagging and have some apps crash.

Also, the new 6S is objectively faster at doing mostly everything than a 6P. What you may be experiencing is that lots of Android apps are ****tier versions of iPhone apps designed for lower specs, so they'll have worse graphics and other shortcuts to improve speed on low end devices. You just may not be aware of this. Most people aren't. But most people think popcorntime is "HD". So who cares?

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/...oking-graphics

The two racing games they mention are about the most system taxing games in existence. It is like qqing about your framerates in Witcher 3 at 4k.



Ya, this is like asking whether you should get a 128gb mem or a 64gb mem kit, and then someone doesn't understand why someone wants more than 4gb. If your stuff works for your use case, great. There is no reason to spend a ton more money for something you'll never use.
I am using different definitions for "smooth" and "fast". By smooth, I essentially mean no stuttering - like possibly continuous 0th and 1st derivatives of pixel motion, or something of that nature. By fast, I mean objectively speaking, who can accomplish a given goal faster. Who can open up an email client, type the email, send, close the app. I'm posing the argument that in some of the older phones I've used, Android will stutter more but ultimately accomplish the tasker sooner (and that the stuttering gap is probably narrowing on newer Android phones). Most people aren't paying the SLIGHTEST attention to my "fast" metric, and would judge the phone on speed via smoothness. This is why Apple elevates graphical processing tasks in order to give the user a better "feel".

Thremp, I will concede that Apple phones dominate benchmarks and probably gaming too. K. I also probably won't even argue too hard on my main point in the above paragraph, because the gap is becoming SO narrow that it's 1/100th as important as all the extra features you get on Android. I'm not some custom h4xor power user either, I just think - for example - SwiftKey / Nova >> Google Keyboard / Stock Launcher, and you should have that freedom. (and to tie this all together in a nice little package - having the keyboard and launcher that best suits your needs will ultimately reduce your beginning-to-end "task speed" I alluded to in the previous paragraph)
12-21-2015 , 09:21 AM
^Swiftkey and others are available on ios now fwiw. I have never used a droid phone and never had a problem doing what I need to do on my iphones so I don't have any need to consider ever using a droid at this point. I likely use my phone less than 99.9% of people though so my opinion is worthless on this topic.
12-21-2015 , 09:27 AM
Cool. A good example of more convergence between the 2 dominant phone styles then.

Ultimately, Android phones have marginally better software and Apple phones have {marginally : way} better hardware depending on the phone. If you like the extra software features and/or don't care much about perfectly smooth operation, Android might be a marginally better choice for you. Vice versa, etc. I'm sure I'd be happy with an iPhone after getting used to it, fwiw.
12-21-2015 , 10:20 AM
saw,

What makes iPhones faster is actually the software, not the hardware. You can optimize at a lower level than with an open source platform like Android. Common misconception.

You have some good points, and I'm glad you "concede" some facts. Not that I really care since it is like "conceding" water is wet. Your point about laptop-esque functionality is a good point for people utilizing that use case.

Anyway, I'm aware there are some advantages to certain use cases between iOS/Android and find the #HaveNots dismissive attitude toward iPhones based mostly on ignorance. (Aside from the fact that there is essentially no cost difference between Android/iOS if you ever bother to resell your old devices.)
12-21-2015 , 10:23 AM
cool chats guys

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Others are good too




12-21-2015 , 11:45 AM
Damn who is #3?
12-21-2015 , 11:59 AM
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Damn who is #3?
Didn't know, so I looked her up. Name is Ana Cheri. She's.....she's very good.

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