Longtime Android user thinking about trying out an Iphone

Imagine texting someone and your texts are blue…

I use to switch back and forth every two years. I enjoy getting on an unfamiliar platform and learning it.
Just about everyone I know is one iPhone so I stopped switching between the two 6 years ago. The iPhone works well and I don’t miss android.

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I use to switch back and forth every two years. I enjoy getting on an unfamiliar platform and learning it.
Just about everyone I know is one iPhone so I stopped switching between the two 6 years ago. The iPhone works well and I don’t miss android.

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I'm the same way, except I decided to just stick with Android because being able to text from a browser and auto-screen'd calls became too invaluable

I was android all the way up to 2018. The switch was easy and nothing was lost. I switched because of Facetime, messaging was easier, and I liked some of the established ecosystem. Android companies have come a long way since I switched and the ecosystem thing seems to be the same now. I used to modify android a ton and got tired of it. Iphone is basically for lazy people.

Text from photos/videos is pretty damn helpful though.

Also, you will actually learn to hate seeing green texts. They absolutely got me on that one.

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Why?

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You won't know till you get an iphone. It's dumb and I'm ashamed but it's real.

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I switched a couple years ago. Still miss my pixel 3a, but I switched 100% for iMessage.

iPhones are good, not really any better or more stable than android, especially pixels.

Battery life is really good on my 13, but my 3a had really good battery as well.

Apps maybe open slightly faster on iPhone, but not too noticeable.

Home Screen and widgets on iOS are atrocious. Keyboard on iOS is terrible.

I prefer the composite back on my pixel vs glass backs.

I don’t hate my iPhone by anymeans, and will probably keep it for several years, but the moment they get RCS on iPhones, or offer iMessage for android, I switching that day.

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all this

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First off this isn't a pissing contest thread,

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A fart-off it is!

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I don't wanna lose all my Google data like in playstore etc, how much of that is transferrable?

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That will be game specific. Some are good. Some can be sort of stored on the game server and sync’d to both platforms. Some won’t let you transfer data at all. Some will let you more or less do a “one time one way” transfer (every few months…impractical to swap between platforms). The real “if you can” solution if you have something on Play that doesn’t sync with the iOS Game Center is to grab a cheaper Google tablet if the game is that important to you.

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Number 2 if you switched from one to the other side you stay or go back to the previous platform. Honestly just curious to see what apple is all about, if I hate it I can jump back in March to the S23 just looking for some honest feedback

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I loved Palm. I had a couple of Treos. They announced the HP acquisition then discontinuation. This was when Siri was first invented, I believe it was the iPhone 4s. Palm had some cool devices- namely a computer cradle and spare battery charger- that I really liked. At that time, peripherals were a little less ubiquitous, and iphone had more and better quality ones. It came with the expense of more expensive chargers. They didn’t have removable storage. They didn’t have a file explorer on the stupid phone- all things that were almost a decade old on a Treo.
I bought an iPhone and used it until the Oneplus 3 or 3T came out. At that point, I was a little annoyed with how those stupid features weren’t supported. Had a Oneplus. Had a Google Pixel XL. Had a Note 9 or 10.

Sideloading apps were never that important to me
Widgets could be cool, but a lot of them were buggy and never really that useful
Choosing launchers and customizing them was neat (Nova with the notification badge was eventually my favorite)
Being able to customize what the hard buttons on the phone did was nice
But, except for the OnePlus (and it was actually buggy on it), android phones didn’t have a “silence switch.” I didn’t think I’d miss that stupid thing as much as I did (I am often in front of other people in a professional setting, and being able to feel the switch through a shirt pocket, turn it off, and know that another notification isn’t coming through is nice. It’s also a nice thing to be able to do in a quiet setting (you can learn to tell if it’s off just by feel, so in a church, at a funeral, in a meeting, etc you don’t need to pull out the phone to see that it’s off)

I never really had a problem with android. I just never found a ton more use for its features, and iPhone added a file explorer + phone storage sizes got so big that removable storage quickly became nearly irrelevant.
I actually would prefer Textra with per-user themes for messaging. Group messaging with it I actually enjoyed a bit more than iMessage. But every other doctor uses iMessage, and the groups with mixed users sucked. And it was me- I was the one oddball. Would the whole scenario be better if we all used some 3rd party application? Yes. But I wasn’t convincing all of them to switch messaging apps for my sake- sort of like the peripheral war, the popular candidate gets the market share, and the ease of use outweighs the features when no one uses or knows about the other possibilities.

The days of OS-exclusive apps is pretty far behind us as well. iOS beat android for medical app support early on, and it has been the clearly more popular product among doctor, and, unfortunately, communication from iPhone-to-iPhone (and particularly in large groups) is slightly better than from iPhone to android or in groups of mixed iPhone/android with strict use of native apps (which is what every damned iPhone user is going to do).

I miss my OnePlus gestures sometimes.
Every now and then a task that seems like it should be simple (sharing a contact) requires more/different button clicks than it seems like it should
Gif integration into messaging was better on android.




That’s about all the rambling, incoherent, minute differences I can recall from the last ten years.