(11 August, 2020 at 1:42 am PST) edit— This article previously neglected to mention that the App Library has an alphabetical list within the search area, this has been corrected. The section on the App Library in iOS 14 has been revised to be based exclusively on information from Apple, and some minor textual errors throughout the piece have been corrected.

(2020年8月11日，太平洋标准时间上午1时42分)编辑-这篇文章以前被忽略，而提到应用程序库在搜索区域中具有字母顺序的列表，此列表已得到纠正。 iOS 14中的“应用程序库”部分已修改为仅基于Apple的信息，并且整篇文章中的一些较小的文本错误已得到纠正。

I decided at the end of the last segment that before I wrote the final entry in this series, I wanted to challenge myself to find a category where — without qualification — Android is superior to iOS.

我决定在最后一部分的结尾处，在我撰写本系列的最后一篇文章之前，我想挑战自己找到一个类别-在没有资格的情况下-Android优于iOS。

I’ve written about small technical details within broader categories where Android is superior (ease of search, voice assistant, etc.), but I was always forced to concede that iOS won out in the overall category because it shined everywhere else (search unnecessary due to superior design language, privacy concerns with crowdsourced audio models, etc.).

我已经写了关于Android优越的更广泛类别中的小型技术细节(易于搜索，语音助手等 )，但是我总是被迫承认iOS在整体类别中胜出，因为它在其他任何地方都闪耀(不需要搜索)由于高级设计语言，与众包音频模型有关的隐私问题等 )。

I thought that this was going to be difficult, and to a certain degree it was, until I realized that there were in fact two categories where Android really outshines iOS in every way. I’d been ignoring writing about them because in the first case I assumed it was a bug that would soon be remedied, and in the second case because I thought it was more of a shift in thinking between the design philosophies. In both cases I was wildly incorrect.

我认为这将是困难的，并且一定程度上是这样，直到我意识到实际上有两种类别的Android确实在各方面都胜过iOS。 我一直没有写关于它们的文章，因为在第一种情况下，我认为这是一个很快就可以解决的错误；在第二种情况下，因为我认为这更多是设计哲学之间思维上的转变。 在这两种情况下，我都是完全错误的。

Those two categories are:

这两个类别是：

1. Email/Gmail use电子邮件/ Gmail使用
2. Home screen organization主屏幕组织

These are both issues that are egregiously mishandled in iOS and it’s a shame that I was blinding myself to them throughout this deep-dive.¹ I do get the chance to fix that now though, so let’s take a look at them.

这些都是在iOS中处理不当的问题，可惜我在这次深入学习中一直对它们视而不见。¹现在我确实有机会解决此问题，让我们来看一下它们。

First, I need to clarify something: I’m probably going to get some flack for this but using the word email to be synonymous with Gmail is a hill I’m going to (tentatively) be prepared to die on.

首先，我需要澄清一下：为此，我可能会感到有些困惑，但是使用“电子邮件”一词作为Gmail的同义词是我准备(暂时)准备死去的一座小山。

Broadly: when someone says “email” they usually mean a free email provider.² Now, there are options available here but there’s a trope about judging people by their email domain for a reason. There are two acceptable cases for what is after the @ symbol: a professional-looking domain managed by the individual in question, or Gmail.

广泛地讲：当有人说“电子邮件”时，他们通常指的是免费的电子邮件提供商。²现在，这里有可用的选项，但是出于某种原因， 有人对通过他们的电子邮件域来评判人们感到困惑 。 @符号后面有两种可以接受的情况：由相关人员管理的具有专业外观的域，即Gmail。

For that exact reason I argue that Gmail support in iOS should be more than a joke. There is the possibility that this is actually Google’s fault for providing a bad API for persistent network connections — perhaps it drains battery life to maintain a push connection? — but I can’t find any proof of that. Not to mention, Apple has more money than god and is a dominant player in tech; if they can’t get Google to build an API for their operating system over a weekend then what is all that clout for?

