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i switched from android to iphone like 6 years ago and had no problem a friend of mine just switched and switched back to android because he did not like the lack of a back button and thought the "swipe up to see all active apps" was too slow compared to whatever you do on an android to get to that screen. he also bought the maxxx sized iphone so he had trouble physically reaching the top left back button. his other complaint was that his previous android phone had an always on screen showing the time, which i think ios is getting at some point? but he also wears a watch so idk why that was even an issue
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Jun 9, 2022 19:57
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did they fix the android back button then, as it always used to be a coin toss as to what it was going to do. go back a page in an app? go back to another app? never had an issue with the iOS way of doing things personally.
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Jun 9, 2022 20:14
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EL BROMANCE posted:did they fix the android back button then, as it always used to be a coin toss as to what it was going to do. go back a page in an app? go back to another app? never had an issue with the iOS way of doing things personally. tbh no. It's usually pretty intuitive though. Click a twitter link from the Awful app? You'll probably end up in the Awful app if you hit it. The iPhone one is more consistent in behaviour (back a page in an app, never between apps) but not in availability since it's not implemented in all apps afaik?
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Jun 9, 2022 20:30
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Surprise T Rex posted:Those of you who have made the Android -> iPhone journey - were there any things that iOS does that you absolutely hate? swipe to go back exists, and while it's technically not universal, it's used in like 99% of apps. it won't go to a previous app if an app took you to another if that's what you're after. there's a separate gesture for that
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Jun 9, 2022 21:16
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tbh the main thing I prefer about Android's "back" gesture is that it works from either the left or right edge inwards. Holding the phone right handed and reaching over to the left is awkward. e: tho lol probs not on a 6.1 inch phone instead of 6.7 Surprise T Rex fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Jun 9, 2022 |
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Jun 9, 2022 21:21
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i love the back button. i also ahve the s21 bigphone and the size was annoying at first but ive grown to like it 
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Jun 9, 2022 21:34
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disclaimer: i get paid big bux to write andriod apps so i use the phone to keep up with it. i don't really have any complaints about the iphone they're fine phones
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Jun 9, 2022 21:36
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the android awful app has built in imgur upload, does the iOS one? it's really nice
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Jun 9, 2022 21:36
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PokeJoe posted:the android awful app has built in imgur upload, does the iOS one? it's really nice it does but the api gets overloaded or whatever so your chances of it actually working is not great!
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Jun 9, 2022 21:52
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the android app is way better for searching smilies and automatically posting images locally via Imgur. maybe I have a hosed up build for iOS or something but finding smilies and poasting images is much more of a pain
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Jun 10, 2022 01:12
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the iOS keyboard emote thing was a cool idea, but the apis suck and it’s such a pain to maintain. I have a feeling they haven’t touched it since implementing it.
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Jun 10, 2022 01:13
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Endless Mike posted:it does but the api gets overloaded or whatever so your chances of it actually working is not great! works on my machine 
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Jun 10, 2022 01:25
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Surprise T Rex posted:Those of you who have made the Android -> iPhone journey - were there any things that iOS does that you absolutely hate? it's a pain in the rear end to turn radios off on ios. android you could power them off from the pull down menu but ios forces you into the settings to toggle power. gps is buried even farther down.
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Jun 10, 2022 03:12
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have they allowed you to sideload apps and/or manage files and data like an actual storage device and not require you to use itunes for everything still
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Jun 10, 2022 03:23
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Midjack posted:it's a pain in the rear end to turn radios off on ios. android you could power them off from the pull down menu but ios forces you into the settings to toggle power. gps is buried even farther down. i'm not a fan of the "disconnect from local networks" thing they're doing on ios at all. to that end i use siri to dive into the radio toggle menus since it's usually quicker than tapping through settings
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Jun 10, 2022 03:43
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Surprise T Rex posted:Those of you who have made the Android -> iPhone journey - were there any things that iOS does that you absolutely hate? the learning curve was real, but not horrible. I have no regrets about moving over. here’s three similar concerns I had and where I am now: Surprise T Rex posted:Notifications seem a bit weird compared to Android when I tried my wife's old XR for a while, and the lack of a global swipe-to-go-back gesture kind of sucks. i realized notifications are largely overrated, which I would not have believed 4 years ago. important things can create persistent banners to make sure you don’t miss them Midjack posted:it's a pain in the rear end to turn radios off on ios. android you could power them off from the pull down menu but ios forces you into the settings to toggle power. gps is buried even farther down. i had a heroic amount of Tasker stuff set up to manage my wifi/mobile data and now I just don’t bother. the phone has enough battery and doesn’t burn half of it shouting at cell towers it can’t quite reach Zamujasa posted:manage files and data like an actual storage device and not require you to use itunes for everything still this exists in the files app, but the only regular workflow I have that even needs this is moving gpx files from the good tracing app into the uploading to openstreetmap app
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Jun 10, 2022 06:18
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LibCrusher posted:did you guys know you can use awful.app to watch YouTube with no ads and have the window float so you can watch while u post, tweet, etc? you can use the vinegar safari extension from the app store to block all youtube ads in safari directly
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Jun 10, 2022 08:40
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mod saas posted:this exists in the files app, but the only regular workflow I have that even needs this is moving gpx files from the good tracing app into the uploading to openstreetmap app mostly in the sense of being able to just copy photos + downloaded files off of it, plus copying new music in weird archaic formats like nsf and gbs and mod honestly probably one of the bigger things i like about the android is that it has multiple buttons instead of dumb gestures everywhere
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Jun 10, 2022 09:23
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See as soon as they gave me the option to hide the bottom buttons and use gesture navigation instead I jumped on it and can't use an Android the old way anymore so I think iOS gesture stuff will be fine for me - learning period notwithstanding.
