I don’t know whether or not this type of app was actually intended to be the primary mechanism for 3rd party dev to build apps for iOS but regardless…
This was basically said by Steve Jobs and Scott Forstall during a WWDC keynote.
I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
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Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
#82I also just made the exact same switch, after years of wanting more control over my hardware without jailbreaking, I just want to install f.lux for crying out loud! As a web dev, i'm very excited to loose the chains of iOS :)
How did Android help you with f.lux? Apple just came out with a f.lux copy built into iOS, while none of the alternatives on Android work without rooting.
Night Shift only supports iPhone 5s(no 5 or 5c) and above(including the SE), iPad mini 2+, iPad Air 1+, iPad Pro and the 6th gen iPod touch.
Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
#83I also just made the exact same switch, after years of wanting more control over my hardware without jailbreaking, I just want to install f.lux for crying out loud! As a web dev, i'm very excited to loose the chains of iOS :)
How did Android help you with f.lux? Apple just came out with a f.lux copy built into iOS, while none of the alternatives on Android work without rooting.
I installed another program that does the same thing, without any need to root my Android.
Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
#84I did the opposite and can't believe how much better my life had gotten because my iPhone is just a simple tool that I use for communications and don't think about it as a project. With Android, I always wanted to tweak silly things and run Cyanogenmod because the handset firmware was always so bad and vulnerable. On several occasions I'd bricked my phone requiring hours of recovery, or had transient failures of cell…
These things that you mentioned, you didn't really have to do. Buy a nexus, and it's as clean as it gets. What you're saying is that you left the freedom of your device to jail yourself into simple interface...? I do agree though, that those samsung/lg/etc phone have lots crapwares + carrier crapwares.
I made a trade off, being a FreeBSD person I am one degree removed from a lot of the xnu/iOS team and trust them to do the right thing. Empirically it seems like they quickly ship updates for vulns and support phones for beyond their typical first world lifespan. I also trust Apple to worry about the baseband firmware for the lifespan, whereas that is completely unmaintained on all other handsets especially once you use a custom ROM.
Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
#85The fact apple has to take so many features from android speaks for itself.
Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
> implementing agreed upon standards Yeah, except most of your users' devices are still running 2+ year old software versions.
But unlike in iOS, the browser is a Play Store app which is updatable outside of major OS releases. So a two year old phone can run the latest version of Chrome. Why Apple still doesn't do this mystifies me.
You can install new browsers through the play store, but I do not recall the stock web browser being updatable back when I used Android. Can it be updated on Android 2.3/4.x and how much effort does that require?
As for browsers installed through the play store, how many users can reasonably be expected to install them and of them, how many would update them?
Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
#87I did the opposite and can't believe how much better my life had gotten because my iPhone is just a simple tool that I use for communications and don't think about it as a project. With Android, I always wanted to tweak silly things and run Cyanogenmod because the handset firmware was always so bad and vulnerable. On several occasions I'd bricked my phone requiring hours of recovery, or had transient failures of cell…
Did you click on the article? All your points, while valid in a vacuum, have nothing to do with the author's argument about the two platforms' approaches to web apps.
I appreciate and even agree with your view, but you might as well be talking about OS X versus Windows given the topic of the submitted post.
Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Apple is the laggard left behind citation needed
You learn to evaluate technologies working in a relevant sector or studying some information systems stuff. No citation needed IMHO. Would you demand citation if I tell you that 'mov ax, data' in assembler moves data to ax or look it up if you don't trust your own judgement at the moment?
They'd probably ask whether we're working with AT&T- or Intel-style syntax ;)
Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
#89I am always surprised when people say things like CHROME is bringing X API.
Take a look at these HTML5 Web APIs : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API
They have been here since sometime now! and Mozilla built a whole operating system around them which is has "Progressive Web Apps" in its core!
Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
#90> WebBluetooth (yup, talking to bluetooth devices from JS on a webpage) This sounds like a great new attack vector for the black hats of tommorrow. There are just some things that a web browser should not do. Exposing things that previously required escape from sandbox attacks is one of them.
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