jbcatl
Well-known member
Re: Curiosity: iPhone transplants a week later
I've been an iPhone user since the 3G, and have a Macbook Pro as my primary laptop for personal use. I have 600+ albums of ripped CD's (that I own) loaded into iTunes and use iTunes Match. My current iPhone was a 6 Plus 32GB.
My wife was on a different carrier (T-Mobile) than me (AT&T) and constantly complained about the service. Since her S4 was getting pretty old we decided to hit the AT&T store to get her a new S7 on AT&T. Walked in and the AT&T guy immediately let us know that the Samsung S7, S7 Edge and Note 7 were BOGO at the time (last Saturday). You pay for the more expensive device but the lesser one is free (credited to your bill). So, I decided if someone wants to offer us that much "free", it would be a good time to see how the other half lives. I didn't walk into the store expecting to walk out an Android owner, and my wife gave me endless grief since we have some good back and forth on Android vs iPhone. On top of that they gave us a tablet that works on our data plan for $10/month. I have corporate discounts so activation fees were waived on everything.
So, I've had the phone 5+ days now. So far I like the configurability, but as others have suggested at the beginning of this thread, the Apple ecosystem is more tightly integrated, and just overall smoother. I suppose it can be confining but that never bothered me. Battery life on my 2 year old 6 Plus is better, though pushing less pixels. My thought process is that I will give this phone a year or so to see how Android works out for me. By then the iPhone 8 will be out, and allegedly a full redesign for the 10 year anniversary, and I'll have some resalable hardware to make up for any additional costs if I feel the desire to switch back.
What I've noticed so far is a somewhat unpolished experience when using apps from the Play store. Some crash, the installed Gmail app needs some additional package to be downloaded from what seems an unknown site to enable Exchange functionality, some offer less features than the iOS counterparts.
At the end of the day though, I've settled on a decent email application (Cloud Magic) that supports all of my accounts, and have my basic phone functionality working OK. We'll see how it goes from here. I still have a week to return it if there comes some OMG NOOO moment.
I've been an iPhone user since the 3G, and have a Macbook Pro as my primary laptop for personal use. I have 600+ albums of ripped CD's (that I own) loaded into iTunes and use iTunes Match. My current iPhone was a 6 Plus 32GB.
My wife was on a different carrier (T-Mobile) than me (AT&T) and constantly complained about the service. Since her S4 was getting pretty old we decided to hit the AT&T store to get her a new S7 on AT&T. Walked in and the AT&T guy immediately let us know that the Samsung S7, S7 Edge and Note 7 were BOGO at the time (last Saturday). You pay for the more expensive device but the lesser one is free (credited to your bill). So, I decided if someone wants to offer us that much "free", it would be a good time to see how the other half lives. I didn't walk into the store expecting to walk out an Android owner, and my wife gave me endless grief since we have some good back and forth on Android vs iPhone. On top of that they gave us a tablet that works on our data plan for $10/month. I have corporate discounts so activation fees were waived on everything.
So, I've had the phone 5+ days now. So far I like the configurability, but as others have suggested at the beginning of this thread, the Apple ecosystem is more tightly integrated, and just overall smoother. I suppose it can be confining but that never bothered me. Battery life on my 2 year old 6 Plus is better, though pushing less pixels. My thought process is that I will give this phone a year or so to see how Android works out for me. By then the iPhone 8 will be out, and allegedly a full redesign for the 10 year anniversary, and I'll have some resalable hardware to make up for any additional costs if I feel the desire to switch back.
What I've noticed so far is a somewhat unpolished experience when using apps from the Play store. Some crash, the installed Gmail app needs some additional package to be downloaded from what seems an unknown site to enable Exchange functionality, some offer less features than the iOS counterparts.
At the end of the day though, I've settled on a decent email application (Cloud Magic) that supports all of my accounts, and have my basic phone functionality working OK. We'll see how it goes from here. I still have a week to return it if there comes some OMG NOOO moment.