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It is 2016 and a lot of people are still not very good with computers, let alone mobile phone components. We live in Silicon Valley so it might be hard to under
by electic 10y ago
It is 2016 and a lot of people are still not very good with computers, let alone mobile phone components. We live in Silicon Valley so it might be hard to understand this very simple fact. I invite everyone to go to an Apple store and just sit there and watch the scores of folks come in and have to be sat down and explained, slowly, about the simplest concepts for macOS or iOS. I have mad respect for Apple Geniuses.
Now, imagine a phone that has all these components and imagine the overhead of supporting that. Now you might say it is for tech people..that market is not big enough to warrant the R&D and support. Right call Google.
- pcurve 10y agoios has gotten rather complex and big over the years. Just look at the Settings. About as bad as Android settings. I'm a computer guy and it's a struggle to find things.
- electic 10y agoSame here, but people have come in since the first iPhone to ask the simplest question to Apple Stores.
- cesnja 10y agoTry rewatching the original iPhone introduction by Jobs. You'll be surprised by how "primitive" it looks and how amazed was everybody in the audience.
- electic 10y agoYes, yet people still came into the Apple store with questions in 2007 regardless of how easy you thought it was. Just because it is easy for you doesn't make it easy for the other 80% of the population.
- digi_owl 10y agoYeah the first couple of iPhones were more like fancy featurephones than what Microsoft and Nokia was shipping under the smartphone moniker. But because it had this touchscreen thing going, it had to be a smartphone according to the MSM. Never mind that Apple for the longest time ran a bunch of ads that was basically instruction videos on how to reach things like maps.
- paublyrne 10y agoI just switched to iOS after being Android for a while. Current Android Settings are great, at least in stock Android. They've finessed them over the years. They were poor two or three versions ago for sure.
- flukus 10y ago>Current Android Settings are great, at least in stock Android. They still won't tell you what drives an app is using data on. I need to free up space somewhere but can't tell where.
- Nullabillity 10y agoHuh? The user data partitions were merged years ago.
- flukus 10y agoThe space the app is using on SD is being lumped in with the internal space. It's telling me audible is using tonnes of space but that's all on SD. And don't get me started on the shitty Google apps that can't be removed or moved to SD.
- digi_owl 10y agoSadly the Android storage terminology is a mess. These days what comes up as the SD is more correctly a folder on the emmc (internal storage). Its just that for legacy reasons it is treated as the primary removable storage by Android. There is a Android/data/"app vendor uri"/ tree within that simulated SD that is used as a dumping ground for various files.
- flukus 10y agoSo apps that think they're storing things on SD are actually using internal storage? How do I actually use the SD card then?