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It seems most of the issues you are running into is not a bad OS, but bad applications. Granted they are baked in, but appart from Camera, Calculator and Safar
by hrktb 9y ago
It seems most of the issues you are running into is not a bad OS, but bad applications. Granted they are baked in, but appart from Camera, Calculator and Safari I think there’s little to no downside moving to a third party app.
Why bother with the stock apps at this point ? They have had 2 to 3 times better alternatives for years and years now, some even free with basically no barrier to switch.
I feel like beating on Apple apps is a bit like crying about Microsoft making IE shittier or Google making another chat app. Why not move on ?
- zaptheimpaler 9y agoNot parent, but thats half the reason I buy Apple products. Because the product works well out of the box - the apps are well designed, they can sometimes do things 3rd party apps can't, and they all integrate with each other & apple ecosystem. There may be workarounds for every single issue, and as a techie I could do them, but I pay specifically not to have to spend time & energy on any of that.
- hedora 9y agoI could swap out the keyboard, podcasts, calendar, maps, camera, etc, etc, but that’s 90% of what I use my phone for, and I do have know of viable alternatives for any of them in the app store. There’s not really anywhere to “move on” to, since Android is still [edit: also] a tire fire, and I don’t trust google (or anything ad supported) with my data. The small players like Win Phone have thrown in the towel, or have unproven track records (to put it politely). edit: Also, if I move to third party everything (even Siri is useless now), then it will break the cross-integration that I’ve gotten used to, like finding calendar invites in emails, or having the lock screen tell me the right route home and eta during rush hour.