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My experience exactly. I always said bad things about iPhone. Hay it is closed, it has fewer options, worse hardware than top Android phones, etc.. It was the t

by ssijak 9y ago

My experience exactly. I always said bad things about iPhone. Hay it is closed, it has fewer options, worse hardware than top Android phones, etc.. It was the time during which I fiddled with the phone much, installed Ubuntu on Android phone, etc.. But then my last Nexus started to glitch like any other Android top phone after 1 year of use. I was so irritated by it that I said well I will try iPhone now. It was about 6 month ago and I could not be more happy. I have phone that just works, never glitched, not once in 6 months, never sttutered with animation or anything. Yes, it is less extensible, has less options, but actually I like that now better. I wan`t it to work good, work well and be reliable. One major additional benefit is that I use iPhone less than Android phone, and it spams and pings me less. At first iPhone, notifications felt overly simplistic, but now I love them. There are no permanent notifications/icons that some android app can put there, and I can just scroll from the lock screen and see without clicking/opening everything that happened. Also, I can disable every notification/spam per app, disabled all bubbles (red circle numbers over app icons) except for messaging apps. This way I feel that I don`t expect dopamine dose from my phone, and I use it only when I really need something.

syshum 9y ago
>>Also, I can disable every notification/spam per app You can do this on Android as well >> Nexus started to glitch like any other Android top phone after 1 year of use ... 6 month ago and I could not be more happy. I have phone that just works, never glitched hmmm, Anyone else see a issue with these 2 statements?
- Grazester 9y ago
  I really don't know about that. I had the og Moto-X and it served me will for years without issue. I now have a Nexus 6 and didn't wipe the phone for two years after use. I only did so because I wanted the better system encryption that came with a newer Android and that was only available after a full wipe.
ImSkeptical 9y ago
What Android phone were you using? I have a Pixel 2 XL and no idea what you're talking about regarding glitchiness or animation stutter. I previously had a Note 4 for maybe 3 or 4 years and only had problems with it when I needed to replace the battery You can also disable notifications per app on Android. I think a high end Android phone is going to be very similar to an iPhone. Personally, I like the Pixel's camera better, I think it has a better touch id to unlock, the voice assistant is much better, and there is a better integration with Google maps in my experience. All that, plus I can root my phone if I need to.
antihero 9y ago
Also there's small stuff like: Photo map. I've traced back treasured photos that would have been lost in a sea of 44,000 photos by finding them on the map. Google Photos doesn't seem to have this. Notes also works really nicely for loads of stuff.
- digi_owl 9y ago
  https://github.com/k3b/APhotoManager/wiki https://github.com/k3b/APhotoManager/wiki
  - antihero 9y ago
    It's good that someone has made that but it looks nowhere near as nice. When you open the Photos app on iOS you have a beautiful map with clustered thumbnails. http://tinyimg.io/i/d4DRgIT.png http://tinyimg.io/i/d4DRgIT.png http://tinyimg.io/i/0lVO6KC.png http://tinyimg.io/i/0lVO6KC.png It's useful enough that I could find out the exact spot I slept by the river Seine years ago based on scrolling around Berlin on the map for 5 minutes until I found the photo, taken several years ago on a completely different iPhone, then go back there recently and recreate the picture.
    - Infinitesimus 9y ago
      FWIW samsung's gallery does that https://imgur.com/a/Qgc3yUH https://imgur.com/a/Qgc3yUH (probably only on the S8 and above but idk )
- ams6110 9y ago
  > lost in a sea of 44,000 photos You're taking too many photos. Honestly ask yourself, how often do you go back and look at old photos? Maybe you do, but for me, I realized that I never do. So I stopped taking them.

by ssijak 9y ago

syshum 9y ago

>>Also, I can disable every notification/spam per app You can do this on Android as well >> Nexus started to glitch like any other Android top phone after 1 year of use ... 6 month ago and I could not be more happy. I have phone that just works, never glitched hmmm, Anyone else see a issue with these 2 statements?

Grazester 9y ago
I really don't know about that. I had the og Moto-X and it served me will for years without issue. I now have a Nexus 6 and didn't wipe the phone for two years after use. I only did so because I wanted the better system encryption that came with a newer Android and that was only available after a full wipe.

ImSkeptical 9y ago

What Android phone were you using? I have a Pixel 2 XL and no idea what you're talking about regarding glitchiness or animation stutter. I previously had a Note 4 for maybe 3 or 4 years and only had problems with it when I needed to replace the battery You can also disable notifications per app on Android. I think a high end Android phone is going to be very similar to an iPhone. Personally, I like the Pixel's camera better, I think it has a better touch id to unlock, the voice assistant is much better, and there is a better integration with Google maps in my experience. All that, plus I can root my phone if I need to.

antihero 9y ago

Also there's small stuff like: Photo map. I've traced back treasured photos that would have been lost in a sea of 44,000 photos by finding them on the map. Google Photos doesn't seem to have this. Notes also works really nicely for loads of stuff.

digi_owl 9y ago
https://github.com/k3b/APhotoManager/wiki https://github.com/k3b/APhotoManager/wiki
- antihero 9y ago
  It's good that someone has made that but it looks nowhere near as nice. When you open the Photos app on iOS you have a beautiful map with clustered thumbnails. http://tinyimg.io/i/d4DRgIT.png http://tinyimg.io/i/d4DRgIT.png http://tinyimg.io/i/0lVO6KC.png http://tinyimg.io/i/0lVO6KC.png It's useful enough that I could find out the exact spot I slept by the river Seine years ago based on scrolling around Berlin on the map for 5 minutes until I found the photo, taken several years ago on a completely different iPhone, then go back there recently and recreate the picture.
  - Infinitesimus 9y ago
    FWIW samsung's gallery does that https://imgur.com/a/Qgc3yUH https://imgur.com/a/Qgc3yUH (probably only on the S8 and above but idk )
ams6110 9y ago
> lost in a sea of 44,000 photos You're taking too many photos. Honestly ask yourself, how often do you go back and look at old photos? Maybe you do, but for me, I realized that I never do. So I stopped taking them.