An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4 • Hacker News Board

Re: An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

#331

Post by drucken » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 1:29 PM UTC

sixothree wrote: post #233

obituary_latte wrote: post #51

What are people's experience dealing with the migration of music from iOS to android? As an iOS user with an itch to checkout android again (had one of the first HTC "google phones"), this is one of my bigger concerns.

I love the nexus with one caveat. I absolutely miss iTunes and how well it integrates with the music player on the iPhone. I am using iSync on the Nexus 4 to sync to my iTunes. But it's not quite the same. And the nexus doesn't have star ratings, just thumbs up or down. I use star ratings to delete music from library. 1 star = delete.

iSyncr (http://www.jrtstudio.com/iSyncr)

Re: An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

#332

Post by cicero » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 1:46 PM UTC

Cor wrote: post #68

w0utert wrote: post #6

I agree with what the article says about sharing data between applications, this really is one of the biggest pain points of iOS right now. Fortunately, it looks like Apple will finally address this in the future, iOS 6 already has infrastructure in place to allow for remote view controllers that (in theory) should allow any application to register itself to handle certain data and events. Right now seems to be only…

"Oh and of course you can 'customize everything' and here you have 4 examples of the most ugly homescreens I have ever seen on a mobile phone." Agreed. I really don't like the look of most Android customisations. I think default Android is pretty gorgeous, though. My homescreen currently looks like this - http://i1.minus.com/iidfIgCTZsXEX.png The only thing I've added is the widget: everything else is stock. I'm very…

Very nice screen. I have an iPhone 4S, but I'm thinking of switching to a Nexus 4. I'm glad to see that it doesn't have to be ugly.

Re: An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

#333

Post by edtechdev » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 2:28 PM UTC

mitchty wrote: post #222

css771 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh I think it's very contestable. I use my Galaxy Nexus one handed all the time in many situations, including on public transport. Can iPhone users please stop saying that their device has the best ergonomics of all time as if the ratio came down from the heavens. I don't see how people can even think something like a perfect size exists suitable for every human being. To each their own.

A perfect size doesn't exist for every human being. But the average thumb travel for adult males is 4 inches. For adult women it is 3.8. The width directly impacts usability for over 50% of the human population. Get over 3.5 inches and you're having to fidget with the phone to go side to side while holding the phone. There are actual limits to width that have to be take into consideration. Just because you might have…

One day maybe Apple will invent a device for those few of us who have two hands

Re: An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

#334

Post by mattquiros » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 3:15 PM UTC

eunice wrote: post #189

mattquiros wrote: post #5

Been an Android user for a year (Galaxy Tab 8.9) and was going to get an iPhone 5 last Christmas just to try out a different device. I changed my mind and am getting a Nexus 4 instead. I was able to use one of our test iPhones at work for a primary phone and here are just 3 things I don't like about iOS: 1. Toggling settings can be difficult. In Android, you have a pull-up/pull-down menu right from the home screen wh…

Bluetooth is for your xbox controller, not sending files

Are you kidding me. My MacBook has Bluetooth. What is the iPhone's excuse?

Re: An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

#335

Post by ulyssesgrant » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 4:56 PM UTC

zaidf wrote: post #58

Apple is increasingly making me look stupid, something I couldn't imagine happening when the iPhone first came out. Few days ago I saw a friend of mine unlock her phone using facial recognition. I was amazed. She was surprised at my amazement. I feel lots of iPhone users have similar moments when they see their friends with android use "magical" looking features the iPhone is slow to adopt.

my friend was showing me his galaxy nexus with facial unlocking, so I pulled up his Facebook profile picture on my phone and unlocked it ;)

Re: An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

#336

Post by drivebyacct2 » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 6:56 PM UTC

shinratdr wrote: post #315

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Music has a web client that is just as functional as iTunes and doesn't require a 1GB download for every update. Further, Google Music also performs matching now. Nice completely inaccurate rant. Oh yeah, and Google Music matches at 320Kbps.

