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> The greatest irony is how many walked into this with open arms, and how many continue to praise this. Show me an alternative that allows me the same level of

> The greatest irony is how many walked into this with open arms, and how many continue to praise this. Show me an alternative that allows me the same level of Just Works as an iPhone. Because Android ain't it. I don't need a reason to spend hours every week having to tweak, poke at, marshal and police the various apps on my phone to make sure normal behavior isn't messing something up. I put up with that for 4 years and never felt like I had a digital partner in my pocket. It was always a consciously present "thing" I had to be wary of eating a battery, crashing a workflow, failing to connect to something or transfer something or save something. I love the linux "always be tinkering" idea but I don't need that to be something I spend part of my decision points on each day. So if Google tightens up implementations of Android to a point where I can trust a device to get out of my way like I can this most recent iPhone, I'm all for giving it another go. But my money's not on that at the moment.

_yy 11y ago
My Android phone just works™. No tinkering required. It's not even rooted anymore. I don't have to think about it at all. Maybe you just had a bad device?
- mattlutze 11y ago
  3 bad devices from HTC and LG, I guess. But the work-supplied iPhone 4 and my now personal iPhone 6S haven't been issues. Never have to worry about batteries, don't hang, etc. etc.
  - _yy 11y ago
    My Galaxy S2 has a battery life of about 2 days and I haven't experienced any hangs for a long, long time.
davidy123 11y ago
Through several generations of Android I had problems with battery life. However I never had problems with apps like you describe. Since my Note 4 I cannot complain about battery life, and now that iPhone has taken on some Android features like multitasking, friends I know with older iPhones are having battery issues (including one with an iPhone 5 that just had the battery replaced). So it was a tradeoff of emerging features, where Android had included many more from the start (Apple is more careful/conservative) and they are at parity now.

_yy 11y ago

My Android phone just works™. No tinkering required. It's not even rooted anymore. I don't have to think about it at all. Maybe you just had a bad device?

mattlutze 11y ago
3 bad devices from HTC and LG, I guess. But the work-supplied iPhone 4 and my now personal iPhone 6S haven't been issues. Never have to worry about batteries, don't hang, etc. etc.
- _yy 11y ago
  My Galaxy S2 has a battery life of about 2 days and I haven't experienced any hangs for a long, long time.

davidy123 11y ago

Through several generations of Android I had problems with battery life. However I never had problems with apps like you describe. Since my Note 4 I cannot complain about battery life, and now that iPhone has taken on some Android features like multitasking, friends I know with older iPhones are having battery issues (including one with an iPhone 5 that just had the battery replaced). So it was a tradeoff of emerging features, where Android had included many more from the start (Apple is more careful/conservative) and they are at parity now.