First time iOS user, initial impressions.

[fojar]

Just to update my post a little. I'm using the iPhone as my stock daily driver right now and it's been pretty good so far. I've tried sticking with the stock keyboard as suggested and many of my bugs have gone away. There are still accuracy issues and checking that caps is one (mind you this is from someone with no prior iOS experience) seems needlessly complex.

It's mostly the little things I like about the phone that help. I can't stop raving about touchid. For simple authentication it's just a godsend. So easy to use and I feel so much more secure when I use it. Incredibly fast and absolutely should be a requirement on my future phones. I no longer feel scared about losing my device and personal information along with it.

One drawback I'm constantly battling with is RAM. 1 GB in some instances is just fine, but with others it simply isn't enough and really degrades the experience at times. I very rarely play games on my device, but that stupid Clash of Clan game allows me to "hang out" so to speak with some of my younger relatives and maintain the relationship. It's gotten to the point where half our family is in a clan just to keep tabs on one another.

But the reloads. Oh God the reloads. If I leave that app to do anything else, it reloads. All the time. And it isn't just with that app. Filling out forms and referring to another document in Safari causes a refresh and a loss of data. I actually keep a notepad with me now to jot down data in the event I'm mobile and need to do work. It's unreliable and something I think if you had used Android recently you'd notice right away.

Another pro? For my usage case, the UI is just amazing. I never have to worry about hiccups no matter how many times I open and close apps to switch to another one. It is fluid and in it's fluidity it has made a believer. When RAM isn't an issue the experience of clicking the home button to see a screen shot of what I was doing is awesome. Don't know why, it just is.

I also like iBooks. Totally underrated app and I've used it a lot lately to learn Swift.

Finally, battery life is still solid. I do wish sometimes I had more depending on what I'm doing, but what phone doesn't register that complaint?

Overall, still going strong. I survived...no I thrived.

 

[decafjava]

Well very interesting and balanced posts OP. Nice to hear the perspective of a newcomer.

 

[tiartrop]

Overall, very happy. Thanks for reading! Anyone else have similar experiences?

Great points you have there, and I'd say spot on in regard of iOS ecosystem.

I moved from Android to iOS 4-5 years ago, Google store was a mess back then and there were more worthy iOS apps which prompted me the switch.

I had to make a sacrifice moving from 4.3" screen to 3.5", which wasn't too nice at first, so I see you did something similar. Just out of curiosity, why to iPhone 6 though, not 6 plus?

 

[IpadSC400]

shhhh go back to android

shhhh ut up!

 

[fojar]

Great points you have there, and I'd say spot on in regard of iOS ecosystem.

I moved from Android to iOS 4-5 years ago, Google store was a mess back then and there were more worthy iOS apps which prompted me the switch.

I had to make a sacrifice moving from 4.3" screen to 3.5", which wasn't too nice at first, so I see you did something similar. Just out of curiosity, why to iPhone 6 though, not 6 plus?

In all honesty my thought process was this: from what I saw, the Note that I came from would more than likely eclipse the phablet user experience on the iPhone 6+. Samsung just knocks multitasking out of the park given that they are on their fourth iteration, and their Note line is the SOLE example of them actually implementing features to make life easier for those who use them. (Edit: I want to stress that the rest of Samsung's phones are not my cup of tea).

Therefore, no matter what, I would probably knock (unfairly) that iPhone 6+ because as a phablet it lacked features like split screen view, the pen, and certain phablet optimizations that take advantage of all that screen real estate. It would have failed right away.

Instead, I figured a 4.7" screen would give me an opportunity to compare Apple's slightly larger phone to Android's "standard-sized" phone (the Nexus 5, 4, etc.). In my head, this allowed me to go backwards and treat the phone less as a straight up business device and more as a typical user. More fun, less work (but when you want to do work on a smaller device it's always actually more work haha).

In the future, once Apple shows off their versions of multiwindow and more optimizations for a larger screen, I'll gladly give them a look since I definitely prefer larger devices. But the 6+ is their first try, and I do not think it's the best they can offer in the phablet "business class" space.

I hope that makes sense.