Other Would you ever switch to Android?

[darkpaw]

No.

Aside from what's already been mentioned - Messages, syncing of bookmarks and keychains etc. - I tried an S4 years ago and hated every moment of it. I also don't use Google at all, so...

Also, I just bought an aftermarket car stereo that only works with CarPlay. The model that works with both CarPlay and Android Auto was £100 more, and I don't think I'd get that back when I sell the car.

 

[Jony Ive and Co.]

To be honest, I have an Samsung S7 Edge and not to bash any company but I was using a iPhone 6s more because of how slow the S7 was with apps

This made it even more obvious that I should stick with Apple products..

Would you ever switch to Android?

Exactly. My mum's S7 Edge is excruciatingly slow, especially when launching the camera. There's also a lot of lag when simply swiping between different app pages on the home screen.

Meanwhile, years old iPhones are still running like a charm. The iPhone 6s is running so well that its actually hard to tell the difference between it and the latest 11 Pro Max in terms of performance in everyday tasks (just not AR or extremely heavy graphics, which I'm sure will just outright crash the S7 Edge). Apple and android are literally worlds apart

 

[Velli]

Hard no, on aesthetics alone. If you can look at a Pixel home screen, and an iOS home screen, and not immediately know what I mean, you will never get it.

Tons of other reasons too...

 

[malkovich87]

I actually like Android - my previous Samsung phones have been great and no issues at all. But this January I made the decision to ditch Android, as well as my Nest products and my google home setup permanently. Why? Google. I just don't trust that company anymore. I outright hate them by now. No privacy, constant data collection, non-obvious ways to delete recorded data (and sometimes the same data is stored in several locations and you have to disable data collection features on both Android and the web etc. etc.).

I've since been 100% Apple products. The HomePods are great for music and (mostly) work for home control, but they're useless for anything else. About 99% of the questions you ask them will result in a "I can't answer that on a HomePod". The entire family has been yelling at Siri a lot Privacy on the HomePods is fine overall, but my 6-year-old daughter has been able to identify as myself on several occasions. I got nothing to hide from my family but I'm growing a bit tired of having things like "candy", "pony", "toys" etc. on my shopping list

by I digress - no, I won't be going back to Android. I'm fully invested in iOS, MacOS, iPad OS and TV OS. I also love the iPhone 11 Pro Max - the best phone I've ever had. No issues at all, great cameras, fast, updates come in all the time.

If Samsung ever found a way to release their own, independent version of Android, I'd probably be tempted.
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Hard no, on aesthetics alone. If you can look at a Pixel home screen, and an iOS home screen, and not immediately know what I mean, you will never get it.

Tons of other reasons too...

The UI on Pixel phones is incredibly bland. The latest version of Samsung's UI look pretty darn good, though.

 

[theengineer9]

I only registred just to tell, NO never android 😊.

I had 3 kinds of Sony (Android) smartphones. They all were full garbage. I realized that when I bought an iPhone 7, which I still have nearly since 4 Years. It still works like I just bought it.

I can't emphasize enough what a huge difference it was/is changing from Android to iPhone/iOS.

iPhone also has its weaknesses but it still is superior in every aspect.

 

[malkovich87]

I only registred just to tell, NO never android 😊.

I had 3 kinds of Sony (Android) smartphones. They all were full garbage. I realized that when I bought an iPhone 7, which I still have nearly since 4 Years. It still works like I just bought it.

I can't emphasize enough what a huge difference it was/is changing from Android to iPhone/iOS.

iPhone also has its weaknesses but it still is superior in every aspect.

I’m not saying you should switch to Android - but since 2016, when the iPhone 7 was released, there have been gigantic improvements for Android. I find it to be a pleasure to use on Samsung devices. That said: it’s still google, so a def no-go for me

 

[punchwalk]

It was a cost decision for me.

I was an iPhone user from 3G to 5S. To reduce my monthly mobile phone bill by over 70 percent, I switched from one of the big national carriers to a smaller MVNO. The latter's service can only be used with Android devices. It felt like a big compromise at the time, but I've been pleased with my decision in the long run. Spent 3.5 years using a Moto X 1st Gen and, when that started falling apart, traded up to a Pixel 2.

MVNOs have exploded in recent years, and so I'm sure I could find a similarly priced carrier with which I could use an iPhone. That said, while I generally like Apple as a company and use a Mac for all my personal and most of my work tasks, I have no intention of ditching the Android phone in the foreseeable future.

