My primary phone is an Android, and in a general sense I do like the device. Having established that, there are major problems with Android. First, its interface isn't responsive. Even with the fastest quad core processors, Android just isn't nearly as responsive as either IOS or WP. The device isn't slow, as pure benchmarks prove, but interacting with the system and apps is nowhere near as fluid. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to interact with a UI element only to have it change a faction of a second before my finger touches the screen, resulting in it doing something I didn't want. My experience with IOS and WP, even on far less capable devices, has been far superior in this regard.
Updates for any device not running pure Android are a disaster. I'm forced to choose to either run a custom/3rd party image (which I don't want to mess with), or wait months, or longer, for updates to functional and security issues--if I get them at all. Is it the fault of Android? Yes and no. Ultimately it is the manufacturers at fault, but Google could and should have done more to prevent it from occurring. As I said, my main device is an Android. My next device will almost certainly be one as well, but it's more a lack of options. I dislike Apple's offerings for reason I won't enumerate here, and I have a small set of indispensable apps that aren't available on WP. Until that changes, I feel like I'm stuck. More generally, I think there's a place for all of them. None of them are perfect, a condition that will likely never exist, so I'm glad that there are choices to allow people to select the best device for their needs as well as continue to push the envelope with each generation. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Monday, October 6, 2014 9:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Windows 8.1 problem At 01:00 AM 06/10/2014, Joshua MacCraw wrote: >Boo hoo so Android isn't iOS or Windows simple & polished but it's a >hell of a lot more open & customizable with stock (or branded) >interface replaceable so you have options. Hell I'd jump to an Ubuntu >phone before I do a windows phone. Actually, I've heard the Windows Phone interface is pretty good, and I'd be willing to try it. The big mistake was to put a phone interface on a desktop. T
