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I’m very much the inverse of you. I don’t use Android because I don’t want to have to worry about all the fiddly stuff that is involved with Android. I like tha
by dhosek 8mo ago
I’m very much the inverse of you. I don’t use Android because I don’t want to have to worry about all the fiddly stuff that is involved with Android. I like that it’s not a big deal to migrate to a new phone, that I don’t have to worry about whether I’ll be able to get security updates in a year, or have to spend time disabling telemetry.
If I did want to do a lot of fiddling with the phone then sure, Android would be a better choice, but like I had said back in 2004, what I wanted more than anything else was a phone that would sync its contacts with my Mac.
- SoftTalker 8mo agoFor me a new phone is a forced cleanup. I don't migrate anything automatically.
- crazygringo 8mo agoObviously that's a ton more work, and not something most people have any desire to do. They just want to upgrade their phone and have all their data and apps migrate seamlessly.
- ghaff 8mo agoEspecially if someone needs to get and setup a new phone in a hurry for whatever reason. Yes, it's sometimes good to do a spring cleaning but I'm not always in a position to do so (or have the desire to).
- badc0ffee 8mo agoSpeaking for myself, I've been auto migrating since I got an iPhone 3GS in 2009. The only thing that needs serious cleanup is my music library.
- eloisant 8mo agoThe idea that Android needs tinkering of fiddling needs to die. 80% of users in the world use Android, and most of them don't do any tinkering or fiddling.
- 71bw 8mo ago...and then you look into what devices they are using and what they are ignoring that could have been resolved by tinkering. My father-in-law has just had an issue where Xiaomi's camera app took up 95GB of space on his phone. Not the photos - just the camera app. Uninstalling updates for the app resolved the issue, all the space was magically back.