因此，我认为iOS对Gmail的支持不应该只是个玩笑。 为持久的网络连接提供错误的API可能实际上是Google的错-也许会浪费电池寿命来维持推送连接？ -但我找不到任何证明。 更不用说，苹果比上帝拥有更多的钱，并且是科技领域的主导者。 如果他们不能在一个周末内让Google为自己的操作系统构建API，那么这有什么用呢？

Not sure what I’m talking about? Look at this image. These are the configuration options for a Gmail account within the Mail app in iOS — the default email management application.

不知道我在说什么？ 看这张图片。 这些是iOS中“邮件”应用程序(默认电子邮件管理应用程序)中的Gmail帐户的配置选项。

See there at the bottom? That little message is important. It says “Your iPhone will fetch new data in the background only when on power and Wi-Fi.” (Emphasis mine) Meaning, Mail will only start checking for new email in my Gmail account when I’ve not only got a stable Wi-Fi connection (which is a reasonable requirement I guess), but I also have to have the device connected to power!

在底部看到吗？ 那条小消息很重要。 它说：“ 只有在打开电源和Wi-Fi时，您的iPhone才会在后台获取新数据。” (强调我的意思)，意思是，只有当我不仅拥有稳定的Wi-Fi连接(我认为这是一个合理的要求)，而且我还必须连接设备后，邮件才会开始在我的Gmail帐户中检查新电子邮件通电！

This is simply ridiculous. For iCloud emails I can have the expected push-style updates, where as soon as an email comes in I’m alerted about it, but for Gmail I have to wait until my iPhone deigns to bother taking a look. The only workaround for this is to manually open Mail and refresh the inbox that way.

这简直太荒谬了。 对于iCloud电子邮件，我可以得到预期的推送式更新，一旦收到电子邮件，就会收到有关此消息的警报，但是对于Gmail，我必须等到我的iPhone设计到现在为止。 唯一的解决方法是手动打开Mail并以此方式刷新收件箱。

When I read that little note at the bottom of the page I was completely bumfuzzled. I thought I must be misunderstanding things so I decided to click on one of the timed options, hoping that maybe what it meant was that these settings only applied when the device was plugged in and on Wi-Fi. It wouldn’t make sense, but it would be better than this nonsense.

当我阅读页面底部的小笔记时，我完全感到困惑。 我以为我一定对事情有误解，所以我决定单击一个定时选项，希望这意味着这些设置仅在插入设备和Wi-Fi时才适用。 这没有任何意义，但是比这种胡说八道要好。

No such luck. Selecting the 30 minute option got rid of the notification about power; but it brought up the alert at the top: “The schedule below is used when push is off or for applications which do not support push. For better battery life, fetch less frequently.”

没有这种运气。 选择30分钟选项可以摆脱有关电源的通知； 但它在顶部显示了警报：“以下时间表用于关闭推送功能或用于不支持推送功能的应用程序。 为了延长电池寿命，请减少获取频率。”

Battery life is certainly important, but being able to check for emails is not the most battery-intensive of activities. There are options that are almost as old as email itself that allow you to simply authenticate and get a list of headers for the messages in the inbox; far less data than downloading the entire messages themselves. If they don’t match the cached device copy you can notify the user there are new messages, and/or download the full copies depending on preferences.

电池寿命当然很重要，但是能够检查电子邮件并不是最耗电池的活动。 有些选项几乎与电子邮件本身一样古老，可以让您简单地进行身份验证并获取收件箱中邮件标题的列表； 比下载整个消息本身要少得多的数据。 如果它们与缓存的设备副本不匹配，则可以通知用户有新消息，和/或根据喜好下载完整副本。

I can’t think of a reason for Apple to have such terrible support for Gmail. It’s the de facto email provider and has been for everyone since it exited beta; it simply works the best and has the most features. Plus, it’s not lame, like Yahoo or Hotmail or outlook.com, which are the domains of boomers and the technologically illiterate (or the technologically ironic).

我想不到苹果对Gmail提供如此糟糕的支持的原因。 它是事实上的电子邮件提供商，自退出Beta版以来一直为所有人使用。 它只是效果最好，功能最多。 另外，它并不像Yahoo或Hotmail或Outlook.com那样me脚 ，后者是新兴市场和技术水平不高(或技术讽刺)的领域。

The only explanation would be that Apple are trying to push their iCloud email offerings? But I doubt that. It’s not a service that’s well-loved by anyone, and I have literally never met a person who gave me an email address for iCloud — this includes die-hard Apple users. It’s just … not done.

