iOS for a weekend

[nickdalzell]

Actually, Material Design wouldn't be that bad if Google didn't keep burying useful functions behind gestures and me triggering the wrong gesture by mistake!

I like to try new things. sometimes they stick, other times they do not. When Play Music kept running long after i quit the app and once again chewed through my data plan, i started to get reminded exactly why i stopped using their apps in the first place. That being said, if they can ditch the action overflow and respect the menu button again, and ditch the gestures, find some way to make Google Now do more than it does, offer a way to use a different TTS voice, and find a way to get back a card you swipe by mistake, Material Design is nice. At least it isn't a crap flat design!

 

[funkylogik]

Lmao ^^^ legend!!

 

[nickdalzell]

Well you keep your hipster interface. i'll stick to something that has worked fine for 4 years and didn't need to change for the sake of change.

Seriously why should i have to use some UI that frustrates me when what i had before works fine? since when is Android a fashion trend? I'd be happy to use what i want as i see fit and not be made fun of for it.

 

[funkylogik]

leave my glasses out of this, young man

 

[nickdalzell]

Besides, Google Apps do far less than Samsung's. i want more features, not less. Nexus is looking more and more like Apple.

Who said anything about glasses?

 

[funkylogik]

PS are you talking about eclair?

 

[nickdalzell]

Hell no! i'm taking about TouchWiz Nature UX!!! The Galaxy SIII and Tab 2 10.1 came out in 2012. it's 2015. ok, three years.

I wouldn't touch Eclair with a 40 foot pole. that Coby Kyros is still alive. what a nightmare intro to Android that turned out to be.

 

[funkylogik]

Lmao so who the hell is coby kyros?? Mate

 

[nickdalzell]

My first Android tablet. Coby Kyros MID7015. 256MB RAM, 4GB internal storage, resistive touch screen, Android 2.1, Stylus...

 

[funkylogik]

Mmm she sounds like a real doozy

 

[nickdalzell]

 

[funkylogik]

Phwoa!!

 

[EarlyMon]

My first Android tablet. Coby Kyros MID7015. 256MB RAM, 4GB internal storage, resistive touch screen, Android 2.1, Stylus...

Resistive stylus touch pads, from when volcanoes were everywhere and boy bands roamed the Earth!

Honestly, I was going to mention one in another thread and stopped, sure that no one would remember the days when they ruled our tablet forum.

Well played, sir!

 

[nickdalzell]

More like back when the BlackBerry Playbook and HP TouchPad were still relevant.

2009 feels so long ago. To this day i have the Galaxy SII startup sound burned in my memory---from the many i used to hear rebooting themselves in people's pockets. Heck, since the SII is still common here, i still hear it.

 

[funkylogik]

Oi I can see a bb playbook from where I'm sat right now! (and I think itl sit there, gathering dust, until the end of time....)

 

[nickdalzell]

That brick of a tablet cost me $149. if i were smarter then, i'd have been able to get a nice Samsung tablet for that price. About the only thing it was good for was the folio case packaged with it, which fit the Kindle Fire like a glove.

 

[funkylogik]

You bought a kindle tab??

 

[nickdalzell]

Long ago. to replace the Kyros. and to get faster updates to Pinball Arcade, which had zero development for iPad and Xbox at the time. Late 2010 i think.

 

[funkylogik]

Smh

 

[mikedt]

I see they still come with things that are banned in this country.

Iphone 6+, 16GB, yours for only 6088 yuan CNY.

Anyone want Android without Google? We got plenty of them. LOL

 

[mikedt]

How did it compare to the fake iPad?

Was it like a Chevy Nova vs a Lotus racer?

Looks like a Lotus, but has the engine and transmission of a Trabant.

 

[EarlyMon]

Looks like a Lotus, but has the engine and transmission of a Trabant.

One day, Little Pwnies will sing shoo-be-doop and on that day, I'll share how remarkably hilarious that comment truly is -

The limousine version of course.

 

[funkylogik]

Yoo guize

 

[nickdalzell]

I already got Android without Google. got the de-googling procedure down pat and all my Samsungs have none of their bloat. someting about TouchWiz and Google don't play nice together. Preferred Samsung's own offerings better than Google's for over a year now.

 

[AZgl1500]

Well you keep your hipster interface. i'll stick to something that has worked fine for 4 years and didn't need to change for the sake of change.

Seriously why should i have to use some UI that frustrates me when what i had before works fine? since when is Android a fashion trend? I'd be happy to use what i want as i see fit and not be made fun of for it.

PRECISELY and bravo for saying this.

I'm on Verizon and after having read more than 100 problems cropping up with 5.0 and no really good solutions to them.... I have frozen my Galaxy S5 with 4.4.4 because it works well, I like the UI, and when I mention this in a lot of posts on another forum, I get ridiculed for being a "naysayer?"

honestly , some rich kids have access to money and don't even know where it came from. Risking bricking a phone is not in my senior budget, and a diabetic coma prone wife means it must call 911 when needed. If it is bricked, and my budget can't replace it.... then what?