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Switching to Android
Current IOS user, but recently had an Apple Watch break and they wouldn’t stand behind it. I’m done with them now.
Anyone make the switch from IOS to android? I’m not a fanboy of either. Just want something that works. Never had any issues with Apple until this, but paying $400 for a gadget that broke in a year pisses me off. Any must have apps? Any way to make the transition easier? I’m not a tech genius, so forgive the seemingly idiotic question. Thanks. |
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Welcome to the dark side. I, personally, never liked Apple products because they limited what you were able to do/access. That may be because I was never trained properly but still...
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I was a loyal Android user, but wifes boss bought her an IPHONE to maintain platform consistency I switched.
Years down the road wife no longer works there so I switched back to an Android. I only lasted 30 days. I became used to IPHONE's way of doing things and could not really take advantage of Androids strengths . IE I felt lost. But then again I'm an old dude so I'm learning challenged.
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The screen on my watch came off. Cracked all the way around the edges. It had never been dropped or anything. It was as if someone cut around the outside and took it off. The Apple store guy said the battery hadn’t swollen, so they viewed it as an accidental breakage.
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A few months in and I'm starting to like it more and more, being able to use it to control music when walking and speaking to the watch to text my wife, makes things easier. Hope you'll find a good replacement in the Android ecosystem. |
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I am starting to get used to Android. I preferred Windows 10 phone OS but had to switch when I failed in teaching my Windows phone how to swim. The Windows launcher makes it a little more palatable.
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Never had iPhone, but my wife is loyal. For every bug her phone experiences, I'm happy to point out that no Pixel I've ever owned experienced those problems. The key is researching a phone with good battery life over the life of the phone.
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You're probably aware, but you give up a lot of privacy with google. |
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If you are porting your number back to something besides iPhone, you must deregister your number from iMessage, or you will not get texts anymore from Apple users.
https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/ Last edited by SkyHawk; 08-13-2019 at 5:00 PM.. |
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Or a woman having a conversation about a small polka-dot yellow purse, then ads for small polka-dot yellow purses start appearing, "randomly"? I have not these problems on Android, but I also have the ability to NOT use the default "phone required" browser when opening e-mailed links... for tracking purposes. Last edited by the86d; 08-14-2019 at 3:38 AM.. |
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You realize you can change the default browser, use third part sms apps and the whole “I talked about and it showed up on my phone” thing alive and well on Android..... right? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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I switched to android last september, I had been an iphone user since the 3g. I picked up a Huawei Mate 10 pro from amazon for 500, the huawei phone clone software made it very fast and easy to move all my photos and data over.
After a year of use, I would probably never go back to Iphones. Originally android had more capability but Apple was much more user friendly, now androids have evolved to also be extremely intuitive to learn and use, while android also still holds the advantage in capability. The speed, battery life, camera and user interface on my mate 10 is downright impressive. Then again, huawei news hasn't been the greatest recently, and i'm not a fan of samsung either so I really dont know what I would look for in a replacement when the time comes. Also, I'm not too concerned about huawei spying, when google, apple, amazon, yahoo, and facebook do the exact same thing- I dont have international secrets that would interest the chinese, but the targeted ads and tracking that's done by american tech companies seems to be a booming business
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My work phone is an iphone, my personal is a Samsung S9.
I despise every single thing about the apple. It has more problems and less functionality than a GD commodore 64 would trying to keep up in today's world. |
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Apple Rocks!!
Maybe you guys are wanting to do things the iPhone won't let you. Me, I just want it to work and it does. I'm not an Apple fanboi, iPhone is the only Apple thing I own. On a side note, work buddy has an android something and in my opinion of seeing him trying to use it, it sucks. |
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Android for men. Iphone for chicks.
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Here are some reasons you might want to reconsider sticking with iPhone: 1) You don't want really cheap and functional, industry-standard USB-C cables, where even a USB-C 65 watt notebook AC adapter COULD charge your phone... REALLY FAST, and you don't need that kind of positivity in your life. 2) You don't want a cheap upgrade to your secondary storage (music/Movie/Videos/Pix) w/just with a MicroSD swap, because then you won't be paying Apple a monthly fee for iCloud (upgrades). You WANT to pay $100-$250 for every 128GB-256GB NIB upgrade, and you want to swap the phone to do it, NOT some industry-standard $85 for a 512GB U3 card that takes less than a minute to swap. 3) You WANT to pay for Applecare, because a $1000 status-symbol needs a warranty that you pay for. You don't want a sub-$200 phone with last-gen features that still aren't avail on iPhones, you want these features later 3 generations of iPhone from now... for an additional premium. 4) You want to wear $144 earbuds with tiny Lithium-Ion batteries right in your ears that make you look like you are wearing white AntiFA ear-rings, w/no way to swap the batteries. You don't need compatibility with industry-standard headphone jacks, ever. 5) You WANT to pay for Apps that Android has always alternatives for, for free. 6) You don't want to have to research what phone you can swap the battery yourself for ~$10 NIB, because Apple has addressed the throttling issue with old batteries, after people complained, but you're holding it wrong... 7) In the event that you have to factory your phone, you don't want a <3 minute factory, you want to watch the black screen with the Apple logo and a white bar take forever. Wait...a...sec... Last edited by the86d; 08-20-2019 at 3:57 AM.. |
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You can get note 8 for like 250bucks at best buy. They include a cable to transfer your info. The homo in charge of Apple has made it clear we are not wanted on their platform. Big change but no regrets for me
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My friends that have switched from iPhone to Android are usually unhappy the first week or so and then never go back. They say the hardest thing to lose is Imessage. Android has comparable and better apps, but they do not come standard on the phone so you need to convince your family/friends to get the better messaging apps as well.
If you don't send a lot of pictures or do a lot of group messing, you probably won't miss it. I prefer signal messenger but there are a few good ones out there. |
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Found a reliable brand new Li-ion battery for S5 too, 3300mah and works like a brand new genuine Samsung battery for $16.95 off Ebay https://www.ebay.com/i/113385145876?...0aAqEsEALw_wcB
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I've been an Apple-everything user since 2000. I will never go back to a Windows or Android system again. And I'm going to upgrade to the 11 with IOS 13.x.x when its announced tomorrow. Wife has a X. I'm upgrading from a (yes) I-phone 4. And the only reason I'm doing that is because the 4 won't take OS updates anymore.
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