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Out of curiosity, what prompted you to return to iOS? I'm just over a decade on iPhone here, and when I first switched from Android I was amazed at just how fl

Out of curiosity, what prompted you to return to iOS? I'm just over a decade on iPhone here, and when I first switched from Android I was amazed at just how fluid and responsive everything was. I don't know if iOS had a dedicated thread just for UI updates/interactions, but it was an astounding improvement over the HTC One S I had (which was also relatively new at the time). Over time, however, it seems like the iOS user experience has been on its way to a thousand-cut death for me—various little bugs, terrible keypress detection for the keyboard, abysmal yet somehow still declining Siri dictation quality, the UI generally being less responsive even on new phones, and just basic things that absolutely used to work without exception just randomly experiencing obvious bugs. There's too much to list here, but I'm curious how life compares these days on the Android side. I'm all in on the iOS ecosystem, currently, so I know a switch would be extra painful, but still...

barrkel 3y ago
I got my kid a tablet and reckoned the iPad mini was a better choice, and I wanted to call him, read books and play games with him remotely, and the highest recommended app for this (Caribu) worked best on iOS. I don't really recommend Caribu (now owned by Mattel and the lack of love put into it is showing) but I don't know anything better. A bug that bites every other day: a request for more screen time comes in (parental controls) while the iPad was last in landscape, and I unlock it in portrait. Messages comes up after I press the alert to approve it, but the messages UI is stuck half way between landscape and portrait, and the message that requires approval is off the bottom of the screen and can't be scrolled back. Rotating the iPad doesn't help. I have to quit Messages and restart it, sometimes a couple of times. Another thing that creeps me out every time I do it: I download a free app and somewhere along the line I have to press a Buy button, or there is some "Processing payment" notification, that makes me think I was duped. And I have a generalized gripe about the stores - there are like 3 different store apps on a new ipad, really confusing. Even worse, as an English speaker living in Switzerland (3 major official languages) some stores, like the Apple store, default to German with no configuration possible, and while the App store only shows app reviews written in Switzerland, so I basically see no English reviews for any apps. I can't opt in to seeing UK or US reviews. Funny you should mention smoothness. After I got my ipad, I immediately regretted not getting the pro because 60Hz animation is quite flickery on a big screen. Outside video calls I only use the iPad for watching tv shows. It's kind of a redundant device for my lifestyle.

barrkel 3y ago

I got my kid a tablet and reckoned the iPad mini was a better choice, and I wanted to call him, read books and play games with him remotely, and the highest recommended app for this (Caribu) worked best on iOS. I don't really recommend Caribu (now owned by Mattel and the lack of love put into it is showing) but I don't know anything better. A bug that bites every other day: a request for more screen time comes in (parental controls) while the iPad was last in landscape, and I unlock it in portrait. Messages comes up after I press the alert to approve it, but the messages UI is stuck half way between landscape and portrait, and the message that requires approval is off the bottom of the screen and can't be scrolled back. Rotating the iPad doesn't help. I have to quit Messages and restart it, sometimes a couple of times. Another thing that creeps me out every time I do it: I download a free app and somewhere along the line I have to press a Buy button, or there is some "Processing payment" notification, that makes me think I was duped. And I have a generalized gripe about the stores - there are like 3 different store apps on a new ipad, really confusing. Even worse, as an English speaker living in Switzerland (3 major official languages) some stores, like the Apple store, default to German with no configuration possible, and while the App store only shows app reviews written in Switzerland, so I basically see no English reviews for any apps. I can't opt in to seeing UK or US reviews. Funny you should mention smoothness. After I got my ipad, I immediately regretted not getting the pro because 60Hz animation is quite flickery on a big screen. Outside video calls I only use the iPad for watching tv shows. It's kind of a redundant device for my lifestyle.