True. The onus is on Google to develop such an app. Although Apple should not do anything to hinder the access or dissemination of such an app (once it exists). That's all.
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Apple Isn't Creating Tool to Help iPhone Users Switch to Android
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They should make an iPhone to Android app for iOS. And then when the fools try to use it, it just erases all their data and bans them from all Apple stores.
The nerve.
The nerve.
No doubt, that would be akin to helping the mentally ill commit suicide.
Yep. Apple is making an App to switch from iOS to Android.
It requires Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
It requires Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
Of all the features Apple has introduced you chose custom keyboards as the holy grail of Android differentiation.
Haha! Hope those keyboards were worth the long wait for ya.
Thank God! I mean, who the hell wants to switch to Android anyway?
Apart from people who moved to one platform from another, insert product names in lines A and B as applicable?
Both are useful devices, both have copied from one another and despite 2011 it's clear there's a lot of reform that needs to be done about patents, EU, dominance vs competition, corn chips, et cetera...
Now Apple definitely does have advantages, such as slick inter-operability within its product line. Faster security updates without the phone carriers being involved is a plus, too. To me, that's a pretty big selling point.
Android has benefits, too, but that's beyond the scope of this article and response. Apple putting in means to help Android users migrate is a nice touch. It would be silly for Apple to help people move away from it to Android. Apple exists for Apple first, not to do humanity a favor regardless of which company, native and/or competing, it uses.
Personally, I wouldn't mind a law forcing Apple to make an iBooks App for Android. That way, I would feel less beholden.
It may have been a bogus article but now every bureaucrat in the world has an idea how to shake down Apple again in the name of "consumer protection."
Exactly.
Apple made an app for Android users to move to iOS by putting an app on the Google Play Store.
So why would Apple make another app to go the other direction?
Where is Google in all of this? This is their responsibility.
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I'm glad. To try to force a company to ease the burden of switching to a competing platform is ridiculous. Microsoft had a stranglehold on the desktop which is completely different. There is a ton of competition in mobile. Apple isn't even in the majority. Why should you force a company with a smaller market share to cater to the larger market share? If they really were approached about this, I hope Apple told them precisely where they could go screw themselves. Did they ever consider that the low rate of switching was because Apple makes a better product and once people get over their preconceived notions about it they often thoroughly enjoy using it?
If you had a business and one of your customers wanted to leave and use a competitor, would you be obligated to help them make the switch?
Why would they? Because the European Communist Bureaucrats are powerful, and they can always sue and twist Apple's arm into doing a lot of stupid nonsensical things.
Are you sure it's a typo?Whoops... Wrong vowel!
I would never normally have dreamed of switching to Android.
However, if Apple don't bring out a flagship 4" iPhone, I may consider either getting an Android or a simple dumbphone. With an iPad, I already have plenty of portability and a cohesive ecosystem with my Mac.
However, if Apple don't bring out a flagship 4" iPhone, I may consider either getting an Android or a simple dumbphone. With an iPad, I already have plenty of portability and a cohesive ecosystem with my Mac.
I don't mind that Apple won't make an app to do this, they certainly shouldn't be required to either.
I just wish there were tools to export data, period. Right now users are happy with an iOS device and that's great. But if a day comes where something better is out there, there should be an easy way to move my contacts, text messages, photos, etc. Data portability should be easy, and a company that makes this easy then has an incentive to make sure a user never has to use it.
I just wish there were tools to export data, period. Right now users are happy with an iOS device and that's great. But if a day comes where something better is out there, there should be an easy way to move my contacts, text messages, photos, etc. Data portability should be easy, and a company that makes this easy then has an incentive to make sure a user never has to use it.
