If you generally enjoy Android, I wish you luck with this, I really do. Hopefully this will not be your straw, your thousandth cut. I hit mine a few months ago.

If you generally enjoy Android, I wish you luck with this, I really do. Hopefully this will not be your straw, your thousandth cut. I hit mine a few months ago. I used to enjoy my Android phone (well, phones, Captivate, S3, S4, Moto G 4G, one or two others?) but the nits and burrs and expectancy violations and overall UX inconsistencies and flaws just grew to be too much for me. This past December, I switched to an iPhone. I have never been this happy with a device, ever (I vaguely remember really liking my 19" monochrome X terminal - NCD? - back in the day, and one or two others, but nothing compares to my iPhone in terms of elegance, simplicity, ease of use, and integration). Some backstory may be important: When I started on Android, I had Ubuntu on an HP laptop. Used to love it. One day, after 7 or 8 years of Ubuntu \([A-Z]\)\1 releases, the nits, etc., and especially Canonical dumbing things down and making it harder and harder for me to have the UX I enjoyed... all these things overcame my love of the platform and I switched to a Macbook Air (I had bought Airs for my wife and daughter in the two precious years and had become envious of their UX - when I would assist them, I would miss the trackpad, among other things, back at my HP). Within an hour of purchase, I was back to being highly productive, being assisted by my computer, instead of fighting it to get things done. I maintained a mixed Android phone and Mac computer environment for another few years, until I finally had enough. The myriad minor flaws of the Google UX did me in. Google does OK. But that's it. They do OK. Only just OK. They simply don't get "complete UX", they leave too many shouldacouldawhydincha's. I'm this close to abandoning gmail on my iPhone and moving to Outlook (!?!?!? yes, this statement continues to boggle my mind - years ago it was poor Outlook experience that motivated my move to Linux!!!) because I am tired of having to go get my computer to do something that is super easy with gmail in my browser but completely impossible with the gmail app.... I went so far as to go "all in" with iCloud and I could not be happier with the UX. Seamless integration between the computer and the phone, tremendous ease of use, a much better UX. I don't miss Android, not at all. I miss one game that was Android-only and super clean, that's it. I don't miss the platform. If I do go Outlook, I bet I won't miss gmail at all either. Pains me to say it, but there it is....