 

[Danny Olivares]

I've switch a few years ago, I was an iPhone owner from the first gen iPhone to the 6 then I switched to an S6, my experience at first was kind of ok, it was a bit hard at the beginning but somehow I couldn't just switch back to apple at the time since I loved having more battery, better specs on the phones, wireless charging, fast charging in 2015 that was a big thing and Samsung would just keep on bringing more and more futuristic features to their phone every year as well as amazing photography and excellent displays, now the story with iphones is a bit different since they are giving more to people every year but still ever since I've switched to pixel4 the android experience is just amazing, it makes you forgive all the hiccups with the hardware and the outdated design, there's no comparison in photography and the overall android experience, I just wish they make more of a flagship phone with higher specs like the iphones, that iphone 12 coming is just premium and gorgeous, I wish I can customize that phone with just stock android and that would just be perfect but I know this is just a dream

 

[malkovich87]

It was a cost decision for me.

I was an iPhone user from 3G to 5S. To reduce my monthly mobile phone bill by over 70 percent, I switched from one of the big national carriers to a smaller MVNO. The latter's service can only be used with Android devices. It felt like a big compromise at the time, but I've been pleased with my decision in the long run. Spent 3.5 years using a Moto X 1st Gen and, when that started falling apart, traded up to a Pixel 2.

MVNOs have exploded in recent years, and so I'm sure I could find a similarly priced carrier with which I could use an iPhone. That said, while I generally like Apple as a company and use a Mac for all my personal and most of my work tasks, I have no intention of ditching the Android phone in the foreseeable future.

don’t iPhones work with any provider?

 

[amdbabu]

I was on Android to begin with because iPhone was not achievable for me in India. My first iPhone was iPhone 5. It lasted very well and was quite awesome to use throughout. I attempted to go back to Android due to affordability issues with prices in India. However, Android user experience is so different with different manufacturers, I never really could find an equivalent solid brand like Apple. Sony, HTC were there but they were fading away at that time. Even now, Android phones which is equivalent to iPhone are very limited and just as pricey, that I would rather stick with iPhone purchased during festival sale with offers and cashback.

 

[The Game 161]

Exactly. My mum's S7 Edge is excruciatingly slow, especially when launching the camera. There's also a lot of lag when simply swiping between different app pages on the home screen.

Meanwhile, years old iPhones are still running like a charm. The iPhone 6s is running so well that its actually hard to tell the difference between it and the latest 11 Pro Max in terms of performance in everyday tasks (just not AR or extremely heavy graphics, which I'm sure will just outright crash the S7 Edge). Apple and android are literally worlds apart

Android phones only became smooth after s9/s10 though so comparing those phones to current ones don’t tell the full story.

Flagship android phones out now run as well as iPhones. There isn’t much difference. 120hz makes it a smoother experience on android now.

 

[snipr125]

I’m not saying you should switch to Android - but since 2016, when the iPhone 7 was released, there have been gigantic improvements for Android. I find it to be a pleasure to use on Samsung devices. That said: it’s still google, so a def no-go for me

i definitely agree that the One UI android overlay on newer Samsung phones has been polished since Touchwiz, but there is still some bloatware, the worse being Samsung’s obsession with having their own duplicate apps to go alongside Google’s apps. Also battery capacity on my wife’s galaxy s20 plus is supposedly double that of my SE, but yet she is recharging it towards the evening each day while my SE lasts 2 days. Wife is a heavy user on Instagram etc, but still it should last her 2 days. Its quite funny though when we put the phones side by side, how small the SE is in comparison to the s20 plus....

 

[ghanwani]

“Ever” makes it a tough question to answer since we don’t know what the future holds. But absolutely no plans of switching for the foreseeable future.

 

[jlwarlow]

I'm fairly well into the walled garden (Series 1 watch, Gen 1 Airpods, iPhone SE (1st gen), Macbook Pro, iPad 7) and love the integration you get with Apple products. Great for the consumer in one way but an added benefit for Apple making it hard to leave. I'm at the end of my 2 year contract with EE and have moved to a 30 day rolling SIM only contract with Id. I'm waiting for the new iPhone to come out in Sept/Oct. I've never had the latest iPhone due to cost - I can't justify spending more than £30pm on a phone, my SE costs ~£17pm with £0 up front. Once the new iPhone 12 is out, all the older iPhones get cheaper. I like the new SE specs apart from the Camera and lack of UWB so would like to move onto iPhone 11, when the price is right.

