Comment on People considering 'cancelling' new iPhone order after seeing comparison between older generation
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 months agoWhy not use an Android phone? All of them have been using USB-C for ages, and they generally have more options for privacy and customisation.
kaitco@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nah, that’s not an option. I’ve been on iOS since 2009. It’s not really beneficial to move to Android.
Plus I’ve got an Android as my second phone and I’m not a fan of moving to the platform as my main device.
Samsung is silly with their extra store that I can’t remove, I don’t find that the same apps are as polished as their iOS counterparts, I don’t like the way Android does app-switching, I don’t like that there are some apps like Facebook that can be disabled, but not actually removed from the phone, and on my previous phone (moved from an S8 to an S10e) I repeatedly received Samsung ads about newer devices being available. I dislike that the apps themselves are constantly running in the background and that I feel like I have to be conscious of my RAM usage or mindfully close out apps. On iOS, I can have 2 apps or 200 running with no difference in how the phone runs.
There’s also a lot of work necessary to remove things that I don’t like on Android, like removing their extra “gaming overlay” that’s entirely unnecessary, and then there’s general things that I don’t like such as not having a “tap to top” like iOS has.
I do like that Android let’s you sideload apps and choose/customize your launcher, but given that I’ve never really taken advantage of things like extra Home Screens on iOS and the only apps I sideload are emulators, those aren’t game changers for me. I’ve also got an Apple Watch and iPad and things all work best when they’re all within the same ecosystem.
As for privacy, between the two, I would rather let Apple harvest and hold my data over Google. I don’t even like to use Google as my main search engine, and when I do, I’ve got on my VPN and I’m signed out of any account. Apple is selling the info as well, but their money-maker is more about hardware and less about data collection.
I get why some folks may prefer Android to Apple and even make the switch, but I’m not one of them.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I agree default Android is only slightly better than iOS, I would recommend a custom Android ROM like GrapheneOS or CalyxOS so no one gets your data, neither Apple nor Google, and you can fully customise the device, including getting root access and removing/sandboxing system apps.
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Might I suggest your next Android phone be a Pixel so you can avoid having that bloat to begin with? I only buy pure android devices as my primary phone so don’t need to deal with the crap preloaded and locked down. Not suggesting moving to Android as your primary due what you mentioned but there is a night and day difference between pre installed bloadware phones from 3rd parties and pure Android OS ones from Google. Pixel 8 will come with 7 years of OS updates too; Just my 2 cents.
Swarfega@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I have no idea how Samsung is rated so high. It’s just a bloated mess.
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Couldn’t agree more.