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Android Seems To Be Getting Worse.
When I first came across Android version 2.3 some year back in a phone and a tablet - I was amazed. It worked very well, the only real limitation then was processor speed and small RAM. I thought that this was something that could only get better with later versions, and give Apple a run for their money.
I've now come to the conclusion that Android has gotten worse. I've got Android 4.2 and 4.4 tablets and phones - and they aren't as good as the old Android 2.3 was. These later versions have major problems like where they stopped the feature which lets you move apps to SD card - so that you can only use the SD card for storage of photos and videos and books. They designated internal storage as being "SD Card 0", which stuffed up all the App 2 SD apps.
Similarly, if one does something the phone doesn't like for some reason (like move big chunks of data from the phone to the actual SD card) suddenly you find that you can't install any new apps into the phone because of "Insufficent Storage", when the actual data storage is relatively empty and there should be space for hundreds of apps. Googling this, one finds dozens of solutions for this common problem, but none of them worked on my phone. In the end, I had to do a Factory Reset and start from scratch.
How can it be that such a major and common problem has remained unaddressed in subsequent versions of Android? With version 2.3 I could put as many apps into the device as I liked, but with later versions I have to be sparse, always wondering if the next app I install will stuff the device up with "Insufficient Storage".
Even more odd, in my recently purchased whiz-bang Lenovo A916 Octa-core, Android 4.4 phone, I download the Skype or Youtube apps, and they just don't work (everyone else has the same problem with this phone). How can Skype not work in a phone?
Quite frankly, if some one says their IPhone or IPad is much better than Android - I am not going to argue.
Has anybody tried Android 5 yet? Is it as good as Android 2.3 was?
Cheers,
Renato
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