IOS Users are the New Windows Users
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"When telling, showing and proving that Android 4.x smartphones are lightyears beyond iPhones in terms of hard-, software and design iOS"
iOS is simple on the surface, but the developer frameworks are far more consistent, well designed, and powerful than what Android offers. From video editing, typography, persistent storage, animation, UI, audio processing, iOS seems well ahead of Android. Much of the Android SDK feels cobbled together.
Just the non-resolution-independent framework on iOS is a big pain and iOS biggest bottleneck and this is where Apple struggles right now (to make the next bigger iPhones happen).
But your post shows very well again the general attitude of iOS folks and it's your pure fear which speaks out load -- your fear that your dev experience and skills in iOS will be less worth very soon and you have to start at zero again, on Android.
Edited: btw downvoting != disagreeing
I haven't touched Android development for a few months so I might be out of date. In particular I very much disliked their scroll view and list view implementations. I found Android to be a mess in general, API wise. Things seemed much more ad-hoc and less thought out than on iOS. And I have some very specific disagreements with their API design choices (or lack of them). As I mentioned in my original post, Android seems to lack the built-in high-level rendering, audio, typography, language and other frameworks of iOS.
I've never found the screen density stuff to be an issue on iOS — I always design and render my UI elements directly as vector graphics (PDF). This is almost impossible to do efficiently on Android (no native PDF rendering API).
I really have no idea what you're talking about when you mention my "fear." I am more than happy to develop on any platform. I just find Android much worse than iOS at the moment. If it gets better I'll happily switch.
The 5S scored 2500 in Geekbench, which is a dual core system. To get to the same performance, you have to buy a 4 core Android device.
I rest my case.
iOS feels very similar to Windows in its worst days, even worse because Windows was much more open.
So, again the question: tell us why is this fanboyism, why do you think it's not appropriate to compare two operating systems? Because of your fear that your favorite will loose? Why should we not talk about the 18% share and the decline of Apple and iOS happening for years?
And someone that can say with straight face that Android hardware specs are far ahead iPhone 5s is just someone that doesn't know what is talking about.
And by the way, you can try the "Because of your fear that your favorite will loose?" with others. I use Android and I don't have any iOS device.
You do not have any iOS device but claim that iOS have advantages over Android? This sounds a bit weird but ok, try to find one single reason why iOS should be better. But you won't because it's easier for you to bail out from the discussion and go to the meta level by telling that this is a rant, bullshit and fanboyism instead of giving some valid reasons (but how? you do not have an iOS device anyway).
Again, this is not a rant, this is reality, it's just that in the last two years Android developed much faster than iOS did, in every regard. And it seems that it's not allowed to address iOS' fall.
That's poor usability, plain and simple, and the same thing happens in hundreds of places in the Android UI
How about their permissions system? To get any level of control in android, you literally HAVE to root. No stock android gives you control over permissions. Either you accept ALL the permissions of an app, or you don't install the app.
I can control every aspect of that, as a user, on my iphone. I can say "hey, you can't read my contacts, but you can access network, just don't use push".
Android lost to iOS. it's not user friendly. Who gives a sh*t if it's "more customizable"? It does so at the expense of simple, intuitive UI design.
and just to be clear here, I have apps for both iOS and Android, I have an iPhone, and I have a galaxy note tablet. I've had several android phones over the years, and I've had multiple Apple devices.
Let me make it even more clear: The barrier to entrance for developing for an OS doesn't make it any better/worse than any other OS. If you're a developer and whining about the API's of your chosen OS, change careers. It's part of your job, if you don't like it, well, then your days must suck.
Wrong
> I can control every aspect of that, as a user, on my iphone. I can say "hey, you can't read my contacts, but you can access network, just don't use push".
Wrong, you just can control what Apple let's you control
> Android lost to iOS. it's not user friendly.
Wrong
Funny, you're just the mirror of the one that posted the link
And where's the proof for your second claim? Show me how you can reject individual permissions, without root, on a stock android phone, such as the HTC One, Galaxy S4, or anything, really?
I can take screenshots this instant that illustrate that you can't do that on a stock device.
I'm not a fanboy, I have devices on both sides of the fence. You however are rejecting my claims with ZERO proof. I believed that is called willful ignorance.
So, for all of your "wrong" statements, provide some proof, or STFU
Every single one of those dialogs has a "remember this selection" checkbox.
Source: I have an Android, and through using that checkbox I am now only ever prompted for those things where I want to decide on the fly.
It sounds like a conclusion that would be reached by someone who looked at two options and selected one.