I tried Android, but couldn't switch. Did you know you can't undo text edits?
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But typing is so much slower with an on-screen keyboard anyways, and I so rarely select text for anything but copy/paste, it has never once happened that I wished there was an undo.
Which sports are you talking about? Because in most sports where you directly face your opponent (i.e. no lines or nets in between), it is completely legal to use minimal body contact (in football, shoulder bumping is okay, for example) to defend or obtain the ball.
"Fanboy" is merely a convenient and quick way to annotate someone who is really into a certain company/product and actively defending it. I don't see how he is playing the man. If he would have said "you lil Apple faggot wouldn't accept Android if it were given to you for free" it would indeed be overly verbal, but "fanboy" is completely acceptable.
I disagree, I think relying on a rally call of 'fanboy' doesn't do anything to further discussion of the points, and it's now used on both sides to immediately dismiss the points of someone as they're a 'fanboy' and implies they're overly blinded.
The point about the camera is true though. I moved to Android from a Lumia 920 veeeeery begrudgingly simply due to the camera. The camera on my Nexus 4 is about on par with the camera on my old Samsung Focus: junk when compared with the Lumia 920. Now I'm back to the old days where I'm carrying both a phone and a camera (Nexus 4 as a phone, Lumia 920 as a camera).
I would pay Nexus 5 money for a Nexus 4 with a Lumia 920 camera, and I know I'm not alone on that.
And I quote from the article:
> Here's the thing: Typing a password to unlock your phone every time you want to use it is annoying. The root theme of this blogpost is smartphones ideally not wasting one's time, but by typing a password every single time you want to access your phone you're sure wasting a lot of it!
That's why Android phones let you customize a time-out before you have to type the password in to unlock the phone (e.g. when you type your password in, you can set it so you don't have to enter it again for the next X minutes automatically)... So I'm going to agree with the original comment and conclude that this is another case of misrepresenting 'facts'.
Also, regarding point #5 and the inability for him to use his Apple earphones with his Android phone, he clearly hasn't heard of standard TRRS connectors. At minimum, I find the author's titling of this section "External Hardware Incompatibility" - in an article comparing Apple products to others, no less - to be quite humorous. Or maybe this was intended as satire...?
I'd like to point out that in my next to last paragraph, I state that I want to use Android. I'm not some Apple "fanboy". I believe that setting the disk encryption password separately from the device's is a valid request and the fact that an App has existed for it since Android v3.0 validates that. If you want more of a reason to do so, read this: http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/2012/08/changing-androids-disk-...
If companies (be it Apple or Google) want users to switch to their platform from their competitors, it's critical for them to maintain feature-parity and push the boundaries on their strengths. Case in point: Apple adding notifications and copy&paste to the iPhone. Both were gripes from non-iPhone users. But at some point, Apple had to bite the bullet to follow suit. Whether their implementation was a success isn't the point, but rather keeping up with the competition in feature parity.
Exactly, and this goes both ways. I switched to iPhone a little over a year ago (because apps) and the new car smell lasted about a day before I was annoyed by quirks like lack of a swipe-keyboard, inability to get a piece of information from one app into another app, and bad app switching. I returned it after about a week of frustration.
Welcome to Apple world, where everything interesting is patented so it works only with your iPhone.
"Even my Mac computer can accept remote commands from and utilize the microphone of these (for audio/video calls)."
Guess who makes Macs? Apple.
iOS's shake-to-undo still feels a bit gimmicky to me (I prefer the keyboard undo button on iPads), but it's something that should have come immediately after clipboard support on Android.
Android has plenty of deal killers; slow scrolling response, too many crap apps in store, bloatware, cheap hardware designs, music players that lack complex playlist algorithms, lacking mac integration, limited upgradability, dumb OS features (samsung, ei: eye tracking?!), OS updates delayed up to one year after release, short battery life, etc.
slow scrolling response Too many crap apps in store Cheap hardware designs Music players that lack complex playlist algorithms Lacking mac integration Limited upgradability Dumb OS features OS updates delayed Short battery lifeThe best experience you can have of Android, IMO, is to get a Nexus device. Anything else is asking for disappointment.
Text undo - now you mention it, that would be nice to have. I can't say I've ever cursed it's absence though.
He's just wrong on the camera focus. Just tried it.
I don't use disk encryption although what he says seems to make sense. I wouldn't call it a deal-breaker though.
Finally - regarding hardware compatibility? - sounds like a gap in the market for an enterprising chap!
Am I remember wrong? It's been 12 months since I last used my Xperia, so I probably am.
I'd never heard of a shake-undo feature on iOS, but it does sound awesome.
Then again, I'd take Swiftkeys over undo any day.
I'll be honest. I love Android, but little annoyances added up. I now have an iPhone... And am running into little Annoyances all over again. Like how that "a" is capitalised by accident, but is a pain to replace. Or how "Undo" on Archive for email doesn't work properly.
I miss my Nokia N9 :(
Consider that we're getting smaller, faster, lower powered, and often cheaper devices with more features every year. We got this level of progress in PC hardware for a while (1990-2003 or so) but software progressed far more slowly. Right now, literally everything is up for grabs, and everyone is benefiting.
The Nexus 5 is for people who don't want all this complications. Its a very barebone phone designed for devs. But if you get an Android with a third part skin like the HTC One, most of these issues are solved (off the top of my head I know it has #2 and #3).
I agree such functionality should be included with any Smartphone at this point, but it appears that only a small percentage of Smartphone consumers seem to care.
One way they could do this pretty easily in my opinion (if they wouldn't do the shake feature) is to have it included in the contextual action bar when you highlight text.
#5 - I might be misunderstanding this, but it reads like: Apple-specific hardware does not work on Android, and this is the fault of Android. I would say the fault lies with Apple, who force proprietary interfaces and not open standards. Then again, for headphone interfaces (which I myself don't use - I have a decent pair of Sony headphones which just have a standard audio jack for audio only), I suspect that other manufacturers are dropping the ball too.
I'm glad we've agreed on USB, but I don't understand the need for proprietary 3.5mm remote protocols at this point.
And people realize that other products are lacking that after they drop iOS.
As such, it's nothing but another uninformed rant.
It's likely that most people who own an iPhone don't even know about this feature.
He owned an android phone for a week and did not even see half the features that Android has and IOS lacks. How can you adjust to a totally different UI (and begin to appreciate many of the features and differences) in such a short period of time.
This post was not worth reading.