I did have an Android phone before my 1st iPhone; a HTC Desire. It was a great phone at first until newer versions of Android came out and HTC wouldn't update. Apple's control on the iPhone and updates is what made me move. I do like the ability to upgrade when Apple release an update. With HTC I had to wait for Google to release a new version, then HTC to maybe update, then the mobile provider to get their grubby mits on the OS before finaly, if ever, getting an update. If I ever went back to Android it would be Google's own phone - I was burned by HTC.

 

[eyoungren]

Added in a useful row for most folks on here.

Can you define what you mean by "Gimped by Android"?

I have a Google Pixel 3a XL and it runs Android 10. So far, in the last year and three months I haven't found anything that's 'gimped' the Android OS running on it, nor anything that's slowed it down.

Or did you just mean Android is Gimped on that particular model?

 

[GalileoSeven]

That'd be a 'No' from me. I've been an Apple user since the 4S - iPhones work and work well for me with few, if any, quibbles. So why switch??

 

[verpeiler]

In the last couple of years I always switched back and forth between Android and iOS.
But what always made me come back to iOS are: battery life, consistency, quality of apps and the eco-system. Since I have both an iPad and a Macbook (+ a PC) the Android device always felt a little weird.

And as a german )) I value privacy. It's scary what google does with all your information, and I really don't need most of the automated stuff google does with all that.

 

[AppleTO]

My first smartphone, which was an HTC, ran Android 2.1. Shortly after it received an upgrade to 2.3. It was going to receive Android 4, but they pulled it. I was extremely annoyed and bought an iPhone 5. Never going back.

 

[nStyle]

I had a few Androids at the beginning not by choice but by necessity. I live in a rural area and had to wait for Verizon to get an iPhone. The first one I was able to get was the 4 and I was all over it. Back then the gap between Android and iOS was large and admittedly it’s not as large now, but it’s still there.

I am typically a “power user” and would like the extra freedom that Android provides though. The only reason I really keep an iPhone is because I prefer using Macs. If not, I’d honestly probably have an Android.

 

[Breaking Good]

Are friend of mine who is by no means a technophile said that you can do more on Android than you can on iOS, but for the things you can do on iOS it takes less steps and less effort to do them.

I use both Android and iOS devices and I think that describes Android versus iOS perfectly.

 

[eyoungren]

I am typically a “power user” and would like the extra freedom that Android provides though. The only reason I really keep an iPhone is because I prefer using Macs. If not, I’d honestly probably have an Android.

I'd be described as the same. I do have an Android, but even with the tag of 'power user' I don't use half of what Android offers. I knew going in that some things would be a mess and they are. When you have multiple ways of doing things at some point it's more confusing than empowering.

That said, all my iPhones are jailbroken.

And I do own Macs. The one PC I own is a Thinkpad and it's not my regular computer.

 

[jicon]

I've only had an Apple cell phone, but I'll say... ridiculous to say 'no'.

Who knows what will happen in the future. It's software.

If we're basing off of a company's past... give Volkswagen a little research. Google can change. Apple can change. Google will change. Apple will change.

 

[eyoungren]

Are friend of mine who is by no means a technophile said that you can do more on Android than you can on iOS, but for the things you can do on iOS it takes less steps and less effort to do them.

I use both Android and iOS devices and I think that describes Android versus iOS perfectly.

I think it probably comes down to a design difference. iDevice and iOS as designed by designers and people with an interest in functionality. Android as designed by engineers.

I see the same difference in the graphic design apps I use on a daily basis.

 

[nikon1]

The better question might be: “Why would I ever switch to android?”

To that I have no answer as I would NEVER switch to an android device as people have already posted, due to the data vacuum that is google. I,too, dumped my Nest thermostat (was a really good thermostat) as soon as google vacuumed them up. If the google suck machine was to buy August, both of mine would be replaced By another brand.

Zero trust in google = Zero trust in any product they sell / supply!

”Do No Harm” for the google corporate credo . . . That’s a real laugh.

 

[acidburn]

I have done a lot of back and forth over the last year. I had a 6S for several years, the battery declined and I replaced with an XR last year. I couldn't live with the size of the phone, it was too large for my pockets and it was so thick and heavy that I just didn't like it.
I sold it and went with a pixel 3a which I really liked. However, I went to an iphone 8 when it went on sale because my family is on ios and I missed that. The pixel also had some minor things that bugged me, like the bluetooth was flakey and I would have to toggle it in order to get it to work in situations where the iphone would work.
I like the 8, the size is just right. But there are things I miss about the pixel and would consider an android when I want to replace this phone.
I do have to echo what some have said re the android experience varying by brand. I would really only want a pixel to ensure updates. I have had a Motorola before that only got one update.