I have always been a Nexus / Pixel or OnePlus phone guy the most. Big stock Android nerd.
Since smartphones came out in the mid 2000's, I have probably owned 25 to 30 different brands and OS's, out of all those I think I had 3 iPhone's total. So since 2007 I have only bought three iPhone's. Where the vast majority ranged from the Nexus-One to the Pixel 6. My fav Samsung phone ever was the Galaxy S4 GPE, because it ran stock Android directly supported by Google, that was the only good Galaxy phone that Samsung made.
Seriously though, jokes aside, I do appreciate and really like the hardware and build quality of the latest iPhone's. Apple does create beautifully well built smartphones. And their processors and chipsets, and displays are top of the line, the best. But my goodness iOS is just not for me, at all. It feels so dated and like Apple doesn't actually use the phone themselves, with how little certain things get updated or never changed or redone. iOS feels like it's stuck in 2010.
But I will say that iOS 13 + 14 actually made some big strides with things that desperately needed revising or adding stuff, they did, so I bought the iPhone 12 Pro Max then, and was pleasantly surprised how iOS seemed to finally be evolving for once, then my bubble was burst with iOS 15 with NOTHING being done per all the legit rumors and news site saying this and that was coming, and literally ZERO came. So maybe iOS 13 + 14 updates were just a once in a several year thing, and big updates aren't coming again until iOS 18 or so? So until then, I am not coming back to an iPhone
I dig your preference for Android but your iOS critique is a bit over the top IMO. iOS certainly has it's clear flaws but it's not complete crap, and constantly making it out as such honestly doesn't make you come off as very believable.
The iOS 15 update doesn't bring "nothing". I did expect to be underwhelmed but to my surprise it has improved quite a lot of things for me. Safari extensions is HUGE and truly makes it the best mobile browser full stop. For example now I can have dark mode on EVERY site, I can stop AMP and obnoxious cookie popups and basically every annoying script or site restriction known to man. Notifications are clearer and easier to deal with, the weather app has improved by miles, Siri is still a joke but the things it does do well are now possible without internet connection which makes quite a difference, then there are little improvements like photo stacks in Messages, finding AirPods Pro via FindMy which has already saved me from arriving late to one appointment, and a bunch of nifty little UI improvements which I'm still discovering and make things just flow better. And overall my 12 Pro Max feels snappier than on iOS 14.
Overall, yes, iOS does have some big flaws. But I think better to point them out with clarity and be fair about what it actually does do well.
My biggest gripes right now are that I can't do split screen on my huge ass 12 Pro Max screen, and that my home screen never has felt anything like a "home" and still doesn't. The other day I thought to myself "Hm, why haven't I set up my home screen widgets in a nicer way?" So I began looking into them and found one I wanted to add to an existing widget stack on my first page. I began dragging it out to the stack, note that it was to an EXISTING stack, but by the time I dropped it on there, the two bottom rows of apps had suddenly been pushed out to my second page. And those from the second page onto the third. Leaving a big ass empty space where they were. Apple, WHY???!!!
First world problems yes....but at that point I was already ready to chuck my phone to the wall. And while trying to drag those damn icons back to where they were, I managed to unintentionally create two folders, and finally I didn't even remember my original order. Just LOL. I was so damn irritated after that little session that I just gave up on adding any further widgets. And started reading about Apple Configurator 2...that's right, using a MAC APPLICATION for making it possible to even set up my damn home screen. FML.
So yeah. There are parts of iOS that are so bad that I'm happy to admit that I HATE them. And interacting with those makes me think about going Android every time. But overall I can't say that iOS is total crap. The way it handles passwords, my iCloud files, photos, messages, web browsing, little everyday stuff like timers, the brilliant Notes app with shared editing, reliability in terms of very very few crashes, cross-device interaction, consistency of design is all gold.
What I really want is for either Apple or an Android-based OEM to come up with a ca. 8" tablet with slim bezels and an
OLED display so I can use both OS:s side by side, as runnings two phones has never worked out well for me. Apple please. Google please. Samsung please. Whomever, just PLEASE!
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