I switched the opposite way, from Apple to Android. Went from an iPhone 6+ to a Samsung Note 8, which I still have.
At the end of the day, they're all phones. Each has their positives and negatives. On Android, I had a friend of mine set up my phone for me. He configured it with Nova launcher, Gboard, and a few other must haves. It is very intuitive and works really well. If I didn't have that friend, though, I would probably not have had as good a time with it.
For me, Apple did some really annoying stuff. Forcing me to use iTunes to manage my phone is awful. iTunes drives me nuts. The whole thing with 'if iTunes doesn't like your phone for some reason, it will simply not show up in the list of available devices' is infuriating. What am I supposed to Google? "iPhone doesn't show up in iTunes" brings up a list of very unhelpful things to try, including some command line options. Oh, and backing up a phone to my Mac laptop - I had a 64GB phone backing up to my 256GB MBP, with no way to change the backup drive except by doing things on the command line. Seriously? And then, all my photos get stored in a database on my Mac, not the file system. Ever tried backing up a database?
And on.
I'd say that if you do everything the way Apple wants you to, you're fine. Stray much outside the reservation, though, and you get zapped. If something doesn't work right, best of luck.
I went back to Windows, switched to Android, and am just as annoyed as when I had my Mac and iPhone.
Maybe I'm just a grouchy tech user.
Edit: there are a few things that iOS and OSX do that are beyond brilliant. Those brought me great joy. Until I wanted to do something that wasn't in the approved list of activities. (copy pictures from one place to another, etc)
At the end of the day, they're all phones. Each has their positives and negatives. On Android, I had a friend of mine set up my phone for me. He configured it with Nova launcher, Gboard, and a few other must haves. It is very intuitive and works really well. If I didn't have that friend, though, I would probably not have had as good a time with it.
For me, Apple did some really annoying stuff. Forcing me to use iTunes to manage my phone is awful. iTunes drives me nuts. The whole thing with 'if iTunes doesn't like your phone for some reason, it will simply not show up in the list of available devices' is infuriating. What am I supposed to Google? "iPhone doesn't show up in iTunes" brings up a list of very unhelpful things to try, including some command line options. Oh, and backing up a phone to my Mac laptop - I had a 64GB phone backing up to my 256GB MBP, with no way to change the backup drive except by doing things on the command line. Seriously? And then, all my photos get stored in a database on my Mac, not the file system. Ever tried backing up a database?
And on.
I'd say that if you do everything the way Apple wants you to, you're fine. Stray much outside the reservation, though, and you get zapped. If something doesn't work right, best of luck.
I went back to Windows, switched to Android, and am just as annoyed as when I had my Mac and iPhone.
Maybe I'm just a grouchy tech user.
Edit: there are a few things that iOS and OSX do that are beyond brilliant. Those brought me great joy. Until I wanted to do something that wasn't in the approved list of activities. (copy pictures from one place to another, etc)
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