Android >>> iOS

Priapus said:
No one gives a **** what you do mate. Carry on with your shitposting. If you're happy with Android, fine. If it works for your needs great. That however doesn't mean iOS is bad for everyone. Go play outside or something...
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eg2505 and shitposting go hand-in-hand.
 
bwana said:
It would have been better had they been legally required to do it but ICASA took the easy way out... shocker. :eek:
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Yeah, and because of that there are so many, (mostly lower-end devices for now) being network locked, it's only a matter of time before the greedy service providers start doing that to more premium devices.
 
Mosgi said:
The RAM management and instant freezing of an app once its not on your screen (I realise there are some work-arounds, but I'd have quite a lot open possibly enough to overwhelm the minimal ram they insist on putting in flagship).
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Not understanding what you mean here? What’s the problem?

I have in excess of 100 apps open right now. (I only counted that far).


So I use Chromecast on two TVs, and I now cant cast from a webpage and often screen mirroring just refuses to work and only gives me the option for airplay. There was an app for this, but I needed to keep the screen on and playing the content for the content to stream. So far worse than normal, renders the phone unusable while using it. So when I cast, I typically leave the app since my TV is processing data from my phone, not on IOS, it will hang, because you left the app and its now "frozen", happens on both YouTube and Netflix.
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This is an obvious ecosystem thing and the same reason I won’t switch as the inverse is equally true and I will lose access to the 6 Airplay devices in my house.

It’s not really iOS’s fault. Unless we lay equal blame with Android for using Chromecast.

iOS at least supports some Chromecast. Android can’t airplay anything.

You cant place an app where you want to, its always up and to the left, which when you are holding the phone in your right hand is the worst possible place. There is however a nice feature that brings the screen down so you can reach.
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I’ll drive most people nuts here but I don’t place any icons. I put multiple Siri Suggestion widgets down and let it dynamically offer me app icons as I need them, it works incredibly well.

Contextual back is one of the most egregious mishaps in the way in operates on IOS, this definitely needs a back permanent back button Id say from the bottom left corner (you know like the way its done on Android). Nope it seems everything you swipe from the bottom does the same thing. A quick summary of "how to go back" I have encountered:
  • If it has a blurry background, then you tab the blur to go back
  • If its a web page you swipe across the center to go back (or forward)
  • Often the only way to go back in many apps is to tap the close or x or back option on the screen
  • If you are in a picture in your gallery its a swipe down to go back or again on screen option, unless you are in an app like Tapatalk at which point its a tap anywhere on the screen but dont swipe down cos that does nothing
I have observed my mates who have pretty much exclusively been on IOS, and they do the wrong action more often that you would think, gets way worse after a few dops. This is of course in between them asking if anyone has an iPhone charger, which I'm convinced is an Apple proverb.
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Huh? You swipe left to go back and right to go forward in all Apple apps. If other developers don’t want to follow their gestures it’s their own failure.

Lack of fingerprint sensor is ridiculous since we live in a masked work, Apple Pay is pretty much Samsung Pay so nothing there, except I could keep my mask on and not have to enter my password.
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Again solved by the ecosystem. Get an Apple Watch. No need to fingerprint nonsense.


The Ecosystem
Costs way too much to get full use out of this feature. Maybe I'm too poor to understand, but once you've added the costs, and looked at what you could've done in the market, or a renovation, perhaps a first class 5 star trip to Greece for 2 weeks Ai, the Ecosystem can suck my left toe.
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Ecosystems grow over time. You don’t buy them all at once, which is why it’s so hard to leave them.

A little unfair to look at it all as an upfront cost. Also a little unfair as Android simply doesn’t offer the same options so of course it would be off balance.

Its definitely designed around FOMO, yes people cant airdrop to me, but who cares. The biggest dealbreaker could be the ability to integrate to the more opensource type of smartdevices ill be putting in soon.
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Example? The open source devices I mean.
 
SauRoNZA said:
I’ll drive most people nuts here but I don’t place any icons. I put multiple Siri Suggestion widgets down and let it dynamically offer me app icons as I need them, it works incredibly well..
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I don't even understand what he's trying to say with that...I can move my apps around just fine? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iphd2fc8ce30/ios

Siri suggestions have also been quite nice, when I enter the gym I just swipe down at it suggest Stocard for my Virgin active card for ex.
 
