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The non-iPhone users don't send the blue text. Your sent texts are blue on your iPhone if you're messaging another iPhone user and it's green if not. Though, w

The non-iPhone users don't send the blue text. Your sent texts are blue on your iPhone if you're messaging another iPhone user and it's green if not. Though, who actually cares about this and why? Anyway, I recently switched to iOS for an experiment and my biggest gripe is: no back button. Instead of a conveniently placed button, I have to always reach up to the upper left corner of the app to go back. My second biggest gripe is that links from Apple's shitty programs only want to open in Safari instead of my browser. And third, I can't organize my icons the way I want to. Typical Apple: No choices. Their way or the highway. Fuck you power-users and people who know what they want.

mikeash 10y ago
It's getting less common, but some people still pay exorbitant per-message rates for SMS. I no longer care, but when iMessage first came out I was really happy that I could finally text (some) people freely.
- smpetrey 10y ago
  I'm floating in the same social circle right now. 99% of my friends and family have an apple device to communicate. I just kicked the text-messaging subscription bucket.
  - mikeash 10y ago
    I only have unlimited texting because it ended up being cheaper for me to get a package that included it. It's nice to be able to sign up for SMS alerts and such without worrying about the cost, but if it hadn't been cheaper I'd still be relying on iMessage for everything.
rajathagasthya 10y ago
> Anyway, I recently switched to iOS for an experiment and my biggest gripe is: no back button. Instead of a conveniently placed button, I have to always reach up to the upper left corner of the app to go back. You can swipe from the left corner of the screen to go back (do this with 3D touch and it switches to your previous app). You don't need to reach the top for the back button every time.
- WayneBro 10y ago
  This is incorrect. There is no feature of iOS that behaves even remotely like the universal Android back button.
pfranz 10y ago
> my biggest gripe is: no back button I had an Android for awhile and the hardware back button made no sense to me. I thought most phones eventually moved to a software back button. I never really knew if I would be going back inside the app, to the last app I had open, to the home screen, or if I was at the end of the queue and it did nothing. Apple took much longer to add it, but I prefer the context their implementation has and gestures for it. > And third, I can't organize my icons the way I want to. I have no idea what you're talking about. This is what it sounds like you're talking about[1]. I don't think it was in the original iPhone (2007), but I see references dating back to Jan 2008. [1] http://i0.wp.com/content.screencast.com/users/Fosteronomo/folders/Default/media/850b26f3-2a8e-447c-ad3a-b83695b62d0e/ios_home_screen_new_page.gif http://i0.wp.com/content.screencast.com/users/Fosteronomo/fo...
- WayneBro 10y ago
  > I thought most phones eventually moved to a software back button. The Android OS implements the software back button, not the apps...and it's always at the bottom of the screen where I can easily reach it. iOS does not implement any such back button - each app has to implement its own and the convention on iOS is to place that back button all the way in the upper left corner of the screen which is very inconvenient to reach for. > I have no idea what you're talking about. (re: organizing icons) So, let's imagine that you have 3 app icons on one of your home screens in iOS... Can you put one of them in the lower right corner? Nope. Can you put one of them all the way on the right side while the other 2 stay on the left? Nope. Can you do anything to position them absolutely? No you cannot. You must resort to jailbreaking or other hackery (like blank icons) to make this work.

mikeash 10y ago

It's getting less common, but some people still pay exorbitant per-message rates for SMS. I no longer care, but when iMessage first came out I was really happy that I could finally text (some) people freely.

smpetrey 10y ago
I'm floating in the same social circle right now. 99% of my friends and family have an apple device to communicate. I just kicked the text-messaging subscription bucket.
- mikeash 10y ago
  I only have unlimited texting because it ended up being cheaper for me to get a package that included it. It's nice to be able to sign up for SMS alerts and such without worrying about the cost, but if it hadn't been cheaper I'd still be relying on iMessage for everything.

rajathagasthya 10y ago

> Anyway, I recently switched to iOS for an experiment and my biggest gripe is: no back button. Instead of a conveniently placed button, I have to always reach up to the upper left corner of the app to go back. You can swipe from the left corner of the screen to go back (do this with 3D touch and it switches to your previous app). You don't need to reach the top for the back button every time.

WayneBro 10y ago
This is incorrect. There is no feature of iOS that behaves even remotely like the universal Android back button.

pfranz 10y ago

> my biggest gripe is: no back button I had an Android for awhile and the hardware back button made no sense to me. I thought most phones eventually moved to a software back button. I never really knew if I would be going back inside the app, to the last app I had open, to the home screen, or if I was at the end of the queue and it did nothing. Apple took much longer to add it, but I prefer the context their implementation has and gestures for it. > And third, I can't organize my icons the way I want to. I have no idea what you're talking about. This is what it sounds like you're talking about[1]. I don't think it was in the original iPhone (2007), but I see references dating back to Jan 2008. [1] http://i0.wp.com/content.screencast.com/users/Fosteronomo/folders/Default/media/850b26f3-2a8e-447c-ad3a-b83695b62d0e/ios_home_screen_new_page.gif http://i0.wp.com/content.screencast.com/users/Fosteronomo/fo...

WayneBro 10y ago
> I thought most phones eventually moved to a software back button. The Android OS implements the software back button, not the apps...and it's always at the bottom of the screen where I can easily reach it. iOS does not implement any such back button - each app has to implement its own and the convention on iOS is to place that back button all the way in the upper left corner of the screen which is very inconvenient to reach for. > I have no idea what you're talking about. (re: organizing icons) So, let's imagine that you have 3 app icons on one of your home screens in iOS... Can you put one of them in the lower right corner? Nope. Can you put one of them all the way on the right side while the other 2 stay on the left? Nope. Can you do anything to position them absolutely? No you cannot. You must resort to jailbreaking or other hackery (like blank icons) to make this work.