Ondrej Holzman A very interesting experiment was conducted by Anshel Sag, a lifelong user of Google services and Android mobile phones, who pros Forbes he described, how he bought his first Apple product. It became the iPhone 7 Plus, after which Sag assesses: "I feel that a lot of the reasons why I never switched to Apple are gone, while others remain."
Anshel Sag, who focuses on user platforms at Moor Insights & Strategy, an analytical firm, describes in his text why he decided on the iPhone 7 Plus, what his experience was when switching to another ecosystem, and what he liked or didn't like about the Apple phone , however, interesting in it are two mentions of specific details.
I also can't say enough about my experience with Force Touch. You have to touch it and explore, but some apps like Instagram are simply amazing with Force Touch. I wish more devices had Force Touch because I honestly believe this is the future of smartphone interfaces.
The praise of Force Touch, or rather 3D Touch, from a long-time Android user is frankly quite surprising. The technology, where a stronger press of the display triggers another function, has received rather mixed reactions for the time being. And especially on the part of Android users, who often refer to 3D Touch as useless, which only complicates control, because a so-called long press, i.e. a longer hold of the finger on the button, is sufficient for such functionality.
It is true that similar criticisms were justified many times until recently, because only the iOS 10 operating system is more significantly linked to 3D Touch and if you do not have the latest iPhone, you are deprived of many handy functions. But Apple will still have a lot of work to do to really fully enforce this "second control layer", because it itself often uses the aforementioned long press instead of its own solution.
A shining example is, for example, the system Safari, in which many useful shortcuts are hidden precisely under a long press of the button and not by 3D Touch (see more 10 tips for more efficient control of Safari in iOS 10). There wouldn't be anything wrong with that, but it's more about the fact that the user has to research for himself which interactions the individual elements actually react to.
On the other hand, the problem is that only the iPhone 3S and iPhone 6 have 7D Touch, so Apple cannot completely replace a longer press with a stronger one, since owners of older iPhones and all iPads would not be able to use some functions at all, which would be a problem. 3D Touch will only make sense when Apple deploys it in iPads to unify the entire user experience.
However, owners of newer iPhones will surely agree that once you get used to 3D Touch, it's a really neat thing, the use of which is growing as third-party developers also deploy 3D Touch. Praise from an Android user is thus rather a pleasant surprise. However, what many die-hard Apple users will find surprising is the following Sago's experience:
In addition to Force Touch, I've also been using AirDrop, which is by far the fastest and easiest way to share audio files between two devices that I've seen. It was really shocking.
In principle it is AirDrop really a very easy way, how to share any files and documents between two devices, but unfortunately the practice is different. From my own experience, I can remember few other features that work less reliably in iOS. Whether I'm sending files from an iPhone to an iPhone, an iPad, or a Mac, it's a toss-up whether the two devices even show up in AirDrop. The results are really 50/50.
You only have to pause for a few seconds to establish a connection, and the user experience goes downhill at breakneck speed. To transfer the image, it is many times faster to open Photos on the Mac, where the photo taken on the iPhone has been synchronized in the meantime.
When the AirDrop transfer is successful, it is indeed a highly efficient affair, but Apple has not been able to fine-tune the connection to perfection even in several years. We can only hope that in Cupertino they will still work on AirDrop and connecting their devices, because if a long-time Android user praises him like this, it is, among other things, proof of his skill. It would be such a shame if this feature were not used just because it doesn't work reliably.
It is nevertheless interesting to read Saga's entire iPhone 7 Plus experience and Apple's ecosystem, which he didn't have much trouble penetrating, even though it works exclusively on Google services. "What was interesting to me is that when you pair Apple with Google services, you get a very good experience," Sag describes his findings, confirming, among other things, that Google really cares about its iOS apps.
Unfortunately, I have the same experience with Airdrop. I have an iPhone 6 and a Macbook Late 2013 and sometimes I want to transfer something, but I'd rather use a cable or via GoodReader, or if it's a single photo, I'll send it by email. Sometimes Airdrop did work for me, but first I turned bluetooth off and on in different ways and it started when there was a constellation, but it was for a long time.
it happens quite regularly that airdrop between any two devices I have at home absolutely does not work. It's a feature I (rather) forgot was even there in iOS.
I personally use airdrop and I wouldn't change, but the truth is that it is important what kind of wifi you have. I use an AirPort Time Capsule – 2 TB (apple states Ultrafast Wi-Fi 802.11ac) and everything works perfectly, both data transfer from the device to the MacBook pro and between the ios devices (for me, approx. video 10GB / 1-2min).
