iPhone now but wife has Android and I'm intending to switch.
I move between countries for extended periods (the US, UK, Australia) and Apple has absolutely raped me for updates and activation. I'm a paid customer, I shouldn't need to crack my phone to use it.
Nope. I was android user for 13 years. Just bored of switching between multiple android phones and bought iPhone. Not that I particularly like it, but I appreciate some effort on Apple’s part for privacy and security.
Been an Android users since the first Android phone (HTC G1), before that I was on Windows Mobile. If Apple opened things up I would switch in a heartbeat. I doubt it will happen though.
I switched to iPhone recently. I like it. My phone will get security updates for more than the very few years my pixel got. Everything is very well integrated in the software, and very easy to use. I don’t need 5 chat apps. There are more cool cases. The camera is better. It’s easier to share things, like location and photos and etc, with my wife and family. They don’t seem to change the ui too much since it’s basically the same as when I had a work iPhone years ago. I trust Apple more than Google and can easily turn off any cloud stuff without issue. I’m pretty happy.
I've been an Android user since they mostly caught up to Apple in UI (Nexus line, I believe). However, my wife will be getting a new iPhone in two days (hush hush) and I think I'm gonna take her old iPhone for a spin.
I tell all my friends / family to get an iPhone if they are upgrading.
I used iOS and Android phones and I like both. However it makes even me nerveous to use a banking application or similar on an Android. Can’t imagine what kind of shit my dad would have running on an Android device with all the fake fishing apps, bloatware, tracking etc going around.
With a non jailbroken iPhone I have a lot more peace of mind.
I honestly hate Apple's locked down ecosystem and have bought Android consistently for the last 7+ years. I've considered getting an iPhone as my next phone because of privacy concerns. I'm leaning more towards not carrying a phone or carrying one with a removed sim though as the cell providers still sell my location data.
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 really curious about Android as I've been an avid Apple iPhone user since iPhone first came out. Part of me wants to switch as I love what Google is doing, but I'm hesitant as I'm so entrenched in the Apple ecosystem.
I prefer android but its getting harder. My employer will only let us have corporate apps on android phones that are quickly patched - right now only Google Pixel phones makes the approved list. Everyone else has iphones.
I dont like the apple ecosystem. I dont like the iphone and I do think it is overpriced. My wife uses the iphone X/apple watch/mac book air. Apple hardware lasts a long time. We still have original ipod minis, iphone gen 1, ipad gen 2 in service as docked mp3 players, picture frames, etc.
I find the case on iphones to be too slippery, requiring you to cover it with another case. My android phone does not need a case and the phone wasnt that expensive so if I drop it, it isnt a big deal.
I find very annoying things like text messages to my wifes phone showing up on all apple devices. turning off the feature hasn't helped.
Apple periodically makes me reauthenticate to icloud on my macbook. However I have no other apple device so it sends the codes to my wife's phone. very annoying.
I used the first iphone but switched to android for my next phone because the iphone lacked T9 search which android had/has. The iphone still doesnt have T9 dialing. It matches letters/numbers in any portion of the name. This is helpful when I cant remember someones first or last name. It is also helpful when I have lots of people with the same name, but I know a portion of their actual #. It never takes me more than 3 taps to dial.
The iphone didnt have the capability to override calendar notifications. I use an app on android that lets me snooze reminders until an arbitrary number of minutes before the event (for me it is 2 minutes before). I started missing meetings constantly because of the lack of this function when I had an iphone.
Until recently the iphone didnt have the ability to take phone+conference bridge numbers and autodial the whole thing
I despise itunes. Something is always breaking causing me to lose music, to have to rebuy music, to reinstall the entire library from backup etc.
Getting pictures off the iphone is a nightmare. On android, you mount it as a drive and copy the images.
Im not surprised. Apple products used to just work, now they... Just update. I have two colleagues who are 100% non technical, they are planning to ditch their iPhone 6's for android devices. They are sick of the price gouging, itunes lock-in and storage problems.
Having moved I android 10 months ago, as a 7/8 year iPhone user, I couldn't be happier.
I tried to go to iOS just for curiosity since 2 years but I think the next device will be an Android again for these reason:
- you cannot simply install applications outside the AppStore
- developing applications even for personal use requires macOS, an Apple developer account, etc
- it lacks of decent applications, such as an email client that works, thanks to limitations imposed by Apple on what the applications can do in background
- it comes with stupid limitations. Such as you can't to a software update on a mobile network (why? To this day with cheap plans that gives you 50G or even unlimited data for 10 euros at month a lot of people no longer even have a landline internet connection and thus Wi-Fi at home, and have to use another phone in hotspot mode to download an update, this is pure insanity of Apple!)
- it works well if you are all-in in the Apple ecosystem, for example you have also a Mac, but it doesn't integrate with Windows (the Windows phone companion that lets you to receive notifications on the PC and other stuff is only available for Android, since iOS doesn't have APIs to do that stuff such as read notifications).
- the only browser allowed is basically Safari and this to me is very wrong for the open web (it's true that in Android you have Chrome, but you can install whatever browser you want, such as Firefox). Safari doesn't support progressive web apps for example for no reason, so you are forced to install an app while you could have used its PWA enabled website.
- you are forced to use Apple services, while in Android using Google services is an option (you can have an Android OS without Google Apps, even if it can be impractical I like having this possibility at least in theory). For example the only way that I found to backup my photos was to pay iCloud, since Google Photos (that did give you unlimited space back then) didn't work in background and thus you have to open it to sync (something that is pretty useless for a backup tool that you want to be always running...)
- it's less user friendly, there are things that are complicated for no reason. This was confirmed by a lot of people that transitioned to iOS and find it more difficult to use
- to this day it's practically impossible to mod (jailbreak) an iPhone to overcome its limitations. In the past there was jailbreak that really did solve many of the issues, but this day it's nearly impossible
- lack of support for open standards, such as the usage of the proprietary lightning connector instead of USB-C (something that is now a requirement in the European union by the way)
From the hardware perspective, it's well built for sure, but I find it too expensive for what it offers. The iPhone that I actually have (an iPhone XS bought new for 600 euros) it seemed expensive when I bought, now to get an iPhone of a similar range (that is an iPhone Pro) you have to spend at least than double that price! A decent Android that is enough to me for my daily tasks can be bought for 200 euros, a top spec one for 600. To me the added cost of an iPhone is not justified.
Been with Android since forever, but the battle for security that Apple has recently been fighting on behalf of their customers is enough to make me want to start considering iOS devices in the future.
Just recently was the news floating around of an Apple fanboy switching over to an Android Nexus4 device. I do start to get the same feeling maybe time to try out.
I love my iPhone for years, works great, but I start to feel it gets outdated and the missing file structure is something I really would like to have.
On the other side all of my hardware (home/office) is based on Apple (MBP, iPad, iPhone) and overall it works pretty well. Switching to Android would mean losing some software service Messages, iCloud, iPhoto, etc.
There are many other elements to consider as well e.g. malware, hardware stability, but overall Android really came a long way and I see it accelerating more and more.
Anybody switched lately from iOS to Android?
What is your experience?
I move between countries for extended periods (the US, UK, Australia) and Apple has absolutely raped me for updates and activation. I'm a paid customer, I shouldn't need to crack my phone to use it.
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