{"id":23124,"date":"2018-10-18T16:53:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23124"},"modified":"2018-10-18T16:53:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:53:22","slug":"fraser-speirs-switches-to-a-google-pixel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/18\/fraser-speirs-switches-to-a-google-pixel\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraser Speirs Switches to a Google Pixel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.relay.fm\/canvas\/72\">Canvas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.relay.fm\/canvas\/72\">\n<p>Fraser has picked up a Google Pixel 2XL as his next smartphone. The reasons are explained inside but the episode turns into a reflection on just how similar and different the two main smartphone platforms are in 2018. There is some discussion of Google using their apps as an Android &lsquo;beachhead&rsquo; on iOS and the implications of Apple&rsquo;s pricing strategy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fraserspeirs\/status\/1050641391670317062\">Fraser Speirs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fraserspeirs\/status\/1050641391670317062\">\n<p>So far, the most surprising thing about being on Android is how familiar it feels.  Almost every app that exists on both platforms is not just feature-compatible but virtually pixel-identical to its iOS counterpart.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fraserspeirs\/status\/1052222785320312833\">Fraser Speirs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fraserspeirs\/status\/1052222785320312833\">\n<p>Firstly, the whole thing is way more notification-driven than iOS. The notification screen is much more like an &lsquo;activity inbox&rsquo; than it is on iOS. Sometimes, this is great, other times annoying.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s great to see things like completion of background activities in there. On the other hand, I&rsquo;ve had notifications for things that are literally happening on the screen right in front of me. Needs quite a lot of tuning.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/15\/advantages-of-android\/\">Advantages of Android<\/a>, <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>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canvas: Fraser has picked up a Google Pixel 2XL as his next smartphone. The reasons are explained inside but the episode turns into a reflection on just how similar and different the two main smartphone platforms are in 2018. There is some discussion of Google using their apps as an Android &lsquo;beachhead&rsquo; on iOS and [&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":"2018-10-18T20:53:24Z","apple_news_api_id":"1c4d8e66-81cc-4067-95cb-28d92d3a9fd2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-10-18T20:53:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AHE2OZoHMQGeVyyjZLTqf0g","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":[248,610,1428,31,1610,85,111,1737],"class_list":["post-23124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-android","tag-google-docs","tag-google-pixel","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-iphone","tag-notificationcenter","tag-screen-time"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23124","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=23124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23125,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23124\/revisions\/23125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}