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re: What are some things you can do on Android that you can't on iOS?
Posted on 7/6/14 at 7:46 am to AdamDeMamp
Posted on 7/6/14 at 7:46 am to AdamDeMamp
Biggest thing for me is I like google play store over itunes/app store
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Posted on 7/6/14 at 7:55 am to poochie
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Because you can add calendars and apps and all this cool customization". We don't need all that stuff, we just need files and folders.
You might be surprised to learn that some other users in the company would like the new features. That's why IT keeps adding new stuff.
My grandfather thought everything was fine with just files and folders too ... paper ones.
Posted on 7/6/14 at 7:55 am to SpartyGator
I like the email system on android better. adding multiple attachments, editing files, saving them to the SD card etc are things that iOS could not do when I had iphones. ( may have changed recently?)
Posted on 7/6/14 at 8:06 am to poochie
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Most regular people just want the phone to turn on and work.
most regular people should stick with an iphone - absolutely agreed; its a simple phone for the simple mind - and if that works for you, great
This post was edited on 7/6/14 at 8:07 am
Posted on 7/6/14 at 8:20 am to rocket31
Android is efficient.. You can customize it to make it perfectly efficient for how you use your phone. Not just themes and crap.. The way systems work and intents
Posted on 7/6/14 at 10:04 am to LSUdm21
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That doesn't really mean much to me. I don't give a frick about shite like fonts or clocks or colors. What can an Android do in my everyday life that an iPhone can't? 90% of the smartphone users in the world use their phone to text, surf, check emails and play games. How does Android do any of that better?
Well, if that's all you do why start a tech board topic?
But I'll help. With Android guys like you can choose from about 100 phones from different manufacturers instead of 1.
You don't need to know anything else
Posted on 7/6/14 at 10:05 am to rocket31
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most regular people should stick with an iphone - absolutely agreed; its a simple phone for the simple mind - and if that works for you, great
I'm sure you're curing cancer with your android and all, but in the end you make calls and text more than anything else on a daily basis. They're just phones. These threads always crack me up.
Posted on 7/6/14 at 10:13 am to Brettesaurus Rex
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Can you please give me an example of this statement? This really just blew my mind
I agree with Casty, so I'll give my two cents.
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I just can't stand the general feel of anything that Apple makes. I can't even really put my finger on it. It just takes me twice as long to find something on iOS as it does Android. Same for OSX and Windows. Finder seems way too dumbed down and takes too many steps to navigate.
This for me to. I just don't "Get" Apple. The last real Apple product I owned was a Desktop...in like 1988-90. I've used Windows or Linux ever since then. I'm comfortable on a command line. I'm much more comfortable in Windows-typed file structures. I've tried to fix Apples before or troubleshoot them (Growing up with computers and can follow any directions) and nothing ever make sense to me. The file structure. The entire logic between what controls what. Even driver locations were tough to decipher. Even as a Unix-based system, I find Apples more complex behind the scenes than a Gentoo or Sabayon box. (Or maybe it's the install process that helps one understand on most Linux distros).
The problem is that in Apple something like "Drivers" is almost obsolete. They exist but needing to roll them back, update them, track them is fairly automatic. This is great for "ease of use," but if you can't mess with drivers then you really can't get the best graphics/control out of a game or other software. You can't install open drivers, non-RM drivers, etc. Those things are critical to people who tweak.
(This may all be different, or it just may be that I've spent the majority of my time on Windows environments that I'm just not comfortable outside of it. But even with Windows 7, the best OS I've used, as much as they changed, it still felt like home in terms of my computer. And whenever I do troubleshoot Apple computers, I find their walkthroughs significantly longer for similar tasks)
But yeah it makes Apples "just work."
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What are some things you can do on Android that you can't on iOS?
It's all about control and customization. Two things that matter to power users, tweakers, the tech savvy. Being a "better phone," is really up to the user. Apple products are claustrophobic for me, that's really the best way to describe it.
This post was edited on 7/6/14 at 10:16 am
Posted on 7/6/14 at 10:18 am to LSUdm21
The Android crowd talks about the iPhone as though it is a Speak n Spell. It's hilarious.
If aliens read this board, they probably think the iPhone is technologically one notch below Andy Griffith's phone.
If aliens read this board, they probably think the iPhone is technologically one notch below Andy Griffith's phone.
Posted on 7/6/14 at 10:33 am to Scoop
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The Android crowd talks about the iPhone as though it is a Speak n Spell. It's hilarious.
If aliens read this board, they probably think the iPhone is technologically one notch below Andy Griffith's phone.
I wouldn't say that. The iPhone is a nice piece of tech that exists within a controlled and limited environment. The tech is great, the system it employs is not great for power users, but it could be if it were more open.
Posted on 7/6/14 at 11:03 am to Freauxzen
Wtf is a power user exactly?
Posted on 7/6/14 at 11:17 am to LSUdm21
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Wtf is a power user exactly?
For a phone, the term "power user" is laughable. I was hoping this thread would've been smarter, but it's the same vague insults rehashed.
This post was edited on 7/6/14 at 11:18 am
Posted on 7/6/14 at 12:09 pm to euphemus
I read somewhere that Tasker and Lighflow are two apps that really show off the power of Android. Anybody here use these apps? Are they useful and do they make you more efficient while using your phone?
Posted on 7/6/14 at 12:23 pm to euphemus
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What are some things you can do on Android that you can't on iOS?