iTunes is actually 200mb+QuickTime if you're on Windows which is 80mb, and the Google Music web client is nowhere near as functional as iTunes. Next you'll try and tell me Google Docs is just as functional as Word. Nothing I said was inaccurate, except that apparently Google matches music now. I'm curious as to how they do that without ponying up to the labels, but whatever. I actually have a Google Music account tha…

Look, Google Music lets me listen to my music in the web interface without taking 6 hours to index my library, consuming tons of memory, locking out my MP3 player if I plug it into a different machine and doesn't require large client updates. It matches my music in higher quality than iTunes Match.

I'm sorry you live in Canada, and I'll concede that 25K>20K.

What the hell else do you want me to say? I'll still take a wireless sync and app install system every single day of the week over iTunes.

Re: An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

#337

Post by rdl » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 7:28 PM UTC

I still like my iPhone and iPad, but I could see moving to Android in 1-2 generations. Apple's first-party software quality is declining, and not being able to override it is grating and limiting improvements.

The two things which keep me from moving to Android are: 1) My ~$500 or so in purchased applications. Vendors should allow a one-time return of purchased apps on one platform to get them for the other, or just give both iOS and Android licenses for the same price if there's a way to prove the phone belongs to the same human. Admittedly 99% of what I really care about is free or 2) Lack of hardware platform security features on most Android devices (semi-supported on the S3, apparently, but I'd only ever buy a Nexus device). If Google developed a Nexus 4+, 7+, 10+ with apple or blackberry level hw security, I'd probably switch, particularly if there were a way for an enterprise to essentially replicate the Google Apps management of devices with a simple self-hosted server (i.e. root of trust being enterprise, vs. Google or Apple).

Re: An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

#338

Post by inklesspen » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 7:47 PM UTC

parfe wrote: post #252

bhaile wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only if the MMS is from a Sprint customer. "Google Voice users are now able to receive pictures and other multimedia messages from Sprint subscribers." When I get MMS from AT&T or Verizon, then I don't get anything but from Sprint customers, I get the notification and its in my gmail account right away. Probably due to the integration with Sprint and Google Voice. http://www.google.com/googlevoice/sprint/ .

I've received MMS from a MetroPCS user. I can't find an updated list of providers that google voice supports. The blog post announcing sprint mms support was in October 2011.

MetroPCS uses the Sprint network.

Re: An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

#339

Post by nicholassmith » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 9:26 PM UTC

masklinn wrote: post #288

nicholassmith wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly it seems like Apple is doing something with remote view controllers with their 12 Days of Christmas app, which could imply they're trying to test it as much as possible in a live context.

Oh? Do you have more info on that?

Unfortunately not, I'll do some digging on it tomorrow when I have time.

Re: An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

#340

Post by slykat » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 10:03 PM UTC

shardling wrote: post #259

slykat wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've switched between the two platforms a bit - I had an iphone 3G, a few android phones, and switched back to iOS with iPhone 5. I really like Android but there were a few deal killers: 1) Battery life - pretty much the reason I switched back to iPhone. It doesn't matter how great the software is - if I can't turn on the phone it's useless. I don't know how many times I would be racing to meet friends at night, hopi…

>And it still somewhat applies to Nexus phones - the Verizon Galaxy Nexus is 3 OS updates behind due to Verizon's approval process. It really is fairly straightforward to unlock the bootloader and update the ROM yourself, though. It would certainly be nicer if you didn't have to, but it's definitely an advantage of the Nexus devices that there's always good community support for this. It also lets me use 4G wireless…

Its probably not that straightforward for the non-techie crowd; at the end of the day these devices are built for the general population and not just hackers.

And to go on that reasoning, it should be just as easy to jailbreak an iPhone to allow tethering as well.

Regardless, my point was not that iPhones have a better feature set than Android (this isn't the case) but rather to outline a few deal breakers that made me migrate back to iOS.