A central nervous system
It makes no sense to switch from either to the other imo. It would make sense to switch to mobile linux for those who are tech savvy and once it is more polished, the others.
I think the strongest feature of Android is that many apps are released first on Android and take months or years before they are ported to iOS. And even when they do, they are missing functionality I take for granted on Android. iOS is in fact more secure in general (if we assume Apple is altruistic) but this comes at the cost of basic things like apps running in the background, informative notifications and notification history, spam call filtering, and fast charging.
Also, if you are a normie it’s a big plus to have all the default Google apps pre-installed on most phones. If you aren’t, it’s a big plus to have the freedom to strip all non-foss apps from your phone, replace the OS with a more FOSS-friendlt OS, and otherwise customize your phone.
I have an iPhone for work and it’s unintuitive.
iOS is trash. Simple as that, my parents have iPhones and I’m like ‘oh you can just do X’, then I go to look, get lost in menus, then find out the basic feature doesnt even exist. I can’t sideload apps, I can’t customise my UI, it’s just incredibly limiting. iPhones are for basics, calls, texts, web browsing. If you wanna do anything else you are better off with an Android.
User error
In all seriousness, the biggest benefit of apple products is that the user experience just does not change over time. They are very conservative with the changes they do make, even though they will hype them up as the next big revolution in computing. It just seems arcane to you because you aren’t used to it. Apple is great for old people because things stay the same forever
Edit: I reread your comment and realized I completely misunderstood you. Yeah, apple is super behind and is lacking basic features for the reason I just mentioned. For a while you couldn’t even copy/paste on the iPhone. Really dumb imho. But the good thing is that things look the same forever, so you never have to be confused by your phone’s layout changing when you get a new phone.
More expensive. Less (no?) emulator support. Inertia. Don’t care for apple interfaces or ecosystem much.
Not giving a crap about what thing launches my apps on my pocket oracle
Sideloading apps The home screen layout (I’m sure this can be changed up though), gotta love launchers Live backgrounds that also work with launchers More styling options such as app icons for home screens. While less relevant with gestures now, their navigation setup The punchouts and larger things in the screen. I hate them, and hate that on android too. Apples lock in, esp things like file transfers. Google has some too of course, but Apple is worse.
I’ve used iPhone before
Never again
I’ve had a z fold4 since release and I’m unwilling to go back to a regular phone. Also, more freedom on an android (like sideloading). I had 2 iphones before my current phone (7 plus and XS Max) and they weren’t bad phones but I really missed android.
Mostly IOS. Price as well I suppose.
Genuinely can’t think of a good reason to switch at all.
I get a headache every time I have to help my mom with her iPhone or try to do something on my kid’s iPad. I know part of it is that I’m just very used to Android, but there’s no excuse for finding an app or setting being so tedious on iOS.
Surely the other way around ?
But why ?
- Lack of choice
- Lack of stylus
- Lack of app stores and side loading
- Lack of customisaistion
- Shitty Apple policies
money
I feel like I’m using a toy phone I bought for a 7 year old.
