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  • dohface@alien.topBtoAppleWhat wins you over Android in 2023?
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    1 year ago

    Can confirm I can actually… ahem “do something” with my phones. I can’t customize trivial things but it’s a productivity workhorse.

    Google could at any time work on enabling push for iOS devices. Of course then you won’t download their apps specifically. Exchange based accounts do not have limitations regarding push services from accounts though.

    You can technically share photos but you’d be generating a public link that automatically expires or a shared album that can be accessed by anyone with the link. So definitely if Google photos works better for you, use that.

    I don’t find Siri restrictive. I find it intentional and even more important…customizable with shortcuts. Saves me hours a week to perform workflows I create between iOS and macOS.

    I can’t really speak to the rest because they either don’t apply to me personally or I think of them as extremely trivial.

    So yes, can’t change a bunch of silly things at all or as easily like text, icons, and layouts, or put potentially dicey apps on it…. But I can manage my life far easier on iOS vs the Wild Wild West of Android experiences. And that’s a win for me, I don’t have time to play with phones anymore🤷‍♂️. Came from Android after maybe 10 years, and not planning to go back anytime soon.

    But the real reason? Apple designs and releases things intentionally so i know what I’m getting and it’s reliable for a long time. Android is not as reliable. Many makers have come and gone and users have to keep learning a new UI, Google is on their second line of products, Samsung is the leader of the pack but they allow bloat and tie you to a very pointless App Store, others are just very bad on release schedules and pushing updates.











  • This exact scenario gets asked like hourly in this sub. Can we get an FAQ? 😂

    It’s a different phone, and if you’re not committed to changing how you do things, it’s not going to be fun. But that’s not a one way street. You have to change how you do things no matter what. I’ve switched between android and iOS multiple times though I don’t plan on switching back to android.

    Especially now I don’t get the complaints of moving files because either everything is cloud based or you can just plug an external drive in and easily move files yeah?

    This is all preference. If you don’t like something don’t use it. For me notifications in iOS are fantastic because I want to filter out noise and with android you have persistent icons in the notification tray making it look anxiety inducing and ugly AF. I get the notifications I want to ACTION when I want. People need to go read a book instead of worrying about phone notifications from purely leisure apps imho.