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Android >>>>>> iOS
I'm a user, that's where Apple make their ground, making phones for users.
Where's the SD card slot?
What? You're kidding.
Android. Every single time.
Geeks like to program for geeks and assume a higher level of knowledge of the end user.
This is the biggest difference between Opensource and commercial software.
I don't mind Android at all in premium phone form but the OS just cannot do music making, midi etc..
What's an SD card?
OK, I know what an SD card is . Why would I need to use one with my phone?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I use my phone very rarely. I work from home, am seldom far from a PC and tend to communicate by land line and email.
It was well past time to replace my old iPhone but I didn't feel I could justify the £600 plus cost of a latest generation one considering infrequency of use. The OnePlus 3, being widely reviewed as 95% as good a top-rated phone for not much more than half the money looked a good option.
So I bought it. And I've just found it incredibly user unfriendly. The manual covers various specialised options but not the absolute bloody basics, like answering your phone, accessing text messages or voicemails etc. I dare say for a more typical user you'd work it all out within a week or two, but I can easily go a couple of weeks without using the thing and I never feel I've got on top of how to use it confidently. Thinking of selling it and going back to the nice, easy iPhone.
I really don't get it.
there are zealots on both sides and for all the tech advances and Apple being 18 months behind matters far less in the real world.
But I just couldn't get on with it. None of the benefits turned out to be SO important to me that it made Android 'better', and I was already used to iOS so found it simpler to use.
For about 6 months I had a personal iPhone and a work Android and just never really took to the Android experience.
I once also bought an Android tablet as my wife wanted a tablet - it was horrid. Yes it could multitask and whatnot but it turned out I then needed to keep going in and freeing up memory and closing applications (I presume Android on tablets is far better these days? This was quite a while back) and there's no way my wife would have put up with that so I flogged it and stumped up for an iPad.
I prefer iOS. There seem to be lots of statements of 'better' one way or another here - imo it makes you look a bit silly and shoulder-chip-y.
I never even thought of why I would need one until you mentioned it. Still can't see what I would need one for. I'd guess the same is true for at least 90% of iPhone users as well, since I've never seen it mentioned before.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I feel the same way about Apple people. All that "it just works" spiel.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
But that's crap compared to just tapping where you want the cursor.
For phones, I like Android *because* they just work. The customisation means it will work exactly as you want, although I do very very little to customise mine. Widgets are excellent too :DGoogle backs everything up easily - but I had no end of troubles with icloud and my girlfriend's sister, who moved to Android yesterday, tried backing her iPhone onto icloud and, surprise surprise, it didn't work how she wanted it to. I showed her how to do Google (basically, sign in and tick a box when you first turn on the phone) and viola - every photo, phone number, email address... It'll all be backed up.
They're pretty, and Iphones have extraordinary cameras (seriously, the video output on the iPhone 6 is astonishing, and easily good enough to start a YouTube channel with)
But it's actually the usability that leads me to Android. That said, I only use bones stock android. I think a lot of people's poor experiences come from third party software that isn't well done.
I don't mind a lack of expandable memory, but I do object to the rip off cost of a few extra gig of storage. That is across all platforms though.
Almost as much as I object to Apple charging £360 for about £100 or ram in their computers...