ethos

Hard truth: part of the challenge of ethOS will be to make it less like Android because Android kinda sucks.

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Just one: UX

It’s janky. The keyboard, contacts, messaging, notifications, navigation, transitions, all crap compared to iOS.

It’s not god awful, but it could be so much better.

Are you sure you're not experiencing a bias of preferring what you've already spent many years learning? 

If you used modern Android (like what exists today, not what existed in 2015) for 5 years, are you certain you'd still feel this way? (I've used iOS for 5 years in the past, I don't prefer it.)

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

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Pretty sure. I used a Pixel only for about a year around 2019, and I am using both in tandem now.

I agree, the parts that Pixel does well are not the "make it friendly to iOS users" parts.

But that's not an indictment of Android, that's just Google choosing their target customers.

IMHO it’s because they aren’t doing it well.

Give Samsung Galaxy a try sometime. I've used Xperia for a few years (best vanilla experience), Galaxy for a few years (solid third party take on Android). Now on Pixel and it is just an iOS wannabe. It's made to sell to former iPhone users, and that seems to upset them even more.