Best cell phone?

[spdrun]

Google Maps will still be available as an app if you want it. This isn’t a reason to buy or not buy the iPhone.

[joec]

I think the point livinincali brings up is very valid. Flash doesn’t work on the iphone right? From where both GOOG and AAPL are headed and what they have stated/done (AAPL is suing Samsung now as everyone knows) it’s pretty clear they will not integrate much between the platforms if they don’t have to. Or they will make it harder to use certain apps/programs.

The iPhone 5 better have a bigger screen and not look similar to the iPhone 4/4S or it will be a total flop I think.

[all]

[quote=joec]I think the point livinincali brings up is very valid. Flash doesn’t work on the iphone right? [/quote]

It is not available for new Jelly Beans since few days ago either. Everyone (including Adobe) gave up on Flash.

I like the new vector map and turn-by-turn with iOS 6, but I would not get an iPhone for the new maps app alone.

[livinincali]

[quote=spdrun]Google Maps will still be available as an app if you want it. This isn’t a reason to buy or not buy the iPhone.[/quote]

I wouldn’t say maps is a deal breaker. Although any third party app with maps will be forced to used the apple mapping solution. I think it’s just pretty clear Apple is trying to lock users into their eco-system and a regular upgrade cycle. Many users are ok with that and like it, but I personally don’t.

[spdrun]

^^^

Nope: if the app has access to HTTP and location data, it doesn’t need to use Apple’s map solution. BTW – I don’t like Apple’s lock-in any more than you do, but facts are facts.

[livinincali]

[quote=spdrun]^^^

Nope: if the app has access to HTTP and location data, it doesn’t need to use Apple’s map solution. BTW – I don’t like Apple’s lock-in any more than you do, but facts are facts.[/quote]

Well you could technically roll your own mapping solution to use google maps if you really wanted to, but most people programming iOS apps were using Apple’s MapKit API which used to point to Google Maps. Under IOS6 it will point to Apple’s maps. Your average iOS app will display Apple maps instead of the google maps when users upgrade to iOS6. But it’s technically true that someone could choose to code to google maps if they want to give up Apple’s MapKit API and it probably won’t be too long until somebody publishes some open source code to do that.

[moneymaker]

Thanks all for your input, I guess i will wait to see what the iPhone5 will have. Someone told me yesterday that it will even have a built in holographic projector, I doubt that however as it would take too much battery power.

[Coronita]

FWIW: amazon is offering the Samsung Galaxy S3 for $99 with a signed contract

http://wireless.amazon.com/b/404251011/ref=alohasearchnav_br_ph_gw/?keywords=samsung+galaxy+s+iii

[bobby]

[quote=spdrun]Android. Unlike iOS, it doesn’t come crippled out of the box, and you don’t have some prudish f*cks in Palo Alto telling you what apps you’re allowed to install on your own damn device.

Steve Jobs = inventor of computing as a prison, glad he’s gone. (to quote Stallman)[/quote]

pretty sure Apple is in cupertino….

[Fearful]

[quote=bobby][quote=spdrun]Android. Unlike iOS, it doesn’t come crippled out of the box, and you don’t have some prudish f*cks in Palo Alto telling you what apps you’re allowed to install on your own damn device.

Steve Jobs = inventor of computing as a prison, glad he’s gone. (to quote Stallman)[/quote]

pretty sure Apple is in cupertino….[/quote]
Pretty sure there are plenty of Apple folks in Palo Alto, too, but we get your point.

I was an early Apple adopter, and over time I came to hate how constrictive – restrictive – opaque the Apple mindset is.

I despise iTunes. I can’t stand how everything is closed off, locked up, sealed away. I buy my music from Amazon and I know I have an MP3 that I can do whatever I want with.

I inherited a super duper iMac. Because we don’t have the password, it has been crippled for over a year and a half. My kid took it to a Genius, who couldn’t figure out how to restore the OS. Technicians can’t figure it out. It’s insane.

But Apple is obviously onto something, and that’s that a very large percentage of the computer using public wants, needs for it to be deeply simplified, and I can’t argue with that.

By the way, our fellow accused of hatemongering didn’t say he is glad Steve Jobs is dead; he said he’s glad he’s gone. There’s a big difference. If you want to see the essence of all that is wrong with Steve Jobs, look in the wayback machine at NeXT computer. Only a loon like Jobs would hand you a chunk of obsidian and tell you to go do stuff with it.

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