iOS

[bovine]

Alright, so I moved from an android phone over to ios. I felt a bit frustrated at the fragmentation between android devices (OS updates being a mystery if you weren't using a Nexus, some apps just not able to be installed on my device, apps being available only on iOS or their port to android taking an eternity, etc) so I jumped into an iPhone.

Now, the device itself is speedy and the camera is great, but it isn't really a huge jump from my shitty old galaxy s.

Apps and the OS hate eachother. On android, I could hit the menu button on something and it would give me a billion options to do something with it - post this picture on tumblr, send this link via text, post this video to Facebook, it seemed like once I installed a social app, it was immediately integrated into the greater OS. The only options I get with iOS is to email or post on twitter (Facebook coming soon). Tumblr, pinterest, and messaging are all ignored. I have to go into an app and navigate its own obtuse posting method. It feels old coming from gingerbread.

I will leave this for now and post my feelings about iCloud and iTunes when I get home from work.

[Shrinweck]

Man.

FUCK.

iTunes.

I hate that it's still the best thing for what I need, though. Access to the hundreds of dollars worth of music that I bought in the past is a great feature, though... there's a couple albums that I thought I'd never hear again without buying the album again before this feature was implemented.

It doesn't change the fact that the program is slow as hell/non-responsive. I always thought it was because I was on a PC until I saw it run just as awkwardly on a Mac. Ugh.

[Oracle]

I have a Samsung Note for my personal phone, love it.

I have an iPhone 4GS and iPad2 64GB at work... I hate both devices and use them rarely (except the iPhone I use for e-mail often, because I have to).

That is all.

[bovine]

iCloud seems like a great concept, but it only works within the greater Apple ecosystem. Since I don't use their specific programs, a lot of this functionality is lost to me. I can't just plug my account into my phone and make all my contacts fly over there. I had to do a bit of a workaround to get my android contacts on there. It eventually worked out well enough (with a lot of information being sent over a couple times and creating a lot of redundant contacts) in the end with a bit of editing. I hear that moving from iphone to android is a bit easier, since you can even move over your text message history because of how relatively open android is. I haven't done that, so I can't personally attest to its ease or even if it is actually possible.... but you cannot move your texts from android to iphone.

iTunes, as Shwek noted, is just about as awful as you can imagine. The program itself wants to scan my music library everytime it boots up for the first time everyday. This is painful and idiotic. It doesn't automatically scan in new music, so scanning music that I already manually put in the library seems wholly unnecessary. Making playlists with it is fine, but I just wish it played a bit better with WMP so that I could more pleasantly run playlists through my 360.

Syncing with the iphone is a bit silly. The way it puts apps back on my phone that I had deleted, and a bizarre way it acts when you delete a song from your phone and then will never re-add the song when you tell it to afterwards..... it definitely behaves inappropriately at times.

In the end, I don't really understand how people think that this sort of thing is "easy" in any way. Navigating the settings in an iphone is an insane labyrinth. Some apps' settings are changed in there, but others are changed inside the app itself. This seems like something that should be universal either way.

Also there is an app folder called the "newstand" where I am expected to want to subscribe to some periodicals. If I do not fall into this, I still cannot get rid of this folder. It just sits there being empty. It is kind of annoying and nitpicky, but I don't like that thing just sitting there taking up my screen real estate. The apps you cannot delete feel a lot like the shitty proprietary ones put on the galaxy s by samsung. I did not use them and they were not as good as other available apps. The only saving grace for android was that I could bury these apps outside of the home screen. No such option is available for me in iOS.

So anyways, iOS 6 seems like it is just trying to catch up to android. The only real benefit I am feeling from my move to the iphone is the breadth of apps available to me. Oh! Also, I really like the music player. I found the google music app on my samsung to be just as good, but it was WAY too slow (that may have just been due to my ancient phone, but I cannot say for certain).

Anyways, those are my thoughts on iOS.

[Shrinweck]

After you spend hours fiddling with settings, it's easy! Kind of true, actually... Although most of the settings for me tend to be "Stop doing things automatically, fucker!" Otherwise it's just a hassle. Nothing beats the time when iPods had first come out and I stupidly (I was a teenager) deleted some of my music library from my computer once it was on my iPod. Then my iPod decided to 'automatically' delete everything on it the next time it synced with my computer. Good times.

Some day I'll find something that can house my MP3 collection better than iTunes and a MP3 player whose software is as easy to use as an iPod and I'll just use iTunes for podcasts. Some day...

[SineSwiper]

Still love my Evo. Still use LegalSounds for my music. Fuck Apple.

[Oracle]

Fuck Apple.

Sigh... I have to agree with Sine.

I need a shower.

(j/k man )

[Flip]

This is worth a read and sort of related.

http://parislemon.com/post/15604811641/ ... te-android