I've been with both operating systems (Android and iOS) for a while now, and after buying the Galaxy Fold 6 a few weeks ago and seeing the way... boring Apple is going, I'm increasingly feeling at a crossroads.
I've been on Apple... since I was practically born. My father had a Mac, I grew up with an iPod (in Spain and in Europe, in the early 2000's it was very uncommon to have a Mac). My father had the first iPhone that came out in Europe (the 3G) and my father and I have always changed the iPhone every 2 years (since the iPhone 6, every 3, with some exceptions). My mother is inheriting the older iPhones.
As with the iPhone, I have also grown up with the iPad and the Mac and the whole Apple ecosystem.
So, in the end I have a connection that goes beyond the purely objective with the brand, as it is a brand that I have grown up with and always liked. I liked its philosophy, its unique design, how different it looked from the other things that were sold in electronic
However, in recent years I feel that all that is being lost. Boring products, products that in my point of view do not bring anything new or revolutionary (sorry Apple Vision Pro) and that Apple is gradually losing what made it “special”, especially with the disappearance of the stickers, something silly, but that was differential and special.
The last Keynote was so boring for me that I didn't even finish watching it, when I always watch them live and then I usually replay them in more detail. The same thing happened to me with the presentation of the Vision Pro last year, the way of selling them generated such a rejection in me, as everything was so “isolated” from the person and made the presentation cold and impersonal... something strange from Apple.
In addition to certain policies, better or worse on the part of Europe (I am not going to be the one to defend everything the EU does), the lack of Appe Intelligence in Europe and in Spanish is also a glass of cold water, although Spanish will be one of the first languages to be available, which is to be welcomed (another thing is that it comes out before or after the EU authorizes it).
In the last two years I have had the Pixel 7 Pro and the Pixel 8 Pro and I have loved them, with their flaws, which they have, especially at the processor level. But they are devices that I like to use and their camera and editor are magnificent.
I really like the Galaxy Fold 6, a very capable device that would make it possible to get rid of the iPad mini as it is almost the size of it when you unfold it, with a stylus. Too bad about the cameras, but the truth is that I like the rest of the device so much that I forgive it. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 is a great device, but in this case I still prefer the quality of apps on the iPad, in addition to having Procreate and Pixelmator Photo, my favorite editing and drawing apps (and they are not subscription-based like... Adobe Ahem).
The Surface Pro 11th OLED with the Snapdragon And the truth is that this device, with this processor, makes using Windows "tolerable" for me, accustomed almost all my life to using Mac instead of Windows (something quite hostile here in Spain when I left home, since Mac even relatively recently it was rare to have it, since everyone outside my house had Windows and... I felt clumsy using it).
Little by little I'm breaking through that walled garden of Apple, and I like what I see too! There are fun devices, with unique shapes, and they work very well too.
I'm using the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 and the Surface as work devices, while personally I'm still in the Apple ecosystem.
At the moment I am not considering going further and abandoning Apple, but doing so is increasingly coming to mind.
Everyone in my immediate environment uses Apple devices (my parents, family members, my in-laws), and when we go on a trip, making a shared album or airdropping photos is so common that not having it would be a big barrier to face. my relatives.
I'm not really unhappy with Apple, but I think I'm losing a bit of that emotional "connection" with the brand, perhaps because as an old fan I see that what made Apple "special" is disappearing, which doesn't mean they do worse. products, but everything seems to be absolutely designed for influencers and teenagers.
In fact, when I was a teenager, I was one of the "rare" ones to have an iPhone (I had the iPhone 3Gs/iPhone 4/iPhone 5 during that time). Most of them had BlackBerry Curve or entry-level Android phones (Samsung Galaxy Ace, Sony Xperia U...) or someone with a Galaxy S1 or SII. Now when I see teenagers on the street, the strange thing is that they don't have an iPhone, be it an iPhone 7 or an iPhone 13, but an iPhone. My relatives who are in the adolescent stage want an iPhone because it is an iPhone, going for refurbished models or old second-hand models. It seems that in this target Apple has managed to gain the loyalty of teenagers very well, but it seems that the "old dogs" are forgetting us.
I suppose that what is happening to me has happened to many people in other previous stages with Apple.
Maybe I'm maturing too.
keeps me from upgrading yearly lol 
, and thank you Apple for finally adding T9 dialing and video pause ..
