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The iOS YouTube app is not worse than the one in Android. Texting in iOS is arguably better or, at the very least, there is one more app to choose (Messages). A

The iOS YouTube app is not worse than the one in Android. Texting in iOS is arguably better or, at the very least, there is one more app to choose (Messages). And I’m curious to know what makes Antenna Pod so much better than the thousands of other podcast apps out there. Social media apps have historically been worse in Android, because of lax app and privacy controls. > What else is there, where is the advantage? Personally, I’d rather not have Google buried deep inside all aspects of my phone.

embedding-shape 9mo ago
> Texting in iOS is arguably better or, at the very least Since some updates ago, my keyboard is still broken if I type too fast, and autocorrect been essentially broken for the same amount of time. Must be happening for ~years now, still waiting for a new update to finally fix it. At least on Android you can change the keyboard to something else if you'd like, instead of being stuck with what your OS developer forces on you. Wish I had that option now.
- manuelabeledo 9mo ago
  Hasn’t happened to me, but I guess that you could always install a third party keyboard. Both Microsoft and Google have offerings in the App Store.
- BlaDeKke 9mo ago
  The keyboard can be changed in iOS.
- _vqpz 9mo ago
  I have been using SwiftKey keyboard on iOS exclusively since 2018 and have had very few issues compared to Android where it regularly crashed
  - DiskoHexyl 9mo ago
    A lot of the apps, not just the banking apps, but food delivery etc, restrict using alternative keyboards, leaving you with a default one, which is especially jarring for a multi-lingual countries where you typically need keyboards for English + language 2 and 3. I had to give ap on a swiftkey iOS for that reason
  - pvab3 9mo ago
    iOS keyboards are hardly different from one another
- Melatonic 9mo ago
  If you turn off swipe or swift or whatever they call it the iOS default keyboard is much better
mexicocitinluez 9mo ago
> Personally, I’d rather not have Google buried deep inside all aspects of my phone. I mean, one could say the exact same thing but swapping Google with Apple.
- manuelabeledo 9mo ago
  Google core business is ads. It is not the same.
  - hulitu 9mo ago
    One should read, carefully, the Apple EULA and TOS.
    - manuelabeledo 9mo ago
      Is it worse than Google?
  - nerdix 9mo ago
    Apple's core business is trapping users into their walled garden so they can rent seek. Whichever one you think is worse is really just a reflection of your own personal values. I value computing freedom above all.
    - fsflover 9mo ago
      > I value computing freedom above all. So perhaps you should consider switching to GNU/Linux phones.
    - JimDabell 9mo ago
      > Apple's core business is trapping users into their walled garden so they can rent seek. Apple’s core business is selling hardware. Their services revenue is not even close to their hardware revenue.
      - mexicocitinluez 9mo ago
gruez 9mo ago
>at the very least, there is one more app to choose (Messages). How's that different than Google Messages being exclusive to Android?
- manuelabeledo 9mo ago
  RCS is not exclusive to Android, the point is moot.
- al_borland 9mo ago
  Everyone I know on iOS just uses Messages, they don’t feel a need for other apps. People on Android I’ve run into seem to have a half dozen apps and use anything but the built in messaging. A few months ago while on a trip I ran into an older couple that wanted some picture I took in a place they weren’t physically up to going. They were not tech savvy at all. Had they been on iOS, they would have just been using Messages and it would have been easy. They had Android, and the guy opened about 5 or 6 different messaging apps, not really knowing what any of them were, it seemed like a real mess. I sent them using Messages over RCS, assuming they’d go to Google Messages, or whatever the default equivalent standard app is for Google (they seem to have changed it a dozen times). It could be that the pictures were taking a while to send, my phone showed they sent, but he had no idea where to look or where they might have went, despite having so many messaging apps. I hope he is able to find them or they came through with a notification once he had a better single. Having one good app that everyone uses is better than the default app being sub-par, or so constantly in flux that the users and smattered about to dozens of different apps that can’t talk to each other.

embedding-shape 9mo ago

> Texting in iOS is arguably better or, at the very least Since some updates ago, my keyboard is still broken if I type too fast, and autocorrect been essentially broken for the same amount of time. Must be happening for ~years now, still waiting for a new update to finally fix it. At least on Android you can change the keyboard to something else if you'd like, instead of being stuck with what your OS developer forces on you. Wish I had that option now.

manuelabeledo 9mo ago
Hasn’t happened to me, but I guess that you could always install a third party keyboard. Both Microsoft and Google have offerings in the App Store.
BlaDeKke 9mo ago
The keyboard can be changed in iOS.
_vqpz 9mo ago
I have been using SwiftKey keyboard on iOS exclusively since 2018 and have had very few issues compared to Android where it regularly crashed
- DiskoHexyl 9mo ago
  A lot of the apps, not just the banking apps, but food delivery etc, restrict using alternative keyboards, leaving you with a default one, which is especially jarring for a multi-lingual countries where you typically need keyboards for English + language 2 and 3. I had to give ap on a swiftkey iOS for that reason
- pvab3 9mo ago
  iOS keyboards are hardly different from one another
Melatonic 9mo ago
If you turn off swipe or swift or whatever they call it the iOS default keyboard is much better

mexicocitinluez 9mo ago

> Personally, I’d rather not have Google buried deep inside all aspects of my phone. I mean, one could say the exact same thing but swapping Google with Apple.

manuelabeledo 9mo ago
Google core business is ads. It is not the same.
- hulitu 9mo ago
  One should read, carefully, the Apple EULA and TOS.
  - manuelabeledo 9mo ago
    Is it worse than Google?
- nerdix 9mo ago
  Apple's core business is trapping users into their walled garden so they can rent seek. Whichever one you think is worse is really just a reflection of your own personal values. I value computing freedom above all.
  - fsflover 9mo ago
    > I value computing freedom above all. So perhaps you should consider switching to GNU/Linux phones.
  - JimDabell 9mo ago
    > Apple's core business is trapping users into their walled garden so they can rent seek. Apple’s core business is selling hardware. Their services revenue is not even close to their hardware revenue.
    - mexicocitinluez 9mo ago

gruez 9mo ago

>at the very least, there is one more app to choose (Messages). How's that different than Google Messages being exclusive to Android?

manuelabeledo 9mo ago
RCS is not exclusive to Android, the point is moot.
al_borland 9mo ago
Everyone I know on iOS just uses Messages, they don’t feel a need for other apps. People on Android I’ve run into seem to have a half dozen apps and use anything but the built in messaging. A few months ago while on a trip I ran into an older couple that wanted some picture I took in a place they weren’t physically up to going. They were not tech savvy at all. Had they been on iOS, they would have just been using Messages and it would have been easy. They had Android, and the guy opened about 5 or 6 different messaging apps, not really knowing what any of them were, it seemed like a real mess. I sent them using Messages over RCS, assuming they’d go to Google Messages, or whatever the default equivalent standard app is for Google (they seem to have changed it a dozen times). It could be that the pictures were taking a while to send, my phone showed they sent, but he had no idea where to look or where they might have went, despite having so many messaging apps. I hope he is able to find them or they came through with a notification once he had a better single. Having one good app that everyone uses is better than the default app being sub-par, or so constantly in flux that the users and smattered about to dozens of different apps that can’t talk to each other.