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I had an Android excursion from 2013-2016 (Nexus, Moto G, two generations of Moto X), because the grass is always greener on the other side. It is definitely t
by danieldk 10y ago
I had an Android excursion from 2013-2016 (Nexus, Moto G, two generations of Moto X), because the grass is always greener on the other side.
It is definitely true that there are great Android phones at half the price of an iPhone. It's also true that the latest Android versions are pretty good and material design is great.
However, upgrades and handling of warranty is a complete nightmare on Android. Even Motorola, which used vanilla Android, was rolling out updates at a snail's pace. And when updates came out, they were incredibly buggy (e.g. Android 5.0 for Moto X 2014 had terrible memory leaks and it took them half a year to release a fixed version). When you have an issue with your phone (e.g. my Moto X 2013 would spontaneously reboot), you are basically without a phone for 1-2 weeks. My Moto 360 had a crack, and long story short, I had a replacement after 2 months (!).
Life is too short for that nonsense. With an iPhone, you can just bring your device to an Apple store and usually have it fixed within a few hours. (E.g. my iPhone 5S recently had a screen issue, it was fixed in 2 hours, no questions asked.)
- erikb 10y agoYeah, the update problem was a big one for some time. They seem to have fixed that now to a big degree though. Warranty I'm unsure, but convincing me that Apple does that better is not hard. Haven't thought about that at all, since I never had an issue before using a phone for 2+ years (whcih meant replacing it with a newer one was the better option anyways)