hollyhoppet wrote on July 11, 2020 at 6:13 PM

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in iphone se 2020, day 1 review from someone who has used android exclusively for the past six years by twovests

also nobody will believe me when i say it but windows phones were the best and i'm sad they died

twovests OP wrote on July 11, 2020 at 6:56 PM

I feel you, even though I never used such a phone. I'm sad the idea of a "docking station" didn't take off with these phones. Samsung has their DeX, but it's not the familiar Windows.

We do 99% of the same things we did in 2010, except more of it is on someone elses server! If software didn't keep getting worse, our phones would be powerful enough as desktop computers, let alone as thin clients! Just hook it up to a display, mouse, and keyboard!! Wah!!!

As much as I dislike it, Apple has a lot of influence and I really hope they implement a feature like that.

hollyhoppet wrote on July 11, 2020 at 11:04 PM

I can't really agree that software keeps getting worse aside from the constant reliance on cloud services. From my perspective it keeps getting better and more accessible, and with those improvements comes more need for computing power.

Using iOS 13 compared to using something like iOS 3 is night and day. And at least for a while Android was improving fairly rapidly too.

That all being said there's ups and downs, and I still think all software is bad. But it's getting less bad.

twovests OP wrote on July 12, 2020 at 4:08 AM (edited on July 12, 2020 at 4:09 AM)

I guess by "worse" I mean devs are making things heavier when they don't need to be. Heavy websites bogged down by autplaying videos and telemetries and high resolution photos and a bunch of weird CSS things that don't play well with native controls!

I like Postmill, it works very well and would probably work well in the Nintendo DSi browser because it doesn't have a lot of that bad cluttery bloatey stuffe

hollyhoppet wrote on July 12, 2020 at 6:02 PM

oh yeah with only a few exceptions websites seem to be getting more and more garbage every day lol. I was more thinking OS level stuff :P

twovests OP wrote on July 14, 2020 at 7:34 PM

Oh yeah. I really like Linux distros because they seem to have scaled much more reasonably.

Like, the most significant issue I can recall are that many distros no longer fit on a CD, but there are so many options even for 10+ year old laptops. It's great.

ellynu wrote on July 12, 2020 at 5:41 AM

whys that? my parents had windows phones and i never really liked them

hollyhoppet wrote on July 12, 2020 at 6:05 PM

I dunno, I guess because they were fast and the overall design really clicked with me. It was very understated and typically tried to bring you as straight to the important content as possible.

ellynu wrote on July 13, 2020 at 2:57 AM

i've never really liked microsofts' ui design decisions