How is it going guys I am Matthias and welcome to five stupid things about Android.
*Psst* hey *Psst* I made a new channel by the way link in the description below
there might be a video there waiting for you by the way so you may want to check
it out. Now before we go any further we need to establish some ground rules here.
We are only going to be talking about stock android which includes OEM scans.
Now I know android is infinitely modular but today we're gonna be talking about
straight out of the boxes as in no rooting, just like we did on the five stupid
things about iphone. So these are my thoughts on what I don't like about
android. Like this video if you agree and if you disagree i'd love to know your
thoughts down in the comments below.
So number one not so open after all. Google's android OS has been widely
known as an open platform and it is in the extent that your developer looking
to use the source code to create your own unique product but if your handset
user not so much a lot of people are confused between the difference between
google android and Android Open Source Project these two things are entirely
separate you see google android OS is a project that google shares to attend set
partners many things are locked down deeper within the system including user
access sure there's a little switch buried in the settings of your android
phone that allows you to install third-party applications not from the
google play store but that's not really what defines an open OS because even
those applications don't have full access into android subsystem to do
anything deeper than have applications talk to each other and theme the device
you're going to need to go much deeper as in root the device
meaning exploiting security bugs within the firmware to grant yourself superuser
access because one of the first things that I wanted to do when I got this
device was to actually change the scale of the OS and I couldn't do that without
rooting and that's kind of stupid
number two there is no good incorporated backup solution on the countless android
devices that I've used I could not find a worthwhile backup solution within the
system to use we are in the day and age when most of what we do right now is in
the cloud so backing up isn't a huge issue anymore but it still is needed
sure you can download backup applications from the google play store
for the feature this fundamental should be incorporated within the system I
tried the current backup system on four point four point four and I wasn't too
satisfied had like a twenty percent success rate meaning
eighty percent of the apps that i had on the phone before I wipe the device
either didn't back up or didn't revert to their latest state and that's
really stupid number three crashes crashes galore
I don't think anyone can argue here that android OS isn't quite as stable as iOS
I mean it makes sense android has to be compatible with hundreds of devices with
hundreds of different hardware combinations but the amount of crashes
and hangs I get on a day-to-day basis is alarmingly high i would say i roughly get
around three to four app crashes a day and at least once the system will crash
and I have to reboot the entire phone when I was on iOS I remember their
periods for like two weeks where I didn't have to restart the device and
rarely did I ever get a notification that an application has stopped
responding
I mean google's own play store crashes on me at least twice a day I mean I do
download a lot of apps but still I find a lot of inconsistencies with the
stability of the system sometimes the Apple launched sometimes it wont
sometimes you'll get a notification from the app sometimes you won't sometimes
the screen lock and sometimes it won't and that's stupidly stupid number four
skins
I personally am not a fan of OEM skin the skin is when a company like Samsung
or LG will modify the look feel and navigation of stock Android to suit
their device
now you can find devices that are not skimmed such as the nexus series but a
lot of them aren't the quality of the nexus in my opinion stock android is the
best-looking and performing version of android now we don't necessarily blame
the skins for this as much as the carriers but almost every skin phone
that I've ever had has had tons and tons of bloatware just riddled with it when I
to samsung s5 there were like eight atnt apps that i couldn't delete
only disabled i could only disable them eight? If you can't do it in one app quit
another thing about skins is that OMG are embarrassingly slow at updating
their devices Google came out with Android 5.0 lollipop jun 25th 2014
as in nine months ago as of March fit the saturation of lollipop is only three
percent of the android devices out there
odds are you're eligible for a new phone running while we pop before you're
actually going to get an update to that existing phone that's perfectly good
that you have right now if it even ever gets the update and that's
twenty or number 5 where on earth is the design standard
one of the things that I find most frustrating about the Android experience
is the lack of design standard across the software and the hardware
if you take a quick look around at the different android devices you're going
to know one thing really quick
they are all different now this can be a good thing but it can also be a bad
thing
no I can forgive hardware and consistency is like button placement
because you're only going to typically have one phone at a time and once you
have it you'll get used to it but I can't really forgive software
inconsistencies such as what does the back button actually do sometimes that
back button will take you to the last app you use sometimes that back button
will take you to the last page in the app you are using there is no constant
with that back button because there is no constant with how the app should work
some apps have a back button in the top corner and some apps don't some apps
have that top back button and only part of their ass leaving the user to move in
consistently throughout the interface
I find that a lot of applications navigate with a swipe inside bar and
some navigate with the top bar some navigate with the physical buttons the
issue here is that there's a lack of a standard that developers can follow so
that the user can more efficiently move throughout the system and throughout
their apps
the more you can fluidly move through the system means the less time wasted
navigate and that's the stupidest thank you for watching guys and as i said
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