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prOd said:
I don't even understand what he's trying to say with that...I can move my apps around just fine? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iphd2fc8ce30/ios

Siri suggestions have also been quite nice, when I enter the gym I just swipe down at it suggest Stocard for my Virgin active card for ex.
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Same here - my icons are all in precisely the place I want them without doing anything particularly special (shiver mode, move app, swipe up, done)
 
prOd said:
I don't even understand what he's trying to say with that...I can move my apps around just fine? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iphd2fc8ce30/ios

Siri suggestions have also been quite nice, when I enter the gym I just swipe down at it suggest Stocard for my Virgin active card for ex.
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Don't even bother. The tool read some article on the lack of iOS multitasking 11 years ago, and hasn't bothered to get with the times since then.
 
prOd said:
I don't even understand what he's trying to say with that...I can move my apps around just fine? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iphd2fc8ce30/ios

Siri suggestions have also been quite nice, when I enter the gym I just swipe down at it suggest Stocard for my Virgin active card for ex.
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What he means is you can’t place an app icon anywhere.

They always stack top left and then down row for row from left to right.
 
AfricanTech said:
Same here - my icons are all in precisely the place I want them without doing anything particularly special (shiver mode, move app, swipe up, done)
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But you can’t place them anywhere and you also can’t leave spaces.

You swop one tile for another tile.

I understand 100% what he means. It doesn’t bother me though.

If you wanted an icon precisely at the bottom right of an empty Home Screen you can’t actually do it.

Your precisely is based on having accepted what iOS has forced on you.

I’m used to it, doesn’t bother me at all but I can see why someone switching would notice it and he bothered by it.
 
genetic said:
Don't even bother. The tool read some article on the lack of iOS multitasking 11 years ago, and hasn't bothered to get with the times since then.
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Huh? Nobody is talking about multitasking.

He’s perfectly correct in what he said.
 
AfricanTech said:
Same here - my icons are all in precisely the place I want them without doing anything particularly special (shiver mode, move app, swipe up, done)
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This is my current Homescreen setup, I’ve put everything else in App Library.
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And then the extra widgets that are more detailed sit in this area where you swipe to go to the left…
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And of course there is the Control Centre which I customize to have the apps I want quick access to no matter what app I am in…21D1766C-98CA-41F9-BF2E-08C5E8F7C9E5.png
 
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SauRoNZA said:
But you can’t place them anywhere and you also can’t leave spaces.

You swop one tile for another tile.

I understand 100% what he means. It doesn’t bother me though.

If you wanted an icon precisely at the bottom right of an empty Home Screen you can’t actually do it.

Your precisely is based on having accepted what iOS has forced on you.

I’m used to it, doesn’t bother me at all but I can see why someone switching would notice it and he bothered by it.
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Oh ja right - I remember now from Android days
 
AfricanTech said:
He's also, iirc, using a Huawei smart watch which doesn't integrate so lekker with ios (unsurprisingly)
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Funnily enough the issue I had with Huawei Watch GT2e synced to my iPhone was that it would notify me too much e.g. when I am in a MS Teams meeting that has a lot of people who are active in the chat section the GT2e would literally notify me of every single message, not so cool when you have over 100 people in your call
Can’t remember how I solved it, think I just disabled the MS Teams notifications on it.

Did you have Huawei Health App active in Background App Refresh?

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AfricanTech said:
I used to miss the back Button - got used to the ios swipe left and the swipe up pretty quickly when the touchid/home button was retired
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What I meant was you didn’t need to buy a new iPhone to experience those ‘issues’ lol
Which is kinda what @genetic meant, you can’t keep asking that dumb question about iTunes for every new model.
 
Tsepz_GP said:
Funnily enough the issue I had with Huawei Watch GT2e synced to my iPhone was that it would notify me too much e.g. when I am in a MS Teams meeting that has a lot of people who are active in the chat section the GT2e would literally notify me of every single message, not so cool when you have over 100 people in your call
Can’t remember how I solved it, think I just disabled the MS Teams notifications on it.

Did you have Huawei Health App active in Background App Refresh?
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Me?

No. I'm not the Huawei guy
 
Apart from the Watch, does anybody know or is using any type of FHIR integration in the Health App?
 
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