In my personal opinion, it seems ridiculous that you would jump from a relatively open operating system that is slowly becoming more closed to the other option that is already fully shut off.
- File management on iOS may as well not exist, apps installed that’s not “Apple-approved” needs to be refreshed every 7 days + you need to manually register some certificate thing
- Good open-source apps are less prevalent on iOS (due to the high barrier of entry that is the App Store tax, wow who knew that a monopoly makes prices go higher)
- In the modern day, the argument that iOS has more optimised apps is no longer valid. Unless you’re using a tablet, where iPads are more dominant, a majority of apps work well on both OSs, and just as many apps break on iOS as they do on Android in my experience. I believe that the vast amount of FOSS apps on Android makes it a far more compelling app ecosystem
- It remains far less customisable than Android: there are fewer custom launchers, no native custom icon support
- There are far less hardware options for you as well. On a tight budget? Tough luck. Want something with better camera specs, battery tech? Nope, none of that. Different form factors like folding phones, flippy phones, e-ink / e-ink-like (see NXTPaper) screens? Does not exist, and the rumoured iPhone Fold looks to be too expensive for what it is anyways. Repairable design, fair materials, something like the Fairphone? It’s Apple, that’s not a thing too
- Bluetooth compatibility shenanigans are quite bad on iOS. If you use AirPods, it’s super duper, but using any other Bluetooth earphone, headphone, controller, or some other peripheral, it’s a pain to set up, more so than on Android in my experience.
- Custom ROMs based on iOS don’t exist. When Google does make stock Android a bad experience, it is inevitable after all, you can always go to LineageOS, iodeOS, or even e/OS (GrapheneOS if you’re on a Pixel or that announced future Motorola device)
I could go on. It’s like if you didn’t like your bed because it’s becoming less soft over time, and deciding to sleep on the floor instead. That will show them! Another example related to bedtime happenings, it’s like if you hated the alarm sound going beep beep beep, and you replaced it with an ear-piercing siren. That will surely make the alarm become less annoying!
Obviously, I am against Google making it more difficult to install apps (no, I will not use the term “side loading”. F-Droid and Obtainium are my main methods of installing apps, so to me, it’s the main loading), a 24 hour wait doesn’t help that much security wise while also being very annoying. But I think jumping ship to Apple, who has never made that an option, is very silly indeed.
I think the general sentiment behind it is that people hate Google, and mainly used android phones because they are…were more open. Now that that’s going away, people would rather use iOS since apple has a better reputation for privacy, though that would be an incredibly low bar to limbo under compared to Google.
I really just hope degoogled android instances or Linux phones take off in the near future. I’d love to use grapheneOS, but it doesn’t support samsung phones, and im not at a point where im going to throw away a phone in good working order in order to get an OS.
That is a fair point! Google is notorious for gobbling up your data bits. Apple probably does too, but yeah, Google is definitely worse on that front.
The ideal world would be either degoogled Android ROMs (like LineageOS, iodeOS, and you mentioned GrapheneOS. Even e/OS is a thing) or Linux phones (in the distant future once they mature hopefully!!!)