switching to iOS

so I bought an iPhone | back

late last month, my cell carrier decided to drop support for my phone. it was a pretty nice Android, a OnePlus 6t, and it served me well for the years I had it.

however, after three or so years of using android I was rather tired of its issues, and so I decided to get tired of the issues with something else for a change, and bought an iPhone.

the good

everything is extremely polished. the system apps are all incredibly functional (the mail client is the best i've ever seen on a phone for my use case). no matter what app you're in you can always grab and scrub with the scroll bar. the scheduled summary feature massively declutters my notifications. the way the system does home screen widgets is also way nicer than on android.

the camera app is a joy and the photos app is extremely nice as well. the file manager is fairly fully-featured, and lets me get at my Dropbox files as well.

the bad

i had to learn a completely different terminal/ssh client, Discord on iOS is missing a few features, and unlike android i have relatively little idea how the whole system actually works. also, now i need a Mac to manage my music library, which isn't a deal-breaker (at least this phone has a built-in music player), but is a little irritating.

the ugly

not much. there's a bug where the app store stutters if you expand a long app description, and i can't actually review apps without that menu crashing.

final thoughts

all in all it's been a pretty nice experience. iOS does a little less than Android but what it does it generally does better and with much more polish. I like it.

this also gives me the right to complain about mobile operating systems in an informed fashion now that i've used both the big ones :p