I also recall the lack of a file browser being an annoyance on iPhone. I'm a year removed from using an iPhone though so some of this might have changed.

Swipe keyboard functionality built into Android is something you can't live without once you learn it. GBoard for iOS can get it on iPhone too though.

Hopefully you came to your senses and didn't make the switch.

Just upgraded to a Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact and it's fantastic.

What you describe is why Android has anywhere from 100-200 times the security vulnerabilities that iOS does per FBI presentations at security conferences I attend.

It is funny when they put the numbers up and iOS sits at 35, Android at 4000.

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I also recall the lack of a file browser being an annoyance on iPhone. I'm a year removed from using an iPhone though so some of this might have changed.

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There is a basic file browser built in now.

You can't live without swipe?

I've had a few iPhones and due to complaints with iOS I swotcjed to a note 4 when it Came out. Great battery life and I was hooked. But after the honeymoon period wore off you really saw the fragmented system. Hacked together apps, freeze ups, options strung across 12 menus. It just wasn't great. When I started working for myself I decided I needed to go back to iPhone. I have a MacBook Pro, iPad and iPhone X and the system is quite literary superior in every way I can see to anything android ever cobbles together.

Apps are built specifically for devices, vetted, functional, systems work together. FaceID is absolutely glorious. Continuity works as advertised. There is literally no reason I can currently think of the own an android device unless you just want to e different. I'm an adult and at a point in life where I need my **** to work all the time because it's how I make a living. iOS does exactly that. My android devices aren't even in the same league of build quality as iOS devices. I have iPhone 5 laying around that are in similar condition as when I brought them home. ****ing galaxy devices have peeling screens, buttons and **** falling off...just piss poor. Because of that the resale of iOS devices is considerably better too.

Notifications are far better in iOS as well. After my latest switch I realized just how much BULL**** android through up for notifications. Seriously....how much gd crap can you possibly scrolls across my screen that I have no need to know about?! iOS has the **** I want and need and that's it.

Wait a minute.... wallet is not superior to google pay and voice recognition is not quite as good. I'll give you that one. But I suspect that's about to change as well.

As for cases, I own Spigen and throw on glass screen protectors.

They all work on iPhone. Now what?

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I've had a few iPhones and due to complaints with iOS I swotcjed to a note 4 when it Came out. Great battery life and I was hooked. But after the honeymoon period wore off you really saw the fragmented system. Hacked together apps, freeze ups, options strung across 12 menus. It just wasn't great. When I started working for myself I decided I needed to go back to iPhone. I have a MacBook Pro, iPad and iPhone X and the system is quite literary superior in every way I can see to anything android ever cobbles together.

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No ability to define default apps in iOS is a major frustration. Apple's in-house apps often stink compared to 3rd party. I use Google Photos, Pocket Cast, Spotify, Google Maps and Google Assistant over the iOS versions. It would be nice to launch into those instead of being forced into the iOS equivalents.

iMessage is better than anything Android offers. Even after the release of Android Messages. However, it's become less and less an issue overall with most of my family and friends switching to WhatsApp.

Android's file browser is also a lot better than iOS.

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Apps are built specifically for devices, vetted, functional, systems work together. FaceID is absolutely glorious. Continuity works as advertised. There is literally no reason I can currently think of the own an android device unless you just want to e different. I'm an adult and at a point in life where I need my **** to work all the time because it's how I make a living. iOS does exactly that. My android devices aren't even in the same league of build quality as iOS devices. I have iPhone 5 laying around that are in similar condition as when I brought them home. ****ing galaxy devices have peeling screens, buttons and **** falling off...just piss poor. Because of that the resale of iOS devices is considerably better too.

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Meh, I have an X for work and Mi Mix 1 for personal use. I personally prefer the finger print reader on the Mix. It's faster and easier to use my phone when on a desk. The lift or peer over the X is a minor annoyance, but enough to prefer the finger print reader.

Whatever on build quality. My Mix is a tank and a joy to hold. The X is also built well and nice to use. Mix's battery life is around 1.5x of my X. 256GB on-board my Mix is also a major plus.

You can **** on Samsung all you want. Their phones were exploding at one point. However, bend gate and battery throttling from Apple were equally ****ty times for them. And now we have the new Macbook Pro CPU throttling problems. Take the blinders off, amigo.

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Notifications are far better in iOS as well. After my latest switch I realized just how much BULL**** android through up for notifications. Seriously....how much gd crap can you possibly scrolls across my screen that I have no need to know about?! iOS has the **** I want and need and that's it.

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You know you control the notifications, right? As well, iOS only recently added the ability to clear all. Thank god.

With as much trouble as Google gets in for "favoring" their own products in Search, I don't understand why Apple gets a free pass in iOS.

That's another great example of the walled garden inflexibility of iOS that frustrated me as a user.

