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Hah, I have exactly the opposite reaction as you: I think Android is a complete mess in terms of usability. The big differentiator, though, is your social netw
by diogenes4 3y ago
Hah, I have exactly the opposite reaction as you: I think Android is a complete mess in terms of usability.
The big differentiator, though, is your social network. Having iMessages and FaceTime is about 95% of the value of the phone/tablet for me because my friends heavily, heavily use them.
- shortrounddev2 3y agoI use Line (kind of like a Japanese/Korean whatsapp) to communicate with my wife's family (Wife, sisters in law, mother in law), I use Facebook to communicate with my parents, and I don't have any friends to communicate with on other platforms, so I don't miss iMessage (maybe I don't have friends because I don't have iMessage). Otherwise the apps define most of the UI. Android is basically an app launcher to me.
- gambiting 3y agoI think it's the case of knowing what you know. IOS design language depends a lot on being familiar with iOS already - I think a lot of Android design is dictated to be understandable by people who really haven't used a phone before so things are a bit clearer and more obvious. I know when I use my wife's iPhone it's so frustrating because it feels like you should be able to do action X but there isn't any clear way on how to achieve it - I ask my wife and she shows me that it's hidden behind some invisible menu or gesture and I'm like "how were you supposed to know this???" And she just shrugs "it always worked like this". Ok, I guess, but that's really poor for discoverability.