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You’re not being too demanding. You have established a set of expectations about interactivity and UI/UX affordances that iOS might not provide. My opinion: Wi

by jhatax 6y ago

You’re not being too demanding. You have established a set of expectations about interactivity and UI/UX affordances that iOS might not provide. My opinion: With any phone, you are going to spend most of your time in a small set of apps. As long as the OS enables those apps to perform smoothly without being intrusive, you should be good to go. There are certain platform differences that can seem like paper cuts when making a switch -> share screen, default app settings, where settings are housed (centralized in the Settings app or hamburger menu in each app), default permissions, text manipulation, and the Home Screen. There is nothing like using the device to overcome the pain of these changes. also, the good apps out there have homogenized the platforms to some extent. I’m speaking from experience. As someone who has had iPhones since the 1st OG iPhone, I used an android device for work email for almost a year. It wasn’t easy; there were some annoyances when I switched from work to personal, regardless of direction, but I found a way to ease the cognitive load: I used 3rd party apps for most of my tasks. For example, Chrome or Firefox, Overcast for Podcasts, Pandora or Spotify, Outlook for Email, Kindle for books, etc. The good app developers do a fantastic job of smoothing over the differences between Android and iOS. Edit: Fixed a typo

third_I 6y ago
I hear your point on third-party apps loud and clear. Sometime in the 2000s I became a self-proclaimed "platform agnostic" (no OS church, a desire to be productive on any of them). This lead to a long journey in cross-platform-land, third-party apps, and naturally the open source of it all (ideally). My threshold of acceptability for any app is now "give me data files" so I can just use CLI mojo and tools like SyncThing to sysadmin the hell out of my digital life. SyncThing, as I've just found out, is not available on iOS. So clearly (assuming this is a limitation of the system itself regarding filesystem access), that platform cannot fit my IS paradigm. It seems like it could be an "edge" device but even that is pushing it... (sync my flows through some ad-hoc proprietary clouds per app; and then sync from those clouds back to my IS, i.e. one custom path per file type probably... maybe have to resort to IFTTT for some... yeah no that's too much work). Thanks a lot for the perspective. It really helped my see where I fit based on my needs and former experience (I can relate to a lot of what you said).

by jhatax 6y ago

third_I 6y ago

I hear your point on third-party apps loud and clear. Sometime in the 2000s I became a self-proclaimed "platform agnostic" (no OS church, a desire to be productive on any of them). This lead to a long journey in cross-platform-land, third-party apps, and naturally the open source of it all (ideally). My threshold of acceptability for any app is now "give me data files" so I can just use CLI mojo and tools like SyncThing to sysadmin the hell out of my digital life. SyncThing, as I've just found out, is not available on iOS. So clearly (assuming this is a limitation of the system itself regarding filesystem access), that platform cannot fit my IS paradigm. It seems like it could be an "edge" device but even that is pushing it... (sync my flows through some ad-hoc proprietary clouds per app; and then sync from those clouds back to my IS, i.e. one custom path per file type probably... maybe have to resort to IFTTT for some... yeah no that's too much work). Thanks a lot for the perspective. It really helped my see where I fit based on my needs and former experience (I can relate to a lot of what you said).