Comment by vvvvtt340

Comment by vvvvtt340 5 days ago

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I switched from Android to iOS a few years ago. I used to be deep into Android customization - custom ROMs, custom icon packs, etc. But today, I feel that iOS and Android offer pretty all the features that I could ever want. My deciding factors when I switched:

- iOS UI animations are significantly better

- access to iMessage

- Apple got around to adding their version of "always on display"

- I turn the vast majority of notifications off, so Android's better notification management stopped mattering to me

- It felt like Google kept bending Android towards iOS anyway (camera app, moving away from the 3 button navigation)

cyberax 5 days ago

> iOS UI animations are significantly better

And if you don't like them: tough luck. They're mandatory.

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  • nomel 5 days ago

    Well, technically...

        Accessibility -> Motion -> Reduce Motion
    I also usually turn off transparency, to reduce GPU usage by a negligible amount.
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    • xp84 5 days ago

      I don't like Reduce Motion as it still forces you to wait through the half second of delay while it slowly fades things. I just want all animations deleted to avoid delaying the action itself. You used to be able to do this on a jailbroken phone by setting the global animation duration to be like zero or something, but of course Apple basically won the war on us "users" having any control on the devices we buy from them, or should I say, 'license the privilege of using'?

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    • cyberax 5 days ago

      Well, try it. It reduces motion, but it does not eliminate all animations.

      I turned off all animations on my Android phone, and now each time I have to use iOS (for development) it feels like swimming through molasses.

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  • csmcg 5 days ago

    you can "Reduce Motion" and "Prefer Cross-Fade Transitions" under accessibility. Not sure if that's what is being referred to though.

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jech 5 days ago

> I feel that iOS and Android offer pretty all the features that I could ever want.

Except privacy.

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