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My next phone will be an iPhone. I say this as a long-term Android user of over a decade. The Android platform has finally become too toxic and too user-hostile
by selfhoster11 5y ago
My next phone will be an iPhone. I say this as a long-term Android user of over a decade. The Android platform has finally become too toxic and too user-hostile even for the likes of me. And that's quite a challenge.
If I'm gonna be ruled by an authoritarian mobile OS that constantly tries to "engage" me, I might as well go for a nicer one that still cares about UX and being less buggy.
- jaywalk 5y ago> I might as well go for a nicer one that still cares about UX and being less buggy. iOS is straying further and further from that path with every release, though. It's not Android-level, but it's far from what it used to be.
- Apocryphon 5y agoAnd that right there is the problem with duopolies. They start turning into each other, whether intentionally or not.
- zuminator 5y agoNot trying to start an OS war but I'm curious as to what changed recently in Android-land that made you reconsider?
- Osiris 5y agoI'm curious about iPhones but not enough to actually switch. Android phones suck in two areas: performance and upgrades. The fastest Android SoC is as fast as the A12, a three year old chip. Android phones are lucky to get 1 major version upgrade in it's lifetime and that's usually 6-12s months after the latest version is released.
- skydhash 5y agoUpgrade is one of the worst parts of Android. I had a Motorola that started with 5 and ended with 6. Custom ROMs got me up to 9 until it was stolen. It was not even a performance thing. If a few devs can hack a kernel, a company can do much more. I bought an iPhone 8 in 2019, and it is still working great today, running the latest OS.