Motorola Atrix 4g came out in 2011... Might be easier to do a simple Google search, instead of spewing out incorrect information, to only look foolish.
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Google Shows Off Android P With New iPhone X-Style Gestures
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Why do you think they are "make it clunky"?
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Why do you think they are "make it clunky"?
Actually, that wasn't the point of their conversation at all.
I'm using Android P. I barely have to move my finger up much at all, same with the app drawer. Google has had this swipe up gesture from the inception of Google now. I have used similar gestures from several years before Google now. Not sure why so many people forget this, Palm's webOS, etc. Apple was technically the last to implement such gestures.
Also, your thumb would technically have to travel more to get to the bottom of the iPhone x, vs any other phone. Unless your thumb is different from the average person, that is...
Ah the notch controversy. You either hate it or "Meh, what's the big deal?" If they didn't have the notch they couldn't have the same Face ID tech with that footprint so the notch is there for housing the tech required for Face ID (not pointless). They could have just increased the "forehead" of the phone and put all that there, but then people would complain about large bezels. I'm in the "what's the big deal?" camp. I still don't understand why people in either OS keep comparing the tech they've chosen with each other. Are people that insecure about themselves that they use their phone as a statement of who they are? If you didn't buy the X don't complain because it's not affecting you in any way. If you did then you knew about the notch in the first place.
Nope, I still stand with a decade or so.
Case in point, on screen navigation buttons. It’s only recently that Samsung switched from physical home button to on screen buttons, and many Chinese OEMs are still using capacitive buttons today. So I expect the adoption of these new gestures would take a long time as well.
And I never said Apple is not a copycat. The difference is that Apple changed things because they had to (like the notch, it is needed if you want to go bezelless). My point is that this change into gestures is actually not needed on Android. There’s nothing wrong with the current on screen buttons, and they’re more intuitive for new users than gestures. The change in P is just for the sake of change.
I use Redmi 5A and iPhone SE. Honestly, Android is far better but I use the iPhone because of my Apple Watch. Everything I need to do is better on Android. IOS email app sucks, no football, weather, traffic notifications. I can deploy apps via the web without using the app store. The app store is awful on iOS. Google Fit automatically detects cycling, running, etc. Healthkit was nice but now a mess! News is better on Android too.
iOS12 better improve because Android was awful but now pretty darn good!
iOS12 better improve because Android was awful but now pretty darn good!
Next time Apple does an iPhone/iOS keynote they need some new banners:
"Mountain View, start your photocopiers"
"Mountain View, start your photocopiers"
But if they copying Apple aren't they copying from the best? You don't want someone who competes to do this?
I really wish Google and Apple could get along better. Google is so far ahead of Apple on Apps, Services, and AI/Machine Learning but Apple forces you into their native apps much of the time.
WHY DO ALL PHONES LOOK THE SAME!!!!!!!!!!!
The same reason all CARS look the same compared to the 50's & 60's.
Apple has done its fair share of copying as well. Where do you think the notification came from
"Google has been working on it for more than a year."
*** looks at the image directly beneath that piece of text ***
Come on boys, big yourself up a bit more. By the look of that home indicator, you got this done in around 7 months. Be proud of that.
*** looks at the image directly beneath that piece of text ***
Come on boys, big yourself up a bit more. By the look of that home indicator, you got this done in around 7 months. Be proud of that.
Thats the issue, Google tried to copy the gestures but haven't got the skills or decent OS to make it look or run smoothly.
Whats your point? The majority of the world runs windows? It doesn't make it good. Android was given FREE to hardware makers, and has been slapped on junk hardware (the VAST majority of Android devices).
Doesn't matter. Everyone steals ideas from each other. The problem now is that Android looks and operates better than iOS rather than looking like it's 10 years behind iOS like it used to.
Whilst Google have continued to improve Android year after year, iOS has become a stale bloated buggy mess.
Better at some things - maybe. But iOS is in no way dominant over android. They both have their strengths and weaknesses at this point, and the pixel 2 and the iPhone are just about equal in 2018. Personally I switched from iOS to Android (Pixel 2 XL) because I prefer the hardware, the UI, the customisation, the Camera, and the assistant. Oh, and the lower price and the cost of storing all of my photos in the cloud. i.e zero.
It's true that Apple might have better digital security in place, and a much better and safer app store, but it's OK if you're careful about which apps you need to use. All round the Pixel 2 and Google's open approach to services are just better for me, and any UI updates are by the by. And if it comes down to Google assistant vs Siri, there's no contest, and in my future that's more important than a self styled 'premium' iPhone.
I think you'll find, in many ways android is (and has been for a while) dominant over iOS.
It's just an opinion, but having used both extensively, it's a well informed one!
You keep repeating this to seeming random comments on this thread for some strange reason.
If you want to talk about that then you should also mention only 5% of those are on the latest OS - and that has been out for 9 months already.