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iPhone X is so intuitive first week was boring
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We dont really have a choice.
Being an iPhone user since 2008 I would love a revamped home screen and UI.
IOS needs it honestly.
I love the way the gestures are on the X. It took no time for me as ive used these with my jailbroken iPhone 6 a few years back(with same gestures).
It is soooo smooth and people that think the 8's are fast with their multitasking and moving back and forth between apps are kidding themselves.
The X is a TON faster for everything. Also, its more fun. Way more fun. It makes using a button ancient to me now after using it for a week.
I never thought the home button was "fun" it was just the home button. Double pressing or triple pressing. Always having to use it to unlock and pay for things. Even while in the phone FaceId is just better. Putting in passwords to pay for things you dont have to do anything. You're using your phone so it scans your face and thats it.
I dont really understand the 8 and 8+ people saying its better. There is no way in hell that design and way of using the phone is better. Im coming from a 7+ and my quickness in finding things and chatting back and forth between people and sending emails ect has never been faster
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It is soooo smooth and people that think the 8's are fast with their multitasking and moving back and forth between apps are kidding themselves.
The X is a TON faster for everything. Also, its more fun. Way more fun. It makes using a button ancient to me now after using it for a week.
I never thought the home button was "fun" it was just the home button. Double pressing or triple pressing. Always having to use it to unlock and pay for things. Even while in the phone FaceId is just better. Putting in passwords to pay for things you dont have to do anything. You're using your phone so it scans your face and thats it.
I dont really understand the 8 and 8+ people saying its better. There is no way in hell that design and way of using the phone is better. Im coming from a 7+ and my quickness in finding things and chatting back and forth between people and sending emails ect has never been faster
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well yes. I mean the look of the operating system. It is dated for sure.
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iOS is a tried and true OS for me and I love knowing exactly where is where intuitively. I wouldn’t mind a revamp but I don’t mind it staying the same either.
And I only had my X for 2 days and I felt like I’ve used it for months. Also, I use reachability more now than ever.
Reading in dark mode(triple click the power button to toggle Smart Invert) on an OLED screen is awesome!
Face ID is so seamless that I don’t even think about it that much. I’m sure Apple will come up with a Face ID second generation or something like the Touch ID to make logging in so much faster that you won’t even know it’s there!
Gestures are actually more intuitive than I thought it would be. In a way, I’m kind of glad the home button is gone.
I don’t use the cameras so much. I read a lot off my phone so the display being almost perfect like this is for me, a system seller.
And I only had my X for 2 days and I felt like I’ve used it for months. Also, I use reachability more now than ever.
Reading in dark mode(triple click the power button to toggle Smart Invert) on an OLED screen is awesome!
Face ID is so seamless that I don’t even think about it that much. I’m sure Apple will come up with a Face ID second generation or something like the Touch ID to make logging in so much faster that you won’t even know it’s there!
Gestures are actually more intuitive than I thought it would be. In a way, I’m kind of glad the home button is gone.
I don’t use the cameras so much. I read a lot off my phone so the display being almost perfect like this is for me, a system seller.
I agree with you. I find the removal of the home button and the move to a gesture based UI very impressive. This was a huge risk for Apple and they nailed it. Easily the biggest change to the iPhone since 2007 and it works beautifully. I wouldn't want to go back to using a home button.
That's one way to look at it. Another would be that iOS makes such incremental changes and so little progress, that its all the same thing year after year.
I somewhat get your point here, but part of me wonders what people expect. iOS is a platform for you to communicate and use your apps. What exactly are you looking for? Look different just to be different? Weather widgets on the home screen? App launchers all to ultimately do the same thing, launch your apps. iOS is super simple in that regard because that's what it's for. I am just curious as to what people would like to see here. Android looks the same to me since it started also so I don't really get the negativity.
I jump back and fourth from Android to iOS all the time (cos I like tech and I can, T-Mobile jump on demand ...) Once you dive in and experience what you can do on Android so you have that perspective to compare (if you only use iOS then every little change is a huge upgrade), you would understand.
Android may be fragmented, bloatware galore, not as well optimized and ton of other cons but certain things are light years ahead of iOS. Gesture control (since it was mentioned here multiple times as a huge iOS achievement), that feature alone is so much more robust and so well implemented, so thoroughly customizable, that once you use it to it's full potential, coming back to iOS is like going back 10 years in time.
Yea I get the customization piece of it. For me, I used to jailbreak and liked customizing every part of the OS, but I have grown out of it. It's just not something I care to mess with anymore. If iOS added it, sure I'd like it, but it certainly doesn't take away from iOS in anyway. I choose that platform for performance, security, privacy, ecosystem, and support. Some customization options likely won't change that. Either way, it's good we as consumers have a choice.
What would you like them to do, fix what is not broken and revamp the entire OS solely for the purpose of challenging people to learn new things? Maybe I am reading your reply wrong in that it sounds critical.
I would like them to catch up to the competition, innovate like they used. And yes, if putting some effort into learning a new thing or two is going to make your life simple and easier in the long run, why wouldn't you want to??
I am not familiar with the competition and their superior operating systems. If they were so much better, why is Apple the global market leader in phone sales?
Apple is not the global market leader in phone sales nor is the most popular OS (its about 4 to 1 for Android) so ... Otherwise, that's kind of my point - you're not familiar yet have a very strong opinion. Try something different, may help you see a little better ...