IMO when on a smartphone, the advantages of a well build and designed one way street,
are preferable to the many quickly build unbaked streets which is Android..
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IMO when on a smartphone, the advantages of a well build and designed one way street,
are preferable to the many quickly build unbaked streets which is Android..
I had android for a while and finally gave apple a chance I don't regret it it's always fun learning a new device. A few things that I hope get fixed is the lack of customization in the control center,thought that would be a no Brainer to let us change the toggles. Also I HATE that I can't access app settings from the apps themselves and instead I have to back out n hit the settings icon...-_-.
iOS is so simple it's actually complicated. On Android, everything is where you expect it to be.
It would definetly be nice to access the App settings within the Apps themselves. However, I don't think this is one of those things that's ever going to change. I can see where Apple might build more customization within the control center some time in the future.
It's kind of nice to see the app settings themselves grouped instead of hunting and pecking through the interface. For instance, if I want to check the cellular setting, every app is nicely listed. If I want to review the settings of every app, there is a consolidated list for that, etc.
I don't think you would have to hunt through the interface to change something, if the changes themselves could be done within the App that you wanted to make changes to.
I'm really starting to get the hang of iOS now. There's a few things that I would prefer to be different but they aren't deal breakers.
I actually got sick of the customization I was able to do on android, at this point I do have a little more appreciation for it, I guess in the "you don't know what you have till it's gone" kind of way lol
I do feel like I need to sit and go through some kind of tips tricks type things though, I feel like there's a lot I'm missing simply because I don't know, but I don't even know if that's true haha
Sorry for the disorganized rambling. Bottom line, I'm enjoying it, decided to keep the 6s plus over the s6 edge plus
I actually got sick of the customization I was able to do on android, at this point I do have a little more appreciation for it, I guess in the "you don't know what you have till it's gone" kind of way lol
I do feel like I need to sit and go through some kind of tips tricks type things though, I feel like there's a lot I'm missing simply because I don't know, but I don't even know if that's true haha
Sorry for the disorganized rambling. Bottom line, I'm enjoying it, decided to keep the 6s plus over the s6 edge plus
That's the point if I wanted to change the background settings for my news feed app and facebook, I would have to open up these two apps separately. Now they are just grouped one after another in the appropriate place in settings.
My post probably was not clear and I was making an assumption based on the thread replies. I may have not understood, but on android do you have to open up each app separately to change the settings, or is there a central place in addition to the ability to modify the settings within the app itself? If the latter is the case, I'm thinking that's a perfect 3d touch application. If the former is the case, the IOS settings app is very convenient when you want to look at a list of applications for a particular setting.
If you want to look at the settings in your apps, there is a list within the IOS Settings app where you can select each app, one by one.
Oh, I understand what you're saying now. I'm not sure about Android as I haven't owned one of those devices in almost 2 years now. Once in a while I get to try one out when I'm helping one of my friends out with a problem on their Android phones. Those are the times when I'm very happy to get back to my iPhone.
I would suggest that by the same token, every manufacturer's skinning and customizations would indicate that the manufacturer found glaring issues with the Android OS, so by those standards, Samsung, HTC, your carrier, etc don't think that stock Android is that great, so they do the equivalent of Android jailbreaking for you by re-skinning the whole thing in TouchWiz, Sense, etc.
I wouldn't write off jailbreaking for a means of completely changing the way you use your phone. It's been a long time since I've jailbroken with the old shiny iPod touches, but you can get a lot out of it like face-recognition unlocks, re-skinned home screens, retro-fitted 3D touch swipes, etc. This is a little bit old since it's for iOS 8, but if you want to check it out, this is a pretty good example of some jailbreaking tweaks you can use: http://phonerebel.com/top-100-ios-8-cydia-tweaks/
If all you really want is emulators, then you could easily instead just install the apps using one of the available services like iemulators.com. They use enterprise certificates to side-load apps without the app store.
There are a few apps that allow you to manage music without iTunes. I personally prefer iTunes since it gives me some flexibility cloud-wise to slap my music in iTunes, hand apple $25 for iTunes match for the year, and now I have unlimited (up to the max library size of 25,000 songs which don't include the songs that iTunes can match to equivalent albums on the store) streaming of my lossless (converted to 256kb aac) collection from iCloud. A similar approach would be to do it with Google Music, but what you're probably looking for is VLC.
VLC will let you steam from Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. It will also let you make a web interface on your LAN to upload files to.
VLC also lets you open webm files from Safari, so you can browse websites that use that format in Safari if you're willing to download the video to vlc to view.
