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Replacing my 3 year old Moto G3 with a 3 year old 6S Plus was one of the best calls I've made in years. It's a weird feeling being current on an older phone, and knowing that it's got at least one more OS update coming. I know it's flagship vs. budget, but the way the Android phone began decaying before it even got here was still inexcusable.

I'd never really used an Apple device before, so it was easy to knock them for this thing or that, but I wouldn't go back after actually seeing how their philosophy works.

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Two big reasons why I might switch from Android to Apple:

- My Bluetooth audio has been broken for years. There's a discussion forum topic about this, but Google doesn't listen.

- Starting the camera app takes about 3-5 seconds. In most cases, this is enough time to spoil the entire photo-moment.

Edit: it's also the fact that Google allowed these problems to exist in the first place.

I take more photos now that I can just pick the thing up to a powered-on screen--I guess it uses some gyroscope and accelerometer magic--and swipe from the right.

These are bad reasons. Top of the line Android phones generally have better/faster launching cameras than the top of the line iPhone and don't have bluetooth broken.

Even some mid-range Android phones would probably outperform the iPhone X in these two areas.

Valid reasons to switch to an Apple product (in my opinion) are

- Privacy

- Better App Ecosystem (arguably, for both MacOS and iOS)

- Faster Processors (for iOS)

- Better idle battery life (for both)

- Battery Life in general (for MacOS)

So I have a pixel 2 XL and I can attest for the camera taking upto 3s to load on average. This has been progressively getting worse with each OS upgrade (no way I am upgrading to the "AI" OS). My iPhone 3GS actually ran for a good 5 years and though "hot" apps werent fast, the default apps were as zippy as they were the day the phone was bought. Somehow Google doesnt seem to care about this!

Plus, iOS 12 is going to significantly improve performance on all devices as far back as the iPhone 5S.

When was the last time a major Android update made five-year-old devices faster?

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-12-preview/features/

I'm looking forward to it. It's fast now because it's at least 4x more powerful than my old one (going by benchmarks), but I won't turn down 40% more. Especially if that translates to better battery life doing average CPU-light stuff.

Every android update since 5 had made my phone at least twice as fast (ui) and maybe 20% extra battery!

Of course, I don't rely on manufacturer updates.

blink So, Pie will be 16x as fast (ui) on the same hardware as Lollipop?

I wondered if anyone would pull me up on this :D

I was of course careful to say had, and obviously this rested on the fact that lollipop was so universally shit for the ui.

Also, of you think about a ui getting faster, a fixed 200 percentage increase peer iteration, means the absolute speed increase gets relatively smaller as they approach zero.

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