Comment by halo37253 | Hacker News Reader

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Android is more desktop like than any other Mobile OS, that goes for Windows and MacOSX.

Android simply does most thing UI better. The pull down menu and notifications, the app drawer, the home screens, the settings menu layouts, etc. Sure there are some iOS UI elements that are done better, such as gestures. But really iOS shines more under the hood.

Every year iOS keeps getting more and more Android features. App Library, Pull Down menus, more customizable home screens with widgets. There are so many things Android was doing years before iOS it is crazy. Maybe oneday Apple will fix the crappy settings menu and finally make the pulldown window a full copy of android with quick settings at the top.

Using iOS is consistently more of a Torture to use than Android any day of the week.

> Android simply does most thing UI better.

I almost spat out my coffee reading this. Android is horribly inconsistent, apps targeting different API levels get different default themes and UI elements, many built-in UI controls are ugly (which is why not many developers seem to stick with them) and the whole thing is made worse by manufacturers who can't leave good alone and "skin" their own launchers and equivalents to the default built-in apps. Scrolling behaviour on Android still sucks, putting everything behind "hamburger menus" is not intuitive and quite often apps just lack basic gestures. The gestures that are implemented don't even provide particularly good feedback — the little bouncy arrow thing when sliding in from the left to "go back" is awful and nowhere near as good of a visual cue as sliding-over is (like iOS does).

That's not to say that iOS design is perfect — it isn't by any stretch. It's a damn sight more consistent and predictable though and much easier to explain to non-technical users.

iOS is more consistent, yes, more consistently bad. Android is inconsistent but has much higher average quality.

The notification system alone is leaps and bounds better. The fact that you can use uBlock Origin on Android also makes the UI far more pleasant.

Makes sense, thank you. I suppose some it's good the competition had some effect

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