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Nearly everything UX related is better in iOS.

Default logo sizes are larger, settings menus are basically the same no matter the device, software and hardware are coupled and designed by the same company making everything snappier. The subtle.design difference also come into play.

I use Android myself, but it is a fact that Apple is superior in UX, which is unsurprising given that they are obsessed with UX as a company in general and the whole ecosystem is designed by themselves alone, while Android is designed and developed by many players. Even a 2 year old can use iPhones and iPads.

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I must live in a parallel world because to me Apple is the king of hidden shortcuts which are hard to discover for beginners.

Multiple fingers gestures doing different things, hidden swipe menus and features depending on the offset of where you swiped, that's all very hard for non experienced users.

Not that Android is perfect, I'd say it's still not great either in that regard but the UI is more discoverable for sure for beginners.

I really miss the win2k era in terms of user research and UX, sure it didn't look the best on screenshots but it was made to be as discoverable as possible.

> Multiple fingers gestures doing different things, hidden swipe menus and features depending on the offset of where you swiped, that's all very hard for non experienced users.

I can't think of any of those which are _required_, though. They are shortcuts, sure, but do not need to be known to use the device.

I completely agree. Hell I do mobile development and still play “find the magical long press/swipe/spot to manage an item on this ui”

It has zero ability to be discovered.

Its not good but so many people are decades entrenched they do not think about how annoying it is

The best example I had of the same (started with Amstrad CPC, then Amiga, PC ... software engineer for almost two decades).

I couldn't find "Find on page" on iOS/Safari, so I did a Google search on how to so it - result snippet on Google was cut and actual results page was full page of forum replies, and I was having trouble finding it by just scrolling.

Now years later (and only Android) I forgot, it was something rather non intuitive where they've hidden that option.

> Nearly everything UX related is better in iOS

That's funny because I heard my friend say this at work yesterday when I suggested that he should gift his mother an iPhone:

"Oh my mother would have too much difficulty switching from Android to iOS. I know because I use iPhone and things that have dedicated buttons in some Android phones are gestures in iOS. Like the back button for example."

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