{"id":22465,"date":"2018-08-15T15:44:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T19:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22465"},"modified":"2018-08-15T15:44:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T19:44:35","slug":"advantages-of-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/15\/advantages-of-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Advantages of Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/agilethumbs\/status\/1029528027405766656\">scott<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/agilethumbs\/status\/1029528027405766656\">\n<p>Being able to manage my home screen. After a while on iOS you basically have to give up and use Spotlight to find anything because every app is just dumped  somewhere on your home screen, and moving one app moves every other app.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/agilethumbs\/status\/1029528034720665600\"><p>Being able to comfortably hold my phone. I now pick up my phone and use it more for browsing, Twitter, YouTube, books, and comics than my I do my iPad. That was never the case with iPhones after the 5S.<\/p>\n<p>iPhones since then were designed to sell cases, not be comfortable to hold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/agilethumbs\/status\/1029528037912530945\"><p>I can spend an hour browsing the Play Store and continue to find new and interesting apps. I get bored in the App Store after five minutes. I can also browse the Play Store from my MacBook or iPad and remotely install apps to my phone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/agilethumbs\/status\/1029528042706690048\"><p>My AirPods work better on my Android than they did on my iPhone. I get better range and the constant audio breakups I experienced with my iPhone have been greatly reduced. Switching connected devices is much faster and doesn&rsquo;t require digging through the Settings app.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>On the other hand, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattbirchler\/status\/1029532458583306240\">Matt Birchler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattbirchler\/status\/1029532458583306240\">\n<p>The iOS App Store has really spoiled me for all other app platforms. Nothing even comes close. Play Store is second, I guess, but it&rsquo;s by a huge margin. And now that I have browsed the Microsoft Store for a while, I can now promote the Mac App Store from most useless app store.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/06\/android-oreo-review-an-ios-users-review\/\">Android Oreo Review: An iOS User&rsquo;s Review<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/15\/why-apple-should-copy-the-android-p-notification-shade\/\">Why Apple Should Copy the Android P Notification Shade<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/17\/switching-to-an-iphone-se\/\">Switching to an iPhone SE<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>scott: Being able to manage my home screen. After a while on iOS you basically have to give up and use Spotlight to find anything because every app is just dumped somewhere on your home screen, and moving one app moves every other app. Being able to comfortably hold my phone. I now pick up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-08-15T19:44:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"b8401311-81fd-487d-8a3c-57693f6503d9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-08-15T19:44:37Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AuEATEYH9SH2KPFdpP2UD2Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1422,248,91,422,784,31,1472,385],"class_list":["post-22465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-airpods","tag-android","tag-appstore","tag-bluetooth","tag-google-play-store","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-springboard"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22466,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465\/revisions\/22466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}