I agree. I currently have both the IPhone 5 and an Android phone to play with running the absolute latest version of Android and as stock as it gets. Stock Android is our best bet as it means that it has not been altered as manufacturers like to endlessly do on the Android side. They all feel the need to reinvent the interface to whatever extent satisfies them. Stock Android gets rid of that concern for you. This is stock and absolutely is not equal to the IPhone. It is amazingly better than 2.3 was, this is 4.2 by the way, but not equal to the I devices. It is finally usable and in my opinions and that of many others, 2.3 was barely usable depending what you wanted to do. To get at some functions you have to do these sweeping gestures that you have to satisfy the system that is what you want and after you gain entry to that screen by doing that, then you can pick that function you were trying to do. With the IPhone I could have had the task accomplished five minutes ago already. On my Android device the two finger scroll gestures are successful about half the time and the other half of the time they either mostly end up activating things on the screen I had no intention of activating or sometimes they don't take. Like it will start to scroll and then decide I did not do it sufficiently and bounce back instead to where it was. In listening to how to do things, I would have never thought the two finger scroll would be the subject of endless frustration and problems. Well, it is. And guess what, you have to scroll with that gesture a lot. Swiping will not ever scroll the screen. You have to. It is a task I dread and want to throw the bleeping thing every time I have to do it because it gives me so much problem and should not be like that. I have been using the IPhone continuously sice 2010 and had some experience before that. I know how to do gestures including those with multiple fingers and rarely are they a problem for me to execute on the IPhone. So no, it is not just my fumbling because I haven't learned this type of interaction. On 2/28/13, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > Neal, > I never had an Android phone, but I do have an Android tablet. And I am glad > I still have my iPhone 4S. I hear a lot of folks say that with Jellybean > 4.2, Android accessibility is about on par with ios, and I can't agree. > Inconsistent operation is one reason. Braille access is another. > Inconsistent operation of the gestures is a third. And the reasons you cited > with the lack of audio feedback when moving apps and the inability to label > buttons is another. I'm glad I have the luxury of being able to play with > the Nexus 7 tablet, but there is no way I would move from the iPhone to > Android at this time. ios isn't perfect. But the accessibility is > considerably more polished, IMHO. The mail app is another area where ios is > really good, especially with that new delete feature. I don't want to start > a Android versus ios thread. But for me, an end user firmly in the camp of > my device being a means to an end, rather than a fun thing to play with that > must offer me endless choice, I'm happy to stay with ios for now. > > Mary > > Mary Otten > [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > >
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