Although it is not a question of generalizing, because I imagine that there will be readers who will be delighted with your iPhone and its new iOS 7, I think that being a fan of Apple and thinking that its mobile operating system is impossible to improve has no reason to be. Everything can be improved. And although there are obviously things that stand out from the rest in iOS, there are also other things that deserve a critical point of view, and in which Android offers a better solution.
It is not about defending Android over iOS, or the opposite. It is about understanding that although we love the creation of Apple and its interface seems perfect, the competition also has advantages that at some point, at least if we do not lock ourselves in that absurd defense of Apple for being called Apple, we have envied Android. So if you want to know which are the most outstanding, you will only have to continue reading, because we unravel one by one the 5 Features iOS Users Envy About Android
5 Features iOS Users Envy About Android
- Customization: the fact of being an open operating system in part allows customization in Android to be much easier and the offer more extensive than in iOS. From the launchers that allow you to change practically everything that the user sees, the way of use and even the option of adding new nonexistent functionalities; going through the widgets, for which Android has one reserved for each thing. And of course, here everyone plays to make a terminal totally made almost to measure.
- App Refund: Although on this issue things have changed a bit with a sentence of a few weeks ago, for now, the App Store requires an explanation to recover the money we paid for an application. In Google Play, if you download something, try it and it does not convince you, the developer must return the money without any comment from you if no more than 15 minutes have passed since the acquisition.
- System Access: precisely because it is a closed operating system, among the disadvantages that the user notices in iOS is precisely that of not being able to share or send data or files to the applications that he wants. Apple only allows this option with some default apps, while in Android the possibility is open to any of its own and third-party tools.
- File management: from the possibility of downloading applications from third-party sites, through the idea of managing each of the apps installed separately, or that of clear the cache or unnecessary data that is stored on our iPhoneConsuming storage space, iOS in this case becomes a closed operating system at a clear disadvantage with the open Android model.
- Alternative keyboards- It may be silly, why change the iOS 7 keyboard if we love it? Well, we may not need it, but as a customization and writing improvement option, as in Android, for example, with the famous Swiftkey it doesn't seem like a bad idea to me. But of course, the option, not to vary, is unfeasible in the world of Apple's mobile OS.
All this does not mean that iOS is worse than Android. Not much less. I use both in my daily life and the truth is that to get the perfect operating system I would stick with the Apple interface, but it would include changes like the ones we detail today that are usually the most demanded by iOS users, and some more . And you? Would you add something else to improve on iOS taking Android or another mobile operating system as a reference?
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Alternative keyboards? I spent a year or so with the Nexus4 and the only thing I did not touch was the xD keyboard The customization to some extent, there are people who do real tricks, I see some screens in HTCMania who have desks that are works of art, but to me, I don't care enough, the difference between my desktop and iOS was a visible calendar. I like the customization, but the use of widgets consumes too much battery.
And file management, well, being able to put a folder of photos or music easily, without having to be tied to iTunes is very good. Now the synchrocization of Google Play Music is horrible, and the management of music lists (which I use many) was also terrible compared to iOS.
For me they are two different OS, iOS represents a simpler screen, less customization, if you like to change things or you care too much about the aesthetics of the desktop, Android is your thing. However, in terms of the robustness of the OS, notifications that really arrive under WiFi, that nothing hangs on you and optimization, iOS wins with the cap. I have been in love with my Nexus4, in fact the grip was more non-stick, better to my liking, but a very large terminal (I like to handle it with one hand and my hands are small) and despite being from Google, very little optimized, The battery life that my i5S gives me compared to the N4 is incredible.
My conclusion, they are two different OS, very good like Windows Phone 8 and different, with their strengths and weaknesses. Hopefully it will continue like this for many, many years, because the competition between them benefits us, the harder they get the more they innovate.
** 2 ** Regarding the reimbursement, I don't know if it is by region, but in my country I have already been reimbursed 4 times, 2 for applications and once for a bell and the last for a song. And I had a week to do it. It is done from the invoice that arrives from Apple to your mail
Of the 5 things I do not envy any. In fact I couldn't care less
The customization is the most successful of all but remember that this is done by the jailbreak and for android there are many things that you cannot change if you are not root. after all, you both need something external to have full access to the system
The truth is, I bought a nexus 5 and with that idea that you need to be root to touch most things, I got root access first and then I realized that most things do not ask you for that root access.
Likewise, customization is a good question but in the long run I prefer to have the interface of a nexus that is unique in android and in the same way with my iDevices I prefer stock because you do not earn extra and unwanted consumption of resources.
Actually the only thing I envy about Android is the option to downgrade or in general to put any rom, not necessarily the last one (there are those who use unofficial roms, but that doesn't matter to me). I am clear that Android has many good things, but the only one that I envy is that ...
PS: Forget to say that I also envy being able to install emulators without Jailbreak since the store does not censor them and it is also easier to find joypads for Android.
The only thing I envy is the 4,5 screen I am an apple boy I have from an ipod shuf until the macbook pro the original iphone iphone collection until the 5s ipad 2 and mini apptv and I do not send any system
what I really envy of android and it kills me about the iphone is sharing with any device by bluetooth, the BT of Iphone is really rubbish
What I also hate is that you can't use an alternative charger…. grgrggrgrg
Well, and if we compare the lg g2 and iphone 5, which one would you choose and why? Greetings
Well, there is one thing that I hate a lot about android, the garbage of apps that you can find, that is, I do not generalize but I had an android before the iphone and the only way to find good games was with google, in ios it seems better organized but it's my opinion
Well, as an Android user, what I envy about iOS (which I already had with an iPad) is the App Store, Google Play lacks a lot to have the quality of AS
IOS more optimization what ANDROID?
** COF ** iOS7 ** COF **
I only envy, the file manager and removable memory, but it disgusts me how slow the photos load in the android galleries, when ios does not need to load anything, and especially when you put photos of higher quality, I don't know why ios does not put in your camera a timer
I think the most important is the haptic feedback from the keyboards on android. Feeling the phone vibrate every time you press a letter is much better than just hearing a sound when you do it
I nothing, ios is perfect that way I bought a nexus 5 and ended up selling and buying an iphone since android is not my thing.
Today this post has become obsolete with WWWDC14. Now we officially don't owe Android anything.
5 things iOS users envy about Android? What a joke.
I envy the lag, the force shutdown, the malware, the deoptimization, the app store full of garbage, the fantastic Android updates ...
I just bought an iphone 6 with an LG G2 and I am already selling the iphone, a closed and simple system, I wanted to give the iphone a chance, but it is not worth it, many of those who use the iphone will be users who are satisfied with something that apple imposes on you, it's like buying a house and you can't reform or decorate it, that's for me the iphone Sorry IOS faNS, from my point of view I go back to my LG G2 that I have also compared the camera and the LG 2 takes better photos, checked. Written from a macbook pro so that they see that I am not against apple, if not its miserable IOS system that is sad, when will be the day that IOS evolves and listens to users, and does not limit you to what they are willingly in a closed system. bye bye.
Well I was about to buy an android device and the truth is that I regretted it because the
Phone was constantly restarting and that made me very frustrated that is the bad thing about android devices instability
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