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That's not true though. http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
Fixed that for you, 1/3 of android devices are still trapped <= 2.3
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> On the other hand I think Android is a just a confusing mess to use, and I say this as someone who is fairly familiar with its innards and has been hired to write Android firmware code. That's funny, because my grandma uses Android just fine, even though she had never touched a computer in her life before using Android. Being "familiar with its innards" and having written Android firmware doesn't give you very good…
Did she set it up herself?
0: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metamoji.m...
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Have you used Android? It's really not that annoying. It's actually one of the best things Android has over iPhones right now.
I have a Nexus 4. Had a Nexus S. I find it irritating, in a papercut kind of way.
The alternative is iPhone style, where you copy-and-paste things from app-to-app...
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Did she set it up herself?
There was nothing to "set up", she created a Google account and that was about it. The biggest difficulty she had was learning to type with a QWERTY keyboard, since she had never used a typewriter or computer before. So she instead uses the mazec2 Handwriting Recognition keyboard[0] with a stylus. That's something you definitely could have never done on Apple's locked-down platform. 0: https://play.google.com/store/a…
I'm trying to think back to when I set up my dad's phone and my own phone. Certainly wasn't 1. Create Google account 2. Done.
I don't think Apple did it any better though. It all sucks in different ways.
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There was nothing to "set up", she created a Google account and that was about it. The biggest difficulty she had was learning to type with a QWERTY keyboard, since she had never used a typewriter or computer before. So she instead uses the mazec2 Handwriting Recognition keyboard[0] with a stylus. That's something you definitely could have never done on Apple's locked-down platform. 0: https://play.google.com/store/a…
Wireless? Rejecting/accepting Google Now? Non-gmail email accounts? I'm trying to think back to when I set up my dad's phone and my own phone. Certainly wasn't 1. Create Google account 2. Done. I don't think Apple did it any better though. It all sucks in different ways.
I probably entered this while she was at my house, but she had no problems setting it up after going home.
> Rejecting/accepting Google Now?
Never came up.
> Non-gmail email accounts?
As someone who had never used a computer before, this obviously wasn't an issue either.
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I think Linux stood a real chance with the introduction of Ubuntu a long time ago. Graphical package management was enormous, coupled with Gnome and a very simple installation. But stagnation came very quickly. That distribution is 10 years old and all the changes to it only added more fluff, more bulk, annoying notifications, uglier windows, sprites and mini icons all over the place. It looks the exact same except w…
> I think Linux stood a real chance with the introduction of Ubuntu a long time ago. Graphical package management was enormous, coupled with Gnome and a very simple installation. From that perspective Ubuntu didn't add much to Debian, or existing variants like Knoppix. > The problem wasn't lack of consistency or choice. It was like going from Windows 7 to Windows 8. Now I can only see myself using Linux as a stepping…