Poll: ** The Official iPhone X Thread **

[Robbo]

It's no good shooting the messenger.

Your opinions are very obvious, which is fair enough, but don't try and claim impartiality.

 

[Robbo]

What are people doing to their screens?! I've yet to get a noticeable scratch on a smartphone screen...

 

[Robbo]

Let's not go down this road again. Please.

 

[Robbo]

Nice to see a review from the Android side of things, I have to agree that Android notifications are miles better than iOS.

https://www.androidcentral.com/iphone-x

Interesting and fair review, considering.

I wanted to check a couple of points to see if he agreed with me, and he does:

But it's also, like, so fast. Android could only dream of maintaining the touch responsiveness and consistent frames per second that iOS so effortlessly achieves. You may think your Galaxy or Pixel is buttery smooth, but compare it to the flawless movement of the iPhone X home gesture and you'll be quickly humbled.

Those apps, too, are still better. I want to believe, now that we're in 2017 and not 2012, that developers care as deeply about feature parity on Android, but they don't: the best indie apps still don't come to Android (although one can argue, and I'd agree in some cases, that the indie app scene is extremely vibrant on Android — just in a way that doesn't make them much money); games arrive months late, if at all; and beloved products, especially camera-based networks like Instagram and Snapchat, lack specific features or optimizations that drive me crazy.

I've been waiting many years for Android to finally have a certain fluidity to the software and a coherency to the app store, it still hasn't got there and at this rate I don't think it will.

They've actually made notifications worse lately on iOS, which is stupid.