Lol.
- At these resolutions, the difference between 750p and 1440p really doesn’t matter. The pixels per inch is already beyond the point we can tell the difference.
- Not untrue, though the iPhone of yesteryear was water resistant to some extent.
- Many times, the number of pixels in a camera doesn’t matter as much as the quality of the sensor. For example, the size of the individual pixels on the sensor matters. Bigger pixels typically bring more quality, due to each pixel being able to capture more light. I am 99% sure that the iPhone 7 has a better camera than the Nexus 6.
- Not necessarily untrue, though I’d argue the difference between those two layouts is negligible.
- True. Google Now is probably better than Siri.
- True, but the raise to wake function was added in software, which means iPhones from a few years back now support that feature.
- Introduced on iPhone in 2011.
- Introduced on iPhone in 2014.
- Introduced on Android in 2015, not 2014.
- True.
- And finally, some of those features would be nice, like wireless charging, VR support, multi-user support, and selectable default apps, but I’m not sure why anybody would want a curved display on a smartphone, or a TV for that matter. VR is coming to the Mac, but not to the iPhone. However, there is a powerful AR platform coming this fall to the iPhone. App installs from the browser would be a security nightmare. We already know where this road goes from our experience on desktop platforms. (Yes, you can install apps from anywhere on a Mac.) I don’t get what’s with the “seamless updates” comment, considering we’ve had that on iOS for years, and most Android phones aren’t even on the latest version.
- Besides, feature comparison lists like these often misrepresent one or both products that are being compared.
Yep, there are a lot of problems with toxic corporate culture in Silicon Valley companies. I’m sure Apple has these problems, but I’d also be pretty sure that companies like Google have them too. And it’s now been proven that Uber has a massive sexism culture problem. This isn’t a problem with individual companies; it’s a problem with the startup culture in Silicon Valley that’ll take a lot to fix.
Ironically, that is one of my favorites from The Onion. Sometimes it hits a bit too close to home, though.
At least Apple seems dedicated to pro users now. That has been one of their weak points for the past couple of years or so.
JEDIT:
I feel like I failed to communicate some points in the Great File Name Extension Debate of 2016. I think I failed to communicate that when you supposedly “turn off” file name extensions in Windows Explorer, that there are still file name extensions under the cover. Go ahead, turn off file name extensions in Explorer, and then fire up cmd.exe. Look at a directory, any directory. You can even see this in the C: directory. Then type in dir /w. Alas, the file name extensions are still there. As I articulated in the Debate, this is technically offensive.
If you want to hear me complain about Apple’s products, I can talk about the way HFS+, the default file system on Apple products, is terrible, and how Apple is fixing it with APFS.