Technology

Be sure if another apps or features are as important for you as those you said Face ID, iMessage, home screen UX, battery life. For example, not being able to run syncthing on IOS is a dealbreaker for me. Another app is minimalism launcher, etc...

I moved to iOS able a year ago after being a diehard Samsung fan. I have a long list of pros to switching. The parental controls if you have kids are way beyond Android. That's really the reason we switched.

The only real con I can give you from a user perspective is the swipe typing is atrocious on every keyboard. I can't express how much I hate typing on my phone. It makes bad corrections so often it's pretty much impossible for me to post typo free posts of any length, and it goes back and changes the word before the one you're typing so you check that the right word is there and nice on and when you look again later after you post, you find it switched the right word to the wrong one. But if you don't swipe, you won't notice.

Apple devices to me are just the physical version of the gold bar app that once existed on the apple app store. Spending extra for a status symbol that people won't even respect you for unless it benefits them to lick your boots.

Sure some aspects may be better but overall nobody is outclassing anyone in the phone industry as long as you are comparing the correct price bracket and adjusting for apple logo tax. Personally apple UI/UX has always and still is awful to me and the odd time I have to use the iPad at work I could have an aneurysm at any moment. I could also never go back to button nav bar on Android.

But in the end if the device suits you, and you don't care about business ethics or whatever, and it isn't a poor financial decision for you then just get what you want and enjoy it. All the organizations that want to collect all your data will find a way regardless of what device you use.

Just use what you want and works best for you. You don't need validation from strangers online that you made the right choice. 🤷

Lack of serviceability is a big one.

Walled gardens are another.

I have major issues with both. I bought the device, I should be able to repair it. It shouldn't intentionally not work with other ecosystems that use standard protocols either. I should be able to integrate my device with standards the rest of the world uses.

Pretty much you buy apple devices, you are essentially an expensive renter renting a really strong internal ecosystem that purposefully forces you into buying more of that ecosystem and not working outside of it.

I've been really tempted to make my next phone an iPhone just because of the software support. There are rumors the next iphone will have USB-C as well.

I made the switch a year ago from android to apple. I did the whole rooting and degoogling thing but that took time and I had bugs sometimes which required more tinkering. At one point I was like I don’t have time for this and the nexus to pixel switch didn’t convince me to keep going with android. I switched to iOS and haven’t regretted me move. A few android phones like Sony and Oneplus almost convince me to go back but not yet.

Th blue and green bubble is blown out of proportion especially now that android made the update that green bubble people can emoji respond to messages now. Before you used to get this odd messages that was like so and so laughed at this message.

One thing I would warn you about is the App Store. Most apps cost money which is a pro and a con depending on how you look at it. There are money grabbing subscription apps but I can usually find an awesome one time fee app. Generally the apple App Store has good quality apps but there’s a fee. This kind of adds to the apple eco system because now you paid for high quality apps and they may not transfer if you go back to android.