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Guys, let’s set the record straight—I don’t hate Android! Really, I respect anyone who uses Android as their daily driver. But, honestly, this phone is giving me gray hairs, and I still have 20 years until I hit 50! 😂
I’ve been on this Android journey for 1.5 years now, and yet… I’m still not quite used to it. So, is this a ‘me’ problem, or am I just being too tough on myself? What do you all think?
Let’s keep it light but real—are you team ‘Android Forever’ or ‘Just Go Back to iPhone Already’? 🧐"
iOS sucks balls, and I use it every day as my work phone. It’s kind of the Ford “you can have any color you want, so long as it’s black”.
I’ve used and support Mac systems since about 1993.
You can’t give me a Mac. I have a MacBook Air that I inherited. It’s not worth my time to deal with. Design wise it’s a beautiful thing. Functionally it’s garbage. I can barely open it one handed - I feel bad for someone with physical limitations (or like when one hand was in a cast). The hinge is too tight and the balance wrong to be able to easily open it (to be fair, other laptops have a similar issue, because they’re trying to look cool, like the Lenovo X series or Yoga).
If you don’t need the flexibility of Android, then use iOS. That’s exactly what’s different about them. Android is flexible, iOS “just works”, but in a specific way (for example, most people couldn’t even use my Android - I change the UI so much because the “desktop”/home screen metaphor makes no sense on a phone, in my opinion).
For example, I currently keep about 70gb of data in sync on my phone using Syncthing. iOS doesn’t really permit this to work properly (Möbius can now do the sync, but it’s not true on-demand). Plus, iOS hides the underlying file system (it’s better, but it’s still problematic).
There’s a reason for this, and I don’t completely disagree with the Apple reasoning (let the OS manage all this stuff, let the user worry about what they want to do). The problem for me is, the OS doesn’t permit me to do what I want. Anything you want to do is largely only permitted the Apple way (or not at all).
Again, it’s a design approach that makes sense from a certain perspective, I just dislike it. They could’ve just as easily provided the current default functionality while still permitting users to do more, like use your own sync methids, or a different SMS app, etc (though I wish SMS would die already, and again, the Messages choice makes sense from their perspective).
The question is, why did you get an Android if you like how Apple/iOS works? If anyone in my family wanted to switch in that direction, I’d have a long talk about it with them.