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No one I know associates Android with a premium experience, thanks to the fragmentation and the abysmal levels of support from the vendors or carriers. Case in
by korginator 11y ago
No one I know associates Android with a premium experience, thanks to the fragmentation and the abysmal levels of support from the vendors or carriers.
Case in point, I was trying to download a local news app on my Nexus 7 running stock Android 5.1, but it wouldn't, because "this version of Android is not supported", so even the Nexus line is apparently not premium enough for some.
- tingol 11y agoHow is that example related to the point you're making? Your local news have made an app that doesn't support android 5.1(!?) and it's an android problem?
- StavrosK 11y agoI was trying to copy some files over to my iPhone and couldn't. Just plain couldn't. You had to use iTunes, which doesn't run on Linux, so apparently you're shit out of luck. Want to copy files from Linux to the iPhone? Get an Android, apparently! How's that for a premium experience?
- j_s 11y agoiTunes is required to manage the metadata db on the device for music and videos; "any device with DBVersion > 4 does NOT work"[1]. Copying files to/from the device is supported (works well for photos; music and videos won't appear in the native apps): http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-iphone-6.html http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-iphone-6.html -> The proper solution [1] http://www.libimobiledevice.org/ http://www.libimobiledevice.org/ -> Status
- StavrosK 11y agoThanks, but I ended up getting an android device. I'm sure there's some way for Linux to jump through Apple's hoops and do this, my point is that the experience was not premium at all. I had to fight the phone to transfer some files, whereas android just let's me drag and drop them in.