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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by ummonk on Friday November 02, 2018 @02:18PM (#18365360)
Weird. I recently moved from Android to iOS, for privacy reasons as well as wanting a phone that would be supported with software updates for a long time.

I've really really enjoyed the switch. Admittedly, it helped that I got the iPhone SE which hadn't been discontinued yet; I might have been less happy with the newer X-series phones, particularly given the sticker price.

Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by yodsanklai on Friday November 02, 2018 @03:08PM (#18365794)
> I've really really enjoyed the switch.

How so?

I've been a mac user for many years but can't really justify the price of an iphone. I've been considering making the switch though, for better integration, privacy and smaller phone. Not sure it's worth it.

Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by ummonk on Friday November 02, 2018 @03:42PM (#18366092)
Basically just a more intuitive and polished overall user interface. There was definitely some learning time, but once I'd learned some of the common actions, I found it much simpler to work with. But it's probably something that is subjective, so I can't vouch that everyone will feel the same way (indeed, I have some friends who have switched from iOS to Android and found the latter more intuitive).

Of course, the price issue was a little different for me since I prefer not to replace devices often, so the longer software support actually means if I amortize the cost of the phone over the time that I use it, iPhones actually come out ahead of Android phones on price.

Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by theshrike79 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @06:55PM (#18372958)
There's no rule that you need to buy the latest iPhone model with top specs.

A two-year-old iPhone still gets about 3 years of updates - more than most flagship Androids.

Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by jandrese on Friday November 02, 2018 @02:53PM (#18365657)
The thing that kills me isn't the photos/songs, those are trivial to transfer. It's finding suitable replacements for all of my apps.

Heck, I'm still on iOS 10 because I havn't found 64 bit versions of some of my most used apps.