Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by drewg123 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:54PM (#31137214)

I did the same, roughly two years ago. I'd been Android since the Nexus One. The lack of commitment to long-term support is what did it for me. Between Apple's support for OS updates for much older hardware than Google, and the fact that we can get a phone battery replaced at an Apple store rather than a sketchy phone repair place is what did it for me.

For me, the downsides are:

- Notifications really suck. Everything has the same sound, unless the developer really cares. Its far harder to have custom alert sounds vs Android.

- Garmin watch notifications can't be filtered. I realize this is partly Garmin's fault, since apparently competitors have worked their way around it.

- I hate that "firefox" on iOS is a wrapper for Safari, and I can't use add-ons like uBlock

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by filoleg on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:03PM (#31137311)

A minor note on your last point: since the last major iOS release, Safari now supports extensions. I use one for adblocking, for redirecting every AMP link to a non-AMP version of the page, as well as the one that automatically redirects every reddit link from a webpage to Apollo (a third party reddit app).

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by TedDoesntTalk on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:58PM (#31137898)

Try Brave Browser on iOS for ad blocking.

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