BabyHeadCrab
The Freeman
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So, working at Best Buy, we're given certain opportunities such as more hours and opportunities for promotion for becoming tablet specialists. I work at Geek Squad and handle tablets of all kinds all day (Windows, Android, PalmOS and, of course, iOS). Ironically, the biggest pieces of shit are Androids.
Let's talk about this and the mythos surround the supposedly most flexible and workable tablet OS.
The more I learn about Android, the more it seems it's a total colossal mess in the tabloid market. Old versions are not receiving updates, people are paying for apps that aren't working, and old versions are no longer receiving updates.
On top of that, they advertise flash support while it seems the phones crash or outright don't load the pages at all half the time. Now that I've become quite acclimated with Android it seems to be just as frustrating as iOS, if nor moreso. Has anyone else here experienced the same woes?
At geek squad even the most tech savvy folks (dispatch, the guys who actually know their shit), diss it all the time. It would seem Google doesn't really give a shit about it's old distros and only updates the 3 or so latest versions. It's a pain in the ass when I'm trying to give a demonstration only to find a free app that won't actually run on the Toshiba Thrive I'm showing off to a customer.
Hell, at this point, I've been recommending iOS (with a great deal of guilt, admittedly) more often to customers. It's just more hassle free, and iOS 5 is supported across more of their hardware.
Let's not even bring up Windows Phone 7/8 (or PalmOS) - they're nowhere near approachable yet.
In short: at first I fell in love with Android. The customization, the extensive application store, the ability to add memory of any sort, keyboard docks. Now they're become more proprietary per company, limiting the function of older tablets which COULD support the newer versions of the OS, and selling applications to phones and tablets which simply cannot run them.
Thoughts? It seems they just need more QA, to update one version and stick to it for a while. Sure, it's a rapidly growing market in terms of technology, particularly at this point. But when a customer comes in every day asking which tablet runs "Icecream Sandwich" I cringe, it's just a bunch of arbitrary features that could easily to uploaded onto one of our dual core tablets we already have on the floor. It's no better than Apple in that regard.
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TL;DR: Android is rather unstable, lacks support for previous distros, and often fails at even the most simple of tasks. It often reminds me of Windows in it's youth - only worse. iOS is not only easier to fix, it's web support is actually...better. HTML5 is embarrassing adobe right now. In terms of repairing the ****ing things, don't even get me started on droid tablets. The things people do to those things and the lack of restore options for the older versions of the OS... ugh.
Let's talk about this and the mythos surround the supposedly most flexible and workable tablet OS.
The more I learn about Android, the more it seems it's a total colossal mess in the tabloid market. Old versions are not receiving updates, people are paying for apps that aren't working, and old versions are no longer receiving updates.
On top of that, they advertise flash support while it seems the phones crash or outright don't load the pages at all half the time. Now that I've become quite acclimated with Android it seems to be just as frustrating as iOS, if nor moreso. Has anyone else here experienced the same woes?
At geek squad even the most tech savvy folks (dispatch, the guys who actually know their shit), diss it all the time. It would seem Google doesn't really give a shit about it's old distros and only updates the 3 or so latest versions. It's a pain in the ass when I'm trying to give a demonstration only to find a free app that won't actually run on the Toshiba Thrive I'm showing off to a customer.
Hell, at this point, I've been recommending iOS (with a great deal of guilt, admittedly) more often to customers. It's just more hassle free, and iOS 5 is supported across more of their hardware.
Let's not even bring up Windows Phone 7/8 (or PalmOS) - they're nowhere near approachable yet.
In short: at first I fell in love with Android. The customization, the extensive application store, the ability to add memory of any sort, keyboard docks. Now they're become more proprietary per company, limiting the function of older tablets which COULD support the newer versions of the OS, and selling applications to phones and tablets which simply cannot run them.
Thoughts? It seems they just need more QA, to update one version and stick to it for a while. Sure, it's a rapidly growing market in terms of technology, particularly at this point. But when a customer comes in every day asking which tablet runs "Icecream Sandwich" I cringe, it's just a bunch of arbitrary features that could easily to uploaded onto one of our dual core tablets we already have on the floor. It's no better than Apple in that regard.
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TL;DR: Android is rather unstable, lacks support for previous distros, and often fails at even the most simple of tasks. It often reminds me of Windows in it's youth - only worse. iOS is not only easier to fix, it's web support is actually...better. HTML5 is embarrassing adobe right now. In terms of repairing the ****ing things, don't even get me started on droid tablets. The things people do to those things and the lack of restore options for the older versions of the OS... ugh.
