It ain't over till it's over: iPhone 5 vs. Galaxy S3

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Re: It ain’t over till it’s over: iPhone 5 vs. Galaxy S3

@aahmed

• Syncing music/pictures/videos with an iOS device is a pain because you HAVE to go through iTunes. With my Android device, I plug it into my laptop and it shows up as an external drive, drag/drop, done.
• Apple makes everything HARDER in the name of trying to make things easy. Apple wants you to do everything they way THEY think you should do things, they don’t want you to have your OWN way of doing things so if you don’t conform to their methods, things don’t work.
• iPhones use a proprietary charging/data cable which is typical Apple mentality, everything has to be proprietary and non-standard. All Android devices use micro USB, so if I forget my charger, I can borrow my friend’s charger who has a different make/model phone. Oh and I can use the same cable to transfer data.

• Drag and Drop may give you ease, but the control that iTunes gives you is unmatchable. Try to download bunch of songs from any mp3 site and try to batch edit them to change their name or artist or to group them in certain way in windows’ native environment and very soon you realize how powerful iTunes is. Its not just drag and drop, but later on listening to those songs in some arranged fashion. Itunes let you do that ahead of time. PLus, to me, syncing is more easy (that itunes does) than drag and drop (that you have to do it Android). Syncing is one time pain and then you are all set. Drag and Drop needs to be done again and again, every time you have something new.
• If I dont conform to my S3 methods, things dont work either. No matter how we look at it, for a novice, Android phones are as closed of a device as iOS, and for experts, both can be rooted/jailbroken/unlocked.
• This is a misconception again. My Nexus 7 charger does not fit into my S3. Yes S2 charger will fit S3 but then 3GS charger fits 4S too.