Not everyone is always on the home screen with the settings app. Here are the steps from in an app to turn off WiFi.
iOS:
1. Go to home screen.
2. Navigate to screen with settings app.
3. Open Settings.
4. Turn off WiFi switch.
Android:
1. Pull down Quick Settings.
2. Hold WiFi toggle.
On Android, apps are designed to adapt to the screen.
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Or you can be like me (an iphone4s user) and not bother with having to manage my settings at all, because IOS sports very power-efficient settings.
Seriously. I simply leave all my toggles (wifi/bluetooth/location settings) on by default. I still reach home at ~6pm with over 40% battery life to spare.
What amazes (and irritates me) is that in this day and age, people still have to actively change their phone's settings. Don't get me wrong - this isn't a jibe at Android users, but I personally feel that faster and more convenient access to settings isn't the answer. Instead, companies should be looking at making this technology better at managing themselves, and more power efficient in general. If anything, I would argue that quick toggles may actually be a quick bandaid that might hamper the development of such technology. Why bother, when people can already switch them on/off so readily? But my point is that I shouldn't have to.
For example, instead of manually adjusting your screen brightness, why not smarter sensors that calibrate your screen's brightness more accurately? Or bluetooth and wireless tech that consume so little power when not in use; you are largely indifferent between leaving them on or off? This is the sort of automation I would like to see being implemented, rather than more settings that people need to sift through and deal with.
I guess the issue is that Google is not international enough. I just don't have access to play movies books or anything besides music, wallet abs apps
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To be fair, itunes outside of the US is fairly crippled as well. Or at least, I don't enjoy the same wide selection of music and movies in my country, likely due to exclusive distribution rights. The content isn't that cheap either. Either way, I don't find myself particularly compelled to purchase media through itunes.
Now for some of my other dislikes about iproducts.
Proprietary components. Yes the lightning is nice, but is a apple standard not a world standard. Be nice if they worked with other companies to make it as mainstream as the mini usb. Like the fact that it works any direction and is faster but not for $20 a cable. I bought 5 mini usb cables off of Amazon for $4.50 shipped, real OEM Motorola ones.
No wireless charging without a ugly looking case. Not important to some, but to me since I got it for the Nexus 4, I use often and like it. Saves wear and tear of the micro usb port.
Everytime an update gets released you lose your jailbreak. No way I want to wait 3 months or more to update just to be able to jailbreak untethered.
Last time I tried, couldn't wirelessly print to any printer on iOS, only HP ones.
I don't get what the obsession with having a universally standard adaptor is. Micro-USB sucks, not least because it charges the devices so slowly. Likewise, the world has flitted from one standard to the next countless times within the past few years, while Apple was the only company to keep their 30-pin connector completely unchanged for the last decade. So I find it ironic that Apple receives so much flak for updating their cable just once (in a bid to futureproof it for the next decade), while it is only a matter of time before the world moves on to the next universal standard. Again.
Lightning is actually quite clever once you understand what it does (contains active circuitry which lets the device push firmware to the adaptor, theoretically allowing the device to support any new, unreleased format and outsourcing all the ports to the adaptor side, which in turn lets the device remain as thin and light as it does). But I digress...
I don't jailbreak, so I guess I appreciate the convenience of being able to get an update on the same day Apple releases it, download and install it within minutes.
Not sure about wireless printing, I am using printopia (which prints through my Mac-connected printer).
Different preferences for different people, I guess.