Is it only me but these Sumsang have always gotten me curious enough to head over to BestBuy and demo one of their Samsung devices (smartwatch, phones, tablet) and whenever I'm at the Samsung section of the store playing with the devices, I always walk away unimpressed and feel like whatever they advertised isn't close to what the real experience is in person.
Anyone else had the same experience?
It have always seem to be because Andriod was never built for 1 device and Samsung doesn't have the proper engineering resource to invest on properly optimizing Andriod for their hardware, they had always needed to throw in more RAM or CPU, or higher resolution display or anyone of those combination just to keep up with the Apple's highly optimized iOS built for for hardware.
When the software isn't optimized, you ** CAN ** make it go faster by throwing faster hardware at it. Or if you took the time to optimize your code for the hardware -- you won't need higher specs to accomplish the same results.
Feels like Samsung is throwing a bunch of things together and almost half of those you may never use or need; and the other half is just to make up for optimized code. --- When I was playing G. S5 and comparing it with the Iphone 5 or 5S, for specs Samsung advertises, it doesn't feel relatively better. You would expect with better specs the Samsung devices would run circles around Apple devices. Not true at all.
That isn't even the major turn off. Most of my turn off is inconsistency of Android support between different generations of phones. Maybe not as important for regular joes or people who cares about bleeding edge... but for business minded people as well.. we need something more consistent while still being "new".
Moving from iOS version to newer iOS version has been pretty consistent and it doesn't alienate the user experience.