Samsung frees fanboys from iPhone with freeware
Apple 'make it easy to migrate' strategy applied
Apple waged a broadly successful campaign to persuade Windows PC owners to migrate to the Mac by making compatibility tools readily available, and now Samsung is trying the same trick - on iPhone users.
Today it said it would give iOS defectors a free copy of Easy Phone Sync to anyone buying a Galaxy smartphone. The utility was designed to facilitate shifting iTunes-managed data - media files, primarily, but also contacts and archived text messages - to Android phones.
The tool also allows iOS users to continue to use iTunes to manage their handsets, Android this time.
Reg readers - iTunes refuseniks to a man jack of 'em - may not be interested for personal usage, but perhaps they have an iDevice-using acquaintance who is looking to move out of Apple's walled garden into Google's - the online advertising giant's stonework has more gaps than Apple's - and Samsung's offer may be just the persuasion they need.
Of course, Samsung, in touting how it's "making Easy Phone Sync available for free for UK customers" is being a tad disingenuous since, as far as we can tell, both the Windows and Mac app, plus its Android-hosted companion, are free in any case, being Galaxy-fied versions of developer Media Mushroom's exisiting Easy Phone Tunes - iTunes Sync app.
You can get the Android app from Google Play, and the desktop tools from Media Mushroom's site. ®
COMMENTS
Interesting
My daughter moved off the iPhone a few months back to the Galaxy SII, her iPhone was continually crashing and had to be taken back to the Apple stor eseveral times when the IOS Updates came out -- each time, from a user POV they bricked the phone, the people in the local Apple Store fixed it each time, but it's fair to say she wasn't a happy customer. With the SII not a single crash.
And
This week at work a collegue at work has turned up with an SIII having moved from the iPhone 4S, his comparison between the two? The Samsung is quicker (understandably given it's a quad core), More intuitive ( that's a kick in the nuts for Apple) and much easier to use.
No wonder Apple are trying to get it banned
"manufacturers and networks dump older phones - typically after just 12-18 months forcing you to upgrade"
Force how?
Sounds like your fear of being seen with an 'old' phone would be the only thing forcing anything there.
And we all know what...
everyone thinks of Audi, BMW and Mercedes drivers, right?
How you can compare a whole company to one model of car, when aformentioned company has phones in ranges from bottom rung up to bleeding edge, I don't know.
Re: What I don't get
generally speaking, i don't mind iTunes.
I let it get on with what it wants to do (look after my music, podcasts, and apps) it let's me get on with what i want to (listen to my music, sync my iStuff) never really had any problems with it. I am however perfectly acceptable of the idea that I am in the minority on this.
