Switching to Android

[eta34]

[Rwnielsen]

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...

[bigbearbear]

What happened to the watch? I bought a Apple watch not too long ago myself.

[71MUSTY]

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.

[eta34]

[bigbearbear]

Yikes, sorry to hear that. When I first bought my Apple watch I thought it'll just be a toy and only useful because I travel for work a lot and its easier if I have a watch that changes time zone automatically and immediately when I land.

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.

[riprap]

Welcome brother.

[C.G.]

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.

[texas_law_dog]

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.

[sigstroker]

Escalate it to a corporate drone. Local store drone is probably useless.

You're probably aware, but you give up a lot of privacy with google.

[vino68]

Welcome. Android is for people who like to think about how to use their technology. I have stayed with Samsung and the galaxy series. I have used Apple but it annoys me to no end.

[SkyHawk]

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/

[eta34]

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/

Thank you. I had no idea this was an issue. I will definitely take care of this when my phone arrives.

[the86d]

...You're probably aware, but you give up a lot of privacy with google.

Really? More than Apple, sending ALL SMS/texts through their service called iMessage? People who voluntarily do this... might want to rethink it...

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.

[Toyman321]

Really? More than Apple, sending ALL SMS/texts through their service called iMessage? People who voluntarily do this... might want to rethink it...

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.