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Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by kitsunesoba »

jsheard wrote: post #10
AndroTux wrote: post #7

Wow, they even managed to simulate the choppy animations!

IME Android phones tend to feel smoother nowadays thanks to 120hz displays becoming widespread even in the midrange. Apple has 120hz on their Pro models but if you drop just one notch down from that $1000+ flagship then you're immediately back at 60hz.

True of flagships, but even some low-midrange Android devices struggle to animate at even 60hz without frame drops. My late 2022 Android test device tablet that had an MSRP of about $300 when I bought it is like this, while an entry level iPad from 4 years ago running the latest iPadOS has no such problems.

I haven’t actually sat down and compared specs but I’m guessing this happens because Android devices tend to skimp hard on their GPUs at midrange and below.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by Yizahi »

elboru wrote: post #63
olliecornelia wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious about the "seriously subpar hardware" claim. What are you referring to specifically?

Yeah, I don’t get it, I used to be an android user since the first Galaxy S up until the Galaxy S7, I’m really sensitive to slow devices, so as soon as my androids got a little slow (usually after a big update) I switched to the new shiny one. Then I got tired of buying flashy and expensive phones that lasted 2.5 years so I give the iPhone X a try. It’s 2023 and I still use the same phone I still get updates and what…

My iPhone 4S and iPad 2 were destroyed in performance after update from iOS6 to iOS7 (and helpfully without possibility of downgrade, thanks Apple), plus a lot of apps were deprecated in that update due to some API changes or whatever. That's just adding more data points to the legend of "perfect updates on the iPhones".

My Samsung phone is 3 years old, it got 3 major updates over these years, and last update was 29/03/2023, a little more than a month ago. It also didn't slow a bit over time.

People making a cult out of some common industry standards are tiring really. Sure, Apple lead the way with those standards (and destroyed some when it was profitable for them too), but that happened ages ago. You might as well remember some Android phones from 10 years ago and compare them to iPhone 14.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by boterock »

TetOn wrote: post #61
Toutouxc wrote: post #57

IMO it's fine. I had a Galaxy S9 a few years ago for two weeks (had to return it because of hardware issues) and it felt nice to use, smooth and modern. I've used many kinds of phones in my life, dumb phones, Symbian, Windows on PDAs and smartphones, Android from 1.6 up until now, and even though I'm firmly team Apple at this moment, I have to say that not having a dedicated "back" button or gesture and only occasion…

Swiping left to right from the leftmost edge of the phone onto the screen will execute the "back" function with or without the presence of a "back" arrow at the top-left corner.

but now they added this task switcher to iPad which also appears when dragging from the left edge, and now going back is like rolling a dice. you don't know how how to go back without triggering the task switcher so it ends up taking multiple attempts to go back without the OS consuming the input

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by Uehreka »

redbell wrote: post #71

This is a piece of art! Since this is -I guess- a project made for fun, it would nice to open source it, so we can learn from it. Maybe then, we can make the opposite project, TryiOS.com

I’m pretty sure this is an ad for Samsung phones, not a project made for fun. It also isn’t as deep as it first appears. This isn’t “Samsung’s Android compiled to wasm”, it’s “a web app that acts like Android until you click on the wrong thing whereupon it stops you from going too deep”. Like, most of the Settings screens aren’t even built out.
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