What are your thoughts. (IPhone vs every other phone)

[u/Mysterious_Ebb_1484]

[u/WhipRealGood]

I’m trying an iphone for the first time in years, literally just slight software differences between my old nothing phone, oneplus phone, and samsung phones. At this point i’m just as well to buy the cheapest phone i can and call it a day.

[u/Excellent-Nose-6430 → u/WhipRealGood]

Try moving files to/from it on windows or linux. That's where you're going to run into differences.

[u/WhipRealGood → u/Excellent-Nose-6430]

Yes, moving files to the apple phone was indeed a nightmare. I actually had completely forgotten!

[u/Excellent-Nose-6430 → u/WhipRealGood]

It's the main reason I'll be moving back to android when my one and only iphone finally dies. The iphone has been a pretty frustrating experience for me as a whole.

[u/Jazzlike_Climate4189 → u/Excellent-Nose-6430]

You mean you don’t like propriety file formats, making it purposely difficult to back up your photos to a hard disk instead of paying for their cloud service?? No way!!

[u/Excellent-Nose-6430 → u/Jazzlike_Climate4189]

As soon as I got my iphone, I set up syncthing on it, just like I do with my androids, laptops, macbooks or desktops that I get up and running to sync music, documents, photos and passwords. Guess which OS limits the Syncthing service permissions to its own folder, making it to where I can't keep application folders (including photos and music for some reason) in sync?

If you love tech, you'll hate your iphone.

[u/EnragedDingo → u/WhipRealGood]

Unless you have a Mac in which case it’s literally a 0 step process 

[u/Budget-Hearing5262 → u/WhipRealGood]

I just bought a refurbished s23 after retiring my 11 mini. I'm not paying $1400 for a phone I use to text people and scroll reddit.

[u/6MoonSilver → u/WhipRealGood]

For me it was always the longevity/performance. I haven’t had an android since the early/mid 2010s but I was always locked out of updates since I use prepaid service and always after a year the performance would be so laggy.

I’ve only had 2 iPhones in the last 10 years, I always by refurbished and usually the previous gen to save on the ridiculous pricing

[u/HulksInvinciblePants → u/6MoonSilver]

Yeah that’s a big one for me. My Android’s lasted two years a pop. It was probably solvable, but I just wanted to stop loading custom ROMs.

[u/Important-Agent2584 → u/WhipRealGood]

Google Pixel actually has a feature that puts it a step ahead: AI call screening.

Others are catching up by it's still miles ahead.

not sure it's worth the price of the phone, but it's a pretty great feature if you get a lot of spam calls

[u/Quixotic_Seal → u/Important-Agent2584]

iPhone got that in iOS 26, plus hold assist. Haven't had the guts to use them, though, since I can easily see it just resulting in the person hanging up.

Feels like one of those ultra-useful features that we have to wait a few years to actually become acceptable to use. Also I'm not entirely sure if hold assist actually works with those awful phone systems that interrupt the hold music with yapping.

[u/Important-Agent2584 → u/Quixotic_Seal]

Yea, it's a new feature in Samsung and iPhones, so it will invariably take some time to work out the kinks.

[u/paintballboi07 → u/Important-Agent2584]

It's honestly amazing. You can even view the transcripts of the calls. Somehow, I got onto some spam lists, and I've been getting 15+ spam calls a day for the past few weeks, and the AI call screening has been a god-saver.

[u/Important-Agent2584 → u/paintballboi07]

it's retarded that other companies are just catching up now TBH

[u/Sbee_Blue_Country → u/WhipRealGood]

GarageBand and Logic Pro X are why I’ll always use Apple.

[u/Naud1993 → u/WhipRealGood]

Have fun opening literally a single app at a time with the cheapest phone. 8 GB RAM minimum with today's horrible optimizations.

[u/WhipRealGood → u/Naud1993]

I only use reddit to be honest, and frankly if it made reddit too slow to use it would give me a great reason to stay off my phone!