However, my brother has a wifi device from UPC and it is unusable.
I think it depends on the wifi speed.
So maybe that's why I didn't have a problem with it. I also have a new ac wifi (not from Apple) from the beginning of MAC.
AirDrop has nothing to do with a WiFi router. Because the devices are first found via bluetooth, when you confirm the person to whom you are sending it, the devices will agree which will be the server and which will be the client, and then the file will be transferred using WiFi, but it has nothing to do with the router.
AirDrop works over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but it doesn't just work over cellular networks.
if Wi-Fi is not available, it will use Bluetooth
yes, and so that I don't forget, I send another file if the first one is not yet downloaded and both files are downloaded simultaneously.
really great for me, I use it often.
I really only use it exceptionally and if I had the latest version of iOS and MacOS, I never had a problem.
since iOS 9 and El Capitan it runs reliably
so I probably have a different x-axis than the one from Apple
the manufacturer can't fix the messed up system on one or the other device for you, I'll look at my iPhone if it doesn't work after a clean install of both products...
if the manufacturer has the password "it just works" and it just doesn't work when the user is handling it (and it's not one person, it's the opinion of several users here) then you can easily screw up your iPhone, but it doesn't change the fact that it's not a fault but an apple user
Thanks, so should I wipe both devices and not install anything just to be safe and keep them clean and then airdrop will work for me? I've never had a problem with anything else, and I don't consider myself a complete beginner, so I really consider this an airdrop issue.
airdrop is suer!!!!
and 3d touchpads!!
Jansý, on the website about Apple they write how good Apple is. Really believable. I tried iOS here and I'm very happy that I don't have to use it anymore. YUCK YUCK YUCK. I'd rather just have a landline than Iphne
so don't bother here, no one here is interested in your trolling.
I can't help myself but this is another PR for Apple, similar to fake reviews of macbooks before selling them, and the opinions of a professional photographer on the quality of iPhone photos that iPhones are even available, just read the article...
everything he says is true, but that's not how reviews or opinions are written, not that he repeats marketing turns as if he were at an apple keynote...
(however, I played with the iPhone7 for a few minutes yesterday, and I have to say that if I sent google play to it and turned off icloud hard and tried to revert updates, I would send it. hardware-wise, it's really good. software-wise, it's full of shit destroy the phone gradually)
On the software side, it lacks a jailbreak or at least the ability to install applications outside the official AppStore, as every Android can do.
On the software side, iOS is terrible, there are no alternative launchers, theme managers... and many other advanced functions such as automatic call recording, it does not know AptX codec... the worst of all is sandboxing and limited access of applications to internal storage, this is the biggest minus of iOS as a platform .
From the hardware point of view of the iPhone 7 Plus, I praise the fact that it is solid and sturdy, the IP67 protection and the powerful SoC can also be called a plus.
Disadvantages:
lower battery capacity and therefore endurance compared to the competition (S7 Edge)
weaker camera
only FullHD panel
weaker RAM capacity (especially in the long term, this is a mistake)
absence of 3.5 mm jack
absence of Qi charging
tinny sound of stereo speakers
Why wouldn't I buy the iPhone 7 Plus? Simply because it's average hardware at an inflated price with a completely unreasonable margin.
The S7 Edge costs 16 from the EU distribution and it is a better phone in all respects.
DTEK60 from BlackBerry with an excellent QHD panel and great stereo speakers next to which the sound emanating from the iPhone 7 Plus sounds like a gypsy brass band, price 16.
Z5 Premium, excellent 4K UHD IPS panel, probably the best stereo sound of all phones, price only 12,5 thousand.
OnePlus3 T, currently the fastest phone in the world together with the Pixel, price around 12,5 thousand, quality unibody construction, fast charging, wide community support...
All those phones with the exception of the Z5 Premium are as powerful or more powerful than the iPhone 7 Plus and none of them cost more than 17 thousand from the EU distribution, the first three of them have a quality 24-bit DAC and a jack connector.
