Different user interface, more in keeping with other Android apps. have a look on the Play Store to see what I mean.
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Apple Music for Android Gains Home Screen Widget in New Update
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Different user interface, more in keeping with other Android apps. have a look on the Play Store to see what I mean.
You mean the copy&paste that still acts like it's in beta testing stage? The one that makes it so unbelievably difficult to select exactly the part that you want to copy? I want to select a word, the whole line gets selected. I want to select a line, it selects the paragraph. I want to select a paragraph, the whole fricking website gets selected. Completely broken. I would claim that Apple hasn't found the right approach for that yet. So no, that is not a real argument here.
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That is so unbelievably annoying, especially as it seems to be the control center that "feeds" into external devices. I recently had a rental car for a month where I could attach the iPhone via USB to the car radio. Whenever I did that, the radio immediately auto-played the alphabetically first song in my collection, because the iPhone had managed to forget the last played song over the course of two hours.
Memory restrictions? No, this must be a bug or something stupid in the OS design. Storing the last played song plus playhead position can't take more than a few bytes.
I wonder why people like Tim Cook or Eddy Cue aren't driven crazy by stuff like that. They use Apple devices don't they? I am not one to have Steve Jobs nostalgia (I remember his mess-ups all too well), but with him I'd know at least that he'd call the responsible engineer personally in the middle of the night, going "Why the f@&# is my car radio playing 'A Beautiful Morning" from my iPhone again?" Doesn't mean it would get fixed, but at least I'd have the satisfaction of knowing that someone would get a kick in the nuts for it.
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His point was universal audio playback controls. In android you need separate widgets for each application just to pause and skip tracks. Where as Apples control center can interact with any player. As a result music players on android really need a widget for basic functionality, while on iOS they don't.
There are apps like MU on android that add universal controls. These apps are forced to use hacks like internally spoofing BT controls to pass data back to the players.
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I have a widget and local storage (128). I don't have to deal with sd cards and issues that plague android in that respect. The reason people love add on storage is they can be cheap. Get the cheapest storage option and add on later. Is it the best experience? No. I'm happy apple doesn't do that. It's unnecessary.
I do agree that internal storage is better, but Apple's pricing is to high. $200 extra for 128GB is ridiculous in 2016. And that premium may be trending higher. Look at the iPad Pro. That is $150 extra per increment.
Can Apple Music for Android download your iTunes purchased songs or is it just for streaming (for Apple Music customers)?
There is no home screen widget for iOS. I have 16GB of space as thats all I could afford, and adding more storage would be absolutely great. It may not be the best experience, but neither is having to buy the most expensive iPhone.
Now that is a good addition to AM. The more I think about it , AM on android does sound like a better offering. AM coupled with iTunes is not a good expletive on iPhone . I wish they would seperate the apps.
Ha Ha good ole fashioned widget argument. It's fine having widgets in the today view and will admit there are a lot of annoying on screen widgets on Android but hey you can remove them if you don't like them. There are a few that I really like to have and that's a nice big clock, weather and a calendar widget. My biggest pet peeve on the large iphones is all icons auto arranging top left and this could fix it a bit. Plus it just looks cleaner.
Would also like to be able to, change notification sounds for third party apps, set third party apps as default apps, install icon themes and while they are at it Get rid of the pull down tabs for today and notifications and put all that into the pull up from the bottom tab again nice for using a large phone with one hand.
These mostly seem simple (except the icons) yet it's more important to have live photos?
Maybe I'm crazy which would you rather look at?
Would also like to be able to, change notification sounds for third party apps, set third party apps as default apps, install icon themes and while they are at it Get rid of the pull down tabs for today and notifications and put all that into the pull up from the bottom tab again nice for using a large phone with one hand.
These mostly seem simple (except the icons) yet it's more important to have live photos?
Maybe I'm crazy which would you rather look at?
Not really? I think they might have did that on my old iPhone 6 Plus if I had too many widgets installed. Sometimes weather or sports might take a moment to load. I usually have the latest iPhone though, and the 2GB of RAM on the 6s means I installed a few more and don't really have issues. My core widgets are:
- BeWeather
- Fantastical
- Thessa (controls Nest thermostat)
- ESPN
- Deliveries
- Breaking News
- Stocks
- Stepz
- WaterMinder
- My Verizon Data
- Weather Underground Radar
However, since getting an Apple Watch I don't look at my widgets as often. My watch just alerts me when there's a storm within 10 miles and I can check the radar on my wrist. But some widgets are better on the phone, like Fantastical, or less buggy than on the Watch, like Thessa.
Hmm. I'm on a 6, so maybe 1GB really is the culprit? I currently only use three 3rd party widgets and three stock widgets:
- Batteries
- Calendar
- Find My Friends
- Wink Lights
- Discover
- WeatherBug
Widgets for Android music apps are required since the OS doesn't have universal playback controls. On iOS a widget would be mostly redundant due to the built in functionality in the OS lock screen and control center. It's really just that simple.
Frankly this an area I feel that iOS implements much better. Dedicated widgets for each app is silly. And yes I am aware of third party apps that add this to android.
(I'm only talking about audio apps. Widgets for other functions are a different topic)
Frankly this an area I feel that iOS implements much better. Dedicated widgets for each app is silly. And yes I am aware of third party apps that add this to android.
(I'm only talking about audio apps. Widgets for other functions are a different topic)
Oh 1GB causes lots of less than smooth experiences, especially on the Plus size. My 6s is a dream machine in that regard.
More like "The Apple Music app for Android phones was updated today". Still not available for tablets, not my LG G Pad anyway.
Got the fastest 64GB SD card UHS I Class 10 card capable of 90MB/s read and 45MB/S write. Formated as internal storage with Android 6.0 adoptive storage option. Never had issue. Apps installed and load fast.
While Apple charge you 100 dollar for storage bump... And 200 dollars from 16 to 128GB while I pay 100 dollar for 128GB SD card. Not paying top dollars to Apple while Android offers relative OK and cheap options.
I have an Xperia Z5 Compact with 32 GB internal and 64 GB SD card I use exclusively for music. I never noticed "issues".
While that is a fast card and i have a similar sandisk extreme pro in my Lumia 950 XL the speed is still considerably slower than internal flash storage. Then add the fact that the iphone 6s is the only phone to use the newer NVME memory which is much faster than the standard internal flash memory http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-n...ller-and-speed-dictated-by-device-capacity/2/ . There is no comparison between any sd card and nvme internal flash in speed.
While I do understand thst SD card is slower than internal storage. However, i don't rrallu bothered by that. I do not expereice significant slow down after I formated as internal storage.
I rather have the option using SD card than flat out not support it.
I agree there is pro/cons for both just pointing out some information that is not widely known. Its one of the main reasons why the 6s feels so fast opening apps. Believe it or not im actually really liking windows mobile 10 for work the recent updates have it working great just missing out on some key apps but new universal apps are rolling in everyday.