It's a nice attempt at a straw man, but I won't play ball. If you'd like to actually debate what I wrote then I be quite happy to oblige.
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Why I'm going back to iOS
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It's a nice attempt at a straw man, but I won't play ball. If you'd like to actually debate what I wrote then I be quite happy to oblige.
Sure. You said
Explain.
As for your other statement
Android is much more open than iOS. Are you trying to say it isn't?
Download AOSP and compile the sources for yourself. While you're at it, make any changes you want.
In both, you can change the wallpaper. In Android you're stuck with alphabetical app order. In iOS you can have folders, rearrange things, whatever you want. In Android you can have a small handful of widgets.
It's open source, sure. But from a users perspective it's frequently closed.
Where did you get this idea? I find it hard to believe that you've owned 4 Android handsets and still think this is true.
What does this mean?
Holy cow, Mikey. Your responses make my brain hurt. I'm not going to bother pointing out your probably intentional disinformation.
It depends on the launcher of the device. But in pure Android you've only got a 5x5 alphabetical grid.
It's my very genuine opinion after extensive experience with Android. I used to waste my time making Android ROMs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=2771239
If I must, I'll go take a picture of the three Android devices I still have (I sold the fourth on eBay). I wish it wouldn't resort to such nonsense.
That would be the app drawer, and not the home screen. And why can't you just install another app launcher?
I'm fully aware of how the Android home screen works. Painfully so. I usually ended up having five blank home screens, one or two widgets, and all of my apps shoved to some forgotten disorganized place.
I find it hard to believe your claim that you can make ROMs and yet can't differentiate between the home screen vs. the app drawer.
The discussion was about home screens. I'll ask again. How is the homescreen in iOS more customizable than in Android?
The home screen and the app drawer are one and the same.
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OMG. What don't you get about the difference between a home screen and an app drawer?
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You're totally wrong, your claim is false. Home screens and app drawer are totally different
So if I understand correctly, pressing the home button takes you to the app drawer? Since that's the homescreen?
I believe pressing it if not on the home screen takes you to the home screen and then again takes you to the app drawer.
I don't get it. If you didn't the stock Android experience, then why did you buy five different Android phones? Why not just get the iPhone and stop developing ROMs for Android?
I've just tried that on a SGS3 and a Nexus 4 and it doesn't seem to do it on either of those phones. (I didn't know so tried)
That's what I did, eventually. I didn't always feel this way, I just got progressively more frustrated as more and none of the problems I had with Android were fixed. 4.1 was the final straw.
linking to that thread proves nothing. The fact that you consider the app draw and the Home screen one and the same speak volumes about your complete LACK of understanding of android.