Any of you went Android > Apple? If so, would you ever come back? Or did you?

Any of you went Android > Apple? If so, would you ever come back? Or did you?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it was more practical for me due to things like imessage, airdrop, and other walled garden related things. i don't use my phone for many computer-like functions so having a filesystem and customization and so on wasn't appealing to me.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I did. I've used android since middle school [am 22 now], had a Nexus 5X, Galaxy S3 mini, and other poorgay phones. Picked up an iPhone XR this year, and it's based. iCloud is more secure than Google ever will be, Apple has repeatedly refused to hand over data to the FBI. Not to mention Google is just DARPA-lite
    https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/
    I used to root and rice on Android, kinda got over that a bit in highschool, so my XR today just werks and the OCR on iPhones images are insane. You can even touch and hold on an object in an image and it'll copy the object for you to paste it. unfortunately i showered with my xr, washed it with shampoo, and the display got rekt by humidity.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >since middle school
      actually this is a lie. maybe i got my first phone [pic rel] in 4th grade. for the record im planning to let go of using the cloud services and sticking to self hosted solutions.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >since middle school
      actually this is a lie. maybe i got my first phone [pic rel] in 4th grade. for the record im planning to let go of using the cloud services and sticking to self hosted solutions.

      to conclude my blogpost for autists who can't tell; no i'm not coming back.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >iCloud is more secure than Google
      Since you're a zoomer, I guess you've never heard of the Fappening?
      Google is bad also, but at least they are semi competent at not being hacked

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        the fappening was a social engineering phishing mishap. get in the loop, oldgay pretender.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        the fappening was a social engineering phishing mishap. get in the loop, oldgay pretender.

        https://thehackernews.com/2016/03/fappening-pics.html
        even i've known this for years lol
        mods its not an nsfw site
        pic rel

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Google would have instantly locked the account after detecting a suspicious login attempt

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            google overcompensates though. they give me suspicion login attempts in my own fricking home all the time. those celebrities are just brainlets.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      used both. think both are equally shit.

      >OCR on iPhones images are insane
      big wow. not really a great selling feature, especially when apps for pc/android etc. have had similar functionality for decades.

      i like my m1 mba and just saw this email today, but i don't know if i have the heart to get an iphone

      >but i don't know if i have the heart to get an iphone
      not worth it in current year.

      [...]

      dangerously based.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They can both be used for emails, phone calls, texting, and shitposting. Otherwise smartphones are just shit in general if you're expecting more

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >android
        not nearly as good.
        >pc
        we're talking about phones you desperate android shill.
        moronic avatargay.

        1/2 of US is women... so 30% of men remain and yeah 30% is a safe writeoff nowadays. which is my point. it was much more gay 10 years ago though, you're right.

        bait.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >bait.
          which part? you do realize that 15% of 50% equals 30% of 100%... right?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >we're talking about phones you desperate android shill.
          what part of how I:

          used both. think both are equally shit.

          >OCR on iPhones images are insane
          big wow. not really a great selling feature, especially when apps for pc/android etc. have had similar functionality for decades.
          [...]
          >but i don't know if i have the heart to get an iphone
          not worth it in current year.
          [...]
          dangerously based.

          > think both are equally shit
          didn't you understand? was is the word THINK that fricked you up? frick you, itoddlers and google's cancer.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i had the exact same experience, moved to apple for the ux in high school but recently i became more concerned with my privacy and traded my iphone x for a pixel 4 this week. the thing is, it doesnt matter if they refuse to hand data over, they shouldnt have that data in the first place. i came to the conclusion that for privacy, degoogled android > apple > regular google/chinkshit android

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >pixel
        >secure
        i dont care if its degoogled. the difference between nexus' and pixels are that pixels are the government rebranding of a hype train the feds saw for the developer phones that are nexus'. the nexus' are an entire different breed than the pixels. the pixels aren't even advertised for developers [like the nexus was] The pixel is DARPA spyware. i feel like this is a pre-snowden era with the pixels where if you said your device had backdoors youd be told you were a schizo. well, I'm not.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >b-b-b-buh graphene doesn't ping to google
          Graphene is made bya literal israelite and not only that you aren't even given a GPS/sensor killswitch. it's an anom honeypot on steroids.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            are you moronic? graphene is open source, i dont care if its made by Black folk, trannies or israelites

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            where did I ever say it's not open source you illiterate Black person. There are no GPS/sensor killswitches either. It's poo. You're poo. Frick off.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Apple has repeatedly refused to hand over data to the FBI
      this was a publicity stunt 7 years ago you moronic shill. both companies spy on you, literally access all your photos (using cp as an excuse), sell your data and cooperate with governments.
      the second most private and secure option is an android with custom privacy focused rom. last time i used a jailbroken iphone it had cydia, i don't know how secure that is compared to the new privacy oriented roms on android

