Well it's been a long journey so far for me in smartphone land. I've owned my fair share of smart phones. I started off with the Palm Treo back in the day. Then with the first generation HTC Android phone. A Palm Pre was one of my favorite phones. The OS was slick as otter fur. Very well thought out design. It just didn't catch on. Too bad. It was a great device. My wife at the time wanted a smart phone an iPhone in particular. They had just came out. She didn't like the Treo when I had it. That was the first iPhone. I later had an iPhone 3G that I traded for a BlackBerry Bold. I think fondly of the crackberry days. That little addicting flashing light got to you. Notice I don't miss those days. Because if you pushed the Bold's limits it failed mighty. The browser was simply trash. BlackBerry couldn't figure that out. The were toast in a few years. I went back to iPhones owning every one through the 5s as well as owing all the Samsung Galaxy S phones up the 6. Well someone in the family owned it, be it myself or someone else. I would go back to ios due to frustrations with the slow Android devices and after a while I'd jailbreak the phone for more function which made the iPhone really glitchy.
What prompted me to go back to android after each iPhone was the restrictions of iPhone and the freedom of Android. I never rooted an android phone. Didn't need to I felt and it was much more involved than jailbreaking. And what prompted me to ditch Android for iPhone each time was the dog slow phones. Although on paper the current Android phones should be much faster than the current iPhone. I'm practice that doesn't happen. Especially after a year. My girlfriend has a 5c. She is still using it without many issues. My android at the time she got it was a HTC one. After a year it was so slow I switched to the 5s.
As I said before, one of the main reasons I switched from iPhones to androids was the restricted access the Apple used. You had to use their services or to without. Being Android for so long I was heavily invested in Amazon services. I have prime and bought many songs from them. While there's a way to get Amazon purchased songs on an iPhone, prime and all it's benefits were not allowed. As was checking out the iPhones at the AT&T store prior to purchasing my daughter's, I noticed Amazon Music was on the app store. What is this? Apple has allowed an intruder to the walled garden. Sure enough Prime was there too. So I says to myself "Self, I wonder if all of Google services are there too." I knew Google maps was there and Google now but I also saw that all of Google docs and drive was there. Even Google play music, movies and books. I haven't bought too much music from Google or any other content at that. I was content to stay with Amazon. Apple allowing them in is a bug plus for me.
Although Android offers much more customization than iOS, as the years went by I was less inclined to spend the time to customize the phone. This last one I left stock. Pretty much just grouping apps together on a home screen much like iOS does. Customization plus of Android therefore isn't too much for me.
So far so good for my current dip in the iOS pool. I do have Apple computers which work much better with iPhones as we all know. I think with the willingness of Apple to allow other services in while reserving their apps just for iPhones(iMessage) I just may stick around for a while. I was able to snag the iPhone I was after. The 7 plus in slate black with 256 GB of storage. Hell that's more storage than my laptop. Hahaha. Again so far so good. I think the Note 7 debacle and the perceived Verizon exclusive on the Pixel is going to hurt Android and drive more hardened veterans of Android to Apple. Apple for certain is a superior physical design. And it's highly debatable if Android offers a superior end user experience than iOS. Apple has fine tuned iOS to the point for me, there's a small difference. I'd like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and happy New Year. May it be your best one yet.
What prompted me to go back to android after each iPhone was the restrictions of iPhone and the freedom of Android. I never rooted an android phone. Didn't need to I felt and it was much more involved than jailbreaking. And what prompted me to ditch Android for iPhone each time was the dog slow phones. Although on paper the current Android phones should be much faster than the current iPhone. I'm practice that doesn't happen. Especially after a year. My girlfriend has a 5c. She is still using it without many issues. My android at the time she got it was a HTC one. After a year it was so slow I switched to the 5s.
As I said before, one of the main reasons I switched from iPhones to androids was the restricted access the Apple used. You had to use their services or to without. Being Android for so long I was heavily invested in Amazon services. I have prime and bought many songs from them. While there's a way to get Amazon purchased songs on an iPhone, prime and all it's benefits were not allowed. As was checking out the iPhones at the AT&T store prior to purchasing my daughter's, I noticed Amazon Music was on the app store. What is this? Apple has allowed an intruder to the walled garden. Sure enough Prime was there too. So I says to myself "Self, I wonder if all of Google services are there too." I knew Google maps was there and Google now but I also saw that all of Google docs and drive was there. Even Google play music, movies and books. I haven't bought too much music from Google or any other content at that. I was content to stay with Amazon. Apple allowing them in is a bug plus for me.
Although Android offers much more customization than iOS, as the years went by I was less inclined to spend the time to customize the phone. This last one I left stock. Pretty much just grouping apps together on a home screen much like iOS does. Customization plus of Android therefore isn't too much for me.
So far so good for my current dip in the iOS pool. I do have Apple computers which work much better with iPhones as we all know. I think with the willingness of Apple to allow other services in while reserving their apps just for iPhones(iMessage) I just may stick around for a while. I was able to snag the iPhone I was after. The 7 plus in slate black with 256 GB of storage. Hell that's more storage than my laptop. Hahaha. Again so far so good. I think the Note 7 debacle and the perceived Verizon exclusive on the Pixel is going to hurt Android and drive more hardened veterans of Android to Apple. Apple for certain is a superior physical design. And it's highly debatable if Android offers a superior end user experience than iOS. Apple has fine tuned iOS to the point for me, there's a small difference. I'd like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and happy New Year. May it be your best one yet.