No.
In 2010, I was still with T-Mobile who was not yet carrying iPhones. I got one of their branded Android phones- made by HTC.
From the day I got it, I wanted to run it over with my car.
First, the operating system just sucked. I was still teaching and the wifi in my school required a URL and password for the proxy server. Android at that time only gave the option for a port entry (8008 for example). That meant I couldn't use the wifi in the building. Being a bit of dead spot, my phone was basically a paperweight at work. But it gets worse.
Because the phone could see the network, it would keep trying to fetch mail, etc. So if I didn't turn the wifi off, the phone battery would go from 100% to basically zero within an hour or so. I remember a Google message board with something like 20,000 messages screaming about this insanity.
Then we get to the Android update process itself.
So, Google announces a new version of Android...yea! No...sorry, you're going to have to wait until HTC plays around with it. Oh, then you'll wait until T-Mobile plays around with. So EIGHT months after a new version was released I finally am able to update my OS. And a couple months later...Google introduces another update...that HTC and T-Mobile never released for that phone. (Yes, I finally did a jailbreak to get it).
Then of course, you had seemingly a hundred apps that you had no use for that you can't delete- unless you jailbreak the phone.
Finally, in the fall of 2012, after 16 years with T-Mobile, I switched to Verizon. Yes, more expensive, but much better coverage and stronger signal and I got my first iPhone- a 32gb iPhone 5. This was a year after getting an iPad (Series 2) which was my first experience with iOS. The great experience with the iPad was the final push to the iPhone. I just had to wait until the T-Mobile contract was up and number portability was possible.
I'm sure Android is better today than it was eight years ago. But I'd never go back. First, without an iPhone, my Apple Watch is useless. But having my iMac, iPad, Apple TV, and iPhone all talk to one another (so to speak) is something Android will never be able to do.
No matter how much better Android might be today than it was in 2012, it still can never match the Apple ecosystem.
In 2010, I was still with T-Mobile who was not yet carrying iPhones. I got one of their branded Android phones- made by HTC.
From the day I got it, I wanted to run it over with my car.
First, the operating system just sucked. I was still teaching and the wifi in my school required a URL and password for the proxy server. Android at that time only gave the option for a port entry (8008 for example). That meant I couldn't use the wifi in the building. Being a bit of dead spot, my phone was basically a paperweight at work. But it gets worse.
Because the phone could see the network, it would keep trying to fetch mail, etc. So if I didn't turn the wifi off, the phone battery would go from 100% to basically zero within an hour or so. I remember a Google message board with something like 20,000 messages screaming about this insanity.
Then we get to the Android update process itself.
So, Google announces a new version of Android...yea! No...sorry, you're going to have to wait until HTC plays around with it. Oh, then you'll wait until T-Mobile plays around with. So EIGHT months after a new version was released I finally am able to update my OS. And a couple months later...Google introduces another update...that HTC and T-Mobile never released for that phone. (Yes, I finally did a jailbreak to get it).
Then of course, you had seemingly a hundred apps that you had no use for that you can't delete- unless you jailbreak the phone.
Finally, in the fall of 2012, after 16 years with T-Mobile, I switched to Verizon. Yes, more expensive, but much better coverage and stronger signal and I got my first iPhone- a 32gb iPhone 5. This was a year after getting an iPad (Series 2) which was my first experience with iOS. The great experience with the iPad was the final push to the iPhone. I just had to wait until the T-Mobile contract was up and number portability was possible.
I'm sure Android is better today than it was eight years ago. But I'd never go back. First, without an iPhone, my Apple Watch is useless. But having my iMac, iPad, Apple TV, and iPhone all talk to one another (so to speak) is something Android will never be able to do.
No matter how much better Android might be today than it was in 2012, it still can never match the Apple ecosystem.
