In my personal opinion, it seems ridiculous that you would jump from a relatively open operating system that is slowly becoming more closed to the other option that is already fully shut off.
- File management on iOS may as well not exist, apps installed that’s not “Apple-approved” needs to be refreshed every 7 days + you need to manually register some certificate thing
- Good open-source apps are less prevalent on iOS (due to the high barrier of entry that is the App Store tax, wow who knew that a monopoly makes prices go higher)
- In the modern day, the argument that iOS has more optimised apps is no longer valid. Unless you’re using a tablet, where iPads are more dominant, a majority of apps work well on both OSs, and just as many apps break on iOS as they do on Android in my experience. I believe that the vast amount of FOSS apps on Android makes it a far more compelling app ecosystem
- It remains far less customisable than Android: there are fewer custom launchers, no native custom icon support
- There are far less hardware options for you as well. On a tight budget? Tough luck. Want something with better camera specs, battery tech? Nope, none of that. Different form factors like folding phones, flippy phones, e-ink / e-ink-like (see NXTPaper) screens? Does not exist, and the rumoured iPhone Fold looks to be too expensive for what it is anyways. Repairable design, fair materials, something like the Fairphone? It’s Apple, that’s not a thing too
- Bluetooth compatibility shenanigans are quite bad on iOS. If you use AirPods, it’s super duper, but using any other Bluetooth earphone, headphone, controller, or some other peripheral, it’s a pain to set up, more so than on Android in my experience.
- Custom ROMs based on iOS don’t exist. When Google does make stock Android a bad experience, it is inevitable after all, you can always go to LineageOS, iodeOS, or even e/OS (GrapheneOS if you’re on a Pixel or that announced future Motorola device)
I could go on. It’s like if you didn’t like your bed because it’s becoming less soft over time, and deciding to sleep on the floor instead. That will show them! Another example related to bedtime happenings, it’s like if you hated the alarm sound going beep beep beep, and you replaced it with an ear-piercing siren. That will surely make the alarm become less annoying!
Obviously, I am against Google making it more difficult to install apps (no, I will not use the term “side loading”. F-Droid and Obtainium are my main methods of installing apps, so to me, it’s the main loading), a 24 hour wait doesn’t help that much security wise while also being very annoying. But I think jumping ship to Apple, who has never made that an option, is very silly indeed.
I never went to Android for it’s file system. Side loading was a neat feature but I didn’t/don’t get much use out of it. For me it’s the fact that I can navigate the system much faster than iPhone, the 3 buttons are always in the same place, and there are a lot more customization options.
I find iphones to be slower, very restrictive in nearly every way, and unnecessarily expensive. My employer likes it because it’s easier to lockdown, my wife likes it because it is locked down and her friends have iphones. The only things I see that iPhone has over android is how widely accepted it is in the US and it’s security.
I would jump ship if there was a decent third option. I hate that Samsung dominates the android market in the US. I hate their UI, the style of their phones, and all the bloatware they install that can’t be uninstalled. I loved my Sony phones but I had to switch to Samsung because US carriers don’t support Sony and Sony doesn’t support a lot of US bands.
When I got a job iPhone i tried really hard to understand and to like it. I didn’t. The app store was a mess and the one button navigation made all apps inconsistent in what it does and where different apps put their own back button. My boss was very smug and thought I’d become an Apple evangelist just like him so I had to neatly wrap up some criticism of why we shouldn’t copy their UX for our product.