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i like my m1 mba and just saw this email today, but i don't know if i have the heart to get an iphone

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Were you anti iPhone or something?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        yeah. i've always thought iphone is the gay people phone. because gay people use them primarily, and women. but i like my m1 mba so maybe i'll like the iphone too.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >because gay people use them primarily,
          lol wat. 2/3s of the US uses iPhone. How does the IQfytard even come to this conclusion lol

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            1/2 of US is women... so 30% of men remain and yeah 30% is a safe writeoff nowadays. which is my point. it was much more gay 10 years ago though, you're right.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I've had four Android phones since 2010 and I bought an iPad to replace my dying old laptop. The art and graphics apps I got it for to use on the go are very nice, but the App Store is too restrictive (no IQfy apps allowed apparently), the browser policy that every third-party browser has to be a frontend for Safari is nonsensical (no extensions allowed) and I can't sideload apps like I can on Android.

    I really wish Android had a good art ecosystem, it would make it much easier to replace it with a Samsung Galaxy Tab.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      For the record, the iOS Brave browser is top notch. Lets you download videos and use videos in PiP even on Youtube

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      For the record, the iOS Brave browser is top notch. Lets you download videos and use videos in PiP even on Youtube

      > iOS Brave browser
      Should work on iPadOS too

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Got an iPhone 13 Pro last year at launch to replace my s7 edge. It’s alright, nothing ground breaking though. App quality is way higher for more obscure apps, but otherwise both operating systems meet my needs

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Android
    ios doesn't conform to me, it expects the opposite.
    Frick that

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I’m currently on 11ProMax after only using android (except my first smartphone: iPhone 2G).
    Can’t wait for Sony to release Xperia 1 V to switch.
    Frick Apple and their buggy OS.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I went Android 2.3/4.4 > iPhones for almost a decade > Android 12.

    I don't want to go back to iOS even though Android is not nearly as smooth and polished. The main reason Apple becomes extremely hostile when you try to escape their walled garden. It was a pain in the ass to get my data off iCloud, especially photos; and before that I even managed to lock myself out of it for a week because of some stupid security policy of theirs.
    On Android you can remove 90% (or even 100%) of Google bullshit and use the phone on your terms. This + your own cloud is the way to go.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    fapple is for women only

    all my homies since highschool use samsung

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >all my homies since highschool
      You mean a month ago?

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The reverse applies for me. iPhone/iOS my who life(3g,3gs,4,4s,5,6,6s,7+,XR).
    Just switched to Android this past December.
    I prefer customization/mods/alternative app stores over apples walled garden.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    iPhone is #2 for me. I got a Pixel since it has "cooler" features like *magic* eraser and the best dictation function in the world, also small things like USB-C. But if Pixel phones didnt exist i would 100% get an iPhone. All other android brands are disgusting to me because of software. OnePlus was based but became one of the worst ones recently, i also had a OnePlus 7 Pro which i liked because of no notch at all + pretty much stock android

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i switch between each every 3 years, currently on my android arc. will be getting an iphone next year probably.

    for what i do on them (shitpost on chat services, browse reddit/social media, send/receive calls and sms), they're functionally identical. apple has no IQfy app, which is a bit cringe, but that's kinda the only issue.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >browse reddit
      Frick off back to there, and STOP COMING HERE.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    switched from a pixel 3xl to an iphone xr back in 2020
    wouldn't go back, yeah the lack of customisation sucks, but i prefer the consistent experience of iOS

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I had an Android up til the end of high school, at which point I felt ostracized for not having iMessage and decided to use my extra work money to get an iPhone XR. It was nice, but I realized social media and shit like iMessage is fricking useless so I downgraded to a 2016 SE and have been using it ever since. Still just werks, though it doesn't support iOS 16 so it may be time to migrate soon.
    For a brief stint a few months back I picked up a Pixel 4a to try and switch back to the FOSS life on my phone after returning to Linux from Winblows, but honestly it seemed like too much of a step down from my SE even though its newer It was big (despite being marketed as a "small" phone), the new Android UI is garbage (especially the shit ass notification pane), and most importantly you can't just disable Google Play Services since that breaks half of the apps. I had planned to install LineageOS but I got fricked because apparently Verizon locks the bootloader, and either way it seems the Lineage devs are wienersuckers who only support the latest models.
    All I use my phone for beyond the basic calling/texting is GPS, music, camera, and fitness tracking. Part of me wants to give Android another shot but my gf is glued tight to the Apple ecosystem and will not use anything but iCloud for photos so for the time being I have to make do.
    Stock iOS >>> Stock Android though

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >you can't just disable Google Play Services since that breaks half of the apps
      Yeah. The absolute state. Partly the reason I want to go back iOS. Gonna get 13 mini next year when it's finally be 600 euro new.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I used an iphone 3 for 2 days, hated it, went back to my shitty huawei ideos, then an htc evo 4g, I then got an iphone 4 and ended up giving it to my dad because i hated it.

