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Why I will never go Android again
- Thread starter LachlanH
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The thing I found annoying about Google is that it keeps releasing services in the US long before they're available anywhere else.
Google Play Music and Magazines.
Google Wallet.
I have very few complaints about Android, just found the iOS ecosystem too tempting after ~three years on Android.
Yes, and my statement still stands. Android looks like a cheap Tron UI, and that's the best it can look. Other skins are even worse.
I just feel like Android requires you to customize in order for it to be manageable and work the way you want it.
Disagree wholeheartedly.
The ICS/JB UIs look nice and uniform. A vast improvement over the old ones.
fully agree about their services, be nice if they could just issue an approx date of when they expect these services to be released
I do like the iOS eco system and would have no problems going back, I just found at the time i got my first android, google seemed to offer better when using multiple platforms/mobile os's (mainly calendar/contact sync)
I dont think you can call anything a marvel that has a messed up Maps system and a problem with the camera giving off a purple hue in any kind of light and the problem with it scrathing so easily,...even right out of the box You seem pretty sucked in to Apple though so i guess those things dont bother you.
Funny you talk about Android not being fully baked but a iOS system that isnt fully baked is just fine
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This is so true. GN can actually be scary - I had an appointment on my calendar a while ago and GN notified me when I had to leave (accounting for traffic) and gave me a map to get there. I didn't ask for any of it, it just got that from having a calendar event.
Now that made me laugh, thank you.
I could have saved a whole load of copy and paste if I had put it that way.
I dint think you can call anything a marvel that has a messed up Maps system and a problem with the camera giving off a purple hue in any kind of light and the problem with it scrathing so easily,...even right out of the box You seem pretty sucked in to Apple though so i guess those things dont bother you.
Funny you talk about Android not being fully baked but a iOS system that isnt fully baked is just fine
iOS has always felt fully baked. Android just doesn't feel nearly as done. You can disagree, it's just something I've always felt. I can't stand the app scene, and Google just pushes so many half-assed services and products. They start projects and then scrap them.
By the way, I've never seen the purple hue or have scratched my phone. Nobody else could have built this phone, and I think others need to realize that.
Like what? I don't really know of any Google projects that have been scrapped - other than a few Labs items that were never well known anyway.
Google Now really is amazing, but I'm so organised and anal about things, it will take a long time before I trust my phone to tell me when I need to leave
Thats my point. It isnt fully baked and your fine with it while calling another not fully baked. One might even say your statement is hypocritical.
Here is the camera problem
with accompaning article
I don't know if you misread, but my perception is that iOS is fully baked, Android doesn't feel that way. There's just so many tiny bugs in Android, like everything just works like 92% of the time.
My first time actually using the iPhone as a daily driver and I'm not impressed at all. Where are all these apps people keep talking about? I got a couple, but nothing exciting or different than Android.
I'm still on 5.1.1 jb. I've never seen so many people NOT want a upgrade.
I'm still on 5.1.1 jb. I've never seen so many people NOT want a upgrade.
I guess you forgot about when iOS didn't even have apps, copy and paste, pictures messaging, multitasking, and wallpapers.
In fact ICS/JB has a consistant look that actually looks good. I actually hate the way ios looks. Those pinstripes everywhere and the baby blue UX elements. It looks so ugly.
Remember when Android didn't even have multitouch or a touch keyboard? Don't even get started on that route, bud.
And consistent? Go look through the Play Store. iOS undoubtedly has better designers/developers, IMO.
Android got multitouch back in like 2008. Thats a dumb point. It was designed for it since the beginning. Apple just bullied them into not enabling it at first.
Number one, the phone is GIGANTIC which to some is obviously one of the selling factors and was for me before I bought it. After I got the SGS3 I realized how often I was using my iPhone with one hand and how difficult it was to do the same with the SGS3 (and for the record I have fairly large or at least normal sized hands). Additionally, since the screen was so large, I found many apps looked "blown up" and with bad resolution as they were clearly not made for the SGS3's larger screen. Finally, I found myself basically trying to make my SGS3 look and act like my jailbroken iPhone 4S and not quite getting there. I could not get a perfect LockInfo replacement or a good bitesms replacement (obviously IMO). One especially weird thing is I was unable to get group texting to work as well as it does on my iPhone.