唯一的解释是，Apple试图推广其iCloud电子邮件产品吗？ 但我对此表示怀疑。 这不是任何人都喜欢的服务，而且我从没遇到过给我提供iCloud电子邮件地址的人-其中包括顽固的Apple用户。 只是…没有完成。

If Apple wanted people to ditch Gmail and start using iCloud email accounts they’d put out a sleek advertisement for it. That would probably work really well. Discouraging users within iOS by making Mail all but incompatible with the platform doesn’t make any rational sense.

如果Apple希望人们放弃Gmail并开始使用iCloud电子邮件帐户，他们会为其发布精美的广告。 那可能真的很好。 通过使Mail全部但与平台不兼容来劝阻iOS内部的用户没有任何理性意义。

Just let me use my email, please! I realize I can install the Gmail app — I have! — but I don’t like having to open a separate app for different email accounts, and I don’t like having to look at Google/Android’s visual design language while I’m using an Apple/iOS device; it’s rather jarring.

请让我使用我的电子邮件！ 我知道我可以安装Gmail应用程序了！ —但我不喜欢为不同的电子邮件帐户打开单独的应用程序，并且我不喜欢在使用Apple / iOS设备时必须查看Google / Android的视觉设计语言； 这很刺耳。

I think the reason I neglected to mention this more in-depth earlier is because I was afraid of sounding like those terrible people in forums who think that requesting a feature is the same thing as reporting a bug. They’re whiney and entitled and they don’t seem to understand that the software isn’t designed for them specifically. I’ve come to realize that this isn’t a situation like that though; it’s not out of the question in 2020 to ask for a mail application — a standard utility on every mobile and desktop operating system known to humanity at this point — to be able to use push connections to the single most popular email provider outside of China.

我认为我之所以忽略更早地提及这一点，是因为我害怕听起来像论坛中那些可怕的人，他们认为请求功能与报告错误是一回事。 他们有抱怨并且有资格，而且他们似乎不明白该软件不是专门为他们设计的。 我已经意识到，虽然情况并非如此。 在2020年，要求邮件应用程序(这是人类已知的每个移动和台式机操作系统上的标准实用程序)都能够使用推式连接到中国境外最受欢迎的单个电子邮件提供商的想法并不是没有问题。

On Android it just works. There’s really nothing to say about it. You connect your Google account and Gmail just works. You get your email notifications the second an email comes in as long as your network connection is adequate; just like email should be.

在Android上可以正常使用。 真的没有什么可说的。 您连接了Google帐户，Gmail就可以正常工作了。 只要您的网络连接足够，您就会收到第二封电子邮件通知。 就像电子邮件一样。

The other area where iOS is entirely outshined by Android is the home screen.

iOS完全被Android超越的另一个领域是主屏幕。

This shouldn’t be a difficult concept to get right, and I probably wouldn’t have mentioned it because — in my naïveté — I assumed that I was having teething problems with iOS’ home screen as a recent convert. I didn’t even bother to see if other people had the same gripes as me. I’ve mentioned paradigm changes between the OSs before; situations where neither OS is better than the other, they just go about solving the same problem in a different way and the user’s workflow is required to adapt accordingly.

这不是一个很难解决的概念，我可能不会提到它，因为在我的天才中 ，我认为最近一次转换时我的iOS主屏幕出现了问题。 我什至不理会别人是否和我一样。 我之前已经提到过操作系统之间的范式更改。 在两个操作系统都不比另一个操作系统更好的情况下，它们只是以不同的方式解决相同的问题，因此需要用户的工作流进行相应的调整。

This is not a case like that. This is a case of the iOS home screen being kinda junky.

