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Ryan, I disagree. I just got an iPhone 4s. Actually it was given to me for free. It was a major downgrade from Samsung Nexus (naked latest Android), actually it

Ryan, I disagree. I just got an iPhone 4s. Actually it was given to me for free. It was a major downgrade from Samsung Nexus (naked latest Android), actually it felt like traveling backwards in time. Heck, in many respects it's not even up to the original Nexus One! iPhone simply feels outdated because it's not as "online" as Androids are. The notion of "syncing" reminds me of my decade-old Nokia, the maps are barely useful (I use google maps via browser instead), the address book, the mail app, the way you use it is just ughh... old school: everything lives on an island which needs to be "synced". You can't even put a music on it without the iTunes, still. And even basic UX is plain wrong in many places, for example why does it keep beeping when receiving SMS messages while I'm typing??? Sorry, but this is a phone from 5 years ago. The world has moved on.

ryannielsen 14y ago
Interesting perspective and, like I said, one with which I'm not familiar. I've used a few Android devices (basically, I've played with all of the Nexus devices because we have them around for work), but only for a day or so at a time. Personally, iCloud solves all of my syncing issues; the device is basically always online and all of my data's always up to date without manually syncing. All of my media is in iCloud, so I never need to sync my music, movies or TV shows. Likewise, I can purchase all of that media from the iTunes store on the device. Maps on iOS 6 is hugely improved with an enormous (and potentially disastrous) regression – there are no transit directions. And I've never noticed the beeps from Messages when I'm typing a response… I must have internalized and learned to ignore those. ;-) I think it may really come down to: I can't use Android because I'm so tied to iCloud/iTunes and some of my favorite apps (Tweetbot and Reeder are probably the big ones) haven't been ported to Android. Also, the lack of polish on Android (even in 4.1) and in all Android apps drives me nuts. Maybe I'm too brainwashed by iOS. Every time I use an Android device, I feel like I've picked up an unusable and barely functional rip-off of iOS. Likewise, perhaps iOS isn't usable to you because you're so tied to Google's ecosystem, and you're accustomed to Android and Android apps. And because you're used to the way everything works in that universe, iOS feels like the backwards, decrepit OS.

ryannielsen 14y ago

Interesting perspective and, like I said, one with which I'm not familiar. I've used a few Android devices (basically, I've played with all of the Nexus devices because we have them around for work), but only for a day or so at a time. Personally, iCloud solves all of my syncing issues; the device is basically always online and all of my data's always up to date without manually syncing. All of my media is in iCloud, so I never need to sync my music, movies or TV shows. Likewise, I can purchase all of that media from the iTunes store on the device. Maps on iOS 6 is hugely improved with an enormous (and potentially disastrous) regression – there are no transit directions. And I've never noticed the beeps from Messages when I'm typing a response… I must have internalized and learned to ignore those. ;-) I think it may really come down to: I can't use Android because I'm so tied to iCloud/iTunes and some of my favorite apps (Tweetbot and Reeder are probably the big ones) haven't been ported to Android. Also, the lack of polish on Android (even in 4.1) and in all Android apps drives me nuts. Maybe I'm too brainwashed by iOS. Every time I use an Android device, I feel like I've picked up an unusable and barely functional rip-off of iOS. Likewise, perhaps iOS isn't usable to you because you're so tied to Google's ecosystem, and you're accustomed to Android and Android apps. And because you're used to the way everything works in that universe, iOS feels like the backwards, decrepit OS.