It's not really what you can do, it's how you do it.
Can you put an app shortcut in multiple folders on iOS? It might sound silly, but it is incredibly nice for me to be able to make copies of app icons wherever I want. I have shortcuts to gmail in my 'communications' folder and in my google apps folder, so I don't have to remember where it is every time... it is wherever I look. Same with apps like facebook: is it in there with my 'social' apps, or with my 'internet' apps? Both.
Widgets get ridiculed a lot, but I use several of them daily. Every single time I look at my phone, I check my todo list, calendar, notes, and stocks instantly without having to open a single app. Some of them like the todo list and notes allow me to interact with them directly as if the app was already running. Many widgets are very, very powerful.
I think a lot of people don't give Android's Intents system (app sharing interface) enough credit. iOS8 is supposed to have a similar feature, which will likely be touted as a gamechanger, because it really is. I think iOS has for a long time had a few hard-coded features like system-wide sharing to Facebook, Twitter, email, etc. But Android has for even longer had the feature for any app to hook into this system. Just as a simple example, when you want to edit a photo, do you have to open the editing app and use it to find the photo you want to edit, or can you be browsing photos and then 'send' a photo to the editing app? What if you have multiple photo editor apps? With Android, it doesn't matter how you go about it. If I'm browsing my photos, I can at any time 'share' one with a photo editing app of my choosing, edit it how I want, and then share it to Facebook/email/text/imgur/whatever straight from that editing app. It's all very fluid, and all apps can plug into this system.
So, for me at least, it's not about what you can do, it's more about how you can do it, and Android has many features that make any workflow flow smoothly.
Posted on 7/6/14 at 12:40 pm to euphemus
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I read somewhere that Tasker and Lighflow are two apps that really show off the power of Android. Anybody here use these apps? Are they useful and do they make you more efficient while using your phone?
I haven't used Lightflow because I think all it does is give you control over your notification LED, and most ROMs I use have this feature built in. It's nice being able to tell from across the room whether you missed a text, a call, voicemail, email, or just a facebook post.
As for Tasker, the learning curve is very steep, mainly because it is so very, very powerful. You can automate almost anything your phone can do, based on any sort of trigger or combination of triggers your phone has access to.
You can:
change settings (wifi on/off, screen brightness, volumes, anything really)
run apps
send messages
etc.
based on:
location
time
connections (wifi, bluetooth, etc)
specific notifications
shaking
etc.
Examples:
put phone on silent when connected to your home wifi and it's after 10pm
put screen brightness to 100% for 30 seconds when you shake your phone
turn wifi off when you connect to bluetooth in your vehicle, and turn it back on when you disconnect
automatically respond to phone calls and text messages after hours (when your phone is on silent and you're sleeping), and give the caller/texter instructions for texting you a particular word that will make your phone wake you
These are just the tip of the iceberg.
Posted on 7/6/14 at 9:38 pm to ILikeLSUToo
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For a phone, the term "power user" is laughable. I was hoping this thread would've been smarter, but it's the same vague insults rehashed.
It's a fairly common term that means someone who likes to do more than other people with a piece of tech. That's a little too long of a phrase. Tinkerer? Personalizer? Whatever you want to call it. Doesn't have to be power user.
Posted on 7/6/14 at 9:56 pm to Freauxzen
It's silly when talking about a phone.
Posted on 7/6/14 at 9:59 pm to LSUdm21
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It's silly when talking about a phone.
Tweaking and Customization is silly?
The term "Power User" has nothing to do with power as making something "more powerful," or better. It means tweaking it to fit your own needs. Real power users root anyways, so that is "sort of" making it better. I get your point though.
Posted on 7/6/14 at 10:31 pm to Korkstand
quote:Very well said...The way this works is a true testimony to the openness of android as opposed to ios...This is just a small example of how efficient android os is.
Just as a simple example, when you want to edit a photo, do you have to open the editing app and use it to find the photo you want to edit, or can you be browsing photos and then 'send' a photo to the editing app? What if you have multiple photo editor apps? With Android, it doesn't matter how you go about it. If I'm browsing my photos, I can at any time 'share' one with a photo editing app of my choosing, edit it how I want, and then share it to Facebook/email/text/imgur/whatever straight from that editing app. It's all very fluid, and all apps can plug into this system.
So, for me at least, it's not about what you can do, it's more about how you can do it, and Android has many features that make any workflow flow smoothly.
Posted on 7/7/14 at 2:11 am to Korkstand
So the more I research Android, the more I am coming away impressed.
After being blown away by how powerful the Tasker app can be on Android, I just came across these two very useful apps - MightyText and PushBullet. Looks like they have all the functionality of iMessage (and then some), but work nicely between an Android phone and a Mac. You can call and text from your PC/Mac from your Android phone number and share a bunch of things at a snap.
You won't miss the 'handoff' between the iPhone and the Mac that is coming with iOS 8. PushBullet can do the same thing pretty much.
After being blown away by how powerful the Tasker app can be on Android, I just came across these two very useful apps - MightyText and PushBullet. Looks like they have all the functionality of iMessage (and then some), but work nicely between an Android phone and a Mac. You can call and text from your PC/Mac from your Android phone number and share a bunch of things at a snap.
You won't miss the 'handoff' between the iPhone and the Mac that is coming with iOS 8. PushBullet can do the same thing pretty much.
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