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I switched to iPhone recently. I like it. My phone will get security updates for more than the very few years my pixel got. Everything is very well integrated in the software, and very easy to use. I don’t need 5 chat apps. There are more cool cases. The camera is better. It’s easier to share things, like location and photos and etc, with my wife and family. They don’t seem to change the ui too much since it’s basically the same as when I had a work iPhone years ago. I trust Apple more than Google and can easily turn off any cloud stuff without issue. I’m pretty happy.

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Similar here. I don't trust either company but iOS has good UX and performance. Any data on iPhone I assume is accssesible to apple. With all the effort you have to put on android to make it secure, it still has ugly UX, poor reliability/endurance and apps that always find new ways of monetizing surveillance (at best as bad as apple). You really have to get burned by that one little thing you didn't get perfectly tight which made all your effort futile.

Quality apps and products support iOS first. Apple has great UX people, most things are obvious and they just work smoothly as expected. The hardware is insanely good, I can live with being behid android with features for the durability and long term updates.

I'm switching to iPhone mainly for the higher quality of apps on iOS. For whatever reason, the same app is often of lower quality on Android than on iOS. Instagram and Facebook messenger are good examples of this.

The same reason Linux desktop apps look uglier than on macOS , apple regulates UX strictly whereas android allows developer to make their apps look like whatever. The builtin UX components are mediocre which app devs half-ass and use in some places but not others.

Iphone users are worth more so get more development time.

Yeah I switched to iOS a couple years back after getting sick of some Google/Android “quirks” and like it for the most part.

Ofc I’ve come to find plenty of things I hate about it as well. Notably text editing is the most miserable experience I have day to day. Managing to select the correct bit of text, or moving the caret to a specific position in some text I want to select feels impossible sometimes.

You may know this already, but holding your finger on the keyboard space bar turns the entire keyboard into a trackpad you can use to slide your finger around and position the caret where you want a lot more easily. Not very discoverable, I agree.

How did you discover this? I’ve been an iPhone user since maybe the early 2010s and never knew about this. It makes me wonder if there’s some tutorial I should go through that has a bunch of tricks like this.

Yea the keyboard and text editing is really annoying, that’s one of the things I hate about this phone. Putting special symbols is a chore to say the least!

It used to be better on Android, but with Android 12, selecting text is even worse than iOS.

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