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I have been on android since very early on. I am pretty much fed up with it at this point. The majority of the phones are just junk. I have paid more at each ne

by eppp 4y ago

I have been on android since very early on. I am pretty much fed up with it at this point. The majority of the phones are just junk. I have paid more at each new iteration of the OS and gotten worse performance.

JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 4y ago
I'm way too old to answer but anyway... I regularly come back to Android to see how it evolves, it's some kind of masochistic behavior that I have, or maybe because I'm a developer and I like comparison. My last Android (2 years ago, a Pixel phone, the real deal) was full of annoyances, the official "apps" were incoherent (every app has its own hidden settings' page with a different look, and there a hundred of those pages), and the worst was that I found DEBUG_STRINGS_WITH_UNDERSCORES in one page. iOS is a walled garden, but at least it doesn't entice me to throw my phone outside the window. Edit: last but not least, since I had to buy a brand new Google phone (to get an up to date OS), I remember that it was twice as expensive as my current iPhone...
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  My conclusion after being an Android user for quite a while, then switching to iOS but continuing to be an Android developer for years after that, is that Google is simply a terrible steward of important software. It was beyond obvious that important things were being neglected or fucked-around with for purely portfolio-building reasons (and often badly half-assed—OMG, the Material UI stuff was shit at the programming level despite the huge marketing campaign for it, looked like the designers just spitballed some stuff then dumped it on the summer interns to handle the details), despite Android being their premier platform and probably in their top-5 most-prominent consumer software products (ChromeOS is important in some niches, but not much outside those).
duffyjp 4y ago
I got an android when it was on version 2.3. It was a Huawei P1 and blew everyone's mind. 1080p video recording, OLED display etc. I had various other androids that beat Apple on some feature; wireless charging, 4K video whatever. But the problem was they never lasted more than 2 years tops. My last android was an LG G7 and it got 18 months of OS updates from release. I didn't buy it immediately so I got even less. Enough of that. I bought an iPhone 12 Pro and it's as good today as it was out of the box if not better. The one single gripe I have is that the apple keyboard is utter trash. It's so bad I'll reconsider android when it's time to replace even if it costs me more over time.

by eppp 4y ago

JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 4y ago

I'm way too old to answer but anyway... I regularly come back to Android to see how it evolves, it's some kind of masochistic behavior that I have, or maybe because I'm a developer and I like comparison. My last Android (2 years ago, a Pixel phone, the real deal) was full of annoyances, the official "apps" were incoherent (every app has its own hidden settings' page with a different look, and there a hundred of those pages), and the worst was that I found DEBUG_STRINGS_WITH_UNDERSCORES in one page. iOS is a walled garden, but at least it doesn't entice me to throw my phone outside the window. Edit: last but not least, since I had to buy a brand new Google phone (to get an up to date OS), I remember that it was twice as expensive as my current iPhone...

yamtaddle 4y ago
My conclusion after being an Android user for quite a while, then switching to iOS but continuing to be an Android developer for years after that, is that Google is simply a terrible steward of important software. It was beyond obvious that important things were being neglected or fucked-around with for purely portfolio-building reasons (and often badly half-assed—OMG, the Material UI stuff was shit at the programming level despite the huge marketing campaign for it, looked like the designers just spitballed some stuff then dumped it on the summer interns to handle the details), despite Android being their premier platform and probably in their top-5 most-prominent consumer software products (ChromeOS is important in some niches, but not much outside those).

duffyjp 4y ago

I got an android when it was on version 2.3. It was a Huawei P1 and blew everyone's mind. 1080p video recording, OLED display etc. I had various other androids that beat Apple on some feature; wireless charging, 4K video whatever. But the problem was they never lasted more than 2 years tops. My last android was an LG G7 and it got 18 months of OS updates from release. I didn't buy it immediately so I got even less. Enough of that. I bought an iPhone 12 Pro and it's as good today as it was out of the box if not better. The one single gripe I have is that the apple keyboard is utter trash. It's so bad I'll reconsider android when it's time to replace even if it costs me more over time.