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To: Swordmaker

My, someone is mighty touchy when anything pro-< not apple > is discussed! Almost jihadic in the defense of Cupertino...

So, in the interest of your “balance” - what does Android do right? Anything? Where does it beat iOS?


185 posted on 09/07/2016 7:52:34 AM PDT by Shanghai Dan (I ride a GS scooter with my hair cut neat...)
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To: Shanghai Dan
So, in the interest of your “balance” - what does Android do right? Anything? Where does it beat iOS?

The only area I will cede superiority to Android is in personalization of the home screen, where it does shine a bit. I don't count that for much, because it makes it more difficult for one to share one's phone with others. On an iPhone, it is far more intuitive for anyone to use, because the interface remains the same, regardless of who is using it. The OS home screen is merely a launch platform and is not of much importance. It should do its job and just stay out of the way except when needed.

Consistency of operation should be more important than individualization.

Windows finally put down its collective foot and followed Apple's example to require its developers to maintain a standard on drop down menuing and even the location of the position of certain standard commands. Before that, every developer was free to use his own ideas of what the proper location for everything was.

Then Microsoft itself threw its own standards out the window when it made major changes in where normal commands were located in such important applications as Word, Excel, etc. This threw power users to the wolves. That should never happen for no good improvement in productivity, but that's what they did.

In Android, that problem still holds. There are no standards for applications.

186 posted on 09/07/2016 10:23:32 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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