switch from Apple ecosystem to Android?

[Lyman]

I've been on Android for the last 20+ years and Linux on my laptop at home. Windows at work. Been working all these years perfectly.

 

[Skippy722]

here's a not large biz account:



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A quick look through his public Twitter posts is all it took to get a good idea why he got banned.

I will now go wash my eyes with the naptha in the solvent tank at work.

 

[alarmguy]

DId the @BooSTed_Zack buy a phone yet?

This is an example in Apple world.

 

[BooSTed_Zack]

DId the @BooSTed_Zack buy a phone yet?

This is an example in Apple world.
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I did. Got an S26U. And don’t worry, I blocked all the scanning and tracking BS.

 

[alarmguy]

I did. Got an S26U. And don’t worry, I blocked all the scanning and tracking BS.

I’m sure you are loving the S26U. Correct?

 

[BooSTed_Zack]

I’m sure you are loving the S26U. Correct?

Abso-frickin-lutely!!! Never going back to apple.

 

[PMT133]

My S24U is probably the last phone I'll ever buy. Between the insane battery life and how smooth the OS runs I don't anticipate wanting or getting anything else.

 

[BooSTed_Zack]

My S24U is probably the last phone I'll ever buy. Between the insane battery life and how smooth the OS runs I don't anticipate wanting or getting anything else.

That's how I felt about my iPhone 15PM. It was a flawless phone...but still an iPhone. I think i'm keeping my S26U till it dies.

 

[alarmguy]

Abso-frickin-lutely!!! Never going back to apple.

My daughter in-law is the one person in our rather large family circle that doesnt have an iPhone. She always has the latest Samsung ultra that a someone gifts her and will never use anything else.

AS posted I get the itch just because I love electronics and get A.D.D. after a while with the same device. But not in the cards for me. Im too integrated and use way many of Apples tools on all my devices. But the biggest is my iPhone and Apple Watch integration. My wife and I use a ton of Apple Watch Functions, most significant that can never be given up are health and exercise functions as well as the integrating throughout our devices.

Choice is good!

 

[BooSTed_Zack]

My daughter in-law is the one person in our rather large family circle that doesnt have an iPhone. She always has the latest Samsung ultra that a someone gifts her and will never use anything else.

AS posted I get the itch just because I love electronics and get A.D.D. after a while with the same device. But not in the cards for me. Im too integrated and use way many of Apples tools on all my devices. But the biggest is my iPhone and Apple Watch integration. My wife and I use a ton of Apple Watch Functions, most significant that can never be given up are health and exercise functions as well as the integrating throughout our devices.

Choice is good!

I definitely miss the apple watch integration. That actually kinda made me sad. my AWU was the best watch I'd ever had. I traded it in and paid a bit out of pocket for a Galaxy watch 7. Figure being as close to a straight trade as possible was wise to save a bit of cash. So far no complaints with the galaxy watch.

 

[DCDG]

Last android device I used was for my handyman biz it was a 4 year old maybe 5 moto g worked great I just couldn’t see carrying two phones so the biz number is now with google voice. It’s just preference neither is better over the other.

 

[Pew]

I'm reasonably "tech savvy" (having worked in IT for almost 30 years now in healthcare) and I've had every major smartphone under the sun, started on Blackberry and Palm. I currently use an iPhone, and my last several phones have been iPhones.

Tbh, whatever works for the consumer. I was in an att store earlier for an emergency internet for the new office...hearing the customers....gosh

 

[OFFRD]

I think the OP subject line has been lost as the thread wore on.
Its migrated from APPLE ecosystem that the OP is heavily into and making an Android phone worth it to try to integrate.
It is not about iPhone vs an Android phone, as if it was, this is clearly a simple choice of what phone you prefer.

Android has no ecosystem in any way shape of form close to Apple, so if you use all the devices that Apple offers nothing will be as seamless and actually work as intended. Android is mix of different companies trying to make all their devices work as one ecosystem, they have a long way to go, if it's even possible. It's a mess.

Really? So my Android phone, tablet, smart watch, ear buds, pen, etc. that all work together flawlessly and have for years now is just a fluke?

Get outta' here man.... Android is the OG. The Open Handset Alliance was working on this over 20 years ago, and Apple RUSHED their product to market as fast as possible to try and claim "first!" status which is why the first iPhone was a disaster and couldn't even text a photo to somebody. What's sad, and has been mentioned in this thread already, is that 18 years later iOS still is garbage and never really caught up to Android.

 

[alarmguy]

Really? So my Android phone, tablet, smart watch, ear buds, pen, etc. that all work together flawlessly and have for years now is just a fluke?

Get outta' here man.... Android is the OG. The Open Handset Alliance was working on this over 20 years ago, and Apple RUSHED their product to market as fast as possible to try and claim "first!" status which is why the first iPhone was a disaster and couldn't even text a photo to somebody. What's sad, and has been mentioned in this thread already, is that 18 years later iOS still is garbage and never really caught up to Android.

Based on your post we can’t have an open, honest intelligent discussion.
Glad you like you devices though, even though you fail to disclose what they are and defer to multiple lines talking about another companies products that you don’t use.

 

[4wd]

Based on your post we can’t have an open, honest intelligent discussion.
Glad you like you devices though, even though you fail to disclose what they are and defer to multiple lines talking about another companies products that you don’t use.

My company issues thousands of mobile phones to our employees. Yet, only allowed to use APPLE. Many here know why.

 

[Pew]

My company issues thousands of mobile phones to our employees. Yet, only allowed to use APPLE. Many here know why.

They're leagues easier to setup with an MDM. I can order them straight from apple or a carrier and will come pre-configured to our Apple Business Manager account. Plus it's easier to go through inventory and see that the phones are supported/updated through model number instead of dozens of different android versions that wasn't updated because xx carrier or phone manufacture didn't push out an update.

My personal phone will stay android though.

 

[PMT133]

****. My company issues flip phones.

 

[JavierH19]

Given the privacy and spying nightmare android is which also backdoors its software without the public knowing like with microsoft i'd stick to ios and that's coming from a pixel user who will go back to apple next upgrade. Google has lost their minds.

 

[Carmudgeon]

Really? So my Android phone, tablet, smart watch, ear buds, pen, etc. that all work together flawlessly and have for years now is just a fluke?

Get outta' here man.... Android is the OG. The Open Handset Alliance was working on this over 20 years ago, and Apple RUSHED their product to market as fast as possible to try and claim "first!" status which is why the first iPhone was a disaster and couldn't even text a photo to somebody. What's sad, and has been mentioned in this thread already, is that 18 years later iOS still is garbage and never really caught up to Android.

The OG?

Android was shaping up to be a Blackberry clone, and had to pivot.

If anything, the folks at Nokia had been working on a touch UI, and could claim to be the pioneers, but even they had a wake up call when the iPhone launched.

Apple, for its part, hit on the (multi-)touch UI part, and the concept of a mobile browser with no compromises, but their initial vision of web-based apps was flawed. If it hadn't pivoted to native apps, and the app store, things would have turned out differently.

That part of history has been documented by those who were there, and did the work. Trust them, or some random internet opinion?

 

[4wd]

Given the privacy and spying nightmare android is which also backdoors its software without the public knowing like with microsoft i'd stick to ios and that's coming from a pixel user who will go back to apple next upgrade. Google has lost their minds.

That’s the reason I have no choice at work - our IT department still feels they are more secure …
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