At the same time, even at a price of up to ten thousand, there are interesting phones comparable to the iPhone, but with better features and higher utility value for less money, for example Vodafone Platinum 7, Xiaomi Redmi Note4...
the jack would piss me off, but since I only listen to it in the bath anyway, I probably wouldn't lose the tail you put on it ;)
and is there a reliable way to automatically upload phones on Android? I know that manufacturers don't allow it because in some countries it's not completely legal, and some phones don't have a chipset for it, so it was always recorded from the microphone, which is disgusting... maybe if google pixel could do it, that would be nice :o
All phones have a chipset for it, most phones from Chinese brands offer it directly in the menu, some Lenovo, all Xiaomi and many others...
With Nexus, it is usually easy to solve... with other brands, you always have to find a compatible app, in Google Play there is now a developer with an app for recording calls for about 300,- (I don't remember the name, they wrote about it in SVA) and it can practically all phones in high quality, if by chance it doesn't work with your model, just write an email to the developer and he will add a function for your specific model within about a week.
Don't be surprised, the profitability of iPhone sales, from today's Black Friday offer, Coolpad Torino S in EW, a phone with practically the same hw as iPhone 7 for 2500,- I suspect that for something around 3500,- the Redmi 3S is a nice solid phone with hw comparable to iPhone 7 with Czech LTE frequencies. This is a mobile phone, the key offers the same as a smaller iPhone, lightning fast response and costs many times less.
Nothing against Apple products, I bought my girlfriend an iPhone and an iPad myself, but I understand that the iPhone has great AirDrop and 3D Touch, i.e. functions that in the first case work randomly and in the second case only on a couple of devices and only with a couple of applications . Not a bit weak. Maybe it would like in return to publish a review of an iPad user with an open cumi sponge on any android tablet to which someone has connected a keyboard and mouse. Or you need experience with Note, where I need to write down notes at the meeting. The night is not only black or white. Everyone likes something different. I can't seem to find a replacement for my almost perfect Note 3.
I used to have a Note10.1. Worked perfectly until ofiko updated to the new Android. Then it was unusable and lagging. Unfortunately, S Notes could not be opened on a PC, so I had to switch to Notes from Windows.
I've had iPad(s) for a few years now and I can't praise myself, I don't need to connect a mouse or keyboard, I have a PC or MBA on it.
I can't praise the iPad either - after updating to iOS 9, it lags so much that it's practically unusable, and of course you can't go back to iOS 8... Long live Apple!!!
What iPad do you have?
iPad 3
Have you tried classic tricks like restarting, turning off moving effects, backing up and restoring the iPad? But it's strange to me that people are generally not very interested in it. Anyway, please keep in mind that it is already quite an old device, 4,5 years old.
At the time, I also had a speed problem with the iPad 2 after 5 years, when it switched to the infamous iOS 6 crash.
I've tried everything, nothing helps, everything is turned off, there are only a couple of applications... I can't view pages in Safari - it cuts unbelievably (Same goes for Opera and Firefox)... I can just throw it away... If I knew, I'd leave iOS there 8 – he was fine.
If a backup and a clean restore really don't help, I would try to search the forums to see if anyone with the same iPad has the same problems. However, with the iPad 2, I also had a very slow reaction, but it was already 4-5 years old.
You are 100% right about that, the inability to easily connect a keyboard and mouse to the iPad is a disadvantage.
For another Android from the KiteKat version, it can replace a desktop PC with a minimum of applications such as CAD, it has so many functions and handy 3rd party applications that iOS users can't even dream of.
When I compare the cheap Yoga tablets from Lenovo at prices around 8 including a keyboard with a nice display and LTE modem with the iPaden Pro, for a person who is price-oriented, it is a great choice.
I prefer the iPad myself, but only because I have it solely for content consumption, if I wanted something smarter I'd go for an Android tablet.
AirDrop: works for me and I use it more and more often. 3DTouch. I use it more and more often - especially with third-party applications. And Android phones? A number of them are really great. I recently tried Samsung and it was an excellent experience. And then I agree with the reviewer that the iPhone with Google services is seriously worth a bite :-) Especially photos, voice search, maps and recently PhotoScan. Google takes great care of its iOS apps.
AirDrop doesn't work for me on mac 2010,2011 and IP5s. But I guess I have old,, iron".
It doesn't work on those Macs, I guess only since 2012 and only from mac to mac, newer macs also communicate with iOS, but the iPhone 5S must work. Five already had it.
Now I tried MBP 17″ 2011 and IP5s and nothing. There is no problem between macs.
Well, of course, it only works between OS X and iOS from Macs manufactured since 2013. Years 2012 and below only mac -> mac ?
AirDrop works perfectly for me