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As someone who switched to iPhone in almost the same way as parent comment, it really does do those things far better. I frequently had to hard-reboot my androi
by sodality2 4y ago
As someone who switched to iPhone in almost the same way as parent comment, it really does do those things far better. I frequently had to hard-reboot my android, install different versions of apps, etc because of something going wrong. Photos not saving was the last straw for me. It wasn't even because I was a particularly power user - I customized everything on it, but even after resetting it and wanting a clean slate, it still couldn't handle basic tasks. I just became sick of it and switched to an iPhone. This was on one of LG's flagships, as well.
Edit: I'll add a bit here - I didn't realize just how much maintenance and fixing I was doing on android, because I was so used to it. I would frequently have to fix some issue and I didn't think twice because it was something I either did often, or I just wasn't in a rush and I went into "fix broken tech" auto pilot mode. But I started to realize how often I was doing it and how it wasn't really normal to have to do that, because I would just zone out and focus on fixing the issue at hand.
- nequo 4y agoWhen did you switch to the iPhone? I had a bad experience with an Android tablet. Apps would crash regularly and the OS refused to update. (The system update crashed too.) I never touched an Android device again. But this was 10 years ago.
- sodality2 4y agoI switched this June, the device was an LG G7 ThinQ
- freedomben 4y agoAndroid tablets were indeed largely trash 10 years ago, with a couple small exceptions that were super expensive (Samsung). I loved my Nexus 7, but alas it wasn't meant to be. I love that there are so many super cheap android tablets, but I hate that there are so many super cheap android tablets.
- freedomben 4y agointeresting, thanks. May I ask how long ago that was?
- sodality2 4y agoThis past June, I switched to iPhone.
- freedomben 4y agothanks. I don't doubt you, but it's shocking to hear that a modern LG flagship struggles to take photos and read news (I'm assuming a web browser?). That would indeed be maddening. I've been using either Nexus, Pixel, or OnePlus for many years now so I'm not familiar with The LGs, Samsungs, Motos, etc, but I was under the impression that they were all pretty stable (though underpowered when you buy a cheap model).
- mardifoufs 4y agoI use android but most of my experiences with LG phones was very buggy and just messy (the G2 was pretty good though). I only ever buy samsung or google phones now, but it makes sense that someone wouldn't want to touch android if they had a subpar experience with another manufacturer.
- freedomben 4y agoindeed. it's very easy to blame the whole OS/ecosystem when your experience is with one particular manufacturer. In the iphone world there aren't different makers, so it's easy for people to consider any "android" as all androids.
- celsoazevedo 4y agoLG left the mobile market last year. I think it's fair to say that they were struggling to keep up with everyone else.
- nortonham 4y agointeresting, those things (especially photos not saving) never happened to me on Samsung or google phones
- lucb1e 4y agoOr huawei or lenovo or xiaomi or... I doubt there is any brand where this affected a large fraction of users, but those are the brands (besides google and samsung) that I have experience with from myself or (grand)parents (who would call me when that happens).