It depends on a lot. I currently have an iPhone, and I like it, but I've never had an Android phone that was my daily driver.
If I switched, what would I feel like I'm giving up, without having any experiential knowledge of what it would be like?
iMessage and privacy. Or at least the perception of privacy.
Preface to state that blackberry 10 and Microsoft Windows phones were much better than iOS and Android for almost everything except getting devs to build apps on their platforms.
I like the idea of Android. I want there to be an open ecosystem and different types of devices that can look similar or look different.
It’s a real pain in the ass to manage Android. There was admin mode, now there’s enterprise mode. Also there’s Knox, with various options and licensing that overlap with your mdm. Oh and gmail enterprise is the email app but you need to include chrome, unless you’re using Knox but oh yeah never mind that was deprecated you’ll be using gmail. Also the dual-profile thing isn’t very seamless. Also depending on the phone vendor, model, and OS version the UI will be different. Good luck teaching anyone the changes or talking them through screens.
It’s so bad that Microsoft developed Outlook for Android and app-level management to largely ignore the nonsense that was managing android devices.
Over on iOS, the UI has largely remained the same since release. MDM isn’t great but it’s gotten better. It’s a breeze to manage compared to iOS. Apps are pretty consistent in design.
Windows phones never really got around to MDM, but blackberry phones were always easy to manage.
IOS is simple better for enterprise and most non-technical users that need a smartphone and have no interest in customizing it.
Being able to side load apps, especially things like revanced for YouTube premium bypassing has been amazing. Nowadays everyone is trying to extract dollar from you, having these apps helps you get a great experience without being smashed with 15s ads after you've watched 5m of content
I prefer Android but am using a iPhone 13 mini. If imessage was on android I would drop it in a heartbeat. Apple's platform is amazing and if you are all in on it then you can prosper. The second you try to use an apple product or service different than apple intends, you will have a bad time.
I support apple for their privacy and update stances but I do not like their unwillingness to embrace other platforms.
Android because it makes more sense to me, although that is probably because it is similar enough to windows type systems.
I have never enjoyed working with Apple products other than the iPod. It just feels like it is holding my hand and forcing me to do things a certain way that hides the details I care about.
So for context, I don't talk to my biological family. Growing up there was a lot of abuse so it's just not something I'm interested in.
Due to the abuse I don't make connections with other people easily, but I've found an amazing family, all thanks to my now wife. Her best friend and husband are my brother and sister now along with a few others we hang out with all the time. I'd go to crazy lengths to help them as if they were family. My wife's parents are just the best people out there, so they're my parents now too even if we talk to each other as equals.
Talented but obnoxious, arrogant boy band leader bombed his initial solo career, ridiculed by Robbie Williams’, reaches rock bottom, eats a ton of humble pie,comes back as professional man band leader, solo artist and dad.
Cracking The Cryptic has a decent community, as might be expected from a channel that mainly solve sudokus and cryptic crosswords. Wirtual (a Trackmania streamer) seems to have a vaguely sane community as those sort of people go.
Designer here. You could try searching for communities on the fediverse dedicated to design/web design/3D/etc and contacting someone if you like their work or just making a post about it if allowed, or a mastodon/microblog post with lots of related hashtags. Or if you really wanna widen the net, you can try looking on Twitter/Threads/Dribbble/etc. for people you like and contacting them.
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