    Apple is indeed a walled garden... walls everywhere: bluetooth file transfer was shit, the web browser was shit, media playback was a pain in the balls, file managing was shit, apps where also shit or non existant, crapple maps was trash too.

    Rooting with cydia was nice and easy but whats the bloody fricking point if you got no apps to fiddle with?

    Damn thing didnt even have a micro sd slot and battery life was ok but you cant swap a battery if you run out.

    Had some nice animations and eye candy but that was about it.

    I came to the conclusion that it was made to impress 3rd worlders, the moronic ones more precisely.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      3rd worlders
      >launches in the US
      logic doesn't check out. sounds like you're just projecting the fact you're a 3rd worlder lol.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        ummm sweety… ameriKKKa is a 3rd world shithole rn

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    For me it was nokia > jailbroken apple > riced android > apple

    Just got my iPhone 13 mini and it's solid, I don't care about tinkering my phone anymore.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    First smartphone was the iPhone three. I had an iPhone until the galaxy S5 came out. Was on Android until the iPhone X came out. I quickly sold that phone and got a oneplus. Been on android since and have zero desire to go back

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not exactly what you're asking, but my high school in burgerland forced us to use iPads, but i've always had an android phone. I used the iPad for the first year, but after that I would just do everything on my PC or phone. I hated that thing. It sits on my desk now as a lightweight manga reader. I will never use it again for any sort of work.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I used android until I was 20, and was a devoit android gay up until that point. I was going to get a new pixel, but saw a cheaper contract with 100GB of data and an iphone 12 and picked that.
    never looked back. im not a power user or smartphone 'enthusiast' (which is gay as frick) so iphone is just superior for what I actually use my phone for. I also have a macbook but I will concede that macs are shit and pointless.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I went from Palm to Windows Mobile to Android froyo to iOS4 to Android KitKat to WP8.1 to Android Marshmallow and now on Android 12. Let me tell you something: they're all basically the same damn thing. Some people are just drama queens.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    10 years ago I had hope that Android could develop into something worthwhile. It just devolved into two markets: race to the bottom disposable phones, and gimmick "feature" phones that either try to be iPhones or are used by people addicted to cellphone lootbox games.

    Getting my family into this "ecosystem" has been a burden in the long run. Google does whatever the frick they want with their services and apps. You can imagine trying to explain to your mom why she has 2 or 3 apps called Messages and only one of those is the "right" one.

    Software and hardware support is hypothetical. Google themselves are trying to wall off Android, as exemplified by Android 13 - it essentially treats non-Play Store apps as if they are viruses, requiring digging in submenus to give them access to do anything of merit. Any non-stock ROM will get dropped like a hot bag of shit, even within a year of the device launch. Aftermarket ROM support is rare (due to the sheer number of variables that force support to occur on a device-by-device basis), and if you do have it, good luck explaining to someone how their device has newfound limitations and specific bugs that limit their use.

    If this situation was always inevitable, I could have saved myself the headache of explaining why MMS sent to and received from relatives don't work right, or why the charging cable is different now, or why they can't get an Airdrop from Aunt Soandso.

    And all because of 1) idealism 2) trying to save $200 3) contrarianism

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It doesn't matter because both require you to make an account, so your activity and usage habits can be easily monitored, before you're allowed to access their app store.

    That's like requiring an Ubuntu user to make a Canonical account before they can run their first apt command. Complete horse shit.

    Any FOSS package managers for android/ios?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >That's like requiring an Ubuntu user to make a Canonical account before they can run their first apt command. Complete horse shit.
      pretty sure this was rolled back

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Wait what? Canonical actually did that? I use NixOS so I wouldn't know

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I switched from apple to android in high school, but I've tried iOS twice after graduating college, in 2019 and 2021 and was seriously disappointed each time.

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Black person

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    You could have made this post without clicking all of those #'s, you mass-replying, homosexual.

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Android
    >Apple
    No. All properties owned by or collaborating with Google and Apple should be nuked off the face of the earth.

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