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Jacoub And Android P

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More like Android PU, amirite? Seriously though, ever since Durate left Android's User Experience team, it's just been turning more and more into iOS, except just a tad bit flatter. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm on team Android all the way, but one of the main problems Android had ever since it was released was differentiating itself from iOS. Now I'm not saying there aren't differences, there are tons actually, but to the general public, they think that Android is some less secure, more unstable iOS rip-off and decide to buy an iPhone because of that. And this. This is not helping with those issues. First, we have the new quick settings and notification center. One of the biggest, and so far only, face-lifts in Android P.  Now, it's quite obviously inspired by iOS's control center, from the rounded toggles to the blue background behind it to the curved corners. The problem here is that it just doesn't look good.  This is a screensh...

Jacoub And The iPhone's Speakers

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Apple. The reason why 2017 started this trend of phones having no headphone jacks, and the year the world went crazy because of that. Now, Apple did have a reason for removing it: courage. Oh, and also for a bigger battery, though no one could really see a difference, and more importantly, more speaker space. You see, starting with the iPhone 5, before Apple got rid of it, they put the headphone jack on the bottom of the phone. You know what else was there? The speakers. Since Apple thought this was such a great idea, they decided to sacrifice some speaker space to make room for the jack. Now, at first, this wasn't such a big deal, there was still a lot of space for the left and right speakers on the iPhone 5 and 5s, it was just that the left side sounded only a tad bit quieter. But then, with the release of the iPhone 6, something terrible happened: Apple removed the ENTIRE left speaker. That little hole next to the headphone jack is a MICROPHONE, by the way. So yeah, peop...