what is the big advantage with IOS over Android?

TBH Windows I never tried, heard some people like it more than anything,

also heard its possible to load it on a android phone? how true is that?

sure there is other O/S that people have out there, but I think I will stick with my android, as its easier to understand....
 
eg2505 said:
yip blue pill, use IOS and believe all is well with the world,

or take the red pill and see how deep the rabbit hole goes with android.....
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That's not how you spell choice… (I was wondering if it was an obscure meme ;))
 
SauRoNZA said:
He he.

That was sort of my point though, Linux as a Desktop/Workstation is garbage and far behind the curve.

So if you must do *nix as a desktop...then use MacOS / OSX.


Servers are a whole different story and there *nix rules supreme.


I was also pointing out that just because someone uses Linux you make a massive assumption that they like to tinker more. Just because it's not the defacto standard doesn't mean they prefer to tinker. They might just be so disillusioned with Windows that they are forced to tinker.
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Mmm, guess it depends on what you've experienced. I can't agree that Linux as a Desktop is far behind the curve, no sir, that I can't do. I use Linux and Windows almost every day... and on dreaded occasions, OSX. Now again, this is my experience, I'm not saying anything as if I'm a professor in rocket scientisms, but I feel that for a power user, Linux is the way to go if you can live without Windows/OSX specific applications.

And yes, I make the massively humongously large assumption that most Linux users tend to tinker more because those I've met do. It's just what I've seen :)
 
Idiosyncratic said:
Mmm, guess it depends on what you've experienced. I can't agree that Linux as a Desktop is far behind the curve, no sir, that I can't do. I use Linux and Windows almost every day... and on dreaded occasions, OSX. Now again, this is my experience, I'm not saying anything as if I'm a professor in rocket scientisms, but I feel that for a power user, Linux is the way to go if you can live without Windows/OSX specific applications.

And yes, I make the massively humongously large assumption that most Linux users tend to tinker more because those I've met do. It's just what I've seen :)
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116 days uptime on an OSX Macbook that went into my bag on the back of a bike every day and was only restarted to test an update.

Can't say I've ever managed the same with a Linux desktop or Windows box that didn't require a restart or had a career ending failure of some kind.

Sure technically with a Linux desktop you can kill X and start over without taking the system down, but my point is really that the Linux desktop isn't mature enough yet and therefore highly unstable. Or **** just doesn't work in the first place.

Anyway enough of the back and forth, at the end of the day use the one that works the best for you and keeps you the most productive.

For me that iOS + OSX.

I'm not very productive on a Linux desktop and would take Windows over it as I'm forced to do now.
 
SauRoNZA said:
116 days uptime on an OSX Macbook that went into my bag on the back of a bike every day and was only restarted to test an update.

Can't say I've ever managed the same with a Linux desktop or Windows box that didn't require a restart or had a career ending failure of some kind.

Sure technically with a Linux desktop you can kill X and start over without taking the system down, but my point is really that the Linux desktop isn't mature enough yet and therefore highly unstable. Or **** just doesn't work in the first place.

Anyway enough of the back and forth, at the end of the day use the one that works the best for you and keeps you the most productive.

For me that iOS + OSX.

I'm not very productive on a Linux desktop and would take Windows over it as I'm forced to do now.
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Agreed, one needs to use the one that works best for you. Productivity wise I'm fine with Linux now... Wasn't always this way.

But yes, about the restarting bit, the mind boggles as to why OSX survives without a restart. ElementaryOS is the only distro I saw that could achieve that... But then again, it's considered an OSX copy by some :)
 
Yeah it does have the Apple Design Ethos going for it.

And surprisingly stable for a perpetual beta built by a small team.
 
All the ifans baffles me on their stories of how Android restarts every few days on them, before moving over to iPhones. I'm yet to encounter that, and I had my share of Android phones.
 
Idiosyncratic said:
But yes, about the restarting bit, the mind boggles as to why OSX survives without a restart. ElementaryOS is the only distro I saw that could achieve that... But then again, it's considered an OSX copy by some :)
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OS X does need to be restarted for certain system updates, so in reality if updating each time I get a notification about an update it would run for at most 30 days at a time. On the other hand there was a Yosemite bug that caused my machine to kernel panic regularly, so it's not immune to flakiness. Too many Windows updates seem to require restarting, but at the same time modern Windows systems can easily stay up without incident for months. The notion of Windows being generally unstable is long outdated.

Idiosyncratic said:
Now again, this is my experience, I'm not saying anything as if I'm a professor in rocket scientisms, but I feel that for a power user, Linux is the way to go if you can live without Windows/OSX specific applications.
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As a power user I'd choose OS X. In fact the first thing I'll do when using Windows or Linux is to see if I can find tools to match the ones I have available to me on OS X. Sometimes they exist. Usually they're not as good or harder to use.
 
beans100 said:
All the ifans baffles me on their stories of how Android restarts every few days on them, before moving over to iPhones. I'm yet to encounter that, and I had my share of Android phones.
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I can't say I've ever seen it happen regularly on Android either.
 
I owned Sony Xperia P, Huawei P6 and Samsung flagship 10.1 tablet with pen, and now have iPad mini 2 and IPhone 5s, also had a 6. I had played a lot on the Xperia and rooted it etc... but ultimately I really want some that is well up and running out of the box, and doesn't require too many other pieces of software. The Huawei was great until the battery went on strike and caused phone dementia, and I thought that the Samsung could have been smoother for a top of the range device - the UI and screen around the pen and handwriting recognition was a pain for me - just not my scene there and I thought it shall Utd have been managed better. I bough an external keyboard and that proved to be also not implemented efficiently with the device in my opinion.

