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Google Now is the one feature that will determine whether I switch from iPhone to Android in the next 6 months. If Apple doesn't come up with something comparable in that time frame, they will lose a customer.
I have one wish: that the iOS programmers at Apple learn how to write efficient concurrent code and that they stop leaning on the next, faster, generation processor so hard that any phone that is just one generation older than the leatest and greatest becomes slow as shit. My iPhone used to be fast. Most things used to be snappy. Now it is slow as shit. From the address book lookups (which I have timed to usually clo…
Sorry but what ? Apple has one of the best concurrency implementations on ANY platform. GCD is superbly designed and combined with blocks makes concurrency trivial.
The biggest problem is that developers often try and over optimise.
> which I have timed to usually clock in at 8-9 seconds, but which can take as long as 20 seconds
This is definitely not normal.
> iOS software is fucking slow.
No. It really isn't.
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Sorry. Have you see the source code of any part of the iOS system? No I don't think you have. Give me some reference to somewhere that the UI thread hangs. Not blocking the UI is taught to everyone who writes apps for the app store, so my assumption is that the guys who wrote the app store code know a little better than we do.
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Here's a thought for you. How about using another podcast app ?
>Let us do what we want. Pretty much everyone I know who has ditched iOS has done so because of this reason. Seems to me like the author is just a bit behind and finally caught on. I love the Apple hardware, dislike the closed options I get on iOS.
This is what happens when you market a phone as something that "just works". It's great that iOS is able to be used by kindergarten-level children, but at the same time, it's not. My next phone is going to be Android-based, because I believe that I can handle using mobile devices expecting users to be able to think critically.
And this type of attitude is why the general public think developers are assholes.
Yet the problem with your phone doing all of this location-aware intelligence is that you wind up with the dead-battery he started his article out with. Whenever I read articles like this one I'm left wondering whether my life is distinctly different from most. I generally have a pretty good idea about my calendar - where I'll be going that day, and what restaurant I'll grab a bite to eat in if that's part of my agen…
> Yet the problem with your phone doing all of this location-aware intelligence is that you wind up with the dead-battery he started his article out with. Unlikely. The main culprits in high battery usage are the screen, the gps, and the radio when there's not very much signal. Google Now does not ever show up in my top-five battery users list.
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I was very skeptical of Google Now originally, and disabled it after a week on the Nexus S. It never gave any useful info, and indeed made it unlikely the battery would last the day. But with the Nexus 4 I left it on, and have been finding it useful regularly ever since. Zero-action directions and timetables for getting home after a night out. Directions to local places I've recently searched for on maps. The automat…
Three days of battery life on the Nexus 4? That sounds like a dream. Do you put it on airplane mode when you're not using it or something?
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An app itself doesn't use much battery unless it's doing something CPU intensive. Android reports the actual thing that was using the battery. For example, if I watch YouTube until my battery's dead, it won't say YouTube used the battery, it will say the screen did.
That is not actually true, because YouTube is quite CPU intensive. If you perform the experiment you just proposed, you will find YouTube has used a significant portion of the battery. But I see what you mean. You could also try this: if Google Now is waking your phone up any significant portion of the time, it'll show up in the list as a low percentage app. You can click on it to see how much time it's keeping the C…
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That is not actually true, because YouTube is quite CPU intensive. If you perform the experiment you just proposed, you will find YouTube has used a significant portion of the battery. But I see what you mean. You could also try this: if Google Now is waking your phone up any significant portion of the time, it'll show up in the list as a low percentage app. You can click on it to see how much time it's keeping the C…
Actually, Now's time goes under Maps- at least the location services, which are the big draw. I have all of the tracking enabled, and maps uses between 20 and 30% of my overall.
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Three days of battery life on the Nexus 4? That sounds like a dream. Do you put it on airplane mode when you're not using it or something?
No, it always has a WiFi or HSPA data connection, and I haven't disabled any of the usual suspects (e.g. syncing or location services). Of course the display is off most of the time, and that's the big battery hog. The screen is on maybe an average of half an hour a day.