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My biggest examples are: Notifications. You can react immediately to notifications on Android (e.g. respond to a chat message without opening the app). You hav

by erikb 10y ago

My biggest examples are: Notifications. You can react immediately to notifications on Android (e.g. respond to a chat message without opening the app). You have them at the front and they are not gone after seeing them once hidden somewhere in a back menu (whcih is kind of important for reminders). Keyboard. I have this phone for a year now? It still doesn't know sh*t about guessing my words. And you can't just slide words, you always need to type them. Combining bad guesses with wild, error prone typing makes typing on the iPhone really, really slow. Afaik you can't even change the keybord if you hate the stock one, right? Interface control. You can't really control the interface as much. Like on my Android I always had side menus with widgets and app overviews (e.g. last few mails).. Background processes. There seem to be a few apps that have background notifications like chat apps. But most of them don't do anything if they are not the front app (e.g. my photo backup app). I even had personal hotspot shut down if it's not the "active" app after some time.

tylerhou 10y ago
Notifications: You can slide down on, say, a text message notification to open a text box where you can immediately respond. Otherwise if the phone is locked you swipe, unlock the phone, and it takes you to the app. You can also swipe down from the top edge to get a list of recent notifications and things on your to-do list. Keyboard: Apple's autocorrect is actually really good for me. There are times where I have typed completely garbled things and it was able to figure out what I Was actually saying. You can also add third party keyboards if you want. You might think it works less than it does because of selection bias. Interface: whatever man. Background processes: Personal Hotspot is the only one that's been finicky for me, but usually other apps work fine in the background for me. For example, I'm usually able to get Reddit/Messenger notifications pretty quickly.
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krrrh 10y ago
I feel like your comment is from 3 or 4 years ago. It's been at least a few versions of iOS since you can respond directly to notifications, replace the keyboard, add widgets to the 'today' screen. Background processing works fine, and was implemented in a way that doesn't completely drain the battery. The hotspot is designed to turn off if the clients have not been transmitting or receiving data for a period of time as a battery saving measure. It doesn't do this if you tether over USB though.
- erikb 10y ago
  May be true, but I don't see how. I could agree to just having less knowledge about what you can do with your iPhone in comparison to what you can do with your Android phone.
jodrellblank 10y ago
Fair points. You can react to iMessage notifications inside the notification overlay on iOS 10 ... and it's dog slow and inconvenient and I don't like it. The keyboard and autocomplete is really frustrating. You can custom keyboard, but even with NinType swipe-keyboard installed, it's slow to startup, and I don't use it because it wants me to type whole English words in whole English sentences - and that's not what I want to write in iMessages.

by erikb 10y ago

tylerhou 10y ago

Notifications: You can slide down on, say, a text message notification to open a text box where you can immediately respond. Otherwise if the phone is locked you swipe, unlock the phone, and it takes you to the app. You can also swipe down from the top edge to get a list of recent notifications and things on your to-do list. Keyboard: Apple's autocorrect is actually really good for me. There are times where I have typed completely garbled things and it was able to figure out what I Was actually saying. You can also add third party keyboards if you want. You might think it works less than it does because of selection bias. Interface: whatever man. Background processes: Personal Hotspot is the only one that's been finicky for me, but usually other apps work fine in the background for me. For example, I'm usually able to get Reddit/Messenger notifications pretty quickly.

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krrrh 10y ago

I feel like your comment is from 3 or 4 years ago. It's been at least a few versions of iOS since you can respond directly to notifications, replace the keyboard, add widgets to the 'today' screen. Background processing works fine, and was implemented in a way that doesn't completely drain the battery. The hotspot is designed to turn off if the clients have not been transmitting or receiving data for a period of time as a battery saving measure. It doesn't do this if you tether over USB though.

erikb 10y ago
May be true, but I don't see how. I could agree to just having less knowledge about what you can do with your iPhone in comparison to what you can do with your Android phone.

jodrellblank 10y ago

Fair points. You can react to iMessage notifications inside the notification overlay on iOS 10 ... and it's dog slow and inconvenient and I don't like it. The keyboard and autocomplete is really frustrating. You can custom keyboard, but even with NinType swipe-keyboard installed, it's slow to startup, and I don't use it because it wants me to type whole English words in whole English sentences - and that's not what I want to write in iMessages.