Now that android has reached stability that mirrors iOS, anyone thinking about dropping iOS?
So many phones have caught my attention in the last couple years, HTC One, Galaxy S7 Edge, Pixel etc, and being that I've been with iPhone since iPhone 4 on Verizon, anyone else feel like me and want a different experience?
Not trying to sound snobbish, just wish iOS would CHANGE, not just 'refine'.
Go for it! I just hope you won't end up stuck in the middle like me. I love both iOS and Android devices.
With Android, the feel is very different between manufacturers and sometimes between models from the same manufacturer depending on how they chose to modify Android. My HTC 10 is incredibly different from my Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. Even the two Samsungs feel different because the Edge has special Edge modifications.
My HTC 10 was almost an iPhone killer for me. It's a much better phone with better call clarity. The camera is good. I think my iPhone 7 Plus camera is my favorite out of all the smart phone cameras I'm using, but the HTC 10 could still have served me well as my only smart phone camera. I got it when they were selling it for $525 and at times it's gone as low as $499.
So with Android phones you can get so much value for your money. Deals, freebies, generous inclusions of little extras like free insurance for a year make you feel a bit shaken down when you compare it to the penny pinching ways of Apple...and Google. Google is so annoying for copying Apple strategy, in my opinion. You pay too much for what you're getting so far. Maybe by Pixel 2 when service and more features are added, it will feel more like a solid value.
Where I got frustrated in my personal Android experience was in the oddest little things. They aren't deal breakers, just things that made me stay on the fence between iOS and Android because I can.
Just simple user interface details like the fact that on Android you have to swipe to turn off your alarm. In iOS you just touch the onscreen "button". One morning I somehow swiped the alarm interface away on my HTC 10 so I could not find it. Yet the alarm kept blaring. This is not something I EVER wanted to deal with again half asleep and without my morning coffee or tea. I don't know if it's possible to have that same accident on a Samsung, though. Again, different "flavors" of the Android experience from different manufacturers can vastly affect your individual experience of Android.
I have the worlds worst fingerprints. Only my HTC 10 and my iPhone 7 Plus can read my fingerprints over 80-90% of the time. Samsung almost never can. Well there's some "feature" on Marshmallow and Nougat that actually locks you out of even trying to unlock your phone if your first few attempts at print reading fail, with each failure adding larger increments of time on the lockout timer. It's a long complicated explanation of exactly the frustrations I've had with this "feature" until I turned off fingerprint scanning on my Samsung. So moving right along...
With Apple, if your prints fail the option to enter the passcode just pops up so fast it's easy to get into your phone without thinking about it too much.
I also much prefer Apple news to any news aggregator I've found for my Androids or that's built into my HtC. I get less tabloid-like headlines on Apple and would have to dig harder to find headlines on Elvis-Turnip hybrid Clones from Nirbiru, for example. On my HTC 10 somehow, some way, I was getting quite the education on all the latest and greatest conspiracies and all the most gory murders. But mainstream news headlines were getting buried.
I have tried and tried to fix that but there's a few things I can't seem to customize on the news app built into their Sense UI.
Unfortunately neither platform seems capable of recognizing that news of Beyoncé being pregnant with twins is NOT actual news and should never ever interrupt my dinner with a breaking news notification about it. They did that the first time she became pregnant, too. Wtf? I know she's some weird sort of Illuminati Queen of pop music or something but...jeez. Lord help me, if mainstream news starts considering Miley Cyrus worthy of breaking news bulletins, I WILL seriously consider becoming Amish.
I find crashes to home pages to run about equal between iOS and Android Marshmallow. I haven't had Nougat long enough to be sure yet. I do tend to have slightly more camera app glitches on Samsung. So does my husband. But I've had a few on iOS, too.
Why you should go for it? Because you want to make yourself independent so that when the perfect deal comes along to match your needs and circumstances, you can feel confident jumping on it. The last thing you want to do is make a platform jump because a budget crisis or some other problems necessitates it. Do it while it's fun, leisurely and you are in a good state of mind to try something new because you want to, not because you have to.
The problem with iOS dependence is that Apple is the only vendor and if they start making decisions that will hurt your finances or your use case, you are stuck. When they took off the headphone jack, they screwed me over for certain scenarios where I still rely on it.
With Android, if Samsung starts screwing me over in customer service or price, I can try OnePlus or HTC or Huawei or LG or Google and so on.
