Well, I think I'm finally done with iOS. Every major update seems to be worse than the last one and the annoying bugs never go away. I just simply don't get any pleasure out of using it. I'm just DONE. Admittedly, I've jumped to Android about four or five times over the last 10 years and ultimately went back to iOS because I felt like I couldn't live without iMessage and Facetime. Always felt like the odd one out because the rest of my family is on iOS - and that used to bother me - not anymore. Anyone can download Google Duo - video chat issue solved. iMessage? Whatever. It's just not that important to me anymore.
Android just does things in a more logical way, in my opinion. Biggest example - notifications. This has always been my biggest complaint with iOS. Your notifications are not front and center - you have to swipe down on the left side to see if anything's there, and this is how you end up MISSING notifications! Android just manages notifications 100 times better - all notifications are right in front of you and you have different options on how to take action. Just makes so much more sense. Apple's new iOS14 "app drawer" is an absolute joke - it's really not an app drawer, it's just a nonsensical mess that the user has little to no control over.
The myriad of standard features you get with Android compared to iOS makes it's a no-brainer (for me).
While I'm waiting for my S21+ to be delivered, I've been trying to figure out how to approach the whole Samsung/Google apps redundancy thing. Do I fully immerse myself into the Google ecosystem (which is starting to sound like the smarter choice) or fully immerse myself into the Samsung ecosystem. I know there's always quite a few duplicate apps between Samsung and Google. It's great that you have a choice, but it does kind of require one to think about which 'side' they wanna stick with (email, cloud storage, photos, etc).
Anyway, glad to be back, and I'm thinking I'm back for good this time. Life's just too short to remain 'chained' to iOS and unhappy with something you use and rely on every single day.
** The one thing that has always been a huge source of frustration for me when I've jumped to Android, is being able to text full resolution photos and videos (videos mostly) to an iPhone. Videos come out blurry and are pretty much useless because the files aren't being sent through iMessage. To this day, I still don't know a way around this. If I shoot a video on my Android device, it's useless to text it to an iPhone as the other person will only see a blurry mess.
Does anyone know of a way to send full resolution video and photos from Android to iPhone?? Or is this always going to be a problem? I don't see Android getting iMessage anytime soon. I know there's an app called AirMessage, but from what I know about it, it's more of a hassle to set up/maintain than it's worth.
Android just does things in a more logical way, in my opinion. Biggest example - notifications. This has always been my biggest complaint with iOS. Your notifications are not front and center - you have to swipe down on the left side to see if anything's there, and this is how you end up MISSING notifications! Android just manages notifications 100 times better - all notifications are right in front of you and you have different options on how to take action. Just makes so much more sense. Apple's new iOS14 "app drawer" is an absolute joke - it's really not an app drawer, it's just a nonsensical mess that the user has little to no control over.
The myriad of standard features you get with Android compared to iOS makes it's a no-brainer (for me).
While I'm waiting for my S21+ to be delivered, I've been trying to figure out how to approach the whole Samsung/Google apps redundancy thing. Do I fully immerse myself into the Google ecosystem (which is starting to sound like the smarter choice) or fully immerse myself into the Samsung ecosystem. I know there's always quite a few duplicate apps between Samsung and Google. It's great that you have a choice, but it does kind of require one to think about which 'side' they wanna stick with (email, cloud storage, photos, etc).
Anyway, glad to be back, and I'm thinking I'm back for good this time. Life's just too short to remain 'chained' to iOS and unhappy with something you use and rely on every single day.
** The one thing that has always been a huge source of frustration for me when I've jumped to Android, is being able to text full resolution photos and videos (videos mostly) to an iPhone. Videos come out blurry and are pretty much useless because the files aren't being sent through iMessage. To this day, I still don't know a way around this. If I shoot a video on my Android device, it's useless to text it to an iPhone as the other person will only see a blurry mess.
Does anyone know of a way to send full resolution video and photos from Android to iPhone?? Or is this always going to be a problem? I don't see Android getting iMessage anytime soon. I know there's an app called AirMessage, but from what I know about it, it's more of a hassle to set up/maintain than it's worth.
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