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My wife is totally in the iOS ecosystem and I'm fully in the Samsung ecosystem and they both have their pros and cons. Pros on Android: My work profile is isol

My wife is totally in the iOS ecosystem and I'm fully in the Samsung ecosystem and they both have their pros and cons. Pros on Android: My work profile is isolated from my personal profile, I can just copy movies onto the device and play them with VLC, automatic routines are better, audio controls are much better, the back button, ad blockers, real alternative browsers, etc. The problem with long term iPhone users is that they don't know what they don't know. Superficially, it's very easy to see an Android phone and an inferior iPhone if you only look at what iPhones can do. That being said, I always recommend iPhones over Android for family/friends/etc. For someone like myself, who is a little bit technical I actually prefer the control, customization, and advanced features of Android. I actually find iPhones to be frustratingly simplistic.

skydhash 3y ago
As a technical user (I was rooting my phone to get upgrades and remove bloatware and I was jailbreaking out of iphone), I got bored out of doing customization. I just want something to work and do the stuff I need to do. If I need to tinker, I will buy something to tinker with, but I don’t want that in other areas of my life. I don’t want to modify my fridge or my washing machine (I know what I should learn to do it). If my iPhone can no longer do what I need, i’ll switch. And these days, I’m against the kitchen sink. I watch movies on a TV (there’s always one anywhere I’ve been) I read books on an e-reader, and I have a DAP for listening to music (except today, streaming is becoming more convenient for general listening). And most of my computing is done on my laptop. My phone is very much an appliance because I don’t need it to do much, just that it does it reliably.
- wvenable 3y ago
  My Android customizations are all in the direction of minimalism. I turn off ever-present icons that provide no useful information. I turn off anything I don't need and keep it small and simple. One thing I did literally 2 days ago: I've been using my phone for navigation a lot more this month than ever before but having the maps audio go through the Bluetooth to the car is awful in my car. For media and calls it's fine but for navigation it's just not a good experience. So I've been manually flipping the app audio to my phone every time I use it. I finally got fed up and created a routine to automatically set the audio for maps to the phone whenever it's connected to the car and, if also plugged in, launch maps automatically. Took only seconds to setup (should have done it sooner) and now I'm less annoyed whenever I have to use my phone for navigation.
veave 3y ago
btw, you can copy movies and play them on vlc on your iphone by using itunes on windows or finder on mac. Just put them in the "file sharing" tab. Windows: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/itunes/macos-mojave-iphone12-pro-itunes-file-sharing-apps-document-add.png https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare... Mac: https://imazing.com/uploads/screenshots/imazing/datasets/apps/vlc-transfer-operation.jpg https://imazing.com/uploads/screenshots/imazing/datasets/app...

skydhash 3y ago

As a technical user (I was rooting my phone to get upgrades and remove bloatware and I was jailbreaking out of iphone), I got bored out of doing customization. I just want something to work and do the stuff I need to do. If I need to tinker, I will buy something to tinker with, but I don’t want that in other areas of my life. I don’t want to modify my fridge or my washing machine (I know what I should learn to do it). If my iPhone can no longer do what I need, i’ll switch. And these days, I’m against the kitchen sink. I watch movies on a TV (there’s always one anywhere I’ve been) I read books on an e-reader, and I have a DAP for listening to music (except today, streaming is becoming more convenient for general listening). And most of my computing is done on my laptop. My phone is very much an appliance because I don’t need it to do much, just that it does it reliably.

wvenable 3y ago
My Android customizations are all in the direction of minimalism. I turn off ever-present icons that provide no useful information. I turn off anything I don't need and keep it small and simple. One thing I did literally 2 days ago: I've been using my phone for navigation a lot more this month than ever before but having the maps audio go through the Bluetooth to the car is awful in my car. For media and calls it's fine but for navigation it's just not a good experience. So I've been manually flipping the app audio to my phone every time I use it. I finally got fed up and created a routine to automatically set the audio for maps to the phone whenever it's connected to the car and, if also plugged in, launch maps automatically. Took only seconds to setup (should have done it sooner) and now I'm less annoyed whenever I have to use my phone for navigation.

veave 3y ago

btw, you can copy movies and play them on vlc on your iphone by using itunes on windows or finder on mac. Just put them in the "file sharing" tab. Windows: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/itunes/macos-mojave-iphone12-pro-itunes-file-sharing-apps-document-add.png https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare... Mac: https://imazing.com/uploads/screenshots/imazing/datasets/apps/vlc-transfer-operation.jpg https://imazing.com/uploads/screenshots/imazing/datasets/app...