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What about the user experience is better? I'm weighing this option myself now, but honestly between an iOS device and a mid-tier Android phone, it's hard to te

What about the user experience is better? I'm weighing this option myself now, but honestly between an iOS device and a mid-tier Android phone, it's hard to tell the difference. Email / chat apps / web browsing is more or less the same. Certainly the amount of telemetry collected by Android is markedly higher [0], but that's not so much of a UX difference. [0] https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf

selfhoster11 4y ago
I don't know how much of a difference there really is, but it surely cannot be worse than my current phone. It's budget (low-mid tier, and it shows), the camera is far from good, and my OEM's variant of Android has annoying additions that aren't allowed to be disabled. I'm hoping that iOS will be at least a slightly calmer experience, and that the better hardware will do its part to annoy me less even if I'm buying used.
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- sm_1024 4y ago
  This is an interesting take. I'd assume iOS could just be considered an OEM variant of a mobile OS. I switched to samsung, and its UX is pretty consistent. > my OEM's variant of Android has annoying additions that aren't allowed to be disabled. I'm hoping that iOS will be at least a slightly calmer experience Would android's additions still seem like annoyance if stock (and every variant) included those additions? tbf, I think iOS is a pretty good OS (like most modern OSes).
  - selfhoster11 4y ago
    > Would android's [OEM's] additions still seem like annoyance if stock (and every variant) included those additions? 100%. By additions I mean to say things like notifications that cannot be dismissed or hidden, or other aspects of this firmware that to my knowledge don't occur on any other ROM, but seemingly exist to annoy without providing a benefit.
wiseowise 4y ago
There’s a night and day difference between iOS and even high end Android, starting with performance and consistency of the platform.
kllrnohj 4y ago
> Certainly the amount of telemetry collected by Android is markedly higher [0], but that's not so much of a UX difference. Note that, per your linked source, the payload size is larger on Android, but iOS actually collects more types of data by default (like location, which iOS collects by default but Android doesn't)

selfhoster11 4y ago

I don't know how much of a difference there really is, but it surely cannot be worse than my current phone. It's budget (low-mid tier, and it shows), the camera is far from good, and my OEM's variant of Android has annoying additions that aren't allowed to be disabled. I'm hoping that iOS will be at least a slightly calmer experience, and that the better hardware will do its part to annoy me less even if I'm buying used.

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sm_1024 4y ago
This is an interesting take. I'd assume iOS could just be considered an OEM variant of a mobile OS. I switched to samsung, and its UX is pretty consistent. > my OEM's variant of Android has annoying additions that aren't allowed to be disabled. I'm hoping that iOS will be at least a slightly calmer experience Would android's additions still seem like annoyance if stock (and every variant) included those additions? tbf, I think iOS is a pretty good OS (like most modern OSes).
- selfhoster11 4y ago
  > Would android's [OEM's] additions still seem like annoyance if stock (and every variant) included those additions? 100%. By additions I mean to say things like notifications that cannot be dismissed or hidden, or other aspects of this firmware that to my knowledge don't occur on any other ROM, but seemingly exist to annoy without providing a benefit.

wiseowise 4y ago

There’s a night and day difference between iOS and even high end Android, starting with performance and consistency of the platform.

kllrnohj 4y ago

> Certainly the amount of telemetry collected by Android is markedly higher [0], but that's not so much of a UX difference. Note that, per your linked source, the payload size is larger on Android, but iOS actually collects more types of data by default (like location, which iOS collects by default but Android doesn't)