You don’t know what your missing out on 
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apple feels like a golden cage to me. The quality is certainly great but I don’t like being forced to use everything from apple to enjoy the full benefits. Android gives you more freedom and is less expensive. In the end, both have something going for them and I think it depends a lot on habit and preference.
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I’m just super sensitive to cringe apparently 
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Yeah honestly it’s all preference, not a lot of people switch because they think their side is the right one, but it’s all just preference and what youve always had, and it’s just hard to switch from one to another because they feel so different
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What about CheckRa1n?
if you have iPhone 4S to iPhone 8 and X then that is also < 20 seconds to get in.
Even if apple wont get into Iphones for the government the NSO group probably will lol
I like the idea that android could be hardened to suit the users needs rather than trusting apple to do it.
but both are bad in their own ways. the garbage that vendors build into android sucks.
client side scanning makes me never want to touch apple & windows ever again though.
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lol who uses an iPhone X? That’s a silly argument 6 year old phones.
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Currently Android is my preferred. I made the switch two, maybe three years ago after growing kind of tired of iOS. It felt stale to me in a way. More, stagnant, I guess you could say… Every year, every iteration, the same interface, very minimal incremental updates. It just felt like everything was at a stand-still. Like, ok, they are adding “some features” but everything is the same as it was 10 years ago when they moved away from the skeuomorphism interface…
Like, I don’t know man… just tired of it. There hasn’t been much that’s really wow’d me I guess. The hardware is remarkable, but the software-side just doesn’t take advantage of the hardware, like, at all…
I have found that some of the non-app store apps on android greatly enhance the functionality and add services that weren’t once available elsewhere. I also like the customization aspect. Niagra Launcher is my go-to homescreen and it’s absolute bliss! It’s just fantastic minimalism at it’s finest.
That said though, there are MANY things I love about iOS over Android, but there are also things I like about Android that iOS either doesn’t have, or makes it difficult to use. Admittedly, the newest version of iOS is darn good, but I am not convinced enough to switch back currently. There are a few things on Android that are keeping me from going back. Especially when phones like the Sony Xperia exist. A headphone jack, SD card expansion, dedicated dual step shutter button (which apple just borrowed from in the iPhone 16) an optical zoom and more pro photography features than you could shake a stick at is just REALLY hard to beat.
For some context - I was a diehard Apple fan for years, I even have an Apple tattoo and have written for a few high-profile Apple web blogs over the years, so making the switch to Android was not something I did on a whim. I really had to think about it. As of right now, I’m content with my setup but, maybe some day I’ll go back. It’s hard to say. The lines between iOS and Android have been blurred so much because they are so similar in so many ways. You really can’t go wrong with either one and they both offer so much of the same experiences now-days as opposed to years ago when there was a wider gap between the two OS’s. With things like RCS being shared, I think that gap is going to shrink even more. I do have some apps on iOS that I wish were on Android but overall the experience has been fairly decent. It did take me quire a while to get used to not having a forward swipe though. I really wish you could forward swipe on Android, lol.
I don’t really get the mindset of diehard Android users that look down their noses at iOS. They are so similar now it’s not really anything to act superior about. Sure, Android allows a little more “freedom” but we pay for it by constantly being monitored by Google and frankly, Google has been doing some REALLY shady stuff recently with privacy and users data. Apple should be commended a bit more for their privacy and encryption efforts. Google is on a slippery slope and it’s kind of worrying to see the path they are currently on. They are starting to go against their mantra of “don’t be evil” - they even removed it from their code of conduct a couple of years ago. 
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