android is easy to use too

[JevyJav]

Ok ok ok. there was someone above me who made a quote about laziness being a strong factor in hindering a persons adaption to a device. I would have to strongly agree with this assessment. There is obviously such thing as ease of use which factors in as well; how steep is the learning curve once? When one does decide to commit to learning the ends and outs of a device ie a couple hours to master an os versus a couple free weekends it does and will take time. The question is how much on "average" (for the average joe) and how much is that person willing to commit to learning.


It all became clear to me when a friend of mines purchased a droid x, her first android phone ever. She had made the switch from some sort of touch screen black berry and was at the end of her contract. She decided on a droid X rather than an iphone because at the time it was hyped up as being the most powerful phone and she was hearing great things about android. 2 weeks later she's pissed because there are no dedicated ringtone sites, she doesnt really like the keyboard that much and wants a t9, the stock facebook app sucks at push notifications.... etc.

For each one of her problems i gave her a rock solid solution that involved applications on the market

1. ringdroid "hey theres no dedicated site because you can create your own ringtones here let me show you"

2. Handcent "here download this app it theres a t9 you can download for it

3. Blue notify " this pushes all your face book notifications directly to your phone as son as you get them and has something called a widget you can place on your home screen

lol she didnt even know she had something called a "swype" keyboard preinstalled on the x. When i showed her how to activate she was simply overwhelmed.


At the end of my little tutorial she became upset with the phone citing

"Why doesnt all this stuff just come pre installed on the phone this sucks i dont feel like having to look for all of these things ringdroid is cool but i dont have time to figure all that ringtone stuff out i just want them premade"

LMAO laziness... and this is who IMO Apple markets to

when she began bitching to me i began to realize exactly who the iphone was made for

NOT ME

Android = Go out and get it Do what you want "play explore be free"

Apple = dad picking out your clothes and dressing you for school the app store is the gated in school yard

As far as learning curve goes i give android a wobbly 7 with 1 being the hardest and 10 being the easiest.
I say wobbly because in my opinion the only thing that really makes android difficult for the new user is the idea that you have to have knowledge and search for the gems that would really appeal to you which for many this seems like a difficult thing to do.

Ironically its a google phone

 

[macprv]

You guys might be surprised at how many people ask questions about their android device that we may consider simple but they find difficult.

Questions like:

How do I assign a ringtone to a contact?
How do I download attachments from MMS?
How do I view files on my SD card?

I bet your 2 year old wouldn't have figured any of that out.

the things you describe here are things that any person could ask about any other os

 

[A.Nonymous]

In my mind, Apple is easier without a question. It's completely uniform. You literally have one button to press and the buttons on the side do the exact same thing in every single app. The volume rocker turns the volume up and down in every app. On my Android phone, it turns the volume up and down unless I'm in some e-readers where the volume rocker scrolls from page to page. Apple would never let an app do this. On iOS, the back button is always in the same place and always goes back to the previous screen. On Android, the back button sometimes goes to the previous screen and sometimes goes home. You have to learn what it does in each app because the developer can customize each app that way.

There is a trade off though. It may make perfect sense for the volume rocker to do XYZ in my app, but on iOS I can't do that. I don't have the option to do that. Apple won't let me. It makes the OS more user friendly, but locks down some of the power and customizability.