I did the same 2 months ago. Up until then, I was a 15 y/o Android fanboi. I owned several Samsung's, Pixels, and a OnePlus. Prior to that I had tried a couple of iPhones but their walled garden forcing of Apple only products kept me away. Well years later and iOS 15 allows you to use other browsers, email clients, calendars, and mapping apps as defaults. I mean Google products in their place. You can even use Google Assistant. iOS has come a long way over the years. Android has numerous phone manufacturers, and many of those manufacturers have multiple models. So Android versions have to be designed and to evolve with the greatest common denominator to maintain compatibility. While Apple really doesn't have that problem. With the uniformity of Apple's in house built products, their iOS apps have polish and the intuition is built in. Even the mainstream Google apps have more polish on iOS than the Android versions. Crazy. Add to that the iPhone 13 has the most powerful hardware even compared to Samsung's newest SOC launched 1 month ago, the iPhone 13 Pro Max has longer battery life than any phone, and the iPhone made a compelling argument to me. I never thought I'd say I love an iPhone. But an iPhone is a tech commodity. So much so, even Apple's strongest competitors not only develop for it, they develop and support Apple's quality app experience. They can't afford not to. No organization can't. Bank, financial, tech, whatever. Apple's quality controls impact everything. Rather than the slap-together approach of the respective Android apps.
There are things I miss with Android. Customization. For sure. With Android, I could set a custom notification for every app and even every app's different types of notifications. Not on the iPhone. I miss Samsung's always on display for those notifications. But back to polish, almost everything flows with an iPhone, intuitively. So the trade-offs are worth it to me. Personally, I like face unlock. Most of my financial and business apps support it. After the first login, the app asks me if I'd prefer to use Face unlock from that point on. Almost everything just flows predictably as I use my iPhone. So while a "walled garden" my sound controlling, it's done for a reason, and it just works. Millions of people own iPhones models X and newer, and it would be foolish to not develop for them, no matter what or who you are. At this point, I may never go back to Android. Once you get used to the experience, it would be a tough sell.
Facebook
Twitter