Granted, I have always had my share of devices of all types, from Android phones to iPhones, but I have always managed to come back to my first love that is iOS. There are a couple of reasons for that, all of which have stuck with me for a good long time since I started using the platform.
I still haven't found a platform that is as smooth and as visually attractive as iOS, I have liked instances of Android where I went WoW, but it had always been a restrained kind of liking. This is because Android apps seem to have always been the clunkier cousins of their iOS multi-platform versions, if there were any, and that is evident in almost every app I have used on iOS that has had a presence on both platforms or even on Windows Phones and Blackberries.
Take Tweetbot, for instance, I have never used a smoother Twitter client app to this day. The tweets pop out on the retina screen, something Android phones still fail to do better even with their allegedly better display technologies. The tweets are laid out really good on the 4 inch screen, they scroll smooth and clicking on navigation elements are on command. Button presses never lag, try as anyone could, they show no signs of lethargy.
Simply put, such a powerful framework exists on such a slight platform that requires far less space on a phone's disk drive. For me that's how Apple has always been doing on their devices. Efficient in software and, although still lacking in areas where better navigation flow could be achieved, still by far the smoothest interface on mobile devices today.
What do you think? Does the love for iOS still linger in your life because of good software? Voice out here!
I still haven't found a platform that is as smooth and as visually attractive as iOS, I have liked instances of Android where I went WoW, but it had always been a restrained kind of liking. This is because Android apps seem to have always been the clunkier cousins of their iOS multi-platform versions, if there were any, and that is evident in almost every app I have used on iOS that has had a presence on both platforms or even on Windows Phones and Blackberries.
Take Tweetbot, for instance, I have never used a smoother Twitter client app to this day. The tweets pop out on the retina screen, something Android phones still fail to do better even with their allegedly better display technologies. The tweets are laid out really good on the 4 inch screen, they scroll smooth and clicking on navigation elements are on command. Button presses never lag, try as anyone could, they show no signs of lethargy.
Simply put, such a powerful framework exists on such a slight platform that requires far less space on a phone's disk drive. For me that's how Apple has always been doing on their devices. Efficient in software and, although still lacking in areas where better navigation flow could be achieved, still by far the smoothest interface on mobile devices today.
What do you think? Does the love for iOS still linger in your life because of good software? Voice out here!
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