事实并非如此。 这是iOS主屏幕有点过时的情况。

Here’s how Android does it: everything looks roughly the same to iOS in terms of the permanent dock for icons on the bottom row of the screen, then the pages where you can stick the icons to launch apps. When you install an app there is a setting which will add it to your home screen by default, but this is optional. If it’s on then the app icon will appear on the SECOND page of the home screen, since the first page is usually very specifically set up by the user. If the option is off, the app icon has nowhere to go but the app drawer.

Android的运作方式如下：就永久停靠而言，所有内容在iOS上看起来都与iOS大致相同，即屏幕底部的图标，然后是您可以粘贴图标以启动应用程序的页面。 安装应用程序时，会有一个设置，默认情况下会将其添加到主屏幕，但这是可选的。 如果打开，则应用程序图标将出现在主屏幕的第二页上，因为第一页通常是用户专门设置的。 如果关闭该选项，则应用程序图标仅可放在应用程序抽屉中。

The app drawer is the important thing here. You can access it from any of the home screen pages, and it is literally just an alphabetized list of all the apps on your device so they’re easy to find. The latest version of Android has added a top row to the app drawer that has suggestions of apps that the AI thinks you might want to open at the moment, but immediately after that is an A-Z list of your installed apps.

应用程序抽屉在这里很重要。 您可以从任何主屏幕页面访问它，并且它实际上只是设备上所有应用程序的字母顺序列表，因此很容易找到它们。 最新版本的Android已在应用程序抽屉中添加了第一行，其中提供了AI认为您可能现在想打开的应用程序建议，但紧随其后的是已安装应用程序的AZ列表。

iOS 14 will introduce a new way to handle home screens, which we’ll talk about in a moment, but the traditional way has just been to take any app and stick it on a page on the home screen. There is no app drawer, just an endless series of pages to scroll through to get to the app you want.

iOS 14将引入一种处理主屏幕的新方法，我们将在稍后讨论，但是传统方法只是采用任何应用程序并将其粘贴在主屏幕的页面上。 没有应用程序抽屉，只有无数系列页面可以滚动浏览以找到所需的应用程序。

Both of these OSs have the option to clump apps into folders that only take up one segment of space on the pages, which is nice, but only helps so much in iOS. In addition, Android has the ability to add widgets to the pages, of varyings sizes and providing dubious functionality, if you’re into that sort of thing.

这两个操作系统都可以选择将应用程序集中到文件夹中，这些文件夹仅占用页面上的一小部分空间，这很不错，但在iOS中却大有帮助。 此外，Android可以将各种尺寸的窗口小部件添加到页面中，并提供可疑功能(如果您喜欢这种事情)。

iOS 14 will be changing things up a bit with the addition of a few new features. For one, you’ll finally get to add widgets to your home screen pages. Isn’t that fun? If you liked dumb, weirdly-shaped attempts at providing useful information or strange utilities, then this is right up your alley.

iOS 14将通过添加一些新功能来使情况有所改变。 首先，您最终将小部件添加到主屏幕页面。 那不是很有趣吗？ 如果您喜欢提供有用的信息的愚蠢，怪异的尝试或奇怪的实用工具，那么这就是您的最佳选择。

The more important change is that you’ll now be able to remove apps from the home screen, relegating those that aren’t used all the time to the new app drawer. It’s not technically called an app drawer, it’s called the App Library, but I refuse to call it that so … app drawer it is.

更为重要的更改是，您现在可以从主屏幕上删除应用程序，将一直不使用的应用程序降级到新的应用程序抽屉中 。 从技术上讲，它不是应用程序抽屉，而是应用程序库，但我拒绝这样称呼它……应用程序抽屉。

This is a godsend for anyone who has more than two pages worth of apps installed. No longer will users have to spend time trying to figure out which apps they open the most, juggle them into the best order on the screens, and then throw the rest into an unorganized range of third or fourth through fifth or fifteenth pages, never to be easily found again.

对于安装了超过两页应用程序的任何人来说，这都是天赐的礼物。 用户不再需要花费时间试图找出最打开的应用程序，将它们按屏幕上的最佳顺序摆放，然后将其余应用程序放到无序排列的第三或第四到第五或第十五页范围内，而无需容易再次发现。

The problem with this implementation, from my experience, is that the app drawer stinks. How does it even work? It drives me nuts. Here, take a look at this stupid thing.

