Apple and I have very different notions of what it means to own something.
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.
Apple being apple
no interest
on my android, I can install any os I want, install apps from anywhere, not just the app store
android gives me more options with hardware, from 200 to 2000 dollars
I’m a developer and android is more friendly to developers, i have more control over my device. I can use any browser without being stuck with Safari. If i don’t like my phone i can choose from many more manufacturers without losing my apps and subscriptions.
I think most of all i have problem with Apples culture, their smugness and acting like they invented everything. I don’t think I’m their target audience.
Because I used an iPhone for most of my life and then realized what a walled isolated island it was. Android offers infinitely more freedom and I would never go back. The mere fact that you can’t entirely customize an iPhone hoke screen is still shocking to me.
Preference.
Mostly IOS. Price as well I suppose.
Genuinely can’t think of a good reason to switch at all.
If I pay for something, I want to do whatever the fuck I want with it, so a big NO for apple devices.
Honestly, just navigating the phone is a giant pain in the ass. I bought my wife an iPad and finding basic settings or locating an app is a nightmare. Any time she needs help with it I feel like I’m pulling teeth.
I don’t really get this. As an android user since 2009 and the evolution of android os I am now for the last year an iOS user, and the interface is the same as it was for me and my last phone. Swipe up to get to the Home Screen, long hold to see tabs running and swipe from the left to center to go back. Is this because my last phone was an LG?
The first thing I do on any new android is disable gesture navigation.
Ah ok. I honestly hate how much I love my iPhone. Its my wife’s late mothers phone and I took it kind of as a gag so I could FaceTime my family and then I figured I would go back to my LG. But damn i get day and a half to 2 days of battery life and the pictures are way better. The iOS lets me hide all my apps which is something I always hated about iPhones and there are widgets. If I could only disable the photos and maps app this phone would be mint.
This is part of it for me. Apple decides how a device should be used and you have to learn a new “intuitive” interface that is unlike every other computer device.
They have streamlined everything to the point that you can’t deviate from their use flow and it drives me insane trying to do a task in an alternative way from how they envision it being done.
Android is like using a computer, IOS is like using a computer of you have never used one.
The back button being top left still baffles me to this day. Let’s put it in the most hard to reach spot.
Choosing my own default apps, getting apps from other locations (like F-droid), adblockers. Those are the big ones.
The biggest issue is Apple and their closed ecosystem. I can modify, remove, or disable most of the apps and settings I don’t like on an Android phone. I can even load a different OS if I want. With Apple most of that isn’t even possible.
Paying 20% - 40% more for dumbed-down OS that limits what software I can use. I mean literally any one of those alone is a deal breaker. It was never gonna work.
Not having a functioning browser. And no, it’s not Chrome. Why would you want to use an ads pushing piece of garbage?
I have a really, really hard time navigating an iPhone. Whenever I take my girlfriend’s phone, I’m lost. Their type of ergonomics doesn’t fit my needs.
im constantly asking her where the back button is
Me in the 90s as a kid. My uncle had a Mac. One button on the mouse. I’m like wtf is this? Two buttons too complicated? Never looked back.
Same!
Same thing the other way around. It depends on what you’re used to.
I agree.
