Thread: this is ridiculous

Originally Posted by S4Per

. I take a look at all of the media car / RR like buttons on CF and I get a headache...how the hell am I supposed to use those while in motion? The UI of CF is prehistoric when compared to SD.

SD's layout / UI is far superior to any other front-end out there.

Again, for all of you, I'd like to point out that the free download for CF is NOT what the current version looks like. I'll see if I can get you a new screen shot just to show how much things have changed.

Originally Posted by rxh81

:-)

In SD:
Select music -> Playlist -> Autoplaylist

But unfortunatelly it's not reachable by gestures :-(

You can add your own gestures in SD.....

Originally Posted by danielkh

A) Apples to apples means downloading the same from both advertised sites. If CF wants better results, CF should post the most current. It's not my job, as a potential customer, to see what is the most current.

Just a quick question but as a potential customer isn't it your job to get updates sometimes to be latest with whats out there, fix any bugs there might be? Like you would do with windows, antivirus, mac os's, drivers, wow, bf2, cs, and pretty much any other software? We're lucky most of it is automated, lucky like I said, there are times where I've gotten updates and it's completely messed up my system. But I remember where you would need a certain update to connect to servers, etc.

I wanted to back up SOME of the comments here (not all). I too noticed the obvious lack in unbiased review here.

The fact of the matter is, the things you're complaining about Daniel are not legitimate because they simply aren't the case. All I've been trying to do is point out that the things you're saying CF doesn't have, isn't the case.

The PERSONAL PREFERENCE is just that, PERSONAL PREFERENCE. You CANNOT defend subjective decisions in this instance. However, all I've tried to do is point out the incorrect facts and correct them.

I would encourage you to disconnect yourself from the emotional aspect, and spend the time to learn about BOTH pieces of software. When I did my review, I didn't get it done in an hours time. I couldn't do that and call it a justified review. Why? Because I wouldn't be giving CF a fair shot. Why? Because I ALREADY knew how to use SD, but I didn't ALREADY know how to use CF.

A 5 minute review is NOT a fair and unbiased review.

Originally Posted by sciontC

I think if you went back and read you posts you would understand where I am coming from. I do not have the time to debate every little detail which is why I left them out. Not sure if you understand me or my point but I have had SD a year and a half loner that you have even been a member here. I am not saying SD sux, I have it, own it and used it for over 2 years. I liked it most of the time but after awhile I can only handle so much. The nav engine is terrible, it will route you off the highway then back on randomely and while sometimes it will work great sometimes it goes into tailspin mode and routes you in circles. I wont go into how many times its crashed on me. In fact everytime I start it up, it crashes then needs to restart. its done that for a long time and when we go this long before updates it very frustrating. You are new to SD so its natural to defend it. Im new to CF so its natural to defend it. My intent is to purely set the differences straight which you are not doing. The fact that a new nav engine isnt even on the list of things to be reconstructed is dissapointing, especially when they acknoledge that it is a problem.

As far as the apples to apples camparison, you failed at that aspect. Your doing what you can to make SD come out ahead, thats fine except your 20 minute experiment of whipping through menus isnt very fair either. You didnt take time to learn the program (which hardly has a learning curve just like SD) and didnt even DL the update to make it current. the reason why that is important is that if a person were to demo it dont you think they will get the most recent update to really see what it can do???

I think you need to relax bud and actually read and understand what im saying. SD has been touting bluetooth for 2.5 years now with no eta and you have to buy thier dongle. CF is far more friendly to other manufatures products and works very well. And im almost positive that SD had nothing to do with the HQCT since it wasnt even designed in this country, I belive it is from europe. Also again, the GV is not apples to apples, that a whole different thing. If I have the time Id buy a G4 and load CF on it so check it out, but you can use all the same HW on CF as you can SD.

Originally Posted by danielkh

There was no bias in the test. Try this.....
Find a computer that doesn't have SD or CF on it. Download only the trial versions of both, then, WITHOUT USING ANY PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF EITHER, and only using the facts you can find on the versions you are testing, see how the results come out.

I am not a CF user. I tested it once. To say that I biased the test to SD by not doing this or that to CF is absurd.

What ticked me off to no end was the Scionwhatever version of a blind test.....
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Ok, we are going to do a blind test between a Ford Mustang and a Nissan 350z, but since I drive a Mustang, here are the parameters.

For the Z, lets go around to dealers, ask for the base Z, and report what we find.

For the Mustang, lets order it from the dealer, add every bell and whistle we can get, then report our "unbiased" findings.

Ridiculous

It amazes me how everyone complains about SD service and support, but then CF can't even put an updated version of their trial on their website to get more customers, and gawd, if you point it out, it's like someone killed their kid.

This crying is getting ridiculous.... lol.

no - that's not it at all Daniel...

sorry you're getting so worked up. I think it best to just let this be and agree that there are differences between the two pieces of software.

The main thing we were trying to point out is that your comments about what CF has and doesn't have are not true.

StreetDeck doesn't offer the newest version download as well. =o(