Despite helping to found the company behind the iPhone, Steve Wozniak says his Android is superior when it comes to certain tasks.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is a gadget-fiend, and he's made no secret about the fact that in addition to his iPhone, he has an Android device, too. However, it might surprise you to learn that the Woz, a man who can regularly be found queuing up to get his hands on the latest Apple products at launch, doesn't think the iPhone is king in every regard. In fact, he kind of wishes it were more like his Android.
Speaking in an interview to the Daily Beast, Wozniak said that while the iPhone is his primary handset, he wishes it were able to perform certain tasks, such a voice commands and navigation, to the same standard his Android phone can.
"My primary phone is the iPhone," he told Dan Lyons, adding, "I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do."
Wozniak also says that he feels Siri has declined since the application was acquired by Apple and integrated into iOS. He said he loved it when it was available as an independent app but that Siri's accuracy and connectivity have been affected by Apple's acquisition of the software.
Surprisingly, Wozniak isn't too keen on his Galaxy Nexus, the latest in Google's flagship line of own-brand phones and considered by some to be the best Android phone available at the moment. Instead, Wozniak prefers his Motorola Razr, an Android smartphone that takes its cues from Moto's iconic Razr brand of years gone by.
Read more about Wozniak's feeling on all things iPhone and Android on the Daily Beast.
Glad he can afford to get all this new phones when they come out and hence be able to make honest comparisons. Usually only tech review companies can do that, and sometimes they have some agendas behind their reviews. While Woz is not giving a review per-se, he is able to approach this from a consumer (educated one) POV and share.
your wife at home = functions
Yeah we know that..
Glad he can afford to get all this new phones when they come out and hence be able to make honest comparisons. Usually only tech review companies can do that, and sometimes they have some agendas behind their reviews. While Woz is not giving a review per-se, he is able to approach this from a consumer (educated one) POV and share.
android = functions
Yeah we know that..
functions... sometimes... when not crashing and rebooting..
If my Android does go into a boot-loop or crashes because of something I did, I can just pull the battery. :-)
your wife at home = functions
Yeah we know that..
people complain that there phone crashes are normally running unstable custom roms.
go download a stable rom guys. i just switched to ginger stir fry from cyangenmod. its quicker, crashes less often and does what i want it to do
iphones look nice and are good for non tech savy people but im not paying the premium for apple products
I prefer to think of them as handheld computers or at least a PDA with a phone added. In that regards I should be able to install any software I want from any source and have full access to folder navigation, command prompt and system files.
If you just want a phone buy a jitterbug.
Lol, that was awesome.
Or even recover from a backup on my "SD card"
Well, even as you state, "less often". Custom ROM or not, they do occasionally reboot on you, but from those I know with iPhones, the same thing happens to them too. It's just part of having a smart phone. I probably average a reboot once a week or 2, usually when using navigation.
give me a hard on then take it back down...what did you expect?
I'm a bit of an Android fan and picked up a Galaxy Nexus yesterday. I installed some apps/widgets from the android marketplace and now my phone is stuck in a boot-loop. I can't even get it to go into recovery mode. So its not just people causing these issues, there are still bugs to be worked out.