根据我的经验，此实现的问题是应用程序抽屉发臭 。 它甚至如何工作？ 它使我发疯。 在这里，看看这个愚蠢的事情。

First off, I hope you and Apple — or the developers of the app you’re using — decided on the same categorization scheme! Because if not, good luck finding what you want without using the search feature (which defeats the purpose of an app drawer in the first place, by the by).

首先，我希望您和Apple或您正在使用的应用程序的开发人员都决定采用相同的分类方案！ 因为如果没有，那么不使用搜索功能就可以找到您想要的东西(首先，by击败了应用程序抽屉的目的)。

This is not alphabetical so if you, like me, think that Google Voice ought to be categorized as Social rather than Productivity then you’re outta luck, my friend. Someone, either the app developer or Apple, gets to choose from the categorization schemes for their app and then that’s the folder it goes into. Period.

这不是按字母顺序排列的，因此，如果您像我一样认为Google语音应归类为“ 社交”而不是“ 生产力”，那么我就不走运了，我的朋友。 无论是应用程序开发人员还是Apple，都可以从其应用程序的分类方案中进行选择，然后进入该文件夹。 期。

If you do want an alphabetical list, there is another step you’ll have to deal with: clicking the search bar at the top of the App Library now brings up the keyboard so you can search for an app, and displays a list of all installed apps in a list view that is … wait for it … alphabetical!

如果您确实需要按字母顺序排列的列表，则还需要执行另一步骤：单击“应用程序库”顶部的搜索栏，现在会弹出键盘，以便您可以搜索应用程序，并显示所有列表已安装的应用程序在列表视图中，请等待…按字母顺序！

In Android you can get to a simple, alphabetized list of all your installed apps with a single swipe up from the bottom of any page on the home screen. In iOS you’ll need to swipe n+1 times, where n is the number of pages you have on your home screen, and then click at the top of the screen in order to bring up a simple list of apps.

在Android中，您可以从主屏幕上任意页面的底部向上轻扫，以简单，按字母顺序列出所有已安装应用的列表。 在iOS中，您需要滑动n + 1次，其中n是主屏幕上的页面数， 然后单击屏幕顶部以显示简单的应用程序列表。

I can see how the categorization idea was clever: that’s how I tend to group things myself when I’m doing it manually, but there are simply too many edge cases. As I mentioned, I would place Google Voice in Social rather than Productivity, and all my finance apps ought to have their own Financial category instead of being relegated to the apparent catch-all of Productivity.

我可以看到分类的想法多么聪明：这就是当我手动进行分类时倾向于自己对事物进行分组的方式，但是边缘情况太多了。 正如我所提到的，我将Google Voice置于社交而非生产力中 ，并且我所有的财务应用程序都应具有自己的财务类别，而不是被归类为明显的生产力 。

Does it sound like it might be faster to use the search bar to find your app than to use iOS’ app drawer? That’s because it is.

听起来使用搜索栏查找应用可能比使用iOS应用抽屉更快？ 那是因为。

The other thing that I find absolutely, hilariously unpleasant here — especially for a company like Apple with such a strong sense for powerfully intuitive interfaces — is that the categories themselves are restricted to a set number of icons.

我在这里发现的另一件事是绝对令人讨厌的，特别是对于像Apple这样具有强大直观界面意识的公司来说，这是不愉快的，因为类别本身仅限于一定数量的图标。

If there are more than four apps that match a given category, then iOS will split the four spaces within the category up, so that the first three quadrants each have a big app (these are the ones you use most frequently). The fourth quadrant is broken into four more quadrants for the next four most frequently used apps of that category.

如果符合给定类别的应用程序超过四个，则iOS会将类别中的四个空格分割开，以便前三个象限每个都有一个大型应用程序(这些是您最常使用的应用程序)。 第四象限被分成四个象限该类别的接下来的四个最常用的应用程序。

When there are more than 7 apps that match a category, iOS decides which ones get hidden within the app drawer layout. Take a look at the animation below, illustrating this quite unpleasant behavior.

