Does anyone have any suggestions for a replacement for Find My Friends and a way for someone without a phone to send text message to me? Need my grandmother to be able to contact me. She always used iMessage on her Mac before.
Does your grandmother use Facebook? If so, the Facebook chat would work on her computer and you would instantly see her chats come up if you have Facebook chat as well (installed on your phone).
The problem with things like "find my friends" is that most of your friends have to be willing to be found and share the same software app that you are using. There are some pretty progressive apps out there for Android for family tracking etc. Just Google it.
When uninstalling apps from Android, can I just uninstall using the system uninstall function or do I have to have a dedicated uninstaller app?
For the most part you can uninstall using the default function. I had some issues with trying to get rid of ringtones, so I installed an uninstaller app. (sounds funny when you read that out loud).
Congrats on plugging the headset in all of the way.
I am going to tell you something that I tell everyone (Who I reply to) who switches from iOS to Android (based on my own experience of being a rabid Apple fan in the past): If you are used to apple products and how they sync together yes it seems that it just works. On the other side of the coin Google products "just work" too. It is just that when people are used to something and how it works (the OS are quite different but still perform the same tasks), it seems like you experience disharmony or have to tweak things to get it to do what it used to do. Some things you are going to miss with the iOS and some things you will like better with Android.
It took me 3 months to even warm up to my S3 (first android phone). Now I love the OS and would never go back to the sandbox. Yes, I do have some mac products (iMac, old school and iPad mini2).
You chose to not spend an exorbitant sum on a phone. This will likely pay off for you in the long run no doubt.
When Apple created their computers and phones, they did so in the way that it is not user friendly for other devices to interact with them, having to use isyncr to sync with iTunes, now google file transfer to get my imac to play nice with my Android phone (however, were I to use my PC etc, it just works). Very little work-a-rounds required. In a way it's not the Android phone that doesn't "just work", the angst you are experiencing is because OSX never wanted to play nice with any other OS operating devices.
It's all perspective and once you get used to the phone, you may even grow to love it. For a bit of fun I recommend Zedge app for all of your notifications and ringtone needs
