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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
iOS is not severely outdated - it's a really good OS.
Springboard, the iOS launcher and shell/windows manager, is terribly outdated - it really is the Windows 3.0 Program Manager re-incarnated, and I can't stand it.
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I hate the fact you underlined those, making me think they were links.
Maybe outdated was the wrong word... but Apple is playing catch up to Android in the past year+ not the one innovating things. That's the opposite of what they were doing vs Blackberry years ago.
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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
What you're complaining about is something that is realistically the easiest thing in the world they could possibly fix. A new skin for menus? Shut my mouth, wonder how they'll ever manage to crack THAT one....
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Hopefully they do.
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I say this as someone who had a Galaxy S3 very briefly... Android is nowhere near as smooth, simple, functional, or pleasant to use as iOS. Ultimately, it's just a phone. Using an iPhone requires infinitely less effort than my S3, and honestly, widgets weren't that impressive. They cluttered everything up, and I still have no idea how one is actually supposed to manage apps on those things.
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Well, "very briefly" sums it up doesn't it.
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Add to that syncing music, podcasts etc from a mac to an iPhone is infinitely simpler than trying to figure out which app to use and drag and drop an entire iTunes library... I just want it in my hand, I could give a damn if I'm being lazy about it.
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Well, I think the opposite. iTunes is a bulky annoying program to use. I eliminate a step just putting media directly on my phone. Not putting them on iTunes, then my phone.
Trying to figure out what App to use?
Gee, I wonder if someone will ever crack that one. Podcasts are buried in iOS, supposed to be fixed in 6 but we'll see what happens there.
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I usually hate getting into these discussions as it's basically the heroin of internet interactions, but come on. If there's a demand for them to tweak their skins, they'll do it. But speaking from my own experience, the overall dark feel of most the messaging and settings apps in Android is far less rewarding than the brighter iOS
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The dark feel? If only there was some way to change that.