Android Saturday APPreciation (Apr 10 2021) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread! |
- Saturday APPreciation (Apr 10 2021) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!
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- Leaving Apple and moving to Samsung - 1 month on
| Saturday APPreciation (Apr 10 2021) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread! Posted: 10 Apr 2021 05:00 AM PDT Note 1. Check out our apps wiki for previous threads and apps curated by the reddit Android community! Download the official /r/Android App Store based on our wiki! Note 2. Join us at /r/MoronicMondayAndroid, a sub serving as a repository for our retired weekly threads. Just pick any thread and Ctrl-F your way to wisdom! Note 2. Join our IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions. This weekly Saturday thread is for: Rules: 1) If you are a developer, you may promote your own app ONLY under the bolded, distinguished moderator comment. Users: if you think someone is trying to bypass this rule by promoting their app in the general thread, click the report button so we can take a look! [link] [comments] | ||
| Google is working on a fix for poor Netflix quality on Pixel phones caused by Widevine bug Posted: 10 Apr 2021 01:25 PM PDT
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| Asus Zenfone 8 Mini with 30W Fast Charging Gets Certified On TUV Posted: 10 Apr 2021 04:45 AM PDT
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| Custom ROM Descendant XI offers a fresh take on Android 11 with loads of unique features Posted: 10 Apr 2021 04:54 AM PDT
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| Leaving Apple and moving to Samsung - 1 month on Posted: 09 Apr 2021 11:05 AM PDT Firstly let me say I don't hate Apple. My first cell phone/mobile was the iPhone 3Gs back in '08. I had most of the new iPhone year on year after that. Recently I started to get bored with iOS. Everything was the same, it was clean but it was Apple's phone not mine. The things I wanted out of my phone I wasn't getting because it wasn't compatible with most things. Apple also became a victim of its own ease of use, getting a new phone never felt good. Everything transferred across in seconds and the feeling of having a new phone never lasted past opening the box - once you transferred your stuff across it was the same phone with all your dumb apps, pictures and notes but occasionally with a bigger screen. So I decided to make the change and I honestly don't regret it at all. First day or so was a little chaotic. Smart transfer took care of mostly everything, however there were teething problem as I had to get used to Android. However after a day or two this went away. Play with the settings, if you're missing a shortcut or some other function you had with Apple I guarantee you Android can replicate it, but you just need to look for it. Moving over to android my biggest consideration was the lack of iMessages, but realistically I now realise how ridiculous it was to be locked into a phone that I no longer found satisfying because of blue messages. If you're thinking about making the switch too and you're worried about this, trust me, you'll get over it quick. If you have a lot of money, and you can afford to buy every apple product possible by all means stick with Apple. The Apple ecosystem is great and everything works. However, if you have a windows PC the compatibility between the two was always lacking. Samsung's Ecosystem is just as good, if not better. You can install Samsung flow on any windows or Android device and bring all of your devices into one ecosystem, with Apple you can expect to pay thousands for the same functionality and have to deal with all the pitfalls, peculiarities and annoyances that iOS has to offer. Android phones work and functional like mini PCs - being able to do what I can on Android is a real productivity boost and it makes work, entertainment and file sharing across devices a whole lot less of a headache. Apple's OS is not curated, its closed. Its a marketing decision to make you buy more Apple products - don't believe me? Read Jobs' autobiography or watch the movie. It was a conscious decision to lock people in with end-to-end control and no cross compatibility. There are so many features with Samsung, so many ways for you customise your phone so it acts in exactly the way you want it to act, and does what you want it to. This isn't true of Apple. Apple's half-hearted attempt at introducing widgets are next to worthless, with Android widgets are amazing and incredibly functional. With the specs of the devices, Apple and Galaxy are pretty evenly matched, however Samsung usually has the edge over Apple - and always for a a few hundred $/£ less. Everything Apple can do Samsung does too, and in some cases it does it better. When I bought my S21 Ultra I got free Galaxy Buds and I recently bough a Galaxy Watch. I'm now fully immersed in everything Samsung and I don't miss Apple at all. Moral of the story is to not have blind loyalty to a brand and accept less than functionality because of it. If you're paying for something make sure it does what you want it to. Also, don't stay loyal to a brand because it has prettier emojis or blue messages - that's just dumb. Don't know if people will find this helpful or not but I watched a tonne of Apple to Android switch videos and read a lot of reddit posts before taking the plunge so I thought I'd put my 2 cents in too. Sincerely, A former AppleFanBoy/iSheep [link] [comments] |
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