当有超过7个与某个类别匹配的应用程序时，iOS会确定哪些应用程序隐藏在应用程序抽屉布局中。 看一下下面的动画，说明这种相当不愉快的行为。

Observe a click on the bottom-right icon in the Reference & Reading section, revealing a slew of hitherto hidden icons for even more apps that may or may not make sense — to you, the person who is trying to get to an app — to be in that category.

观察一下“ 参考与阅读”部分中右下角的图标，可以看到许多迄今隐藏的图标，这些图标隐藏着更多甚至可能没有意义的应用程序- 对您(尝试访问某个应用程序的人)-属于该类别。

Next, watch a click on the bottom right segment in Entertainment to be treated to the same sort of behavior. “Oh, that’s where it went!”

接下来，观看“ 娱乐”中右下部分的单击，将其视为相同的行为。 “哦，那就到了！”

What is this!?

这是什么！？

I do not know, and I do not like it. That’s a subjective statement. This is actually a pretty logical system for organizing apps. Then again, it’s a little too logical.

我不知道，我也不喜欢。 那是一个主观的陈述。 这实际上是一个用于组织应用程序的逻辑系统。 再说一次，这有点太合逻辑了。

苹果公司让iOS承担了繁重的工作，以创建一个屏幕，该屏幕肯定在所有可用类别和显示类别中都将是您应用程序中使用频率最高的应用程序，但它不一定会将这些应用程序放在您期望的位置。 并且由于它会自动在每个类别中隐藏不常使用的应用程序，因此您不得不使用搜索功能来键入所需内容或滚动字母列表。 (Apple has let iOS do the heavy lifting of creating a screen that will definitely have the most frequently used of your apps in every category available and on display, but it won’t necessarily have those apps in the places you’d expect; and because it automatically hides less frequently used apps in each category you wind up having to use the search feature to either type out what you want, or scroll through an alphabetical list.)

The thing that confuses me about this is that it doesn’t seem to achieve any of the goals it might have. As a basic alphabetized list of your apps it takes too many swipes and taps to get there. As a way to de-clutter your pages by categories, user-defined folders already do that.

让我感到困惑的是，它似乎并没有实现它可能拥有的任何目标。 作为您应用程序的基本字母顺序列表，只需轻扫一下即可到达目的地。 作为按类别整理页面的一种方法，用户定义的文件夹已经可以做到这一点。

Since it automatically generates displays based on the most frequently used apps in each category, it defeats itself as a place where you’re likely to want to look. Why? Because if it’s an app a user opens often, the user probably has it already placed on a page so they can get there by muscle memory; they’re not going to go to the app drawer for it.

由于它会根据每个类别中最常用的应用程序自动生成显示内容，因此它在您可能想要查找的地方不胜枚举。 为什么？ 因为如果它是用户经常打开的应用程序，则用户可能已经将其放置在页面上，因此他们可以通过肌肉记忆到达该页面。 他们不会为此去应用程序抽屉。

The reason for the app drawer would be for apps that you don’t use often; apps you don’t want cluttering a page on your home screen, so you’ve hidden them.

应用程序抽屉的原因是您不经常使用的应用程序； 您不想使主屏幕上的页面混乱的应用程序，因此已将其隐藏。

应用程序库首先将吸引用户使用的应用程序隐藏起来。 (App Library takes the apps that would entice a user to go to it in the first place, and it hides them.)

It turns finding iMovie, which you haven’t used in a year, into a game of “Wait, is it Productivity, Creativity, or Entertainment related?” Then you can click to expand those categories. Or, if you want to be a little faster, you can click the search button and scroll down to “I” and go from there.

它将找到一年未使用的iMovie变成“等等，是生产力 ， 创造力还是娱乐相关的游戏？” 然后，您可以单击以展开这些类别。 或者，如果您想更快一点，可以单击搜索按钮并向下滚动到“ I”，然后从那里开始。

Or … you could just stay on the first page, swipe down anywhere on the screen, type “imo” and then click iMovie when Siri displays it as an app suggestion — no App Library necessary.

