[Nexus 6  General] nigelhealy:
Well I prefer minimalism and I only go deep enough into the options to set up to my preferences, I barely tinker at all and only trial different ROMs for speed and reliability. Probably the only feature a custom ROM benefits me in features is the silent mode so I can make it stop bleeping automatically at night. Widgets etc I simply don't really bother, I only drag a quick reboot widget to my home screen and that's all.

:good: Fair enough, if there's an app you only get or is better, then brilliant. What is happening though is that differentiation is eroding rapidly.

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I've certainly witnessed though right now in early/mid 2014 that iPad has had a better processor which I expect will erode in 2015.

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In my house I use the Nexus 10 32GB , I've yet to get better for the $279 cost of 10 months ago with CM11 but its not really reliable enough or fast enough to leave house with so that's my Gpad 8.3 (was N7).

I helped get my daughter an iPad Air last few weeks ($350 shipped refurbished 16GB) and sell her iPad Mini 1st Gen (sold $200 cash), myself I transitioned from Nexus 7 2013 32GB to Gpad 8.3 80GB (16+64) throwing in $80 to upgrade. During that swap I interacted locally with a number of Apple fans, many simply did not know what Android options existed as they simply never looked or they only looked through pro-Apple website's eyes. So I observe that Apple is doing well holding onto share significantly through inertia and confirmation bias. That though is holding market segment not growing it.

Last week I sold my last of many OnePlusOne invites, I stopped selling when they got as low as worth $10, the profit has exceeded my total 3 years of gadget spend, and I took at look at price difference, an Iphone 6+ of similar size 64GB was $981 with case shipped including taxes and a 3-4 week waiting list vs OPO $372 shipped 3-4 days. I know Apple is an order of magnitude better support but many won't see it as deserving of the extra 274% cost.

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Indeed that certainly is true, the unlocked and separation of hardware from software can create an ecosystem which encompasses unreliability. Overall Apple has done well on performance and reliability.

Intellectual Dissonance. Very human.

It is though an inertial factor, which affects what someone swaps to, and is much less of a factor when making the new decisions. That is despite the fact that the in-store Android phones often are not the best in speed/reliability/cost. Nexus 5 has been relatively harder to get compared with iPhone and the root-required recovery zips to address battery and camera issues on the N5 has a certain difficulty barrier. Personally I really like the N5 very stable fast I had no camera negative views and the battery issue was mild and I fixed by carrying a $20 USB battery which got used rarely. I stayed on N4 for some months after N5 released to allow time for devs to produce the tuning.

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My N7 has been always rock solid. My N5 was solid after some tweaks. My N10 has never been solid (might be a physical fault in my unit) unless I use it for one-app-at-a-time. My OPO has been very stable (despite many saying otherwise). In 2 days use so far my Gpad 8.3 is solid.

I've not heard any negative views from the die-hard Apple fan in the family, the only issues I hear of it are "can't do" certain things due to the locked-down platform. A used $100 Nexus 4 and a $15 refurbished Chromecast is fixing that today.