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I don’t know if you would consider it worth it, but I switched from Android to iPhone last year so I can talk about my experience. - I love that the choice of
by thiht 4y ago
I don’t know if you would consider it worth it, but I switched from Android to iPhone last year so I can talk about my experience.
- I love that the choice of phone is easy to do. The flagship was the iPhone 12. Easy. Initially I wanted to buy a high end Android but couldn’t figure out what the flagships were. So I decided I was going to give iPhones a try instead.
- iPhones do feel premium. The box is great. The hardware is amazing. I used it without a case for a few months and it’s incredibly « sticky » in the hand. The first case I bought was actually more slippery than the bare phone. I got a case anyway because the materials still make the phone fragile: if it falls, it breaks, period.
- the camera is amazing. I’m not huge on taking pictures, that’s not my thing. Or that’s what I said before getting an iPhone, now I’ve taken thousands of pics in the past years. Before the iPhone, I had Google Pixels and found the camera great at the time. It was not. iPhones cameras are amazing, and you actually feel like the pictures you take can become real memories, because they won’t look ugly in a few years.
- if your close ones have an iPhone, just go for it. Being able to share photos that easily with family members, FaceTime, and all that stuff, even if they’re not savvy, has no equivalent on Android
- it just works. I use all the basic apps (calendar, mail, notes, even Safari!) because they work good enough, they’re beautiful. Even Apple Maps works great now (I even use it instead of Waze because it keeps telling me to use crappy roads)
- And finally, I’ve come to hate Google as a company and try to not use them anywhere. I decided to pay for iCloud+ (1€/month) and that gives me access to iCloud mail. I use it with a custom domain and that allows me to switch gradually from gmail to something more in my control. If I’m tired of Apple one day, I’ll just switch somewhere else easily.