{"id":23413,"date":"2018-11-16T16:41:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T21:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23413"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:32:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T00:32:55","slug":"why-im-ditching-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/16\/why-im-ditching-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I&rsquo;m Ditching Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevq.uk\/why-im-ditching-android\/\">Kev Quirk<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=18370159\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/kevq.uk\/why-im-ditching-android\/\"><p>Android vendors are almost as bad as Windows when it comes to bundling additional applications with their devices. It&rsquo;s almost a meme at this point. But at least on Windows you can uninstall all the bloatware. Most of the bloatware on Android devices I&rsquo;ve used over the years cannot be removed as they&rsquo;re marked as system apps.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I hardly ever get notifications for emails, calendar events, social media etc. I assume this is because the battery saving measures kill the background processes. So the apps can&rsquo;t carry out background tasks, like checking for new email.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone SE is actually a phone sized device. It&rsquo;s cheap, and it&rsquo;s still supported by Apple. It&rsquo;s seemed like a no-brainer to give it a try.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, he wrote this in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CraigGrannell\/status\/1063560257778212869\"><strike>March<\/strike><\/a>, and the iPhone SE is no longer available from Apple&rsquo;s store, although there are currently some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2018\/11\/16\/black-friday-preview\/\">great deals<\/a> on it elsewhere.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kev Quirk (via Hacker News): Android vendors are almost as bad as Windows when it comes to bundling additional applications with their devices. It&rsquo;s almost a meme at this point. But at least on Windows you can uninstall all the bloatware. Most of the bloatware on Android devices I&rsquo;ve used over the years cannot be [&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":"2018-11-16T21:41:49Z","apple_news_api_id":"daeed42e-a7fc-4a65-a4dc-df80a7d7a479","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-11-17T00:32:59Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2u7ULqf8SmWk3N-Ap9ekeQ","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":[248,31,1610,1338],"class_list":["post-23413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-android","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-iphone-se"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23413","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=23413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23421,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23413\/revisions\/23421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}