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I recently switched to an iPhone 6S from a first gen Moto G. The Moto G was never a fast phone, but a new thing it started to do towards the end of its life wa

I recently switched to an iPhone 6S from a first gen Moto G. The Moto G was never a fast phone, but a new thing it started to do towards the end of its life was OOM kill the mp3 player if you backgrounded it. At first it was if you did something heavyweight, like start a game. Then it was browsing an ad-heavy site. Then it was if you opened the web browser at all. This, plus the usual Android lag, bad battery life, intrusive Google Botnet stuff. The tipping point was this. I walk to the coffee shop with music playing. I order, sit down, start reading. There's an amusing line in the book, so I take out the phone to take a picture of it, which kills the music player. Then a Google Maps notification pops up asking me to add the photo to the coffee shop's Maps page. I think, why the fuck am I still using Android? I know Google tracks me everywhere I go, but do they have to be so obvious about it?

ahmetkun 10y ago
As a 1st gen. Moto G owner, i feel similar. I feel annoyed to be forced to get a new phone every two years. It was a much better experience to use Chrome and Spotify together with this phone in 2014. Now Spotify alone is freezing from time to time, especially after the latest update. Chrome was fast and responsive. Now it's guaranteed that if I open a web page in Chrome, any other app i might have open are killed and will have to be reloaded if i want to go back to them quick. I really like the phone and wish to use it for a while longer, but my experience is getting a bit worse each day.
- tdkl 10y ago
  In 2014 you had Kitkat, which was the last "good" Android release. The L (and future) are just horrible with memory and they don't care, since most of the devices now are 2GB+.
- loudmax 10y ago
  My 1st gen Moto G is still going strong. Loading apps may be a little slow, but things rarely crash randomly. I'm pretty careful about exiting out of apps that I'm not actively using though, especially Google Maps. I recently updated the OS to CyanogenMod though, mainly because the phone stopped receiving security updates. I wouldn't say the phone performs better running CM, but it's no worse than when I first bought the phone. I really hope CynogenMod can keep the ball rolling. I wouldn't want to run the stock image after it's fallen this far behind security updates.

ahmetkun 10y ago

As a 1st gen. Moto G owner, i feel similar. I feel annoyed to be forced to get a new phone every two years. It was a much better experience to use Chrome and Spotify together with this phone in 2014. Now Spotify alone is freezing from time to time, especially after the latest update. Chrome was fast and responsive. Now it's guaranteed that if I open a web page in Chrome, any other app i might have open are killed and will have to be reloaded if i want to go back to them quick. I really like the phone and wish to use it for a while longer, but my experience is getting a bit worse each day.

tdkl 10y ago
In 2014 you had Kitkat, which was the last "good" Android release. The L (and future) are just horrible with memory and they don't care, since most of the devices now are 2GB+.
loudmax 10y ago
My 1st gen Moto G is still going strong. Loading apps may be a little slow, but things rarely crash randomly. I'm pretty careful about exiting out of apps that I'm not actively using though, especially Google Maps. I recently updated the OS to CyanogenMod though, mainly because the phone stopped receiving security updates. I wouldn't say the phone performs better running CM, but it's no worse than when I first bought the phone. I really hope CynogenMod can keep the ball rolling. I wouldn't want to run the stock image after it's fallen this far behind security updates.