[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ooofest:
Well, this is a Galaxy S III section of the forums, and in this "Apple vs Samsung" thread:

On day 1 of the iPhone release, you claim the iPhone 5 has a more stable OS and the phone has a "beautiful" design in comparison to the Galaxy S III - while certainly a subjective description, the iPhone 5 arguably looks almost exactly the same as the iPhone 4, with the teeniest bit of machined beveling on the top glass and mixed reviews for both the plasticy-looking sides and easily scratched, metallic back plate. It's a subtle augmentation of the original iPhone brick shape, while the Galaxy S III went through an objectively more sleek evolution, with its newly graceful curves compared to the Galaxy S II and all iPhones, I feel. "Beautiful" would therefore imply that you saw the iPhone 4 as such compared to the Galaxy S III, since the iPhone 5 changes almost nothing of significance in overall appearance - is that your point, that the Galaxy S III never looked decent to begin with?

Soon afterwards, you came here to tell us that the S III is not only "really bad!!!!" but that Samsung failed "!!!!!". You offered that the iPhone is super fast in comparison, apparently in every conceivable way. Sure. the iPhone 5 has faster processor than the 4s and iOS is specifically tuned for their hardware with less virtualization to work with, so it's going to respond as well or better in the UI than a 4s. In terms of real-world performance (i.e., not benchmarks), everything I've seen and read indicates the phones are at least tied, but something to consider is that the Galaxy S III doesn't have crippled/overmanaged multitasking compared to the iPhone 5, so can often do more things in overall less time by efficiently taking advantage of balancing background tasks without prematurely killing or pausing them and fully using its processing capacity across all types of processes, not just the chosen few that are granted background processing rights.

Perhaps you are talking about UI smoothness (even though you implied a larger set of actions being faster in the iPhone), which is something that JellyBean helps close the gap as a consideration but is easily accepted as usually being smoother on the iPhone - not necessarily faster. That is, I cannot scroll as fast on an iPhone as on a Galaxy S III because of how Apple implemented the default scrolling behavior. Heck, even an Incredible 2 can scroll faster than an iPhone 4s, from what I've seen side-by-side with my relatives' phones. There's gives and takes, here.

Then, you offered yet another Redmond-local report which speculates (and with which I noted partial disagreement, but the truth will out as this year progresses) that Apple will take back a significant share of the mobile space which Android has already captured, solely on the back of the few-days-released iPhone 5. Yeah, that started out magnificently.

Hey, I don't actually mind your posts, but perhaps you can see from my summary above that they have the smell of iPhone fanboyism and Galaxy S III dislike . . . which are fine opinions to have, but bringing them to this topic and place seems troll-like to me. Just giving you helpful feedback.

EDIT: I should add, if our fair Mods see me as being unfair and too contentious, I can accept being knocked down a peg or two for my actions. Just calling things as I see them, no malice intended.

- ooofest