Has anyone tried pairing a Bluetooth keyboard and pressing Ctrl-Z? I seem to recall this working in the emulator.
I tried Android, but couldn't switch. Did you know you can't undo text edits?
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Re: I tried Android, but couldn't switch. Did you know you can't undo text edits?
#32In other words : An Apple fanboy is being a total compainypants about Android because he doesn't want to accept that it's actually a pretty good phone.
It isn't just him. I do miss undo still. I also still hate the soft buttons - I've hit "back" with my palm and lost what I was doing too many times. I like a lot of things about android, but small things really matter.
Hey, who doesn't? That's a very valid point. Too bad it's muddled in with other fan-boyish comments that greatly detract from the post's legitimacy. Is this a blog post about adding undo to Android, or nit-picking about things that aren't even issues?
And I quote from the article:
> Here's the thing: Typing a password to unlock your phone every time you want to use it is annoying. The root theme of this blogpost is smartphones ideally not wasting one's time, but by typing a password every single time you want to access your phone you're sure wasting a lot of it!
That's why Android phones let you customize a time-out before you have to type the password in to unlock the phone (e.g. when you type your password in, you can set it so you don't have to enter it again for the next X minutes automatically)... So I'm going to agree with the original comment and conclude that this is another case of misrepresenting 'facts'.
Also, regarding point #5 and the inability for him to use his Apple earphones with his Android phone, he clearly hasn't heard of standard TRRS connectors. At minimum, I find the author's titling of this section "External Hardware Incompatibility" - in an article comparing Apple products to others, no less - to be quite humorous. Or maybe this was intended as satire...?
Re: I tried Android, but couldn't switch. Did you know you can't undo text edits?
#33In other words : An Apple fanboy is being a total compainypants about Android because he doesn't want to accept that it's actually a pretty good phone.
I disagree. Any time someone switches platforms, they will undoubtedly be more prone to identify quirks and missing features in the new platform than everyday users. If companies (be it Apple or Google) want users to switch to their platform from their competitors, it's critical for them to maintain feature-parity and push the boundaries on their strengths. Case in point: Apple adding notifications and copy&paste to…
> I disagree. Any time someone switches platforms, they will undoubtedly be more prone to identify quirks and missing features in the new platform than everyday users.
Exactly, and this goes both ways. I switched to iPhone a little over a year ago (because apps) and the new car smell lasted about a day before I was annoyed by quirks like lack of a swipe-keyboard, inability to get a piece of information from one app into another app, and bad app switching. I returned it after about a week of frustration.
Re: I tried Android, but couldn't switch. Did you know you can't undo text edits?
#34In other words : An Apple fanboy is being a total compainypants about Android because he doesn't want to accept that it's actually a pretty good phone.
Using words like 'fanboy' is playing the man, not the ball. There's plenty of things to pick apart in there (from someone who's a dedicated user of iOS), but just labelling it as fanboyism isn't an effective way to argue against it.
Re: I tried Android, but couldn't switch. Did you know you can't undo text edits?
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree. Any time someone switches platforms, they will undoubtedly be more prone to identify quirks and missing features in the new platform than everyday users. If companies (be it Apple or Google) want users to switch to their platform from their competitors, it's critical for them to maintain feature-parity and push the boundaries on their strengths. Case in point: Apple adding notifications and copy&paste to…
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Re: I tried Android, but couldn't switch. Did you know you can't undo text edits?
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
It isn't just him. I do miss undo still. I also still hate the soft buttons - I've hit "back" with my palm and lost what I was doing too many times. I like a lot of things about android, but small things really matter.
Hey, who doesn't? That's a very valid point. Too bad it's muddled in with other fan-boyish comments that greatly detract from the post's legitimacy. Is this a blog post about adding undo to Android, or nit-picking about things that aren't even issues? And I quote from the article: > Here's the thing: Typing a password to unlock your phone every time you want to use it is annoying. The root theme of this blogpost is s…
Yeah, that's a common feature. iPhone has it as well.
I'd like to point out that in my next to last paragraph, I state that I want to use Android. I'm not some Apple "fanboy". I believe that setting the disk encryption password separately from the device's is a valid request and the fact that an App has existed for it since Android v3.0 validates that. If you want more of a reason to do so, read this: http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/2012/08/changing-androids-disk-...
Re: I tried Android, but couldn't switch. Did you know you can't undo text edits?
#37"While nearly all of our consumer audio devices share the 3.5mm headphone jack (and have since before I was born), my Apple “earpods” don't function properly with Android phones!"
Welcome to Apple world, where everything interesting is patented so it works only with your iPhone.
"Even my Mac computer can accept remote commands from and utilize the microphone of these (for audio/video calls)."
Guess who makes Macs? Apple.
Re: I tried Android, but couldn't switch. Did you know you can't undo text edits?
#38Backup is big one and as a long-term Android user I find it unforgivable that this isn't implemented in a system-wide way. Text undo - now you mention it, that would be nice to have. I can't say I've ever cursed it's absence though. He's just wrong on the camera focus. Just tried it. I don't use disk encryption although what he says seems to make sense. I wouldn't call it a deal-breaker though. Finally - regarding ha…
Video camera focus, not the photo camera. :)
Re: I tried Android, but couldn't switch. Did you know you can't undo text edits?
#39Has anyone tried pairing a Bluetooth keyboard and pressing Ctrl-Z? I seem to recall this working in the emulator.
I believe this does work.
Re: I tried Android, but couldn't switch. Did you know you can't undo text edits?
#40After a year of using Samsung Galaxy S 2, I realized that the most common reason that my phone shuts down (i.e. crashes) and restarts is copying to clipboard. After 20 clipboard uses, it just crashes, and Samsung, the biggest and richest Android vendor has refused to fix this issue for almost 2 years!