Ask HN: Is shifting to an Apple iPhone worth?

Re:Ask HN: Is shifting to an Apple iPhone worth? by sircastor on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:28PM (#31469918)

I switched to an iPhone in 2019 or 2020 after about 10 years on Android (I did own the original iPhone). Overall I’m very happy with the decision. I became increasingly frustrated with Google’s data monopoly on android, and of manufacturers attempts to get a piece of the pie too (it seems like every phone had the play store, and the OEM store, and repeat that for various apps and services).

I’m a Mac user so switching had massively improved integration for me.

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Re:Ask HN: Is shifting to an Apple iPhone worth? by prirun on Sunday May 22, 2022 @02:54PM (#31471498)

Same here, except for me, the reason to switch to iPhone after many years with Android is:

a) Google managed to shove an update onto my phone even though I did not have wireless configured and had it set to not use cellular for data. I only used it as a phone.

b) after their imposed update, all kinds of shit broke. Speech to text became terrible. When viewing a photo, I couldn't zoom it: it would crash the photo app.

c) Google kept asking for permissions that didn't make sense to me.

I tried doing another update but things didn't improve. The phone was circa 2017 and I think they just don't test their software on older devices. I have up and switched to iPhone and have been very happy with it. The one thing I did like better about Android is putting one-touch phone numbers on the home screen. With iPhone I have to click the phone icon, Favorites, then the number. Maybe there's a way to put them on the the iPhone home screen, but for me, a phone is really just a phone, so I don't get all crazy with figuring out the features.

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