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welcome back to coping with your iphone
james how do you deal with all the useless seldom used or bloatware apps
that clutter up your home screen great question well you know it's really
no problem all i do is i put them all into one folder that i call useless
garbage and then i just never go in there again and it only takes up one
square on my home screen one square one
just one wow that's great and and how
about you riley well that's a great method but what i do is i put all my
useless apps on their own special page in the back and i just never swipe them
it just doesn't ever go there nope you don't have to look at it at all it's
like it's not there that's terrific
oh please oh thank you iphones are just they're so easy to use
aren't they yeah oh that's great join us again next week
when i'll be sharing my favorite dongle recipes
i'm just kidding you guys we did a video on 10 reasons iphones are better and now
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so once again we've leaned on our community to compile our list and
surprise surprise the number one most commonly cited perk of Android is
customization not only does Android let you
put your app icons wherever you want including places you can actually reach
use non-hamstrung third-party keyboards a swiftkey on iOS is just truly awful
and change your default browser to something other than safari it even lets
you change what's called the launcher which is basically how your desktop
looks and feels for example the google pixel launcher has the app drawer
available from a swipe up and the google now feed from a swipe right but you
don't need to have a pixel to make your phone look like this other Android
phones can just download the pixel launcher or one of the hundreds of other
launchers from the play store which whoa microsoft launcher does anyone use that
10 million downloads look the point is that it's customizable
and while it is true that you can take more control of your iphone by
jailbreaking it that basically just unlocks features that Android users
already get out of the box and Android offers an even deeper level
of customization if you root your phone and install custom roms which are
basically alternative firmware with many of them created for free by members of
the open source community and they allow you to do all kinds of crazy things like
removing bloatware overclocking for better gaming performance
underclocking to extend battery life installing updates as soon as they
become available instead of waiting for the oem to push them or even just
changing what color your notification light flashes speaking of freedom
whereas unjailbroken iphones force you to download any and all apps from the
app store on Android you can number two completely bypass the play
store by side loading apps as many of you no doubt learned when you
installed fortnite for Android apps are just dot apk files and they can be
downloaded and installed directly on any Android phone as long as you've enabled
the capability in your phone's settings first apps that are side loaded don't have to
adhere to the play store's rules so some of them can be sketchy but there are
cases where the decision to go off play store was driven by other reasons like
the developer not wanting to give 30 of their revenue to google or wanting to
release a casino app that lets you gamble with real currency or just
wanting to free the nipple as it were the next
level is that you can also sideload apps that are themselves app stores so you
can actually have more than one app store on your phone for example the
amazon app store used to let you download one paid app per day for free
like there's no reason to miss out on stuff like that and from a developer
perspective alternative and often smaller app stores let you target users
of a specific niche or region i mean the
google play store is not accessible at all in china without a vpn so if you
want to access the chinese market you're going to have to submit your app to 10
cent my app or baidu mobile assistant
number three took me a little bit by surprise interaction with the desktop
now when you plug an Android device into a pc it acts like pretty much any other
usb device or flash drive and you can even use a conventional drag and drop
interface to access both its onboard
memory and an external storage device such as a microsd card
by contrast iphones must interface with the desktop via
intermediary software namely itunes now
to be clear it is possible to be an iphone user for years without ever
needing itunes relying on icloud for backup and downloading stuff directly to
your phone using the files app which came out with iOS 11 and thank goodness
because before that you couldn't even download things from the internet but if
for some reason you need to connect your iphone to a computer with a cable like
to move music from your phone to your computer then itunes is liable to be a
huge pain in the booty that prevents you from completing tasks that would
otherwise be very simple the only
exception is to copy pictures
from your iphone to the computer
that you can do and that's because your computer sees the iphone as a read only
camera so you can't like copy photos from your computer to your iphone
something i discovered recently when i tried to help my aunt move to a new
iphone and i was like oh this should be easy i'll just move all your old photos onto your oops
number four similar to the software side
Android gives you infinitely more choice when it comes to hardware because
