[Nexus 5X General] @rbiter:
i am using the gnex. pretty awesome phone aside from the storage limitation. the ti sound chip is decent even though wolfson is better. the options becoming available to me would make me a candidate for NO smartphone. you know why? because people keep buying the drivel pushed on them because it's cheap. price and quality wise. who wants to pay a little more for better quality components? as funny as the SNL iPhone5 skit was, really it is very sad digging a little deeper into the truth about it. but that is true with much comedy these days. cloud services and streaming are becoming the norm because people keep buying the low quality crack. put some cocaine underneath some people faces and they would scoff because the price is too high. i have friends that make fun of me because i've been buying 192/24 flac files off the internet and paying almost twice what a cd costs. want to know how much they pay? how much does it cost to pirate music? i bet 90% of that 99.9% can hear the difference. guess what? people don't want to pay for it. android apps are suffering the same fate because people can't afford 99 cents. that is just sad that is coming out of my mouth. 99 cent value menu anybody? i bet there are quite a few folks that think mcd's chicken nuggets are priced too high and wished they could torrent a meal into their stomach. and this whole cloud/streaming thing is hilarious at best and worst. you have a whole generation of people facebooking/tweeting/myspacing/streaming/etc but on the other hand you have a generation of nitwits concerned about their privacy. unreal. as much as android has improved, and google has tried to address the fragmentation/differentation it has actually gotten a lot worse this year. look at the overlay's and how bent out of shape the framework's are, look at how different all the navigation button differences between manufacturers are. some use capacitive buttons, some hardware still, some both but backwards and/or menu or recent apps and then google using software and probably motorola, google owned of course, is just now starting to release phones with software navigation. windows8 looks enticing but no apps and i am really hoping blackberry comes out of nowhere with the os/software and developers jump on that bandwagon. not because i am wishy washy about jumping ship, but the strong effort put out by the added competition will solidify android instead of breaking it into the excuse of a puzzle it is right now.

really, is it wrong for me and others to want a purely bam! i gotta have this phone! i think many people would agree that even iphone doesn't cut it, because even though they have their strong and weak points, their marketing more than makes up for the weak points. i'd like a galaxy s3, but that physical button and backwards back and menu button are 2007 and too applish. if the gs3 had software navigation, 16gb with sd slot i'd happily give samsung my money even though samsung is seriously starting to lose it's appeal. but again i digress. there are just way too many suckers and too many corporations with lollilops with fancy wrappers for my little post to be even be noteworthy. if google pulls another nexus 7 and releases a 32gb lg nexus in the near future are you going to be happy or are you going to start questioning if google is just another corporation pretending to not be evil?