My kid cousin randomly came up to me and said “why is your phone so tinyyy”…that’s when I finally understood small phones like my 13 mini really aren’t a thing for most 🥲
I have a pixel pro I got for app development, but I only use it for wordle and Sync (which has been better than the iOS lemmy apps I’ve tried). It’s so large that I can’t imagine lugging it around.
I can see a kid who’s watching YouTube and TikTok and playing Fortnite for 8 hours a day wanting a big phone, I can see somebody with a purse having one, but I do not do those things.
For me the shock was less so “kids want big phones”, and more like people think it’s natural for phones to be a certain size nowadays (just like house ceilings are usually 8-9’ high)
Many of the iOS ones are wrappers for some kind of web view, so they’re missing smaller details like native views.
Voyager for example never felt better installed than it did a PWA, and it would get itself into some weird states. I had issues with the text editing not feeling right.
I tried Memmy and it’s pretty good, but kind of buggy (for example the match system theme setting doesn’t work for me and it wouldn’t jump to the correct message in long threads when clicking a reply in my inbox).
I’ve been trying Avalont which is the best so far, does feel better being a native app, but the scroll component on the comment text box is very buggy, and refreshing my inbox doesn’t use the native pull to refresh action so it only works after I scroll down and up again.
Sync benefits from being many years old, so everything works really well and it’s very full featured.
The one feature no iOS app does: different settings for different accounts or communities.
Edit: I do appreciate the effort on all the new lemmy apps, I know they’re a lot of work and most of the devs aren’t getting paid.
Mlem! Yea, native experience is one of top reasons I use/contribute to Mlem (beta is full I think, so you’ll have to try the App Store version)🥲
I love Avelon’s in-line media viewer for sure. I have like 10+ lemmy apps, and all of us have strengths and areas that need work…it’s like 2009 all over again :) I did use Voyager (wefwef) and Memmy for a bit too :p
Kids don’t own computers/laptops as much anymore. Use their phones to watch way more video than older folks do. I sort of understand the younger generation wanting larger phones on that context. Pretty much every new flagship that comes out is bigger than I want a phone now unfortunately.
My kid cousin randomly came up to me and said “why is your phone so tinyyy”…that’s when I finally understood small phones like my 13 mini really aren’t a thing for most 🥲
I don’t see the value on huge phones.
I have a pixel pro I got for app development, but I only use it for wordle and Sync (which has been better than the iOS lemmy apps I’ve tried). It’s so large that I can’t imagine lugging it around.
I can see a kid who’s watching YouTube and TikTok and playing Fortnite for 8 hours a day wanting a big phone, I can see somebody with a purse having one, but I do not do those things.
For me the shock was less so “kids want big phones”, and more like people think it’s natural for phones to be a certain size nowadays (just like house ceilings are usually 8-9’ high)
Also, what about Sync is better? Am curious cuz I’m contributing to an open source Lemmy app on iOS right now 😏🙈
Which one, I’ll try it out!
Many of the iOS ones are wrappers for some kind of web view, so they’re missing smaller details like native views.
Voyager for example never felt better installed than it did a PWA, and it would get itself into some weird states. I had issues with the text editing not feeling right.
I tried Memmy and it’s pretty good, but kind of buggy (for example the match system theme setting doesn’t work for me and it wouldn’t jump to the correct message in long threads when clicking a reply in my inbox).
I’ve been trying Avalont which is the best so far, does feel better being a native app, but the scroll component on the comment text box is very buggy, and refreshing my inbox doesn’t use the native pull to refresh action so it only works after I scroll down and up again.
Sync benefits from being many years old, so everything works really well and it’s very full featured.
The one feature no iOS app does: different settings for different accounts or communities.
Edit: I do appreciate the effort on all the new lemmy apps, I know they’re a lot of work and most of the devs aren’t getting paid.
Mlem! Yea, native experience is one of top reasons I use/contribute to Mlem (beta is full I think, so you’ll have to try the App Store version)🥲
I love Avelon’s in-line media viewer for sure. I have like 10+ lemmy apps, and all of us have strengths and areas that need work…it’s like 2009 all over again :) I did use Voyager (wefwef) and Memmy for a bit too :p
Just downloaded it, it feels good to use (best I’ve tried for iOS yet)
Kids don’t own computers/laptops as much anymore. Use their phones to watch way more video than older folks do. I sort of understand the younger generation wanting larger phones on that context. Pretty much every new flagship that comes out is bigger than I want a phone now unfortunately.