I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS • Hacker News Board

Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS

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Post by hobarrera » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 1:08 PM UTC

kuschku wrote: post #495

ThatPlayer wrote: post #208

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>one company provides the hardware Nexus devices have a variety of manufacturers. The current 9 is made by HTC, the 5X by LG, and the 6P by Huawei >one company provides the software Nexus devices all come with unlockable bootloaders that allow you to flash custom Android ROMs such as Cyanogenmod. Past that, other operating systems such as Firefox OS and Ubuntu Touch could be flashed on Nexus phones such as the Nexus…

As an android developer: You have realized that from Android M on you can’t rely on getting notifications on Android anymore unless they go through Google? Any application running in background – unless it is from Google – can be killed at any moment to save battery. In Android M, when the device hasn’t been used or moved for half an hour this "Doze" mode activates, usually during the night. In Android N, it activate…

> You have realized that from Android M on you can’t rely on getting notifications on Android anymore unless they go through Google?

I find it extremely annoying that android devs assume this, because apps fail to install/work when one doesn't have google play services installed.

Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS

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Post by hobarrera » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 1:16 PM UTC

jseliger wrote: post #111

itp wrote: post #7

Wow. I'm a long time Android user and probably pay more attention than most, and I had no idea web apps had gotten quite this nice. Currently the only web app / web shortcut I have installed is the HackerWeb app[0], which is nice but clearly not taking advantage of all of the functionality it could. I "installed" Flipkart Lite and the Voice Memos demo app to see the state of the world. Clearly it's possible to build…

Actually, let me piggyback on your comment and ask a usability question: Has anyone written an OS X app to make OS X play nicely with Android phones by syncing contacts, emails, calendars, and audio? I ask because Apple did something supremely annoying with an iTunes, OS X, or iOS update a while ago: Contacts and calendars no longer sync directly from OS X to iPhones and vice versa. This is monumentally annoying. iPh…

> Has anyone written an OS X app to make OS X play nicely with Android phones by syncing contacts, emails, calendars, and audio?

I'm not an OSX user, but AFAIK, it supports CardDAV, IMAP and CalDav. That should allow you to sync with ANY phone.

Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS

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Post by odbol_ » Wed, Mar 30, 2016, 8:25 PM UTC

megablast wrote: post #353

odbol_ wrote: post #333

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> fragmented applications and processes that dont work side-by-side with eachother Are you joking? I just tried to email some screenshots to myself from my iPhone. Couldn't do it. It only let me send one image at a time. There was literally no way to make multiple attachments, and if you are trying to attach something that's not in Camera roll, good luck! (I only went the email route because its 2016 and I still can'…

You can select about 5 images and email them all at once. You can also connect your device to your computer and download the images directly. You can also share images over airdrop via bluetooth.

Discounting the fact that Airdrop only works on Macs (sending to a Windows machine or an Android phone doesn't work, even though those devices both support Bluetooth file transfers), I've never even been able to get Airdrop to work on my Mac.

As for emailing files: that's all fine if your images are in the Camera roll. But try emailing and image and a PDF together, or an image from a different app.

Re: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS

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Post by johnchristopher » Sat, Apr 02, 2016, 6:59 PM UTC

Swizec wrote: post #102

stcredzero wrote: post #97

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What you're saying is that you left the freedom of your device to jail yourself into simple interface...? Actually, this is a pattern that many products follow, as they evolve from a newly tinkered thing pioneered by enthusiasts to a mature consumer device. There is much more "freedom" in 80's and 90's audio equipment. (And markedly higher build quality. Bargain stuff I bought as a teenager is now lauded on ebay as t…

> Cars also followed this pattern, come to think of it. I remember my dad complaining all through my youth about how the more modern that cars get, the less serviceable you are. That in new cars you need special computers just to tell them that yes, you did fix the problem and the car can stop complaining now. 10 years later ... man, if I have to even think about opening the bonnet and poking at something, I assume t…

May I suggest this book http://www.matthewbcrawford.com/new-page-1-1-2/ ? It deals with that topic but the outlook is quite different.