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https://m.gsmarena.com/newscomm-28620.php
100% agreed.
iOS is the worst computer OS of any type that I have used. I simply do not understand the adulation iOS gets on this site (and many others). I use an iPhone 6s and a OnePlus 3T every single day. Based on my observation, iOS is way backward compared to Androids after Lollipop. I am simply unable to understand why:
1) iOS keyboard does not have numbers, special characters and alphabets in the same view, and why am I supposed to switch between views in order to enter my user ID and password. With my logon credentials, it takes way too many clicks to do something so basic.
2) Why does iOS require 20+ clicks to delete, say five contacts in the contacts app, when Android does it in 8?
3) Why is the scroll speed in Safari so slow compared to browsers (such as Chrome) in Android? I am a regular reader of the Washington Post website. That site has the top stories of the day at the bottom of the page. I am able to scroll to the bottom in less than half the time on the OnePlus, compared to the 6s. This is true even of iOS 11.1.2
4) Why does it require an app to display emergency contacts right on the lock-screen as a scrolling ticker in iOS? Why does iOS require navigating to Emergency / Medical menu to make it visible to someone who may find my phone in an emergency?
5) Why do I need to navigate through the menu to Wi-Fi settings to switch between the 5GHz and 2.4 GHz channels at my home, when Android enables it through a long-press of the Wi-Fi icon?
6) Why do I need to use iTunes to transfer photos and music to my phone, something I do twice a week without any additional software on my Android phone?
7) Why does my iPhone keep disconnecting the Wi-Fi hotspot after around 20 minutes, even when my laptop is actively using the connection? Never happens on my "cheap Chinese" OnePlus. The only workaround I have found is to put the iPhone on the charger and turn off Bluetooth manually.
8) Why does the iPhone not have an easy way to regain lost performance as crud accumulates with usage. I have had to factory reset the device because the phone became slow with only 17 GB of 64 GB in use. This has never happened on the OnePlus (and Androids are the ones derided as "lagdroids"?), but I know that I can use App Cache Clear + CCleaner + Boot into recovery + Wipe system cache to do this without a factory reset.
9) Why does iOS not have a "Restart" button? I can tell you that "Oh, it never needs to be restarted" is not true. That 'explanation' may fly with those who don't use an iPhone everyday.
I wish I had known this before buying the iPhone. Would never have bought it. There was no hint - not on the internet, and not from my friends who had been using it - that iOS is so unfriendly. As things stand for me:
- If making a choice between a OnePlus device and an iPhone X for $1000, I would happily choose the OnePlus (or another *Android* phone, for that matter)
- If an iPhone X is USD 1000, then paying even USD 1500 to get an Android phone makes sense to me
All iOS has is quick updates. Quite how this make users' life easy, I have never been able to figure out.
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Agree with everything said especially reason #7. Just for me to copy and paste that comment is a hassle as it's sensitive at selecting the entire page when I prefer to select only a certain part I want to copy.
I have posted screenshots of my SwiftKey for Android on here. It's unbelievable how the default iOS keyboard or the SwiftKey for it still doesn't have numbers on top. iOS is not as user-friendly as some people think.
Notice I never say I like Android and iOS. I say I like Android and iPhone. Because my feelings for iPhone's excellent hardware and iOS are on two different spectrums. It's love & hate with Apple and most of the hate is where iOS and iTunes are at.
I would have an iPhone X right now if iOS wasn't so inferior with tethering, notifications, and toggles compared to Android. It would just be disruptive to my workflow. Android with microSD slot, SD adapter, and MacBook with SD slot or hub surprisingly works well together. Faster transfers speeds than iTunes.
Is Android perfect? Of course not. Sometimes I think it's Google spyware and a wake lock OS where it becomes Whac-A-Mole every time I disable a services. Privacy and malware concerns. But for my everyday needs, it beats iOS by a country mile.
