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mtmerrick:
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 15 Apr 2013, 19:42 ---Also, one last thing mtmerrick, thanks for that wonderful response to my legitimate plea of help. The fact that I wasn't seeing Android the way you see it is so much CLEARER to me now. Anticipating this kind of response was the exact reason why I apologized in advance.
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try to understand my point better by engaging me, the way Method of Madness has been doing, and not by showing off the length of your dick.
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....wow that's taking it harshly. i was trying to engage you, answering sentence for sentence.
if i were acting like you... lets see what that would look like
--- Quote ---Windows is so badly designed. i mean all it is is a mess of playschool color blocks that are way too large for practical use. Its a weak and useless system.
but i still want to hear your side of the argument.
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i am not "showing off the size of my dick" or any such crap, i'm trying to nicely explain things to the guy who comes into the "we like android" topic saying how stupid/useless/overly complex android is.
Method of Madness:
Please stop this now, both of you, before it goes too far.
ackblom12:
Oh dear lord...
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: mtmerrick on 15 Apr 2013, 18:50 ---yeah, but it didn't overreachingly refer to all software that's not the OS, like most people use it as now. :psyduck:
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Someone who started programming in the 1960s would like a word with you...
And yeah, no need for OS wars. They all exist; they all have reasons to exist. If you want to compare experiences with different OSes you could start a thread for it, I suppose.
LTK:
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 15 Apr 2013, 19:42 ---Every program in Android is fundamentally different in its percieved behaviour. I never know what's about to happen in an program, if I have to double tap or swipe, or else. The advantage that Android gets because of this is a limitless stream of design choices. But it also suffers from inconsistency. And this is especially true in an ecosystem where virtually every distributer uses a skin that looks and behaves fundamentally different.
I know that every program in Win8 will show the menu bar when I swipe from the top or bottom. I know that a long press will show a contextual menu with options on the item I just pressed. Swiping down on an object selects it. Zooming out in most places will show me an overview of the view I'm currently in, be it in the start screen, the (btw excellently written) Wikipedia app or my cocktail recipes. I know I can trust Win8 to behave like I expect it to, even if I'm in unsailed waters. I don't know if I can with Android. (rest assured, programs still need some work, but I've been using Win8 for half a year now and they're getting there.)
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So, basically, you don't like Android because you're not familiar with it. The thing is, I could probably list a similar number of consistencies across all of my Android applications that allow me to use them effectively. Of course I'm going to be confused by the consistent control method you just described if I got a Windows phone shoved into my hands; I'm just used to using the Android OS. Similarly, whenever I have to work on a Macbook and I want to adjust a simple option, such as mouse sensitivity or number of pages on the screen, I'm all "WTF, this is horrible design" because I have practically no experience with iOS.
What kind of OS you're going to want to use is only really relevant for the first time, because every time after that you're already habituated to one and you're only going to inconvenience yourself by switching to another, which seems weird and arcane by comparison.
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