iPhone 12 Pro Why'd I switch?!

[Halt&CatchFire]

So, I'll admit. I was bored. I've owned iPhones since the 4s. And the XS Max being almost exactly the same form factor since the 6....was kind of weighing on me. Nothing was new anymore. And when I looked at the 11 Pro Max, I couldn't get excited.

So I bought a Note 20 Ultra. What a beautiful device! Incredible screen! Buttery smooth 120 hz. Battery that barely lasted through a day, but hey....at least it was beautiful when the display had power. And all the customization options! I could make my phone look like a circus funhouse like the rest of the Android Drones. Yay!

And then I needed the phone to work. Connect to my motorcycle Sena headset? Not easily. Use the Google assistant through the headset to control music? Not happening. Connecting to bluetooth in my car was a multistep process. Getting a wifi hotspot to work was more multiple steps...."oh, I have to turn off developer mode that I needed to turn on to get something ELSE to work....". Click on a link in Outlook to open a meeting in GoToWebinar and it opens the app and requires the meeting ID....that I can't find. Switch to my iPad and I'm in in seconds. 5 minutes late to a meeting because Android.

Bottom line, I'm a tech geek. I build mining rigs and gaming PCs. I'm an animator and designer and use the Creative Cloud for a living....on PC. I'm not technically uninclined. I'm the IT department for my sphere of influence. But the Droid fanboys try to say iPhones are for people that are not tech savvy.

No! iPhones are for people that want their phones to just work! Sometimes boring is a good thing. We get bored because everything works and functions like it should.

Selling the Note 20 Ultra and getting a 12 Pro Max as soon as they're available, and they can't be available soon enough!

 

[Lsmachado]

So, I'll admit. I was bored. I've owned iPhones since the 4s. And the XS Max being almost exactly the same form factor since the 6....was kind of weighing on me. Nothing was new anymore. And when I looked at the 11 Pro Max, I couldn't get excited.

So I bought a Note 20 Ultra. What a beautiful device! Incredible screen! Buttery smooth 120 hz. Battery that barely lasted through a day, but hey....at least it was beautiful when the display had power. And all the customization options! I could make my phone look like a circus funhouse like the rest of the Android Drones. Yay!

And then I needed the phone to work. Connect to my motorcycle Sena headset? Not easily. Use the Google assistant through the headset to control music? Not happening. Connecting to bluetooth in my car was a multistep process. Getting a wifi hotspot to work was more multiple steps...."oh, I have to turn off developer mode that I needed to turn on to get something ELSE to work....". Click on a link in Outlook to open a meeting in GoToWebinar and it opens the app and requires the meeting ID....that I can't find. Switch to my iPad and I'm in in seconds. 5 minutes late to a meeting because Android.

Bottom line, I'm a tech geek. I build mining rigs and gaming PCs. I'm an animator and designer and use the Creative Cloud for a living....on PC. I'm not technically uninclined. I'm the IT department for my sphere of influence. But the Droid fanboys try to say iPhones are for people that are not tech savvy.

No! iPhones are for people that want their phones to just work! Sometimes boring is a good thing. We get bored because everything works and functions like it should.

Selling the Note 20 Ultra and getting a 12 Pro Max as soon as they're available, and they can't be available soon enough!

Welcome back!

 

[MrMacintoshIII]

Hope you learned your lesson! It will be the same in twenty years.

 

[Coffee_Time]

 

[johannnn]

Welcome back!

It's like the dudes that recommend Linux. No way, I don't want spend all day in the terminal just to install an app.

 

[coney718]

I was also bored with iPhones and tried many Samsung flagships (S8, S9, Note 10) but always came back to iOS. To me the only real advantage of Android over iOS is customization and even that gets boring after a while. How many times can you change your icons, ringtones, live wallpaper etc. iPhones aren't perfect but for me they always worked consistently. I never had to worry about random app crashes, standby battery drain, unoptimized apps, software updates that have to go through the manufacturer and carrier first then you get it 6 months after it was released if you're lucky. I still have a spare S9 for media consumption but I cant use Android as a daily driver at this point in my life.