Some mass have called me an Apple fanboy . I remain firm in line for hours for the first iPhone and then again for almost every new iOS twist that came out . I own more Apple devices than t - shirts ( I ’m not a big t - shirt rooter , but still , it ’s a plenty of devices … ) . And I have convinced quite a few people over the years to switch to Macs , iPhones and iPads .
Two weeks ago , I switched to Android . I bought a Galaxy S4 ( Google Play stock Android adaptation ) and a Samsung Note 8.0 tablet . They ’re now my basal mobile devices .
Why? My Theory of Frosted Glass Effects
When a technology vendor ca n’t keep up with the speed of innovation anymore , it resorts to incrementally copying other ’s foundation and set forth adding wasted visual thingumabob , such as frosted methamphetamine effects . Such event are cool , set your ware aside , make it look modern , but unfortunately they are also entirely useless and just devour system resources without really improving the exploiter experience .
Case in point : Windows Vista .
I swop to Macs in 2006 , after almost two decades using Microsoft OSes . Microsoft in the 90s and early 2000s was much more innovative than the great unwashed give it credit for . Tablet computing , simple Internet programming , productiveness software , the first really powerful PDA — those were all sector where Microsoft was the leader .
But then Windows Vista get along out , almost five years after XP . And what was the most remarkable novel feature of this next - gen OS ?
Very cool - sounding frosted glass force in windows claim .
The rest was quotidian at adept , copying many of the feature of speech Mac OS X had had for old age and fix some old problems . It was clear at that point that Microsoft had lose its way , the showtime of Microsoft ’s current malaise . And for me it was metre to switch to the political platform where the real conception was happening – Mac OS X , mostly with web - base applications , and a bit later from Windows CE to iOS .
A few weeks ago Apple introduced iOS 7 , the first major service since the iPhone came out . It has a ton of young characteristic , almost all of which Android user have enjoyed for long time . It fix a good deal of old trouble , and …
… it has frosted glass effects . Lots of them .
It Was Time to Switch
A few minutes after installing the IOS 7 beta I just knew I needed to swop to Android . I have found myself using more and more Google apps on my iPhone over the retiring 18 months or so . Google Maps replaced ( surprisal ) Apple Maps , Gmail supersede Apple Mail , Chrome replaced Safari . I did voice search through Google ’s search app , not Siri . And so on . Why ? Because Google ’s inspection and repair are not only much more sinewy but also very neatly mix . The awesome Google Now is the best example for that .
In fact , I was already using a Google phone running iOS underneath , and there ’s just nothing in iOS 7 that makes me think I might trade back to Apple ’s gunstock apps .
There ’s just frustration that iOS 7 has barely caught up with Android ’s current state .
Android fanboys tend to think that this has always been the compositor’s case . Not so . When Apple come out with the original iOS , the first genuine web browser app on a nomadic gadget , multi - mite , the original app stock , photo stream , AirPlay , etc . , it was years ahead of everybody else . But that was then , and Io 7 is now . Unfortunately , it feels a lot like Window Vista .
The Android Era
Just to be exonerated : I ’m not feature obsess when it comes to wandering devices . I pass much of my working day wrestle with technology , and the last matter I need is a high - maintenance phone or tablet . But Android has matured to a point where it ’s ( almost ) as easy to use and polished as iOS , with a ton of added tractableness .
And without question , the real innovation now happen in the Android ecosystem . Smartphone functionality has matured to the point of saturation , and veridical progress can only be made in cyberspace - based services that mix seamlessly with a smartphone OS . Google ’s superiority in information services and Android ’s general receptivity are staring for that .
I ’m not an Apple fanboy , I ’m a fanboy of gravid products . And as much as I hate to see Apple lose its star , it ’s time to exchange .
This stake has been republished with license from Andreas Goeldi ’s personal web log . He also blog about engineering science and the net economic system ( in German ) onnetzwertig.comand about picture - bear on subject on thePixability video blog . you’re able to come up his personal homepagehere .
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