Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel ricing

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 24/10/2013 19:36, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2013-10-24 1:03 PM, Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote:
>> I'm not positive of it's architecture, but for 20 months I had a Samsung
>> Galaxy S running Android. This was by far the biggest POS I ever
>> owned. From
>> the first week it spontaneously rebooted, hung, and the performance was
>> horrible when it did run.
>>
>> I've since switched to an iPhone 4S, now running iOS 7.0.2. It Just
>> Works (TM)
> 
> Oh, please, spare me the ridiculous apple fanboi crap-crud.
> 
> Just because you got a phone that was bad, and didn't bother to get it
> replaced, doesn't make all Galaxy S4 phones as bad as yours.
> 
> I'll tell you this, my Nexus 4 is absolutely rock-solid, and screaming
> fast, but that doesn't mean iPhones suck.
> 


Phones are like cars in that almost no-one makes a bad one anymore.

Pick a smart phone, any smart phone, and I can almost assure you that in
this vast cavern of a room where I work I will find 3 people within an
hour who have or had that phone. The last smart phone model that had a
serious defect that applied across the range was the iPhone that had
antenna problems.

Since then everyone's shit just works for the most part like it was
designed to. Even the Windows 8 thingy from Nokia. It does what it says
on the box.

Yes, software bugs exist such as Apple's maps but that's not phone
design, that's bad data fed into a db that an app uses

These days the most relible way to pick a phone that will work for you
is the one that a) runs the software you like if you care about such
things and b) feels nice in your hand and fits in your pocket

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com