Bit harsh!! Whatever you think of Apple, the iphone is a great phone. Over priced? Maybe… But I don’t think calling their users trend following morons is particulary fair.
Got the S6 a few weeks ago when I renewed my contract, fucking gorgeous phone. Samsung products have always served me well - my S4 mini was only just starting to give up the ghost after 2 years of solid service. Only ever turned that phone off when I was on a plane or at a festival, so it did well!
I switched to HTC about 18 months ago. Never looked back. Dropped it a few times but as one of the earlier phones with a metal case, not plastic, it’s dented but works perfectly.
Apple works, its easy to use, I had an htc windows phone and it was awful, apple is easy, expensive but it works, it still has the apps.
Maybe a bit harsh yeah. It’s up to them of course…It’s a teenagers phone really, it’s simple, inflexible and easy to bling.
HTC have come a long way since you had that one
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Samsung Galaxy S6 dropped through the letterbox today. Lovely phone. Always been Android so not a ‘changer’. The Guardian review of the S6 called it ‘the Iphone Killer’. About bloody time.
My initial Android phone, a Galaxy S3, was somewhat flaky compared to my iPhone4. But that’s the last iPhone I chose to own, and I haven’t really looked back. When the iPhone5 launched with one of its marketing taglines being “an extra row of icons”, I thought “yep, these people aren’t making products for me”.
For me, it’s a similar deal to Macs and PCs. People that don’t mind digging into things will get a lot more out of Droid, imo. It’s tons more customisable. Downsides are that you have to be careful about vendor bloat, and keep an eye on how quickly various manufacturers tend to push out their updates.
I’m still rocking a HTC One M8, easily the nicest phone I’ve owned to date. Big upgrade next year.
Apple fanboys are almost as tedious as PS4 fanboys.
Just buy a PS4 dude. You won’t be this person anymore 
Muggles is my preferred term. Please feel free to employ in this context.
If you want to describe the people that camp outside Apple Stores in urban environments entirely unsuitable for camping, they would be Macsturbators.
There are gradations.
i disagree cos all my Apple things work by pure magic, whereas to keep my Windows laptop even halfway functional i have to have degree in computer science. That makes apple bros harry potters cos we use Magic to make our phone calls, and other bros Muggles cos they use Science.
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Difficult to argue with that logic…
You’re missing the point, apple does what I need, my phone is 4 odd years old and I am still happy with it, for me that speaks volumes.
Upvoted from my macbook air 
People don’t want to customise, they want things to be easy and work.
That’s the beauty of apple, windows and Microsoft and all that wankdom is that wankdom.
Most people want simplicity and a functional laptop etc not a tardis or something that requires 74 updates every lunar moon cycle to post on a forum.
To be fair, Apple are appalling for updates…and the point is, some people want simple, but a lot don’t.
A lot of people don’t want simple? What can you do on your phone that an iphone can’t do? And what do you do on your phone that an iphone can’t do?
I’m a bit fucked having bought Tom tom apps for half the world. Id like to leave apple but can’t face having to repurchase all that lot.
The Mrs changed from Apple to Galaxy a while back but hated it and has gone back to Apple now. Horses for courses I guess. I was an android person but with Apple now and prefer this over my old HTC phone but things change all the time.
I think a lot of the trouble is often the vendor-altered versions of Android served up on most devices.
Stock Android, as Google intended, has become a thing of beauty over the last couple of years.
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Okay, I have a tatty old iPhone 4S but, like Barry, I find it works fine for what I want and I have a load of apps on it which I don’t really want to repurchase.
My biggest gripe with Apple is their fucking iTunes nonsense. For an organization that seemingly prides itself on simplicity, I find the whole file interface between my windows laptop and iTunes to be astonishingly irritating. I guess, if I was using a Macbook, I wouldn’t have these problems but I don’t and, as a result, I seem to spend untold hours trying to get the things I want on my phone actually on my phone, and then iTunes does a whole load of things I didn’t want or expect it to do.
Why can’t it just be like windows, where I can drag and drop? For this reason, I’m tempted to switch…
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This is the bit that really pisses me off I have bought a programme / App I should be able to transfer it to any of my new devices without paying a new fee or downloading a new licence. I have already paid for it so surely I technically own that bit of software and should be able to place it on any device i own.