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iMessage is the ultimate lock-in. Both sides of my family use iMessage, so anyone switching off iPhone becomes the black sheep by splitting off the family threa

iMessage is the ultimate lock-in. Both sides of my family use iMessage, so anyone switching off iPhone becomes the black sheep by splitting off the family thread. And it sucks because it is wholly a political decision by Apple not to add android support. But besides that, I bought a Pixel 5a for testing of android apps. While the experience is majorly improved over my last android experience...it just feels wrong. Animations are not consistent across apps. Swipe actions sometimes follow your finger, sometimes they don't. I thought widgets would be better...but wow are they ugly out of the box. Yes I am aware you can customize everything, but I really don't want to spend hours figuring all that out when I can just have sane defaults. I feel like looking at screenshots you can say that android and iOS are very similar, but that leaves out the most important part of a touch only device - the interactions with content on screen.

shapefrog 5y ago
> becomes the black sheep by splitting off the family thread Worth having a shitter phone just to have the feature of not being on the family thread.
- rootusrootus 5y ago
  Not everyone has a shitty family.
  - shapefrog 5y ago
    Not everyone has an amazing family.
nobleach 5y ago
I used to work in mobile web development. Playing with Android devices always felt sub-par. Not to mention, having to support Samsung's web browser was just terrible. I realize Samsung has gone to great lengths to try and make a beautiful experience. And truly, the whole fold-able (while not really my thing) is an advance in an interesting direction. I did use an Android phone around 2010 (Nexus One) and it was "just okay". This was pre-iMessage. Now it really is annoying to have someone make the chat "go green". "So and so liked your message". I've seen people set up iMessage gateways just to get around this... but it's just not ideal.
hbn 5y ago
> I thought widgets would be better...but wow are they ugly out of the box Widgets were a big selling point in the earlier days of the Android vs iOS debate, but Google has really left them to rot over the years. Now that iOS has them, it seems like Google might be finally giving them attention again? At the very least, they're getting redesigns, but I don't know if I've heard anything about them addressing the more technical reasons of why they feel so outdated compared to the rest of the platform.

shapefrog 5y ago

> becomes the black sheep by splitting off the family thread Worth having a shitter phone just to have the feature of not being on the family thread.

rootusrootus 5y ago
Not everyone has a shitty family.
- shapefrog 5y ago
  Not everyone has an amazing family.

nobleach 5y ago

I used to work in mobile web development. Playing with Android devices always felt sub-par. Not to mention, having to support Samsung's web browser was just terrible. I realize Samsung has gone to great lengths to try and make a beautiful experience. And truly, the whole fold-able (while not really my thing) is an advance in an interesting direction. I did use an Android phone around 2010 (Nexus One) and it was "just okay". This was pre-iMessage. Now it really is annoying to have someone make the chat "go green". "So and so liked your message". I've seen people set up iMessage gateways just to get around this... but it's just not ideal.

hbn 5y ago

> I thought widgets would be better...but wow are they ugly out of the box Widgets were a big selling point in the earlier days of the Android vs iOS debate, but Google has really left them to rot over the years. Now that iOS has them, it seems like Google might be finally giving them attention again? At the very least, they're getting redesigns, but I don't know if I've heard anything about them addressing the more technical reasons of why they feel so outdated compared to the rest of the platform.