My iPad 2 is nearly a useless piece of crap, even after restoring to factory.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 6:38:52 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Google wants to be Apple I have only had Android phones myself, and my only experience with iOS is setting up Internet or email on the occasional iPad for customers. I do feel the Android user interface is very primitive and should have evolved to be more user friendly by now. It seems like all they care about is how many apps there are, the UI can suck. Not having owned an iPhone, I don’t know if Apple does any better. I know that OS X does not seem as easy and intuitive as everyone says it is. The other thing I’ve found, since I’m using a 2+ year old Android phone, is they develop bugs, glitches and crashes over time. It seems like once the hardware is 2 years old, it doesn’t matter if you get an Android update, it’s not going to work like when it was new, and they are going to push you to buy new hardware. Whereas it seems Apple is more dedicated to the idea of no phone left behind. They want you to upgrade, but they won’t turn your iPhone 5 into a useless piece of crap to force you to upgrade. Microsoft has occasionally had religion about UI design, but then they go totally off the tracks. Right click context sensitive menus were the greatest thing since sliced bread. Windows 8 was the devil’s work. Microsoft Office looks like it came from a totally different company. But I got a major endorphin rush the first time I accidentally right-clicked on the Start button in Window 10. I was like the Nazis opening the Ark … “it’s so beautiful!” From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jason McKemie Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 5:53 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Google wants to be Apple Apple has been copying Android interface design for several iPhone os versions now. On Wednesday, October 5, 2016, Travis Johnson < t...@ida.net > wrote: https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/05/not-ok-google/ It's taken a while, many years, but Google has finally admitted that Apple had it right all along... you have to control the hardware AND software to have an awesome product. This was Steve Job's goal from the very beginning with the Macintosh... and now everyone else is finally understanding. So now Google is copying everything Apple does... even down to the marketing materials. Every commercial they run (along with Samsung and everyone else) is always "this is why our product is better than Apple". If a company really believes that, you don't have to make the direct comparison. LOL "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" ~Charles Caleb Colton Travis