或者…您可以停留在第一页上，向下滑动屏幕上的任何位置，键入“ imo”，然后在Siri将其显示为应用建议时单击iMovie-无需应用程序库。

Because this feature isn’t finalized yet there’s the possibility it will change before iOS 14 is officially released. In that case I will be revising this article but in the meantime, this is how Apple has stated the feature will work, and other outlets are reporting the same behavior. (Apparently they like it! To each their own.)

由于此功能尚未最终确定，因此有可能在iOS 14正式发布之前进行更改。 在那种情况下，我将对本文进行修订，但与此同时，这就是Apple声明该功能将起作用的方式 ，并且其他媒体也报道了相同的行为 。 ( 显然，他们喜欢它！每个人都有。)

I can certainly see how this is a neat feature, but it seems self-defeating. I think most users place their frequently used apps on their home screen pages already. The only reason to go to the App Library is to seek out apps that aren’t commonly used, which happen to be just the apps that the Library automatically hides.

我当然可以看到这是一个很好的功能，但它似乎是自欺欺人的。 我认为大多数用户已经将其常用的应用程序放置在其主屏幕页面上。 转到应用程序库的唯一原因是找出不常用的应用程序，而这些应用程序恰好是该库自动隐藏的应用程序。

Nevertheless, having access to an alphabetical list of installed apps is tremendously useful, and for that I’m grateful. Getting to it could be easier than n+2 interactions though …

尽管如此，访问按字母顺序排列的已安装应用程序列表非常有用，对此我深表感谢。 到达它可能比n + 2交互更容易……

There we have it — two large and important categories where Android is better at doing things than iOS. Admittedly the latter problem is solvable just by using the built-in search features of iOS, but the former is inexcusable. In every other way iOS makes users more productive by virtue of being intuitive and reliable. Why Apple has not gotten a useful push notification system in place for Gmail users is anyone’s guess.

我们有两个重要的大类，其中Android比iOS更擅长做事。 诚然，仅通过使用iOS的内置搜索功能就可以解决后一个问题，但是前一个问题是不可原谅的。 iOS通过直观和可靠的方式以其他方式使用户提高工作效率。 有人猜测，为什么Apple没有为Gmail用户提供有用的推送通知系统。

The next entry in this series will be the last, I’m sad to say. It’s been enjoyable sharing all the things that I’ve observed as a traitor to the Android ecosystem. All good things must come to an end at some point though, and this comparison is beginning to get unwieldy in length.

在本系列的下一个项目将是最后一个，我很伤心地说。 分享我观察到的所有叛逆者都是Android生态系统，这很愉快。 所有的好东西都必须在某个时候结束，而这种比较的长度开始变得笨拙。

It’s time I drew some overall conclusions, and offered some advice for those who, like me, have been using Android for the better part of a decade now but are at least open to the idea of jumping ship if there’s a better alternative available.

现在是时候我得出一些总体结论了，并为那些像我一样已经使用Android十多年的人提供了一些建议，但是如果有更好的选择，那么至少对跳船的想法持开放态度。

Footnotes

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¹ I must apologize to my readers in this case; I think it would be fair to say I was not holding the highest journalistic standards when I failed to mention both of these issues in wider categories previously. I have briefly discussed that they were concerns of mine, but they should have been emphasized a bit more, to make it apparent that they were more than just minor problems.

¹在这种情况下，我必须向读者道歉； 我想可以公平地说，当我之前未能在更广泛的类别中同时提及这两个问题时，我没有达到最高的新闻水平。 我已经简短地讨论了它们是我的关注点，但是应该多强调一些它们，以使它们明显不仅仅是小问题。

² Yeah I know there are lots of people who host their own domains. I have periodically run my own mail server for fun myself. When I’m talking to people who aren’t technical geeks like me though, if I say email I mean the email I expect those people to contact me at or know already; my gmail account.

²是的，我知道有很多人托管自己的域名。 我定期运行自己的邮件服务器以娱乐自己。 但是，当我与不是我这样的技术怪杰的人交谈时，如果我说电子邮件，是指我希望那些人能够与我联系或已经知道的电子邮件。 我的Gmail帐户。