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iOS finally gets homescreen widgets mixed with the icons, too! But you still have to deal with everything wanting to flow up to the top left, god forbid you sho
by egypturnash 6y ago
iOS finally gets homescreen widgets mixed with the icons, too! But you still have to deal with everything wanting to flow up to the top left, god forbid you should arrange things for easy access to your thumb or to look nice around your background.
I've been on iOS for years and yeah, this is comedy.
- notJim 6y agoI'm still waiting for iOS to steal Android's notification system which has been vastly superior forever. People who've only ever used iOS think I'm crazy when I say this, because iOS notifications are so useless they can't imagine what a useful version would be like.
- setr 6y agoI'm on android, and I really have no idea what you're talking about -- they're both fairly useless. What apps do anything notable with notifications beyond reply-inline function? Which iphone's have had at least since last year, when I dropped off it Though I'm on samsung so they might have customized useful features right out (they do have the neat notification bubble thing + non-fullscreen apps, but it doesn't seem to be fully developed -- lots of small bugs -- so I'm assuming that's non-standard android).
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- panopticon 6y agoYeah, I just switched back to iOS last year after being on Android for ~5 years. The notification coalescing and types of actions you can take right from the notification blow iOS out of the water.
- grishka 6y agoI'm a loyal Android user since smartphones became a thing. I do own an iPhone because I had to write some cross-platform code on one of my jobs, but I can't fathom using iOS in part because of how laughably useless the notification system is. It could as well not have any, it won't make a difference. Notifications disappear when you unlock, badges on icons are always there with some arbitrary numbers on them, notification center shows something from last year but not the notification you received a minute ago, and the best part: some "notifications" are modal alerts that pop up right in your face when you least expect. And they have the audacity to call this the world's most advanced mobile OS.
- grishka 6y agoStartup idea: make an app that contains empty, transparent widgets of all possible sizes. Sell it for $1. Make millions.
- jonny_eh 6y agoApple would never allow that on their store.
- egypturnash 6y agoYeah I basically had the same thought.