Current Events > I feel like Android is starting to surpass iOS in ease of use

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I loved my iPhone 6 Plus, but as of Android 6.0 and 7.0, I'm starting to think iOS's simplicity actually makes it harder to figure out in some ways. Android used to be a cluttered unorganized mess that was justified by having customizability. Now, it seems exactly the opposite. It's very organized, with a lot of useful options available quickly and with little learning curve. You rarely have to go to settings to get things changed. iOS comes across as almost too minimalist for its own good - it has many of the same useful features, but hides virtually everything into the senselessly cluttered and unorganized Settings menu. Also, having to swipe up for some setting toggles and then having to swipe down for others (and notifications) is entirely unintuitive and unnecessary.
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It always has been plus more.
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I feel like you need to shut the fuck up
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Patty_Fleur posted...

I feel like you need to shut the fuck up

Ah, the internal monologue.
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I agree that Android is getting better. IPhones are still easier to use but the gap is narrowing. Even Android tablets are gradually getting better. They haven't caught up yet but Apple isn't improving much.

I'm starting to wonder if this will be a repeat of what happened to Apple in the 90s without Steve Jobs. They started with technology that was worlds above the competition but then Microsoft kept integrating all their good ideas, and Apple stopped coming up with new good ones.

I remember having a talk with a fellow nerd who was a Mac fan after Windows 95 came out and he was like "why do people want it? They totally copied Apple for everything."

And I was like "Why would they not? Who cares whether they thought of it first? If Microsoft has all the things that used to make Macs better, and they're cheaper, and they have more software and games, nobody cares if they copied the other guys."

Apple probably would have gone out of business if Jobs hadn't come back a few years later too straighten the company out then come up with real new technology.

If Apple keeps coasting on their great ideas from 10 years ago eventually they will be left in the cold as other companies figure out how to do that and more.
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We took out the headphone jack because of "courage"
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You never answered in that one topic. How do you afford all of these cellphones?
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The price tag makes it easier to access it too.
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Leight_Weight posted...

You never answered in that one topic. How do you afford all of these cellphones?

Apparently it's none of our god damn business lol

It's not like these are natural questions that come up when you talk about phones this much, but yeah we're the bad guys breaching her privacy.
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