My girlfriend is all Apple, and I find that the ability to share (the list of shareables has expanded with iOS 10) documents, pictures (creating shared albums for example), iMessage and the most important FaceTime - a lot of the time we are far, and this video calling is really smooth with seldom a glitch.

I got an iPad and was really impressed, smooth, little getting used to and impressive list of Apple software to go with it.

Apple is more expensive, but no more so than the high end devices made by their competitors. Their devices are of a consistent high quality in terms of hardware. There are drawbacks being locked into the ecosystem and not being able to put any movie in for playback but I really like the smoothness of the iPad compared to the previous tablet I had. There are also many things I like like using iBooks and being able to convert web pages and or docs to be stored there. I found cloud based Pages helpful too as a Word Processor with nice features. for my writing and sharing it. Google docs is good but the UI in pages is smoother.

There's no definitive answer as to which is better, and my decision is that there is a lot of value for me in the Apple system because of using multiple devices and sharing with others. I think Apple also offers a good few years of product updates.
 
I moved from android (X10, HTC desire HD, Dell Streak, Note, Moto G, Z1, etc). I'm now on IOS via iPhone 6+, Ipad air 2, Ipad mini 3.
My thoughts are, if you want to play around Apple is the way to go. The kids enjoy it and they are able to find amazing apps that do amazing things. They are not concerned with file systems, Bluetooth sharing and things like that and honestly the apps do look better than on Android and also more fluid.

If you want to do serious work, the Apple in my experience can be very frustrating. Android is more flexible. Just the inavailability of my files on demand. Apps all have access to the files (not only media files)
I can share anything with anyone (even with Apple, but not the other way round)
I can side load apps that are not in the play store (either via country restriction etc).
I can download files from the web. I miss being able to plug a USB stick on my phone via OTG and managing files from there.

Funny thing is for some reason I still prefer using the iPhone, with all its limitations. It's definitely not brand loyalty - I've hated the forbidden fruit for a long time. So I keep a note 8 tablet to handle the iPhone limitations when I real need some work power. But for normal day to day use, there iPhone is quite impressive.

If i were to be stranded somewhere with only 1 OS to choose, I'd choose Android because there's very little that it can not do. But in the real world (with Android there to bail me out of trouble), I would still choose IOS
 
OS works extremely well with Apple hardware. It's designed for it, and they compliment each other really well. Android (Vanilla) is also good with Nexus phones, but also has to be compatible with dozens of other manufacturers' devices, as well as all the bloatware each one puts on its phones. It becomes obvious that issues will start popping up, that iOS simply won't ever have.
 
Starting to get annoyed his android device seem to get progressively slower with each update. So hopefully switching to iPhone will fix that
 
HavocXphere said:
Starting to get annoyed his android device seem to get progressively slower with each update. So hopefully switching to iPhone will fix that
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Had the same problem with iOS.

Eventually Apple seemed to recognise that and stopped providing updates for older devices.
 
noxibox said:
In fact the first thing I'll do when using Windows or Linux is to see if I can find tools to match the ones I have available to me on OS X. Sometimes they exist. Usually they're not as good or harder to use.
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That's what I do (and how I feel) whenever I use OSX :D
 
Like many have said there is no definite answer as to which platform is better. Both have pros and cons. It all comes down too preference. Android with a 70+ % market share is bound to have more issues than iOS that stands at 20+ % given factors of numerous devices with different hardware running the platform. I am technology enthusiast. I like rooting jailbreaking messing and optimizing my devices. I read about complaining about their devices not perfoming having issues with android where iOS doesn't have those issues. People need to get their facts straight. When you buy an Android device you need to take into consideration what device you bought the hardware and optimize accordingly then you will have a long lasting perfectly running device. Android offers the option in devices to Be optimized and used according to your liking. But don't over do it or you will get trouble. You can't expect from Hyundai i10 to perform the same way like a Mercedes. If you bought it for its low costs and flexibility then you got it right. But to expect from it to perfom like a Mercedes is just insane. iOS doesn't give you the same flexibility Android does and that's why they rarely get into trouble and issues. Apps are standard controlled by Apple no more permissions and resources than required and the user cannot interfere with more than what a normal average user would in terms of the devices funcionality. Apps don't control the iOS it controls them where we can't say the same Android. My LG G3 of 3 yeards old runs as good as it did the day I got it. Software is optimized to my needs. Disabled staff I don't need , I don't have apps installed just for the sakes of it. And most users that have an excess number of apps don't even bother optimize the phone and they just run in the background hoaging the ram battery and so on causing the phone eventually to crash. Its only logical it would happen sooner or later. That's what happens when you push to hard and there are no limits. IOS iOS on the other hand does all those things automatically killing unnecessary resource hoags and optimizing by default. I really like both. If I had to choose one thing I like on each. Android potential is unlimited but for an dvanced uses. iOS peace of mind long time of support devices get updates for many years and not a limit of 2 like Android.
 
there have been compelling arguments from IOS lovers and haters, and it seems to me like its for whatever you need you get.

me personally, Ill stick with android, I really cant see myself ever using IOS for anything, everything locked out,
all through Itunes, everything locked out just a nightmare if you already own things on a external HDD and want to view or use them on a Ipad.
impossible or very hard to do.

also I dont like IOS spying and privacy features, that everything gets routed through Apple,
I know android is also guilty of such things, but android has apps that can limit how you conenct.

my time with my first IOS device has shown me one thing, they dont do anything substantially better than
android, sure maybe some apps are more optimized, but you can always get equivalents on android that are more customizable.

i think this debate will rage a long time, but I dont consider myself an IOS fan anytime soon.
good thing I never brought one myself, as I struggle to understand its "killer app"
 
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