There are a few apps on the app store like USB Sharp that will allow you to drag and drop files onto your phone to take with you.
I can honestly say that I haven't had too many issues here on the iOS side. I'd say that I've had way more issues with mail.app on the Mac side. There have been plenty of times where I'll search for an email on my mac and it won't show up, but when I'm on my iPhone I could find it easily, and the search is across all of my mail accounts, so I can usually find what I'm looking for even if I forget which email I used. I'm also a big fan of the unified inbox, but I know it's not for everyone. I would like to see more filtering available on the phone side. I've switched to using server-side mail sorting when I want to set up filters.
I don't remember seeing any specifics, but if you're having issues, sometimes people try to "optimize" the page for iPhones and break functionality. Also, the content blockers for ad-blockers (If you're using any) can sometimes block an entire page. For both of these issues, if you hold down on the refresh button, you get a menu for refreshing the page without the content blockers (which resolves the issue most of the time for me) or to open the desktop version of the site instead.
I've used these two settings to browse pretty much anywhere that isn't a flash game.
If you want to do pretty much anything with going back, swipe from the left edge. Since you have a 6s, this goes double since you can 3D touch the edge while swiping to switch between apps or just go to the app switcher.
I would also argue that this app switcher access and method of going back can be a lot more convenient than Android with a big phone. The swipe from edge can still be accessed one-handed while you are gripping the top of the phone with the edge method. If you use a dedicated button, you would have to shimmy down to press it to get the same functionality. There's also the UI argument of the edge being an infinite-sized button while the button is a limited-size point, but that's another topic for another time (here's looking at you side-menus of Windows 8).
This is up to the developer of the app, but I can honestly say that I haven't gone to the settings app to adjust settings for pretty much anything other than Apple services.
Also, while it may seem a bit fanboy-ish of me to suggest, the WWDC and iPhone release keynotes are HUGE resources for finding out about "hidden" features of the os like what swiping from the edge will do in different apps. For instance, if you want to know about some extra mail app features you get with 3D touch, watch the latest keynote,' and you'll know just about as much about 3D touch features as an Apple Retail employee will. I've watched every keynote since before copy and paste were introduced to the iPhone in iPhone OS 3.0, and there have been quite a few times when I've been able to help people out just because I learned about a feature from a keynote.
I'm also a long time Android user that switched. The stock mail app is a joke. Takes way to long for it to update unless I'm missing a setting. The Gmail app solves that problem but there's no 3D touch. 2nd issue is the App store. Just this afternoon it told me that Netflix needed an update but that app did not show the update button. Also finding anything is tough because I'm just not use to the ecosystem. For me the Android play store is much better. Just today Google is rolling out a revised store. Google has never let the App store get old and boring.
But overall I'm still loving my iPhone 6s. I personally got tired of Android OEM's throwing stuff to the wall. If Samsung releases 3D touch it would never filter down to all Android phones. But when Apple does it expect it in future iPhones with better app support. My wife is going Facetime crazy with me now. Every Android OEM places some unique feature that is only specific to them.
Even though I got the smaller 6S if Apple added dual app screen like the iPads onto the 6S Plus that would be my only device. As it stands I use a 6S and a iPad Air 2.
But overall I'm still loving my iPhone 6s. I personally got tired of Android OEM's throwing stuff to the wall. If Samsung releases 3D touch it would never filter down to all Android phones. But when Apple does it expect it in future iPhones with better app support. My wife is going Facetime crazy with me now. Every Android OEM places some unique feature that is only specific to them.
Even though I got the smaller 6S if Apple added dual app screen like the iPads onto the 6S Plus that would be my only device. As it stands I use a 6S and a iPad Air 2.
The message loading taking a long time on its first open is very true. You have the option of limiting the range of messages you download, but it does take forever. On my 5S(my 6 is in for repair), it took the phone 10 minutes to index my folder with 3,000 messages. Once this is done, every time I go back to that folder though, it only needs to check for changes, so it's relatively fast. I've also accumulated many email addresses (I'm up to 7 now) from various providers for different purposes, and I feel like that's really where the app excels with its unified inbox. I guess I've also gotten used to just opening up the app, leaving, and then coming back to it once it buzzes to let me know it's done, so I don't really realize that I'm waiting for it anymore.
I found myself getting pretty frustrated with the Play Store when I tried out a Samsung Note 4. At the time, I was searching up apps that could possibly replicate my experience with the Apple mail app (ironically
) and I saw that there were a few nexus apps that I could see on the online store, but not on the Note, which plays into the fragmenting that you mention.
