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Re:Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92% by vfrogger on Monday July 13, 2015 @11:09AM (#9878562)
I don't understand why people say that IOS is more usable than android. Android phones tend to have a much better "phone" usability in my mind. For instance, I can go to my recent calls on an android device and just swipe to the right to send a text to someone. In IOS, I have to click the i icon to go to that contact, click send a message, then click the phone number. Or the built on "swype" keyboard on my old note 2 is much better than the default apple keyboard on my current i6+. Really, the only thing that I would call noticeably better on my iphone over my note 2 is the camera functionality.
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Re:Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92% by superuser2 on Monday July 13, 2015 @12:40PM (#9879201)
I got a nexus 6 last night-simple things like pinch to zoom and animations tend to stutter, tapping small touch targets in chrome is very hard (iOS has a nice assist there), Firefox freaks out and fails to render HN with nontrivial frequency, etc. Android does seem to support more customization but iOS but iOS's existing features actually work.
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Re:Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92% by JohnTHaller on Monday July 13, 2015 @02:56PM (#9880204)
I have none of these issues on my Nexus 6. Firefox on Android is rather buggy, but that's not the fault of the OS. A real Firefox on iOS doesn't exist and likely never will other than the Firefox-ish browser they're working on that will be stuck using Mobile Safari for rendering.
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Re:Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92% by Maro on Monday July 13, 2015 @02:50PM (#9880148)
I had a Nexus 6 for about 6 months, it's pretty terrible, as you describe. I just bought an LG G4, it's great. No lag, it just works.
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Re:Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92% by roymurdock on Monday July 13, 2015 @11:19AM (#9878635)
Not arguing that one is more usable than the other (although I have an iPhone so I suppose that is a tacit argument), just stating a general opinion.
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