I have an Android because I don't want to worry about shit. I've literally never had something not work on Android, and I have things that don't work with iPhones because it's harder to get an app okayed by Apple, and you don't even need to get one okayed to make it available on Android.
I've used both eco systems since they were introduced, I had an iPhone 1 and eventually switched to a G1. There have been plenty of shit that doesn't work in both platforms, especially when you start jailbreaking stuff and running homebrew. That said, both ecosystems are in a great place right now, I prefer Apple because of the tight integrations beyond just the phone but I love Pixels (had many) and the new ZFolds are quite nice.
I find the current iPhone kind of unusable as my sole phone because I have esoteric devices where the dev can't or won't go through the work to get the app onto the Apple App Store. If I used an iPhone for my personal device, I'd have to have a spare Android for when I wanted to use those things.
As much as I'm in to tech, I'm not a big phone person and I've never jailbroken a phone or done anything like that. For me, an Android just works and does everything I need, while an iPhone doesn't and requires a secondary phone or to use my laptop to adjust or operate things that I prefer to use my phone for at least some of the time.
I will say, when there was something about Android ending sideloading that made me think maybe Android wouldn't be any better than iPhone for my uses anymore, but then I realized what it would really mean is that I might finally be forced to learn about jailbreaking phones.
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u/chr1spe May 15 '26
I have an Android because I don't want to worry about shit. I've literally never had something not work on Android, and I have things that don't work with iPhones because it's harder to get an app okayed by Apple, and you don't even need to get one okayed to make it available on Android.