Older Samsung phones with older Android sure. Not today's Android. Android is not a crappy experience by any measure. Android has a much cleaner look than iOS (imo). Do not look at store demo models as they always propel Android at its worst. I can't even stand it.
I've owned numerous iPhones and numerous Android devices including the new Samsung S8+. In fact, over the holidays I bought an iPhone 8 matte black because I love how thin and light the phone feels in my hands. But over 5 days I couldn't take iOS anymore and took it back to go back to Android.
My issues were the following: iMessages full of bottom clutter further squeezing the input text box off the screen. Increasing the super tiny font to something I can read with less than perfect 20/20 was still hard to read for me and had inconsistent font sizing issues through-out iOS after increasing it. Android uses a much more readable font size by default. I cannot understand why iPhones use such small fonts on their phones. It may work just fine for you and that is perfectly ok.
Everything was mostly white and black text and text and text all over the place. Android uses a material design look with colors and a nice flat design, and with the aid of Nova Launcher everything has a consistent clean look. Emails are easier to read, Contacts are easy to read. I prefer Signal or Textra for my text messages. And one of the most infuriating things to me was being a Linux user I had no easy way of getting music on and off the phone. Another pick I had was the default ring-tones and notification sounds are teeth grating to me. Seems it's such a pain to add your own that everybody that has an iPhone leaves the default sounds as everywhere I go, I hear the same ring-tones and text message sounds from an iPhone noob. When I'm in a group setting such as in a waiting room and someone gets a text message you see everyone glance at their iPhone because they all have the exact same sound settings.
I am not here to bash iOS or any iPhone user as people prefer what they like or are used to. In fact, I recommend iPhones to many people as it's a very respectable platform. This is only my personal experience and my own personal opinion which is pretty meaningless. I am not here to convince anyone to change platforms or argue a better platform versus another. Not worth my time. Use what you prefer the most and be happy with it as I am with mine.
We hear you. It’s not at all difficult to add your own ringtones in fact you can create them yourself in GarageBand...
Your thoughts about imessage is as you state your experience. There’s a quadrillion people that want all that crap and in fact so many utterly clamor for more Android functionality and features to be added in Apples iOS. Suddenly when they are those functions are messy, bloated and unappealing. I don’t get it.
Your note about the difficulty adding music.. add it to ANY device sync’d to iCloud and bam its on all your devices. My entire personal library of 3000 songs works that way. There’s apps like PhotoSync that work perfectly moving movie and photo files from device to device or a very simple airdrop feature from device, computer, or a strangers iPhone via Bluetooth etc. I can even see my catalog when I’m working in FCP X.
Personally I’ve looked at Android.. while the hardware has gotten way better and appealing I still cannot see myself using the OS. I just don’t find it appealing at all.
I def not gonna ditch my iPhone because of the limitations on battery life. Battery technology sucks no matter what platform uses them and solely depends on the demands placed on the device by the user - and like it’s been said - so many multiples are involved and varies wildly. I’ve owned every iPhone and their hardware has vastly improved but so has the demands and the sheer number of units in the wild. Any CEM that has over a billion working units in play globally statistically speaking will suffer some sort of component failure.
There’s no comparing Android battery life to that of an iPhone. One platform has had removable, manually replaceable batteries, one doesn’t. There’s no way I’ll forget the 30% ++ androids that still use software versions at least 2,3,or 4 years old. Again another comparison exclusion. The two formats overall are vastly different. Android doesn’t have a “sister or brother” operating system on hardware like MacOS. Again - excluding a clean clear comparison. Yea it’s important for Apple to protect the Mac and iOS. What other format compares? Windows? Really?
And those who say Samsong responded “swiftly” when their batteries posed such a significant danger to human life and their customers devices were literally being banned from travel instituted globally by government agencies and regulators they had no choice but to be swift or face liability claims that would have crushed them for good. I’d love to see this type of battery thing happen to an android. Where would you go to get these “free or discounted batteries”? Who’d you call? Your trusted phone carriers would just dole them out? Replace them on site. BS. They’d take your device ship it somewhere and you’d b lucky if you got it back in 10 days. All this pontificating about what’s wrong with Apple reminds me what’s right about them and I live my life just fine - limitations and all.
