Originally Posted by
CR1970
I am not sure about the exact sequence of steps, but I have been told it is not all that easy to get to pre-crash state. Both my brother and my employee also said that it was difficult to get their Android back up to where it was before the they were hacked and my employee in particular is pretty tech savvy.
I am not an anti-Android guy by any means, I actually like the open nature of the OS and some of the hardware specs of many of their devices. Granted this is just two people, but I think that for a lot of people out there what may seem simple for many may not be simple for them. And if it is, going through the steps to get all of their apps back may take more time than they are willing to spend.
Sure, and I don't mean to imply that what I think is simple should be the same 'simple' for everyone, but I find there's a tendency to massively overstate how difficult it is to do things on the android platform. For instance, to back-up my phone, I pitched $5 for a 3rd party app that handles it for me. Did it come with it? No, but I don't believe that an app download is that great a hardship. *shrug*
I should mention again that I had an iPhone originally, and liked it, so I'm not trying to bash Apple or suggest that it's a poor product or anything about those who like it. I just think there's a lot of similarity with Android/Windows/Linux, in that they're made out to be far more complicated than they need to be, and as a result, people *believe* they're extremely technical.