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I prefer android until there’s a linux phone I can afford.
I used to love android. Then google dropped the don’t be evil motto and started fucking us even harder for data.
Now, it’s only the fact that I can mitigate some of that that makes it better than iOS. Well, that and the horrible ui/ux of iOS.
Dude, you’re asking an open-source fetish community about ios vs android… it’s like asking vegans whether they prefere steaks over salads. 😂
When you put it that way, I guess you are right, but you should also consider we have m/Apple, a whole apple community and it’s one of the biggest places on kbin.
it’s one of the biggest places on kbin.
I mean, it’s got the 20th most subscribers. But it’s only a third of /m/tech and half of /m/news.
MacOS doesn’t have the same level of lock down as their mobile devices do. Apple also sets the trends so there’s great interest in what they do, since their moves are those that other companies will follow good or bad.
I know, and I’ve subscribed to them early on, but my feed is flooded with other communities and I don’t recall ever seing amything from /m/Apple…
I also just went there and the newest posts are mostly days apart from each other…
So “one of the biggest” might be true for the subscriber count, but threadwise not so much activity there.
Which is a bummer, honestly… I’m not a huge fan, but I’d still love to be up-to-date on their stuff.Well, that is obviously because Kbin is new, smaller than something like Reddit, other communities that may flood your feed is mainly because they are generic, while m/apple is well, focused on Apple and it’s products, it has more to do with having less users to post on a community that is more specific.
I use iOS currently. I used Android for many many years, and loved it. I dreaded iOS and its walled garden.
But for various reasons, when my OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren Edition died and nothing in the Android world really wowed me at a reasonable pricepoint, and knowing that I would be able to get full-quality images and videos from my family and my wife’s family without them having to change their messaging app to accommodate me, I decided to try iPhone for the first time since like, the 3GS.
I’ve had the 13 Pro Max for over a year now and honestly I love it. It took a lot of getting used to at first. Everything is a bit different, and getting over those differences was frustrating. There are still things I really miss. Android handles notifications better, Android does gestures better (being able to go back from either side of the screen is huge), and OnePlus at least, maybe Android in general, let me open the camera by double-tapping the power button, so I could have the camera loaded by the time it was in position. I’m still much slower on the draw with my iPhone, unfortunately.
But iOS has its advantages, too. The battery life is amazing. The Apple Watch kicks the shit out of every Wear OS watch I owned (and also fixes my issues with notifications). The search function is crazy quick to the point that I hardly ever open apps from their icons in the Home Screen or App Drawer equivalent. Everything is polished and rarely fucks up. And when anything IS wrong, there are local stores that can fix it that day. I had a faulty front camera on my phone originally, it was replaced within the day, didn’t have to send it off for OnePlus to replace it. When the back glass broke they replaced basically the entire phone for $30 or something, again within the day. Integration between devices is beautifully seamless.
Basically I’ve found that both are very good options these days. It’s silly that anyone really cares which device you use.
When I was younger I liked to root my Android phones and use custom ROMs. But it had been years since I had done any of that, and I realized that what I was giving up moving to iOS was much less than I had thought.
I may go back someday. I’ve tried to keep everything in Google still so that I don’t have to give up anything except app purchases if I go back. But for now I’m happy on iOS.
Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap
I’ve set double tap to launch camera. Not sure if this solution fits your camera needs, but it works really well for me on my 14 pro.if you’re prone to false launching then triple tap is also available
I’m currently still using a OnePlus 7T, the battery is starting to die on it after so long though.
The 7T and 7T Pro are some of the best phones. Period.
I wish they had kept going with the pop up camera from the 7 Pro and 7T Pro. It’s such a cool concept and worked so well.
knowing that I would be able to get full-quality images and videos from my family and my wife’s family without them having to change their messaging app to accommodate me, I decided to try iPhone for the first time since like, the 3GS.
This is the biggest pain for me, but my solution is different. I just ask them to share a link to an iCloud album, which is also asking them to make albums! So far it has worked pretty well, and they almost all appreciate having an album for related pictures. I think it’s insane that Apple does this on purpose.
Yup. Fuck Apple for how they handle iMessage interfacing with the rest of the world.
Android, simply because how more free I am using it. I can side-load APK files for example, unlike iOS.
Android.
If I own a phone I think I should have the ability to do what I want with it, like installing sideloaded apps and customizing it however I want. There’s also much more choice in hardware.
That said, there’s some neat features on iOS that I’m a little jelly of.
Android. I have an ipad and I hate how restricted you are in iOS. There’s no (official) sideloading of apps (yet).
Browsers suck hard. Everything is basically Safari with a skin. I wish I could get Firefox with full extension support.
I feel like I’m constantly battling the OS when I want to do something that seems really simple.
Case in point: you cannot remove photos from your photostream (or whatever it’s called).
You can add them to albums, sure, but they will also stay in the main feed. I want to move them and unclutter my feed.And finally, and this might be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think iOS is intuitive at all. I constantly have to google how to do things, only to often find I simply can’t, or not easily at least.
Android is, in my opinion, the “best of what’s currently available.” Mind you, this does not imply that it is “good”.
I dearly miss PalmOS and the Tungsten and Treo product lines, as well as the Psion brand. Those terrific PDA’s had features that modern phones still lack. Conversely, I think modern phones come with a plethora of features that aren’t really positive. But then, I’m not really a fan of the whole style where you can barely touch a device anywhere without operating it in some way. This is just my personal opinion.
The #1 reason why I would never choose Apple’s products is that, while they excel at what you’re supposed to use them for, their platform is way too locked down for my taste. As a device owner, I want the ability to customise stuff and install (and remove!) whatever the hell I want (including ads!), and Android delivers that in far greater measure than Apple.
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