I'm really starting to get the hang of iOS now. There's a few things that I would prefer to be different but they aren't deal breakers.
I actually got sick of the customization I was able to do on android, at this point I do have a little more appreciation for it, I guess in the "you don't know what you have till it's gone" kind of way lol
I do feel like I need to sit and go through some kind of tips tricks type things though, I feel like there's a lot I'm missing simply because I don't know, but I don't even know if that's true haha
Sorry for the disorganized rambling. Bottom line, I'm enjoying it, decided to keep the 6s plus over the s6 edge plus
I'd be very, very tempted to choose the S6 Edge Plus over the 6s Plus. The camera is supposed be better, and the higher resolution screen and amount of system memory would make for a really nice experience. Having to deal with unremovable carrier software, Samsung bloatware and slow updates, however, make me glad to own an iPhone.
maybe the Android store is more comfy, but the level of the released apps is way below the polished and authorized IOS apps. what would you prefer?
Doesn't matter if both stores offer the same select few that most people tend to use.
If you mean receiving emails then I think that's because you don't get push mail with gmail because of silly political nonsense between the companies. So you have to do the scheduled fetch which - even at the fastest setting - could have you waiting up to 15 minutes for a notification. If you have email that you need to know about more instantly, either use the gmail app (or try the inbox app from Google), or if you don't like that UI just use it for notifications and then open the mail app and refresh to read it.
Personally I can't believe there is no way to reject an incoming call from the lock screen except pressing the lock button. I only found that out by googling it. How many people have had their phone sitting there ringing away without knowing how to reject it? I really like the android method of requiring a swipe (to prevent accidental triggering in the pocket), but letting you swipe right to answer or left to reject.
Also agree on the slow safari scrolling. And this isn't even an iOS Vs android thing - it's an iPad vs iPhone thing. I might understand if two competing platforms choose to do things differently. But having iPad safari scroll nice and fast and for a long time with a flick of the finger, and iPhone safari grind to a halt? That just feels very inconsistent, especially when people talk about how integrated the apple ecosystem is. Well having consistency of experience between devices would be nice..
Those are the biggest things I've noticed so far and I hope I can get used to them but they are damn annoying.
Both OSs have their advantages and disadvantages. I liked a lot of things in Android, nevertheless I gave up "freedom" and came back to iOS. I consider the latter a more mature, more sophisticated OS. The stock e-mail app on Android is not a joke, it is a disaster. I had to download K-9 to be able to open attachements (.jpg etc). Same goes to stock SMS/Text app. It was unable to handle multiple SMS, so I had to use a MultiSMS Sender from the Google PlayStore etc. What I enjoyed was the "freedom" of customization, the transparency of the whole system and the ability to download, upload, transfer and install whatever I wanted.
Despite the above mentioned I consider the iPhone superior hardware and software wise. I enjoy that my reception is better (though it might be phone brand dependant), the use of one-gesture "mute" button, the simple, modest UI, the system that does not need any maintenance and that "it just works", for me at least.
Despite the above mentioned I consider the iPhone superior hardware and software wise. I enjoy that my reception is better (though it might be phone brand dependant), the use of one-gesture "mute" button, the simple, modest UI, the system that does not need any maintenance and that "it just works", for me at least.
I came back to Apple last April and thought it was nice but I could do without an android phone so I kept mt Moto X(2014) and my Note 4
The longer I use iOS the less I seem to want android. Over the last couple of months that I have had my iPhone 6 I bought an S6 edge, S6, LG G4 and then back to an S6 edge. I sold all my android phones(still have my windows and BB phones) and I now use my iPhone 6 and 6s only. Combined with my Air 2 it just works well. I do have my iPhone's jailbroken though but not my Air.
The only thing I miss is the camera on the S6 and the Samsung was smoother than the 6s as well. Other than that I don't see any need for an android phone at the minute.
The longer I use iOS the less I seem to want android. Over the last couple of months that I have had my iPhone 6 I bought an S6 edge, S6, LG G4 and then back to an S6 edge. I sold all my android phones(still have my windows and BB phones) and I now use my iPhone 6 and 6s only. Combined with my Air 2 it just works well. I do have my iPhone's jailbroken though but not my Air.
The only thing I miss is the camera on the S6 and the Samsung was smoother than the 6s as well. Other than that I don't see any need for an android phone at the minute.
Swipe right/left is more obvious or intuitive than pressing the lock button? I've never pocket answered a call.
As far as safari scrolling differences in screen real estate are the cause of the differences in the scrolling algorithms.