I know a few people who did that primarily on principle. They all regret it today, android just isn't anywhere close in the long run( their words not mine)
I have both iPhone and android before you go all fanboy on me.
I left Android for Apple precisely because I could not stop myself from playing with custom ROMs. I had too many better things to do with my life. Android was fine, but iOS is less distracting.
He basically list all the reasons I've stayed away from android. As a tech toy it's fun to play with but as a everyday phone it scares the hell out of me security wise when every minute they are opening up the attack surface.
So I've been with iPhone every since, it opens emails, reads text and webpages I barely open the App Store anymore. But I can see your side as I love writing code and tearing things apart to mod - I just decide my phone wouldn't be one.
Android is a low-quality platform with limited security updates, multiple app stores, preinstalled crapware, and other debris. I chose an iPhone so I wouldn't have to deal with these issues.
Truth. I hung onto Android for many years for that little shred of more choice, mostly the ability to install APKs. But Apple’s stability and user experience runs laps around Android and it’s extremely hard to justify not going with iPhone. Now I would have 0 reason.
I'm switching to iOS from a high end Android phone. My main reasons are better privacy and better user experience. My main reason I switched to Android was screen size.
I switched to Apple specifically because Androids I owned aged quickly and badly. Some people can’t drop the kool aid drinking caricature view on iPhone users they hold.
I bought an iPhone a year ago for this exact reason. Both are user-hostile platforms now, so I might as well pick one that respects my attention more and treats me more acceptably. In addition, it looks like a near-future version of iOS will allow sideloading, which would make iOS an overall better mobile OS than Android.
Sent from my iPhone (after 13 years of using Android)
I've already decided my next phone is not-an-iPhone. I just hope the Android makers don't try to imitate this move by Apple the way they imitate so much else by them.
Interesting, I've heard the opposite. My brother knows several people who started out on Android, but switched to iphone. He ended up switching from learning to do Android apps to iPhone apps.
The top reason was actually an issue with the Android experience. Over 53% of respondents said they moved to iPhone because of problems with their Android smartphone. Specifics cited were “their old phone did not serve them, because it was aging, needed repair, or had some deficiency that affected their user experience.”
I am leaving iPhone.
Reason: I can write code in Java and load it on my phone without paying money to anybody. I can not afford to pay $100 to Apple every year just to load apps on my phone written by me.
Don’t Android my iPhone.
I left Android for an iPhone for a reason.
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