02-22-2013, 03:10 PM
Grieve Wrote:Since this thread is about which platform to choose, thought I'd throw out this story just out. Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just passing it on. But it backs up what I've always said about Apple quality in computer and phones, despite the scorn that gets here. I'm personally happy to pay more for reliability/quality, whether its phones, tablet, cars, clothes, whatever.
IPHONE FOUND TO BE 300% MORE RELIABLE THAN SAMSUNG SMARTPHONES
I won't shoot you, but someone should shoot the study's author. Firstly, FixYA CEO talks about "nobody has looked at the trends" implying that somehow this absolute pile of garbage "reliability" study has some form of analysis of the trends of reliability in it, despite the fact that every factor/talking point used (or at least every one mentioned in the article) is not actually pertinent to either a trend (which measures a change in a particular factor over a particular period of time), or reliability (which measures the ability of a thing to perform consistently well).
They also chose to break-down their so-called 'study' into very broad lines which bathes all models from a particular manufacturer in the same light - well I know for a fact that there are big differences between certain batches of older iPhones that were HUGELY problematic. Additionally, pinning the reliability of a brand new product against that of something that has been in the market for 10 years is not a "fair" comparison.
There is a reason nobody has made the comparisons that have been made in this article before, Mr. Fixya CEO. It's because it can't accurately or fairly be measured. This is such juvenile analysis its ridiculous.
Probably the biggest reason why this is completely invalid, is because the degree to which the problems reported actually affect usability, is not measured at all. If you look at the Samsung phone, 40% of the problems are related to the microphone - but what does that actually mean? Is it a delay before the microphone picks up your voice? Or does it never pick up voice at all? There's a huge difference there.
But hey, let's lump apple's brand new phones into the same category as the work horse which has been patched a billion times and artificially reduce the occurrences of problems/percentage of market share.
This CEO and his entire company are exactly the anal-baby-wanting-dick-heads that hurt us as consumers by polluting the internet with utter garbage.
this is an article that is heavily biased towards apple, but as I've said there is just as much garbage out there from every other manufacturer. I have to deal with this kind of misinformation even in my own little industry. The biggest problem is that we as a people are just dumb enough to buy into this crap.
Gameless (for now)