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On the flip side, mu iBrother made the transisiton to Android about a year ago. His major pain points were: - no iMessage. It's not particularly good or differe
by obarthelemy 7y ago
On the flip side, mu iBrother made the transisiton to Android about a year ago. His major pain points were:
- no iMessage. It's not particularly good or different compared to whatsapp, Skype, Messenger... but it's not available on Android and people are used to it.
- in case of an issue, the solution is brand+model-specific. For some reasons he wanted a Notifications widgets, you get that differently for a Samsung or a Huawei (or you get an app).
- it takes some effort to extract max. benefits from the switch. At a basic level things are very similar, but if you want to really make the most of either platform, you need to dig into things. As often, the hard part is not googling up how to do something, but simply discovering something is possible at all. Yes, you can hook up some phones directly to a monitor over the USB-C port. Or put a DAC on them. And use almost all xbox/PSx BT/USB Gamepads.
- obarthelemy 7y agowhere did my line breaks go ?
- mjlee 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc You need to leave a blank line to get a new paragraph.
- DEADBEEFC0FFEE 7y agoI think the switching cost is the same which ever way. I own a Pixel, and have an iPhone for work. I cannot be bothered to invest any time in learning IOS beyond the basics and generally don't enjoy it. I never really have confidence that my intuitions will be right. Simple things like pressing the big button will exit the app, makes me unproductive. I'm sure if it were my only phone I would be more proficient.
- ajford 7y agoI have this same issue on a work-provided macbook pro. They want to standardize on laptops for the dev team, but I spent months just getting up to speed on using the damn thing, and I still don't feel comfortable on it. And when my personal laptop and desktop and file server are all linux, the switch is annoying and makes me less productive on both systems (take a bit to switch from "OSX mode" back to normal after getting home).
- RandomBacon 7y agoThere are apps that allow you to use iMessage on Android.
- maneesh 7y agoknow of any apps specifically?