Hi I am considering tyring out an iPhone after many years Samsung. Had an iPhone 3GS once. Now that iPhones finally got USB-C I would get one and with the new AI feature wave an upgrade might be beneficial with the best hardware haveing some value.
I'd like to know how much pain I can expect given that I will not/cannot fully enter Apple's walled garden?
- iMessenger I can't use and not sure if there are any feature benefits for it, I'd hope not. (I usually favour Signal, or lacking that Whatsapp)
- dito for Facetime
- Google Photos - I wonder how bad or usable Google Photos are also feature wise. I also use it extensively for sharing of pictures and albums as it is easy to consume/collaborate and use for everyone, while yeah icloud is again not an Option. Is there special formats that don't work or upload in original. I think e.g. photo sphere/pano/360 should work even it gets a new name everywhere.
- how good is apple integration with password managers: I know keychain and I use it a little on ipad, but to me it is the same as using the browser's password manager, for anything I care it has to live in Enpass (which I used for years and works great everywhere). On the ipad it does work to use external pwd mgnt but it is a bit worse than e.g. in the browser and very often links badle and does not relearn. Keychain to me just lacks the management part besides technical/political issues of us cloud services.
I watched the review of JerryRigEverything and it does not sound so great but I am not that much into customization and splitscreen with a password manager is just very useful or sometimes with annoying apps that cannot keep their state properly while switching between apps.
Essentially the Apple exclusionary nature of many Apple services like iCloud, iMessenger, ... mean I'll not switch the protocol for anything that requires any sort of social interaction or collaboration. Me (Mac,ipad,iphone) <--non apple services --> Other peopel (...), and long term backups / PC / ...
The thing I really dislike about Apple and also just not possible in my social circle.
One other worry I is battery life. Generally I'd prefere the 16 Pro over the max for size and usually tests report great browsing battery life on iPhones but they are small. On a normal day I never have batterylife issues my android lasts me 2-4 days on a charge easy but when I go hiking or are on holidays it is geo services, worse reception and 5G modem that kills the battery very fast. This is rarely properly tested on most of those tests which usually focus on display and some clicking around. I use no social media so my staring at scren time is fairly low, it is all about weather, techy or sport/outdoors apps and a bit of news reading or spotify. I cycle everywhere so it isn't really possbile to read anything on the screen
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Maybe a better more convenient battery extender is the way to go for outdoors.
I'd use icloud and notes only between me and myself and my own devices, which I suspect would be an improvement as easy sync Mac<>iPad<>Android does not work great atm.
Why would I get it over e.g. Pixle 9 or Galaxy 25? To have better sync on my own largly apple devices, maybe a few less issues with some apps like banking that sometimes are a bit more buggy on android. Hardware will jsut be better on Apple with all the new AI features compute will make it slightly more capable.
I am in the lucky position that the cost of the smartphone really does not factor in at all, but I am not US so the social ecosystem does not make iphones a no brainer.
I'd like to know how much pain I can expect given that I will not/cannot fully enter Apple's walled garden?
- iMessenger I can't use and not sure if there are any feature benefits for it, I'd hope not. (I usually favour Signal, or lacking that Whatsapp)
- dito for Facetime
- Google Photos - I wonder how bad or usable Google Photos are also feature wise. I also use it extensively for sharing of pictures and albums as it is easy to consume/collaborate and use for everyone, while yeah icloud is again not an Option. Is there special formats that don't work or upload in original. I think e.g. photo sphere/pano/360 should work even it gets a new name everywhere.
- how good is apple integration with password managers: I know keychain and I use it a little on ipad, but to me it is the same as using the browser's password manager, for anything I care it has to live in Enpass (which I used for years and works great everywhere). On the ipad it does work to use external pwd mgnt but it is a bit worse than e.g. in the browser and very often links badle and does not relearn. Keychain to me just lacks the management part besides technical/political issues of us cloud services.
I watched the review of JerryRigEverything and it does not sound so great but I am not that much into customization and splitscreen with a password manager is just very useful or sometimes with annoying apps that cannot keep their state properly while switching between apps.
Essentially the Apple exclusionary nature of many Apple services like iCloud, iMessenger, ... mean I'll not switch the protocol for anything that requires any sort of social interaction or collaboration. Me (Mac,ipad,iphone) <--non apple services --> Other peopel (...), and long term backups / PC / ...
The thing I really dislike about Apple and also just not possible in my social circle.
One other worry I is battery life. Generally I'd prefere the 16 Pro over the max for size and usually tests report great browsing battery life on iPhones but they are small. On a normal day I never have batterylife issues my android lasts me 2-4 days on a charge easy but when I go hiking or are on holidays it is geo services, worse reception and 5G modem that kills the battery very fast. This is rarely properly tested on most of those tests which usually focus on display and some clicking around. I use no social media so my staring at scren time is fairly low, it is all about weather, techy or sport/outdoors apps and a bit of news reading or spotify. I cycle everywhere so it isn't really possbile to read anything on the screen
.Maybe a better more convenient battery extender is the way to go for outdoors.
I'd use icloud and notes only between me and myself and my own devices, which I suspect would be an improvement as easy sync Mac<>iPad<>Android does not work great atm.
Why would I get it over e.g. Pixle 9 or Galaxy 25? To have better sync on my own largly apple devices, maybe a few less issues with some apps like banking that sometimes are a bit more buggy on android. Hardware will jsut be better on Apple with all the new AI features compute will make it slightly more capable.
I am in the lucky position that the cost of the smartphone really does not factor in at all, but I am not US so the social ecosystem does not make iphones a no brainer.
