I should probaly state that I'm kinda the type of person that gets swayed depending on what I listen to and read, so maybe this is all coming up because I've listened to a iOS and Mac podcast, but I think these observations are in line with what I'm really feeling.
About 3 months or so ago I sold my iPhone 5 on ebay and purchased a Nexus 4. I wanted to dip my toe into android and the phone space is better to do that I think than the tablet space.
Originally, I sold the iPhone because I was with iOS since the iPhone 4 and I wanted to branch out and try something new. And ere were alot of cool stuff that android did compared to ios. (Google now. Customization, widgets, better integration with maps, and etc.)
Although there's quite a bit I like about android and my nexus 4, there were some things I'm missing from my iPhone and iOS experience (note that some of these might just be issues I have with the nexus 4):
1. Build quality: I loved my iPhones premium build quality. From my time owning the iPhone, I never had sticky buttons, felt t was too cheap, and etc. my nexus 4s power button is getting flush with the phone, removing that satisfying clicks feel.
2. Apps: this goes for variety and accessibility. What I mean by accessibility is that in addition to my nexus 4, I also own a ipad mini. Before when I had my iPhone 5, all apps that I purchased with my phone were accessible to download on my tablet. Most of them had a optimized tablet version even. However, not at I'm in two ecosystems, I have to pick and choose what I download on each or I'm finding myself repurchasing apps on android that I already bought on iOS. This cannot be avoided and I've accepted that this is how it is when you have devices on competing ecosystems, but it's still irritating me.
I'm considering doing all my games purchases on ipad if there is a iOS equivalent for the game and then using my nexus for apps that need or benefit from constant data access.
3. The apple store: I always felt kinda at ease owning a iPhone because I knew if it spazed out, I only needed to take a 25 minute drive to the nearest apple store to have it looked at. With android, I have to go through company's return processes to have them look at it. Which requires me to wait 3 to 5 or more business days for my shipment to even reach the company to have them look at it. Then I have to wait until they ship it back to me.
4. Battery life: I remember being able to get through a whole day of my normal use using the iPhone and have it be comfortable. With my nexus 4, I found e battery life to be not on par. And I actually bout a portable battery pack because I would find my phone dying before the end of the day with my moderate to heavy use. (Grant it, battery life is subjective and I admit to using my phone constantly through the day with podcasts, music, Internet, and etc.)
5. Accesories: this is a minor point, but it was pretty hard finding a nexus 4 case I liked. There's only a few cases right now for it, where as with my iPhone I could usually find dozens of different cases, even if I just went with otterbox every time. Again, this is a issue I have with e nexus 4 more than anything. I'm not sure how the case and accessories market is for phones like the galaxy S3 and S 4 and the HTC One. But it does seem on average there's a good deal more of iOS accessories than android accessories, atleast quality ones.
6. I feel like ios is just a tad more stable: I'm not saying that 4.2 jelly bean is unstable by any reasonable means, but I have noticed some hitches and bugs with certain apps or with performance. These hitches only happened maybe a handful of times I thinks o where they were noticeable, but it was still more than I remember having on my iPhone.
7. App quality: there's just more app quality to most apps on ios I think. They seem to run better on the whole, although the apps I do have on my nexus that I also had on my iPhone 5 did run about the same. But I still think there were more hitches on android.
Really, I am impressed how far android has progressed in just the few years since I bout my original smartphone, the HTC Inspire. It's more stable, Rees better apps then there was, and the whole platform is just more mature and good.
However, I'm not 100 percent sure if I'm as satisfied With it as I was with iOS. I know there's a ton of great buzz around android and some doomsay around apple right now in the phone space, but these are just my observations. I can't say for sure yet if I'm going to stick with android and not get another Iphone when I get the chance.
About 3 months or so ago I sold my iPhone 5 on ebay and purchased a Nexus 4. I wanted to dip my toe into android and the phone space is better to do that I think than the tablet space.
Originally, I sold the iPhone because I was with iOS since the iPhone 4 and I wanted to branch out and try something new. And ere were alot of cool stuff that android did compared to ios. (Google now. Customization, widgets, better integration with maps, and etc.)
Although there's quite a bit I like about android and my nexus 4, there were some things I'm missing from my iPhone and iOS experience (note that some of these might just be issues I have with the nexus 4):
1. Build quality: I loved my iPhones premium build quality. From my time owning the iPhone, I never had sticky buttons, felt t was too cheap, and etc. my nexus 4s power button is getting flush with the phone, removing that satisfying clicks feel.
2. Apps: this goes for variety and accessibility. What I mean by accessibility is that in addition to my nexus 4, I also own a ipad mini. Before when I had my iPhone 5, all apps that I purchased with my phone were accessible to download on my tablet. Most of them had a optimized tablet version even. However, not at I'm in two ecosystems, I have to pick and choose what I download on each or I'm finding myself repurchasing apps on android that I already bought on iOS. This cannot be avoided and I've accepted that this is how it is when you have devices on competing ecosystems, but it's still irritating me.
I'm considering doing all my games purchases on ipad if there is a iOS equivalent for the game and then using my nexus for apps that need or benefit from constant data access.
3. The apple store: I always felt kinda at ease owning a iPhone because I knew if it spazed out, I only needed to take a 25 minute drive to the nearest apple store to have it looked at. With android, I have to go through company's return processes to have them look at it. Which requires me to wait 3 to 5 or more business days for my shipment to even reach the company to have them look at it. Then I have to wait until they ship it back to me.
4. Battery life: I remember being able to get through a whole day of my normal use using the iPhone and have it be comfortable. With my nexus 4, I found e battery life to be not on par. And I actually bout a portable battery pack because I would find my phone dying before the end of the day with my moderate to heavy use. (Grant it, battery life is subjective and I admit to using my phone constantly through the day with podcasts, music, Internet, and etc.)
5. Accesories: this is a minor point, but it was pretty hard finding a nexus 4 case I liked. There's only a few cases right now for it, where as with my iPhone I could usually find dozens of different cases, even if I just went with otterbox every time. Again, this is a issue I have with e nexus 4 more than anything. I'm not sure how the case and accessories market is for phones like the galaxy S3 and S 4 and the HTC One. But it does seem on average there's a good deal more of iOS accessories than android accessories, atleast quality ones.
6. I feel like ios is just a tad more stable: I'm not saying that 4.2 jelly bean is unstable by any reasonable means, but I have noticed some hitches and bugs with certain apps or with performance. These hitches only happened maybe a handful of times I thinks o where they were noticeable, but it was still more than I remember having on my iPhone.
7. App quality: there's just more app quality to most apps on ios I think. They seem to run better on the whole, although the apps I do have on my nexus that I also had on my iPhone 5 did run about the same. But I still think there were more hitches on android.
Really, I am impressed how far android has progressed in just the few years since I bout my original smartphone, the HTC Inspire. It's more stable, Rees better apps then there was, and the whole platform is just more mature and good.
However, I'm not 100 percent sure if I'm as satisfied With it as I was with iOS. I know there's a ton of great buzz around android and some doomsay around apple right now in the phone space, but these are just my observations. I can't say for sure yet if I'm going to stick with android and not get another Iphone when I get the chance.
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