Re: Re: Young folks
By: HusTler to MRO on Mon Sep 21 2020 08:38 am

Couldn't you run them over with your car?? ;-)

HusTler

no, that would mess up my car
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Re: Re: Young folks
By: ROBERT WOLFE to ANDEDDU on Wed Sep 16 2020 06:30 am

I had to laugh at this, mainly because I have a friend that still uses
an iPhone 3 :)

Damn, I saw a video a few months ago of a guy using an iPhone 4S for a week in 2020 and he didn't have very nice things to say about it. I
guess your friend must be one of those old fashioned phone calls and
text only people. :P

And take the occasional photo.

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Re: Re: Young folks
By: Vk3jed to Andeddu on Sat Sep 12 2020 16:08:00

I honestly prefer android over other operating systems simply because of it's practicality. with android there isn't much fancy stuff going on unless you use later samsung models. It's just a phone you can make calls on, play games on and take videos on, and not much else.

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Re: Re: Young folks
By: Surkey to \ on Fri Oct 09 2020 04:04 am

I honestly prefer android over other operating systems simply because of it's practicality. with android there isn't much fancy stuff going on unless you use later samsung models. It's just a phone you can make calls on, play games on and take videos on, and not much else.

Are you referring to mobile phone operating systems or operating systems in general? I suppose Android is fine if you're a basic user who doesn't require a lot of flexibility. I am fairly basic in my technology use... I no longer use a PC for anything other than games. I use my iPad and iPhone for everything else: web-browsing, Skype/Facetime, instant-messaging, YouTube, e-mails, digital online radio, banking, photo-editing, music and GPS/maps, etc...

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On 10-09-20 17:17, Andeddu wrote to Surkey <=-

Are you referring to mobile phone operating systems or operating
systems in general? I suppose Android is fine if you're a basic user
who doesn't require a lot of flexibility. I am fairly basic in my technology use... I no longer use a PC for anything other than games. I use my iPad and iPhone for everything else: web-browsing,
Skype/Facetime, instant-messaging, YouTube, e-mails, digital online
radio, banking, photo-editing, music and GPS/maps, etc...

Mobile, I use both iOS and Android. Why? Because they're different. iOS has all you describe, but for everyday things, Android can do much the same, it just does it differently. But fr me, the diffeences are significant.

iOS has better support for some of my sports training needs. There's a number of apps for timing and performance analysis that have no equivalents on Android, with one exception, where it's the other way around. I also prefer iOS for my daily use.

Android, however, has better ham radio support, with DroidStar, DVSwitch, APRSDroid and SDRTouch, which you can use an RTL-SDR dongle with (by means of an OTG cable), to have a fully featured portable SDR receiver.

So both for me.

And there's still the need for full featured deskyop and laptops here. But I do a lot more than social media and web browsing. I'll also make the observation that doing social media on the new iPhone that I have can be quicker than catching up on the desktop.


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Re: Re: Young folks
By: Andeddu to Surkey on Fri Oct 09 2020 05:17 pm

Re: Re: Young folks
By: Surkey to \ on Fri Oct 09 2020 04:04 am

I honestly prefer android over other operating systems simply because of it's practicality. w
android there isn't much fancy stuff going on unless you use later samsung models. It's just
phone you can make calls on, play games on and take videos on, and not much else.

Are you referring to mobile phone operating systems or operating systems in general? I suppose
Android is fine if you're a basic user who doesn't require a lot of flexibility. I am fairly bas
in my technology use... I no longer use a PC for anything other than games. I use my iPad and
iPhone for everything else: web-browsing, Skype/Facetime, instant-messaging, YouTube, e-mails,
digital online radio, banking, photo-editing, music and GPS/maps, etc...

You know, your answer has just reminded me of RamixOS, a (defunct) chinesse port of Android to X86
aimed at running at PCs. I got a DVD from Linux Magazine :-P

It made me realize how limited Android is in general. It is very wasteful and about the only thing
you can do is social media, email and videos from it. Also a lot of the applications you'd usually
install didn't work well in RemixOS because they expected a phone - but I blame the application
rather than the operarting system.

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Re: Re: Young folks
By: Arelor to Andeddu on Sat Oct 10 2020 05:33 am

You know, your answer has just reminded me of RamixOS, a (defunct) chinesse port of Android to X86
aimed at running at PCs. I got a DVD from Linux Magazine :-P

That sounds hellish. The reason anyone would purchase a PC would be to run more applications, not fewer. Android and iOS are excellent operating systems and most people, including myself, are able to get by on them just fine without the use of a PC. I wouldn't want a big PC taking up space only to lock it into a platform designed for mobile devices. No wonder it's now defunct.

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