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Jun 10, 2022 18:41
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Gentle Autist posted:you can use the vinegar safari extension from the app store to block all youtube ads in safari directly it's a bit finicky with all the quality settings being exposed for streams which i chalk up to youtube being a moving target for extensions, but yeah it's solid for removing ads and background playing
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Jun 10, 2022 19:22
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lol @ janitoring your phone and putting up with that poo poo. i pay for it and don't have to see ads or gently caress with anything it just works
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Jun 10, 2022 20:05
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I remember the heady days of janitoring my phone and flashing new CyanogenMOD ROMs constantly as a bored 21 year old with unlimited free time to pErFecTlY oPtIMiSe mY dEvICe and strip out whatever HTC bloatware poo poo but lol gently caress that now I'm 33 I've got a wife and a job just gimme a thing that lets me shitpost on the go and stay in touch with the 8 people I care about. Multi-iPhone integration stuff sounds pretty good too for linking up with my wife's iPhone, having stuff like Find My linking up each other's phones, soon-to-come family iCloud photo album sharing all just built in sounds great. I know all this stuff exists in some capacity with Google Maps sharing location and Google Photos sharing photo albums and stuff but it just feels less "together" or something? Like it exists but with extra steps.
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Jun 10, 2022 20:37
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butt dickus posted:lol @ janitoring your phone and putting up with that poo poo. i pay for it and don't have to see ads or gently caress with anything it just works as far as janitoring it, it was $2 or something and runs untouched. i like to set audio-only sometimes and noticed the quirk, which the creator fixed shortly after it basically turns a youtube video (or any video, with the creator's other extension) into a regular html5 video element. anything else is icing on the native controls cake
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Jun 10, 2022 20:48
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butt dickus posted:lol @ janitoring your phone and putting up with that poo poo. i pay for it and don't have to see ads or gently caress with anything it just works it’s part of my personal brand to hate google so i refuse to give them money
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Jun 11, 2022 05:07
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just use adguard dns and youtube doesn't have any ads i was lucky enough to get adguard pro for $5 when it was just a license and not a subscription, it's real great on both android and ios
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https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1541523583347720193?s=20&t=9_0pEBNUD5SsUpx6Cl6foA
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Endless Mike posted:https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1541523583347720193?s=20&t=9_0pEBNUD5SsUpx6Cl6foA another one of those things it's not possible to write a joke about because google does it worse than any parody would
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Jun 27, 2022 22:16
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the dumbest part is they didn't need to "kill" anything as the services were compatible with what replaced them. my gchat conversations all appeared in hangouts when i installed that and now my hangouts conversations are in chat. you could even message someone if they were on the new/old client compared to you
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are you implying that google could have just picked a Brand Name and iterated on it instead of doing what they chose to do instead?
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:are you implying that google could have just picked a Brand Name and iterated on it instead of doing what they chose to do instead? simply iterating on an existing product doth not a promo packet make
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:simply iterating on an existing product doth not a promo packet make nobody gets promoted for fixing bugs. you get promoted by shipping new things
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Plank Walker posted:a friend of mine just switched and switched back to android because he did not like the lack of a back button Your friend probably actually just fell on hard times and wanted an excuse for why he was switching back to the poorphone
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just found out Google killed google bookmarks last year when I went to find a link to an old SA thread. what a piece of poo poo company
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Your friend probably actually just fell on hard times and wanted an excuse for why he was switching back to the poorphone nah his company reimbursed him up to $1k for a phone which is why he tried the iphone pro maxx to begin with. he just has bad taste and was looking for excuses to not like an apple product. his main complaints were no back button and that the screen goes black when it's locked vs staying on so he can see the clock(s)
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Jul 14, 2022 15:49
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so poor he can't afford a nice watch and has to use an android to tell the time, very sad
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:so poor he can't afford a nice watch and has to use an android to tell the time, very sad he actually used, and i kid you not, a calculator watch (and now an lol sarnsung watch or something). like i said, bad taste
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I just keep both a latest pixel and iPhone and switch back and forth when bored lol. as long you don't use icloud for cloud storage it's as simple as turning one off and the other on. also didn't know samsung still had a back button?? as the gestures on my 13 and p 6 are the same
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Celexi posted:I just keep both a latest pixel and iPhone and switch back and forth when bored lol. as long you don't use icloud for cloud storage it's as simple as turning one off and the other on. lol what
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anroid users: just have the latest and greatest model of non-anroid phone always on standby when you get tired of your piece of poo poo phone being a piece of poo poo
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awful.app is that bad!!
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