Discover media - contacts photos and music album art?

[Jimble]

anyway using an SD card instead of anything android or I is better anyway so it doesn't really matter 

This^ i like the fact that i can just plug a usb stick in and forget about it.

[Gryzor]

could you not have bought something similar but didn't?? can't really see my choice of car has anything to do with it. by your pointless comments though you seen like an apple fanboy. that's your choice is just isn't mine. the only deluded one is you who quite clearly thinks that everything they say must be correct. I'll say it again price has nothing to with it!! I'll continue to say what I think about products I don't particularly rate but at the end of the day is only one opinion, my own which I'm entitled to. you have your own ideas and that's fine, good luck to you.

Like I said, I buy technology based on relative merits at the time, not necessarily brand.  Nor have I ever said that anything I say is correct and that what anybody else says is wrong.  But, going by your earlier responses on GTI vs GTD debates, you do seem to resort to the same monotonous type of response when somebody disagrees with you.  You can imply all you like from my posts, but at least I explain my reasons for being pro- or anti-something.

[monkeyhanger]

Apple do seem to trade on their style far more than their function recently (their technological development does seem to have hit a brick wall in the last 18 months). They are definitely resting on their laurels right now.

There is one reason I strongly dislike Apple products - they only work well with other Apple products. I bought an Ipod years ago because it was the best portable music player out there. I don't think Apple are market leaders any more. Extracting your music or videos from Itunes to other (non-Apple) devices is far more protracted than it needs to be and Apple want far more control over my devices and media than I would like them to have.

[Gryzor]

Apple do seem to trade on their style far more than their function recently (their technological development does seem to have hit a brick wall in the last 18 months). They are definitely resting on their laurels right now.

There is one reason I strongly dislike Apple products - they only work well with other Apple products. I bought an Ipod years ago because it was the best portable music player out there. I don't think Apple are market leaders any more. Extracting your music or videos from Itunes to other (non-Apple) devices is far more protracted than it needs to be and Apple want far more control over my devices and media than I would like them to have.

I completely agree with everything you said there, which is why I'll probably go android next for my mobile phone.  The fact that you can have expandable, accessible memory that is not locked to any given application is huge plus.  If I do go down that route, chances are I may take another look at android tablets next year, but the reality is, my iPad does everything I need of it so it would be change for changes sake, which is no bad thing!

[mcmaddy]

have you looked at the nexus 10? I don't dislike any tech gryzor I just hate the way apple do things. they look nice and both android and iPhone do pretty much the same thing so inevitably it's down to personal choice. I don't dislike the gti either and in all honesty I'll seriously be looking at it if I have the same problems I currently experience with my tiguan. everything's good and if it's pointed out to me I'm wrong for whatever reason I'll hold my hands up and apologise. still not buying an iPhone though haha

[Gryzor]

have you looked at the nexus 10? I don't dislike any tech gryzor I just hate the way apple do things. they look nice and both android and iPhone do pretty much the same thing so inevitably it's down to personal choice. I don't dislike the gti either and in all honesty I'll seriously be looking at it if I have the same problems I currently experience with my tiguan. everything's good and if it's pointed out to me I'm wrong for whatever reason I'll hold my hands up and apologise. still not buying an iPhone though haha

Nope, not looked at the Nexus 10.  Is that native Android with no after-market skin over it?  I totally agree with you, Apple do lock you in and it alienates a lot of people.  It hasn't held me back at all yet though, which is why I'm happy to stick with it for now.  But, they're not the force they used to be.  I would never say you are wrong, or anybody else on this forum, unless I truly believed you were!  You sure I can't tempt you into buying my iPhone off me in the future?!

Anyways, I appreciate your level-headed reply, and I apologise for any of this getting personal

[Sootchucker]

Have to agree with Monkeyhanger here, whilst work have given me a Iphone 3, 4 and now 4s (with rumours of a 5 coming my way soon), ive been using their products for a number of years now, and as i said before, as a phone, email client and music player they still do the job pretty well, but apart from the retina screen which appeared with the Iphone 4, nothing really significant has happened since (OK it's got faster and a better graphics chip, but these are more evolutionary than revolutionary), and IOS is looking decidedly old these days. It does indeed seem like with Steve Job's death that Apple have run into a technological dead end.

One of the reason my company (who purchase 3000 phones annually), continue (apparently) to use the Apple platform is a) the fantastic contract prices we get, and b) the ability of IOS to prohibit viruses (although I'm sure it's still possible). These things are reviewed each year and rumour has it we will be switching to Samsung in 2014-2015. TBH, it will be refreshing to use a new non Apple product for the first time in about 5 years, and I'm actually quite looking forward to it (providing it does my 3 main tasks - phone, email and music) as well or better than an Apple product.

And nice to see you two kiss and make up 

[Bill_the_Bear]

I think we're so far off topic there is no hope of ever getting back!

[matchboy]

So we've all agreed that an iPhone is the best, right?! 

[Gryzor]

I think we're so far off topic there is no hope of ever getting back!

I think the problem of album art has been resolved anyway, just leaves contacts now!