[moonchrome]

I switch between both every few years, on iPhone 14 ATM.

Honestly Android does a lot of things better - there's so many stupid "because Apple" things on iOS. For example it's impossible to tell the charging speed/estimated charge time, I have a lot of charging bricks between places and I can't tell if I picked an iPhone compatible fast charger/cable or not ? Or when I have Chrome/Firefox installed, highlight text and tap search the web - it takes me to Safari ? A lot of small annoyances like these where you can't do anything about it because the OS is so closed down.

Android is way more customisable, easier to side load stuff (like running GBA emulator on iPhone). Also a lot more exciting phones in the Android ecosystem (eg. Samsung flip phones)

I like the ecosystem integration with my Mac but I wouldn't say one is clearly better than the other.

[tEMporality7]

Both ecosystems have their own pros and cons but I wouldn't trade my Pixel for an iPhone ever.

In fact, I recently got a refurbished iPhone 13 just to check the ecosystem out (as a mobile dev) and get a feel for things but honestly I prefer my Pixel more. There are so many things that Android does well like notifications and typing (these two stood out to me on Apple - horrible implementations really, especially the latter) that it will always remain my primary driver.

But yeah, if someone thinks that Android is not for them and Apple's walled garden is worth entering then or vice versa then whatever floats your boat, I guess.

[tornato7]

Did you know you can install GBoard (Google's Android keyboard) on iPhone? I would never be able to use an iPhone without it.

[rusk]

Typing on iPhone is just such a bad joke.

[BoorishBears]

I was a devout Android user in the early days, I've launched Android based consumer products and I still use an iPhone.

I always joke that when Android can handle a screen rotation without blanking the screen, I'll switch back: It's not about the actual blanking of course, it'll just mean they finally ripped out a design tradeoff they made for a device with 256MB of RAM and just... never fixed.

Android is full of decisions like that, like the horrible storage framework churn that randomly made a generation of devices dog slow as various terrible FUSE implementations.

Decisions that are technical, but just end up affecting user experience every day you use the device.

[Vogtinator]

> I always joke that when Android can handle a screen rotation without blanking the screen, I'll switch back

None of the Android phones I've used blank the screen, there's a smooth animation.

[pjerem]

While I agree, I must say that GBA emulation is a bad example here.

It’s one of the few things you can "easily" sideload on an iPhone without jailbreaking using AltStore (the emulator is named Delta, btw and it is excellent).

I will not say that AltStore is really practical to use but GBA and GameCube emulators are basically the only things you can sideload without a lot of pain (along with UTM, a virtual machine runner.

[moonchrome]

I didn't know about this - thanks !

I haven't tried this for a while, but just for comparison I actually got a GBA emulator on my Samsung via play store. It's very much an Apple thing again.

[corobo]

> highlight text and tap search the web - it takes me to Safari

God damn this one is so annoying.