Yes. I used iPhones up to the iPhone 5 then moved to Windows Phone - which I think was the best phone OS until MS killed it off. I have been on Android from the Nexus 5 and I've had a Nexus 5x and various Samsung Galaxy phones including the S6, S7, S7 Edge, S8 and now the S9. I have also had a Pixel 1 and 2.
Last Friday I took delivery of the iphone Xs, expecting great things. Boy, was I disappointed! My phone is an adjunct to my daily life and I use it a lot. I love that I can have my Alexa shopping list as a widget on the home screen and my calendar widget is there as soon as I log in. I have macros ebabled which switch the phone into silent mode after 9.30pm, but only if it is connected to my home wifi AND is charging. This means if my plans change and I go out late the phone stays as normal. I listen to a lot of pocasts and use a calendar and contacts hosted on my NAS.
The iPhone Xs disappointed me big time. My heart started sinking just after I switched it on. I felt that iOS has remained static since the iPhone 5 and new features have been inelegantly bolted on - like the widget pane and notifications. I thought I could live with my widgets living on a separate pane, but I had no control over which aspects of the app appeared in the widget. I could get the Todoist widget to appear but it only showed the task list and I was not able to get it to show my Alexa shopping list. The calendar widget is very crude and it refused to connect to my server via CalDAV. I searched online and found there is a bug going back to last year - and it still hasn't been resolved.
The iPhone settings app is an absolute embarrassment - a huge long, largely unstructured list. One or two apps let you change setting within the app, but for most you have to use the iOS settings app. It really did feel rather nasty.
Multi-tasking doesn't really work on iOS - it is way behind Android.
There is no indication of whether the phone is fast charging and online people were saying that you need to cahrge from empty and time how long it takes, then you know. Really?
The home screen on iOS looks the same as it did years ago - a static grid of icons allowing no fexibility or icon positioning outside that grid.
The display, in spite of what DisplayMate says, is nowhere near as nice as the Samsung Galaxy S9 screen. The way Apple deals with fonts makes then less crisp than on decent Android displays.
I took some photos and was frankly underwhelmed.
I was impressed with Face ID - it never failed an was pretty instant. So much better than what Samsung offers on the S8/9.
I was expecting something amazing for the price and was left wondering why I had spent £999 on a phone which would give me a much poorer experience - with lots of workarounds needed to even approach what I am used to on Android.
I decided to return it. Thank goodness for Apple's excellent no-questions-asked returns policy. Apple does much better customer service than other phone manufacturers, I'll have to concede that!
[doublepost=1537878550][/doublepost]
I want a more secure device and apple isnt as bad at selling people's info for targeted ads like google is. Apple makes their money from hardware, google makes theirs from advertising.
That's exactly why I wanted to switch, but it didn't work out for me - see my earlier post in this thread.
I have reduced Google's opportunity to harvest my data by using as few Google services as possible on Android. I use Firefox Focus as my browser and StartPage as my search engine. Neither sends any information to Google. I was using Google Calendar and Contacts. I set up my own calendar and contacts server on my Synology NAS so neither go anywhere near Google. I don't use GMail. I know that my Android phone will still send informatiuon to Google, but they know a lot less about me than before I made those changes.
I also have a little Rasberry Pi running Pi Hole which acts as a DNS server on my home network so it protects all connected devices and I notice a lot of information going to Google is blocked.
