Anyone going to trade their Android phone for iPhone 6?

[KarlDag]

Thinking about it. I had a 3g and a 4S, moved on to a nexus 4 for the screen size. Ended up switching it up for a G2 for battery life and camera quality.

I would like to switch back because
1. Imessage
2. Facetime
3. Airplay (I have an airport express, an appletv, airplay embedded in my 5.1 receiver...)
4. Often better app design and reliability in my experience
5. TouchID is a gazillion time better than face unlock of the S5's fingerprint scanner
6. Siri can read back messages and emails as I'm driving
7. More and better games in App Store + games more optimized for hardware (like consoles vs powerful PC that stutters) + Metal in iOS 8
8. I think if Apple introduces NFC it will actually be useful. I can't make mobile payments with my android devices in Canada because you need the right carrier and right bank and special SIM.. Not Apple's way.

I am held back by
1. OS general design. iOS 7/8 is too pastel for my liking, and I love where Android L is going. Love and use my calendar widget all the time
2. Upcoming AndroidTV is miles ahead of AppleTV
3. Choice of smart watches (really interested by that round LG R watch)
4. Device prices, especially at high storage/SD Card
5. Google Now >>> Siri now for most things except above
6. Setting default apps

So yeah. I might just sit it out for a while and see where things go, as both platform are at similar levels but offer different advantages to me. Will see their keynote.

Also very interested in what Motorola will release, if it has a good camera.

 

[SWAG YOLO]

All companies are greedy, that's how the whole economy is based
And Google doesn't want you to get viruses, they want you to be happy, so you keep buying their products

Posted via Android Central App with my Samsung Galaxy S5

How is giving me viruses and lag keeping me happy?

 

[SWAG YOLO]

I don't see how that makes them greedy. They are greedy, but that's not why. The regular Facebook app sucks, but it doesn't have viruses. Saying that Google sucks because you got a virus from an app YOU shouldn't have downloaded is ridiculous at best.

The Facebook app did not only give me viruses, it is so poorly optimised on Android that it causes HUGE battery drain.

 

[JeffDenver]

Meh, I like apple for one reason! JAILBREAK lol Its fun to break the 'rules'

It's even more fun when there are no rules to break. Android doesn't put me in jail. I don't have to ask the teacher's permission when I want to go to the bathroom.

Anyone noticed all the apple fanboys move to android(more over to samsung) ? I also noticed how they switched back to apple within a month hahaha!

The marketshare figures suggest otherwise. Just sayin.

 

[JeffDenver]

The Facebook app did not only give me viruses, it is so poorly optimised on Android that it causes HUGE battery drain.

That's a new thing...it didn't do that in previous versions.

And that is not an Android thing...it's a Facebook thing. Android is not causing Facebook to have battery drain.

 

[JeffDenver]

How is giving me viruses and lag keeping me happy?

1) You just said you didn't actually get any viruses. You claimed Facebook gave you viruses at first, then recanted.

2) I am not seeing any lag on my Nexus 5. Maybe you just bought the wrong phone?

 

[UKgalaxy]

I installed it from the play store though. It shows that Google is a greedy corrupted company for allowing people to gain viruses from just downloading an app.

I don't know about google being greedy and corrupted but apple definitely are! Just take the massive amount they charge for memory, a 32gb micro SD card cost me £13, a 32gb memory upgrade on an iphone would cost 10 times that amount. Also take in to account their slow deliberate incremental upgrades on the hardware of their phones. A deliberate ploy to phase in the latest technology available over the longest time span possible to maximise their profit margins!

By the way I have just jumped ship from an iphone to a S5 in the past week and so far I don't yet plan on going back. Iphone 6 will just be more of the same.

 

[SWAG YOLO]

That's a new thing...it didn't do that in previous versions.

And that is not an Android thing...it's a Facebook thing. Android is not causing Facebook to have battery drain.

Well it looks like the developers don't care about Android enough to make decent, optimised apps.

 

[SWAG YOLO]

1) You just said you didn't actually get any viruses. You claimed Facebook gave you viruses at first, then recanted.

2) I am not seeing any lag on my Nexus 5. Maybe you just bought the wrong phone?

1) well something gave me a virus which means that Android is not very secure.

2) Good for you.

 

[SWAG YOLO]

I don't know about google being greedy and corrupted but apple definitely are! Just take the massive amount they charge for memory, a 32gb micro SD card cost me £13, a 32gb memory upgrade on an iphone would cost 10 times that amount. Also take in to account their slow deliberate incremental upgrades on the hardware of their phones. A deliberate ploy to phase in the latest technology available over the longest time span possible to maximise their profit margins!

By the way I have just jumped ship from an iphone to a S5 in the past week and so far I don't yet plan on going back. Iphone 6 will just be more of the same.

Well I don't care how much they charge so long as they make quality products....

 

[A895]

Well it looks like the developers don't care about Android enough to make decent, optimised apps.

How can you make such a broad unsupported statement?

 

[A895]

1) well something gave me a virus which means that Android is not very secure.

2) Good for you.

I hope you don't have a computer running Windows because the same principles apply and you sound like someone who has 10 toolbars on IE.

 

[SWAG YOLO]

How can you make such a broad unsupported statement?

Well the apps on IOS are more polished and refined and they crash far far less.

 

[SWAG YOLO]

I hope you don't have a computer running Windows because the same principles apply and you sound like someone who has 10 toolbars on IE.

I have a Mac...

 

[A895]

Well the apps on IOS are more polished and refined and they crash far far less.

So no relevant source for this claim? All it sounds like is your opinion.

 

[A895]

I have a Mac...

Same principles apply still, Macs aren't immune.

 

[SWAG YOLO]

So no relevant source for this claim? All it sounds like is your opinion.

http://time.com/9205/ios-vs-android-2/

 

[SWAG YOLO]

Same principles apply still, Macs aren't immune.

Less likely though.

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000737.htm

 

[Matias Honorato]

I just change my Iphone 4 for a Galaxy S3...Best desition ever, so I don't I'll return to iOS in a while.

 

[KarlDag]

I just change my Iphone 4 for a Galaxy S3...Best desition ever, so I don't I'll return to iOS in a while.

You did what?