Android is open source the software can be found inside devices from myriad
manufacturers and this again gives you more freedom because instead of saying
well shucks i don't really like what they did with this year's iphone i guess
i'll wait until next september's keynote competition pushes oems to continually
innovate allowing consumers to vote with their wallets on the features that they
care about headphone jacks stereo speakers expandable storage screens
without notches all these treasures and more await
and of course this plurality of devices represents number five different price
points not everyone wants to or even can
spend seven hundred eight hundred fifteen hundred dollars on a phone there
are four hundred million smartphone users in india and only three percent of
them have iphones it's for a reason at seven hundred and fifty dollars the
budget iphone is price prohibitive for millions of people but on Android
there's a device for everyone number six is split screen multitasking
provided that you're using supported apps Android lets you divide your screen
in two so you can say read an article
while you watch a twitch stream it's a feature that some power users
cannot live without while others like myself hardly bother using it but hey at
least we have the option the really bizarre thing here is that ipads got
support for split view with 2017's iOS
11 including the 7.9 inch ipad mini but
but but but no you can't use split view on your 6.5
inch iphone 10s max because screw you apple doesn't think you should
be able to number seven
usb type c adoption of usbc is really
picking up steam now and having a standard interface on your devices is
the bee's knees because in theory nearly every device in your house could use the
same cables i brought one charger with me on my last trip and i was able to use
it for my phone my laptop and my switch
awesome but what's weird is that while i could
charge all of those things including a macbook if i had one but it won't work
with the iphone now granted in the past
the iphone's lightning connector was definitely superior to usb micro b it's
reversible and can handle more power but usbc has closed the gap and even surpass
lightning with many more features and much higher data transfer speeds and
apple honestly just looks kind of silly for not supporting it
all of their devices could have the same port for the first time ever
but no number eight Android has more unlock options you can unlock your phone
with a code a pattern your face your eye
or your fingerprint depending on your device of course and each method has its
place depending on context a fingerprint reader whether you prefer it on the
front side back or even under the screen
glass is still more convenient than facial recognition in some cases but
then face unlock is great to have too and even passwords have their place
what doesn't have a place is fixing something that ain't broken
i loved touch id and i gave apple a ton
of praise for it but then they went and took it away probably forever even
though it would have been so awesome to have the apple logo just work as a
stealthy fingerprint reader like it's just sad that they didn't do that
seriously number nine Android has a universal back button now
many of the apple faithful and even some Android users might find this point
controversial but hear me out yes you can go back on an iphone either
by swiping pressing the button in the header or using safari's back button on
the bottom when it's visible which method you use is totally dependent on
the app but it's not the inconsistency here that
i have a problem with it's the positioning the back button is easy to
reach on Android because it's right here by your thumb and what's cool is that on
many phones you can even choose which side you want it on but on the iphone
right-handed people so that is most of us have to reach all the way
across our increasingly ginormous screens to initiate a swipe or even
worse way up to the top to reach the button now back when iphones were small
one-handed devices that was fine but this was something i criticized back
when they launched the iphone 6 and they still haven't fixed it it's just not
ergonomic i mean at least they let you swipe right from anywhere on the home
screen and finally number 10 OLED screens
yes iphones do finally have OLED screens now starting from 2017's iphone 10 and
while it looks like all models will have OLED starting in 2020 right now their
cheapest model still sports an lcd meanwhile on Android OLED screens are
starting to appear even on mid-range devices and they actually use it for
some reason apple still has not given its users always on display
functionality while some Android brands have already started expanding the color
and interactivity even of their always-on screen locks now
i am not saying Android is perfect
software updates hey with some handset makers forget about it random battery
drain i have complained about that on this phone it in particular the one that
is my daily driver manufacturer spying scandals those have happened and also
just the fact that there's kind of always it's always seems like there's a
compromise like there's no one perfect device that has
everything that you want there's always some kind of an issue the point i'm
trying to make here is that there are just plenty of reasons to buy an Android
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this was just great i really loved it
you know what i love camera bumps thanks apple for bringing this innovation to
the industry so courageous oh great
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