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Let's make it sample size 2 (include me). I have been Android developer since ~7 years and I finally moved to iPhone ~2 years back with iPhone SE (mostly becau

Let's make it sample size 2 (include me). I have been Android developer since ~7 years and I finally moved to iPhone ~2 years back with iPhone SE (mostly because it was the only sanely sized as per my needs and taste) and I also got the iOS 11 upgrade with the rest of the world and will get iOS 12 again in sometime. My experience on iOS has been a lot smoother than that on Android. It almost never crashes esp. when I compare it to my Android experience of almost 6 years where crashing apps, frozen phone felt like a feature. Upgrades were a never fulfilled dream and sometimes promises (like Moto's). Unless I bought a real costly phone I'd not even hope to get an upgrade and if it wasn't something like Nexus (and now Pixel) or something like an OnePlus device I'd not even except an upgrade let alone timely upgrade. I stopped missing back functionality out of an app exactly on day 3. I hated every browser on Android including Chrome. I had moved to Safari on Mac and iOS Safari experience is superior to any browser I had tried on Android. Yes, it's been a compromise and my comment might seem like a convert's zeal (though I do hate Apple's ecosystem lock in of things like FaceTime and iMessage and other things) but I also no longer want to tweak my phone - root it, run mods, run XPrivacy, hope for a "maybe" upgrade", hope that a security patch will be sent to my phone etc etc. I am done living on the edge. However I also must add that if someone isn't using Macs and other Apple devices and don't want to change just to use an iPhone (I wouldn't) then using an iPhone might not be as convenient. By the way, I am still an Android developer even though when I dabbled with iOS dev for sometime and tried Apple's developer ecosystem I realised what a piece of garbage I've been using in Android Studio but that's entirely a different matter.

matwood 8y ago
I have your similar opinion. I was an iPhone user from the original iPhone to the 4s. I wanted a large phone, and wanted to experience Android so moved to an HTC One X. It was okay, but it didn't have the vanilla Android experience so I went to the Nexus 5 and even had a Nexus 7. I was satisfied with those, mainly because the price matched the performance/build quality/random issues I had. An OS update caused my Nexus 7 to take minutes to open apps (I think it was eventually fixed), and my Nexus 5 kept having a random google process spin out of control and drain the battery to zero in minutes. I decided to take another look at the iPhone, and switched back. It also didn't help that Google dropped the budget line and moved towards flagship pricing. I doubt I'll switch again since functionality is roughly equivalent between the two, and the iPhone I think is the better of the two wrt privacy. Is the iPhoneX perfect? No, but it's easily the best phone I've ever used. BTW, I have developed and released both Android and iOS apps. Be happy you even have Android Studio now. For all the complaints about Xcode, the overall experience is a pleasure compared to developing for Android. I don't know what it is like now, but debugging in iOS was easy compared to just even getting the emulator running on the Android side. The iOS frameworks also provide so much functionality. I don't program native mobile apps at all anymore. I do miss it though.

matwood 8y ago

I have your similar opinion. I was an iPhone user from the original iPhone to the 4s. I wanted a large phone, and wanted to experience Android so moved to an HTC One X. It was okay, but it didn't have the vanilla Android experience so I went to the Nexus 5 and even had a Nexus 7. I was satisfied with those, mainly because the price matched the performance/build quality/random issues I had. An OS update caused my Nexus 7 to take minutes to open apps (I think it was eventually fixed), and my Nexus 5 kept having a random google process spin out of control and drain the battery to zero in minutes. I decided to take another look at the iPhone, and switched back. It also didn't help that Google dropped the budget line and moved towards flagship pricing. I doubt I'll switch again since functionality is roughly equivalent between the two, and the iPhone I think is the better of the two wrt privacy. Is the iPhoneX perfect? No, but it's easily the best phone I've ever used. BTW, I have developed and released both Android and iOS apps. Be happy you even have Android Studio now. For all the complaints about Xcode, the overall experience is a pleasure compared to developing for Android. I don't know what it is like now, but debugging in iOS was easy compared to just even getting the emulator running on the Android side. The iOS frameworks also provide so much functionality. I don't program native mobile apps at all anymore. I do miss it though.