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It's not the kids, the parents in my extended family all prefer iPhone's because they can't figure android out. They passed this on to their kids.
I'd be curious to know what they can't figure out with Android.
I use both on a daily basis and there's a severe lack of differentiation in experience nowadays. Both have icon based launchers, both have similar looking control centres, both have long form lists for settings pages, both have identical payments experiences, and so on.
They've stolen each other's features liberally to the point where the only real differences are in the gnarly platform specific stuff that no one really touches unless they're a super user and are mostly hidden away in settings screens.
Notifications are a bit different I guess, but even that's a stretch.
yup, phone GUIs today have converged, just like different consoles' controllers used to be distinct, and now they're all Dual Shock clones.
Console pads are a great analogy for this phenomena. Even Nintendo broke eventually
I've switched a few people to android. First thing I do is install a launcher that suits their needs. In the past I always recommended Nova. Now I give them the choice. Once they get the hang of the basis gestures in your launcher they 're hooked to the customizability.
What options do you give them since nova got bought? I'm assuming nova is no longer an option you give.
yup. Apple is the platform for a small number of badass devs.... and a giant, wide ocean of old people who can't make pc's work for more than a few months because they're fucking dumb.
I get apple existing, it's the child-safe version of computing where all the angles have been smoothed off.