Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:05 pm
#1386617
Keef wrote:...
It's a pity, though, that Apple is making so many mistakes these days. It makes me very leery of buying a new iThing, with Android stuff so much more configurable. Part of that is that the 8.3/8.4 TaiG jailbreak flatly refuses to work on my iPad despite doing all the right things.
It is an imperfect world as these things get more complex.
I originally went the Android route rather than the "i"-thingy route as it seemed to have more freedom, flexibility and I might even get around to writing my own apps etc. I also checked the SD specs before I got my android device.
Android upgrades also breaks stuff. One of the upgrades ended up killing my battery in a few hours so I spent quite some time trying to work out what it was but it had turned on every possible energy zapping feature of the smartphone. Power saving mode did not help!
Being in a weak signal area for most networks doesn't help either.
Anyway, I am migrating to the I-thingy as I am fed up with the android Maps stuff regularly crashing in the Navigator app, and they have tweaked the settings in later releases so I have less control over what it does/does not show on the map.
Another reason is SD wont run reliably on my S3 although to be fair I have not tried it for at least a year. The S3 has been the recommended android smartphone for SD for a number of years.
It works great on some but not on my actual handset even with no non-standard apps on it so it doesn't get any easier than that.
It must be a nightmare trying to develop reliable software for android. Having said that, I once knew a software developer that had written his own iphone app and also went on an Apple i-developer course in the US. He came back certified, but rather overwhelmed by it all.
I thought about getting a nexus tablet for SD but others have said its not suitable.
So I have my first i-thingy being delivered tomorrow. Will be interesting which iOS version it has.