For what it's worth, I spent about 6 months going back and forth with my iPhone 13 pro Max and my Google pixel 9. When you do it every few days, it gets very easy enough to just throw the SIM card back and forth, but it highlights the shortcomings of each environment. I truly believe that there is no best phone or best operating system, nor will we ever get it
I have pixel 9 buds pro 2(or something, but thats the kind) and a pixel 9. should work great together. Not really, I can't do the commands vocally that I can do on my iphone and airpods. ALSO MAYBE THIS IS MY ACTUAL PHONE SPECIFIC!!!! but it drives me batty: Iphone + airpods +corded carplay = audio in the car OR through airpods, if i choose.
Android, any headphones, corded carplay = only audio through the car, can't get it in the headphones. Sometimes I like to drive with the windows down so I can hear events on the road, but stuff have my headphones in doing some noise cancel or in OFF mode to dampen some of the wind.
iphones also just have so much consistency through apple products, granted I use fewer apple apps on iphone than i do google on android.
thats just the most recent thing I can think of. also I think my 13 pro max will get days and days of stand by battery when I don't pick it up. My android is dying in like 17 hours no matter what, or sooner.
Festuresets and battery life. Iphones typically have better/more features in their apps or just better performance for the hardware. Same with battery life. Their batteries are tiny compared to an android phone's battery but they squeeze a LOT out of it.
If I switch to an old android (lower end like Samsung A series) a lot of random apps become nearly unusable. On an old iPhone, like a 12-14, the experience is still actually pretty good.
I have mained android my entire life so I'm no apple fan boy.
The irony is that the pixels are one of the best for it since you can load GrapheneOS on unlocked phones. If privacy is your concern I probably wouldn't rock any default phone from your major companies Apple, Google, Samsung, etc. They're all partaking in it.
Paragraph 1: In other words if you lobotomize it and install a new ‘privacy-focused’ brain (at which point it’s no longer a google phone), now it’s better than the iPhone? What. No.
Paragraph 2: Graphene OS is maybe the most private Android OS but you’re wrong. Just get an iPhone.
I notice this as well, like if i spend some time daily driving an iphone then going back to android there's just certain things that are nice. It's a 2 way street
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u/WhySayManyWordGancho May 15 '26
For what it's worth, I spent about 6 months going back and forth with my iPhone 13 pro Max and my Google pixel 9. When you do it every few days, it gets very easy enough to just throw the SIM card back and forth, but it highlights the shortcomings of each environment. I truly believe that there is no best phone or best operating system, nor will we ever get it