Mimi for android is fantastic but apparently apple kicked off all equivalent apps years ago. Luckily FaceTime is immune to this limitation. I had guessed there would be some form of nice integration between the two platforms, aside from iTunes. – Airdrop can’t copy files between OS X and iPhones. Emailing pictures I take to myself is a bit of an inconvenience. I had gotten accustomed to taking a picture and using the bluetooth file transfer app in OS X to get them off my phone. – Can’t transfer files/pictures via Bluetooth. I don’t particularly care that much though. – No app privilege limitation or ability to see what functionality of your phone is given to apps. I hear that a SwiftKey iOS port is in development, and I’m looking forward to it. No external storage like an SD card or similar. – Can’t save non-picture files to the device, such as PDFs or tarballs or anything else you may want to occasionally save. That Python script I wrote to convert a ton of music files to low quality MP3 may finally come in handy. My music collection is a hodgepodge of mp3/wma/flac/m4a/ogg/flac, all of which Nightingale (and Rhythmbox) play without issue. However, there are several complaints and gripes I have about iOS, and I felt like making a blog post to list them: Things I don’t like about iOS: Setting up netatalk/AFP is also nicer and more integrated than using plain NFS to share files from my Debian NAS. You get the ability to use the best of open source, as well as apps which don’t run on Linux such as MS Office and the Adobe suite, without the headache of tweaking Wine. I don’t have any major complaints with OS X, mainly because most of the open source apps I used on Linux work just as well (Firefox, Thunderbird, Filezilla, Chrome, others) and my favorite CLI apps either come bundled (vim, screen, bash, ssh) or are easily installable with brew or compilable from source. I’ve taken to the “Linux/BSD on servers and OS X on desktops” paradigm. ![]() My day job provides me with a macbook pro and a RHEL desktop, which I choose to use headless via ssh/mosh. Switched my primary desktop from Debian Unstable/sid on home-built hardware to a Mac Mini running OS X. Despite the iPhone 6 coming out next month, the feeling of nostalgia was too overbearing to make me want to wait.īeing a long term Linux on the desktop user, I jumped on the apple band wagon for computers around a year ago. Yesterday, I took the plunge and got an iPhone 5S. Since then I used and loved the Motorola Droid and its Motorola successors. ![]() My last iPhone was in 2009, and I switched after around a year when I got sick of which used to be the sole carrier for iPhones.
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