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I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by dogweather »

timrichard wrote: post #88

I develop on Macs, and really like using iOS devices. The iPad is my tablet of choice.... But I've always stuck with Android phones, since the G1 (and a lot of jokes at the time). I think it's because the app interoperability was designed in from the start, something that only appeared gradually in iOS. I find a lot of value in workflow companion apps. So when I get a text message, it gets archived to Gmail with a la…

> every incoming/outgoing/missed call puts an entry with the details and timestamp in my calendar, so I can look back for reference

Now that's a cool trick. How exactly do you do that?

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by dogweather »

saagarjha wrote: post #108
fasj82 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>- Background tasks That's bad

Well, it could be good or bad, depending on how you look at it. It's foolish to argue that background tasks can't be useful . Can they also be privacy-violating battery drainers as well? Sure. I'm sure there's a right tradeoff here, and it doesn't have to be "no background tasks, period". My personal take is that it's much closer to "no background tasks" than "free reign", but your needs may vary.

Yep, an app I want to always be in bg is https://www.thetileapp.com/

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by dogweather »

saagarjha wrote: post #115
NicoJuicy wrote: post #69

I'm wondering for the people that say Android is buggy, how many used stock Android

I've used stock Android, and yes, I'd call it buggier than iOS. It's much less fluid and apps often just stop responding completely. It's not terrible, but in my experience it's just been worse than iOS overall.

What version Android was that?

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by dogweather »

harshaw wrote: post #87

As a long time Android user and current pixel owner I wonder about how well Android does with degraded hardware. My Pixel has not only gotten slower and slower but the battery life is horrible. Yes, I use the phone all the time but it's really bad. Aside - I wonder if the crappy boxer email app required by work is a source of pain. I don't see iPhone user's charge their phones as much as I do, or carry around an exte…

My GF always has a battery pack with her for her iPhone 7. She also has Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp up 24/7.

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by the_rosentotter »

timrichard wrote: post #88

I develop on Macs, and really like using iOS devices. The iPad is my tablet of choice.... But I've always stuck with Android phones, since the G1 (and a lot of jokes at the time). I think it's because the app interoperability was designed in from the start, something that only appeared gradually in iOS. I find a lot of value in workflow companion apps. So when I get a text message, it gets archived to Gmail with a la…

> hen I get a text message, it gets archived to Gmail with a label so it's searchable. And every incoming/outgoing/missed call puts an entry with the details and timestamp in my calendar

What? I have used Android phones for many years and had no idea that is possible. Teach me your ways!

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by YouKnowBetter »

My whole family (parents, sister & her kids, wife & our kids) have switched to iPhones (and macos devices) years ago.

Result:

1. no "technical" issues anymore. As the go to IT guy in the family this alone is worth the supposed premium price one pays for the Apple logo.

2. Everything is updated, at all times.

3. "Facebook logs my sms" are a none issues

4. All devices die of old age (even the devices that have since long not recieved updates "just work")

5. Nothing beats the quality of Facetime (we live all over the globe and use it extensively to celebrate and share together).

I still buy a couple of Androids per year. Cheapish phones for experiments with wardriving, imsi catcher catchers and other fun projects. So I totally get the "Android is outselling iPhones", thing is that we spend x moneys in the iTunes shop, and not a dime in the Google store.

We've also moved out contact data out to google (since gmail is just absolutly the only email one ever needs and having synced contacts is wonderfull) together with the google photo app (since it is free and does a great job while migrating between devices).

Now if only there was a way to painlessly move from one iPhone to the next, we would be exchanging them far more often. But no matter what I've tried: one always looses certain passwords / content / settings from different apps.

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by aheppy »

I was a long time iOS user from the 3G to the 5S. At that point I decided to try the Pixel 1 and I really preferred the Android experience. It's clear that the quality of the UX is subjective and it takes a little time to get used to the nuances of a new OS but 18 months on I'm still very happy with the move to Android.

The main concern I have is for device lifetime. It's hard to know anything more than an anecdote until a particular model is too out of date for the information to be useful but my Pixel broke within a year. I was given a free replacement under warranty but I don't have that same feeling of long-term hardware lifetime I got from Apple.

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by seanalltogether »

timrichard wrote: post #88

I develop on Macs, and really like using iOS devices. The iPad is my tablet of choice.... But I've always stuck with Android phones, since the G1 (and a lot of jokes at the time). I think it's because the app interoperability was designed in from the start, something that only appeared gradually in iOS. I find a lot of value in workflow companion apps. So when I get a text message, it gets archived to Gmail with a la…

Speaking of app interoperability, I can never go back to ios simply because I have an app called gentle alarm that plays a shuffled playlist from my music app to wake me up in the morning. After all these years, ios still doesn't give access to users music, and there's no way to set a playlist for built in alarms.

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by aeontech »

YouKnowBetter wrote: post #136

My whole family (parents, sister & her kids, wife & our kids) have switched to iPhones (and macos devices) years ago. Result: 1. no "technical" issues anymore. As the go to IT guy in the family this alone is worth the supposed premium price one pays for the Apple logo. 2. Everything is updated, at all times. 3. "Facebook logs my sms" are a none issues 4. All devices die of old age (even the devices that have since lo…

FWIW, I move my family between iPhones every year and haven’t noticed any data loss. One exception to date is WeChat, for some godforsaken reason they only back up the most recent dozen conversations or so, so if you want your entire history, you have to jump through hoops to initialize a device-to-device transfer over WiFi, which can take an entire night in worst case.

Would be curious to hear what kind of data loss you have seen though?

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by votepaunchy »

canuckintime wrote: post #128
no1youknowz wrote: post #120

I know a lot of this is anecdotal... My Mom who is 77, has had a few Androids. Always calling her Sons to help fix her phone. She bought cheap phones for a couple of hundred dollars, but always limited the Ram, but had plenty of storage. WhatsApp, Skype, Facebook would constantly fill it up and many times you'd have to clear out all the apps, clear the storage on the phone, etc, etc. Then I would have to explain to h…

My aunt bought a 'cheap' iPhone (SE, 16GB, $450) and ran out of storage the first month...

Exceedingly difficult these days now that movies, music, photos and videos, and even unused apps can be offloaded to iCloud.
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