Yet somehow, Google implemented gestures only after Apple decided they need them in iOS. They could have implemented gestures years ago.
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Hands-On With Android P's New Swipe-Based Gesture System
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Well Photos apps on Android work the same way(Google Photos for example) and you also get the traditional file management system capabilities. The best of both worlds.
Sure they are one year behind! In about a month you will slime over Apples new features.
I set the bar high for WWDC 2018 because I see google and others go full steam ahead ech passing year. Android P seems like a clean, intuitive OS with many innovations we would all brag about when it was coming to iOS. If iOS 12 is only a small update with focus on new emojis and stabilization (every release should be rock solid in the first place) I foresee dark clouds ahead because Apple already can’t compete on services, functionality and price today. Hope WWDC 2018 will make me hungry and excited for iOS and Apple in general again, like I used to be in the past.
Would you quickly do a google search before finalizing your answer? Google has used gestures waaaaay before iphone.
On a side note, do people fact check prior to making such incorrect statements?
Looking through the comments on recent articles, the angry, irritated and darn right bitter ones still all generally receive the most likes. So yeah it's still macrumours.
I consider the essential phone more a cut out, as did the rest of the industry.. who did not copy the essential phone design - rather within months of the X release - copied Apples notch with their flagship devices.
Easy
Android has evolved into a great OS no question about it. The sluggish, bland generic UI design of the G1 and Gingerbread later on are just distant memories. If I hadn’t fallen in love with iOS the moment I first turned on my iPhone 3G back in ‘08, I could easily see myself using Android today. While I had been using an iPod since ‘03, that first iPhone is what really made me embrace Apple’s ecosystem.
The elegant design, the intuitiveness, the stability, reliability and support. All of these things make iOS the superior product. I embrace anything that Google does to make Android better since it will in turn make iOS better. Without strong competition stagnation is inevitable.
I must say that it’s pretty pathetic that Samsung’s S9s aren’t able to run the P beta right now when even Xiaomi and Essential support it.
The elegant design, the intuitiveness, the stability, reliability and support. All of these things make iOS the superior product. I embrace anything that Google does to make Android better since it will in turn make iOS better. Without strong competition stagnation is inevitable.
I must say that it’s pretty pathetic that Samsung’s S9s aren’t able to run the P beta right now when even Xiaomi and Essential support it.
A bad OS.
Yes, get rid of iOS, which is no better than Android. And discard all the "innovations" in the Mac from SnowLeopard: Open source Snow Leopard as you don't have any interest in making powerful systems for your users anymore, and give us a chance of getting the kind of technology we used to enjoy from Apple.
Gestures were already an important part of Android, Google simply took them a step further.
For example the Gesture section in the Settings app already existed since Nougat and with Android P Google simply added a few more options.
A Google VP at the I/O was asked if they were inspired by iphone x and the guy said they were experimenting with gesture controls before the X was announced. I have no reason to doubt what he said taking in consideration that gesture navigation controls is not some new and original idea that Apple popularized last year.
Apple iOS users are still waiting for better file management, while Google has been improving A.I. assistance in leaps and bounds.
Thanks for the information (seriously). Glad people chime in and inform others.
It feels like a tap on the button to go home might result in some false hits vs a more gross swipe gesture? Although for Android users already used to software home buttons maybe its less of an issue. Feels like it would have been simpler to have swipe to go home like iphone X (the swipe feels like you're 'dismissing' an app) and have the longer swipe to bring up the multitasking view.
Full app list doesn't seem necessary to have behind a swipe - you can get there from the home screen easily enough.
Full app list doesn't seem necessary to have behind a swipe - you can get there from the home screen easily enough.
I don't think Apple's AI will ever compete, I think this is a fight they can not
I got the Pixel 2 XL and I gotta say I love it. I came from an iPhone 6s
Personalized folders + dates + geotag tend to work quite better than nested folders, it is kind of why any photography or video editing app help you to avoid the nested folders cluster****, but a guess if your standard is windows 98 then Android may work best for you.
I love bezels and soon vintage home buttons. I am not on the band wagon, but keep on rolling. I will (have to) jump on it in a few years.
Android users are still on iOS sites....just saying, it says a lot more than any repeated over an over "apple is domed, Apple don't innoate, apple this and that" arguments.
Enjoying them on my Xiaomi with official Build on Android 8 (MIUI 9.5.6.0), and without any hack installed... so I don't really get your point.
The good thing about Android is that there are multiple non official roms, and even vendor roms wich implement features without the need to wait for Android updates.
Again MIUI has lots of feature that were Android 8 when it was running on top of Android 7, and I am currently use Android 9 features running MIUI on top of Android 8, as in fact system gestures.
Android is the base, vendors can build on top of it and add features they see fit.
Pretty sure a big portion of those people are in fact Apple users, who have been waking up to reality. Not every thing that Apple does is good, which is obvious in the feedback that users have been giving over the recent years. Look at the dongles, mbp keyboards, imac pro, modular mac, mac mini, ios 11, notch, etc.
In other words, just a list of memes that are mindlessly repeated.
This walled garden of Apple is starting to feel boring and too expensive for no reason.
I'm pretty sure they are repeated over and over for a reason. Doubt people are just making up problems, and riding the bandwagon wave. I mean, there are plenty of articles and even class action lawsuits over some of these things. I seriously can't make this stuff up.