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Something as simple as viewing a photo and directly attaching it to an email sent via Gmail. Based on my last experience... Can't do that on iPhone. They wall you in and limit the app integrations for sharing. Basically you have to use their native mail app to do what I just described. The work around is to open the Gmail app, compose an email, then attach your file.

Android doesn't discriminate in this regard...any installed app can take advantage of direct built in functions. It's little things like this that numbered in the dozens that you ONLY recognize when you go from Android to iOS. If you've lived on an iPhone your whole life then the expression ignorance is bliss applies to you.

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Just to check this, I tested. Installed GMail app, and went into Gallery. Used the little "Share" button or whatever they call it (box with an up arrow, used to export/share pictures with other apps). GMail wasn't listed initially. Selected "More apps" at the right, and saw GMail was in the list, but was default disabled. Enabled it and it directly put it in a new e-mail within the GMail app.

So, it may be new, I can't say, but this does work.

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Notifications are another great example of productivity. Android let's you take lots of different actions directly on a notification, like reply, archive, Mark as read, etc without ever leaving your app. The entire notification system in general is faaaar superior than the crap on iOS. The ability to quickly dismiss lots of notifications.

iOS is fine but it's a walled garden in comparison to Android and for me personally it feels somewhat limited.

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I would argue on the utility of the notifications, but I think that comes down to how one prefers to work. My preference, Android or iOS, when getting a notification is to go into the app and respond. Even with the more options available on the Android notification bar, it doesn't match what's fully available in the app, and trying to use some more than app-switching in has been a bit glitchy for me. This has been consistent with the factory firmware for my Notes (1, 3) and Galaxy (S7, S9) phones, but was fairly smooth on my OPO. Apple's method of letting me know I have something and then getting the hell out of the way until I feel like addressing it works better for me.

Android is certainly more customizable, I don't think anyone can or will argue otherwise, but if you don't care or use those customization capabilities, then that isn't much of a selling point, and if implemented without good thought into the UX, can actually be detrimental to the *use* of the phone.

To satisfy my internet discussion duties, here's my car analogy.

If I'm looking for a reliable and simple but capable car to go back and forth to work, why would I require a 30' box truck? Sure, you can make the point that it has significantly more storage capacity and flexibility than a basic car would, but for the use case of a distinct majority of users, it's not needed. For those that do need it, great! But we're not all moonlighting as free-lance moving crews, and I'd posit that the simple car would work for a good majority of drivers.

what on earth do you need file browsing for on a phone?

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what on earth do you need file browsing for on a phone?

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Hidden porn. Duh.

I appreciate you testing that. It's good to know.

I'll tell you what, if I could get my hands on an iPhone X after October for close to $600 I may consider trying it out to get an updated perspective on iOS.

I read the other day that Apple won't be doing their old practice of just discounting last year's models when the new ones come out. So when the XI's are out there won't be any X's except for used ones.

That's good for resale prices when selling old phone.

If it wasnt for crappy Itunes, Apple wouldnt be so bad. But that's a deal breaker for me.

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You can **** on Samsung all you want. Their phones were exploding at one point. However, bend gate and battery throttling from Apple were equally ****ty times for them. And now we have the new Macbook Pro CPU throttling problems. Take the blinders off, amigo.

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I wasnt neccesarily comparing those two incidents. My point is, over the past 10 years, I have used both devices and my samsungs have never been in the same league of build quality or user experience as my iphones. It's just personal preference I guess but my iphone works all the time. No bull***** No dicking around. And if it ever were to not work, I call the little number and speak to a human being that speaks the queen's english and they fix it. That means everything to me.

I have my decommissioned Note 4 relegated to running automotive diagnostics now. It picks up wifi occasionally and I swear to god there are about 15 notifications strung across the top right now....none are of any use. Non critical. My iphone doesn't do stupid **** like that.

That said, I have ipad, macbook pro AND iphone.....it is all seamlessly linked with continuity and the user experience is something that android hasn't even seemed to think about yet.

I like to use the samsung 'better screen' sales pitch. They tell me its 4k and blah blah blah and inferior to the iphone X. But if you put them side by side, like most 'better' specs....it's complete horse ***** Apple doesn't build to spec. They build for use. It's just like the car analogy above.

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If it wasnt for crappy Itunes, Apple wouldnt be so bad. But that's a deal breaker for me.

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No joke, I don't think I've used iTunes since my iPhone 4(?). When I've gotten a new phone, I simply sign in and redownload the apps. My e-mail is all server based, my backups are to iCloud or tied to my e-mail accounts. Same with my contacts. I don't really load my own music on my phone, since I typically do streaming, but I have downloaded some from my Plex system into the phone. I think in my professional capacity I've had to use iTunes maybe once every other year for someone else's iPhone when they crushed a screen and I'd do a backup/restore for them, but that's really been about it.

I just want my next phone to not be insanely large. I have an se now and am sad that the se2 rumors have been shot down last i looked.

I may look into an android based off this alone.