subject: Smartphone Notifications Are Key to Productivity [print this page] Smartphone Notifications Are Key to Productivity
Once I get to the home screen, I have to tap around looking for little red dots to tell me which apps need my attention. This last bit is rendered all the more frustrating by the fact that I keep my apps in folders, so I have to tap into a folder to figure out exactly which app(s) are beckoning. And if you have more than one screen full of icons to look through (I try to avoid this by using folders), you're just wasting time at this point.
Android gives you your notifications in a list, making it easy to see at a glance what needs your attention.By contrast to Apple's approach, most other mobile operating systems offer Dell xps m1330 battery a fairly standard experience in which new notifications appear in a status bar at the top of the phone's screen. The best of these include the notification bars in Android and WebOS, both of which give the user a small, unobtrusive bar that says what's happening on the phone and offers one-tap access to the relevant apps.
The advantage here is obvious, at least to me: In Android, for example, you just pull down the window-shade notification menu and browse through the list to choose which of the available notifications you want to act on. Tap it, and you're taken straight to the app (and usually straight to the appropriate menu) to deal with the event appropriately. To get to the next notification, just pull the list back down again. This approach makes it easy to actively prioritize which notifications you want to address in the moment, without forcing you to do a bunch of legwork just to figure out which apps want your attention.
In practice, the difference between Apple's scattershot approach to notification management and Google's more systematic approach has had a profound impact on my ability to figure out which of the dozen recent incoming notifications on my phone need Hp 2230s battery my immediate attention and which are just coming from some lifestyle app alerting me to unimportant stuff. I can try to compensate for Apple's lack of consideration by going to my productivity folder first, but that's just a hedged bet rather than an informed choice.
In short, I'm joining the chorus of critics who've expressed their disdain for Apple's half-baked iOS notifications. I had harbored hope that the most recent iOS update could possibly include an improvement to the system, but of course that didn't happen. And because Apple doesn't comment on products under development, I have no way of knowing if it ever will happen. In the meantime, I think I'll be returning to the smarter Touch Screen Monitors otifications of Android until Apple has a change of heart.
