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The iOS ecosystem has always been crap. I love the device and how the UI keeps becoming more android like, but iCloud stinks. Google by far as a better cloud platform for a standard user. But for a business Sharepoint/Onedrive has always been the way to go.

I personally never had a problem with Macbooks, and surprised he just didn't work in a VM. I do 90% of my daily work in a VM on my Macbook, either running Arch or Debian. Everything just works. But I can not stand with apple's choice of moving to ARM for a power user.

My Next Machine will run windows as the base OS. I'll test out their Linux for Windows Subsystem, but most likely just boot up the same VMware VM's i've been using for a long time. Between Snapshots and backups to both my onsite server and my Personal Sharepoint, I never have an issue.

Spotify for music though, it just works and easy to push music around my home.

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>the UI keeps becoming more android like

Okay, I'll bite, because that's amusing(I find that interacting with anything Android is consistently a torture) and I don't use Apple devices so I have no idea what you could be thinking of. How is iOS stuff becoming more like Android, and how is it better than whatever it did before?

Android is more desktop like than any other Mobile OS, that goes for Windows and MacOSX.

Android simply does most thing UI better. The pull down menu and notifications, the app drawer, the home screens, the settings menu layouts, etc. Sure there are some iOS UI elements that are done better, such as gestures. But really iOS shines more under the hood.

Every year iOS keeps getting more and more Android features. App Library, Pull Down menus, more customizable home screens with widgets. There are so many things Android was doing years before iOS it is crazy. Maybe oneday Apple will fix the crappy settings menu and finally make the pulldown window a full copy of android with quick settings at the top.

Using iOS is consistently more of a Torture to use than Android any day of the week.

> Android simply does most thing UI better.

I almost spat out my coffee reading this. Android is horribly inconsistent, apps targeting different API levels get different default themes and UI elements, many built-in UI controls are ugly (which is why not many developers seem to stick with them) and the whole thing is made worse by manufacturers who can't leave good alone and "skin" their own launchers and equivalents to the default built-in apps. Scrolling behaviour on Android still sucks, putting everything behind "hamburger menus" is not intuitive and quite often apps just lack basic gestures. The gestures that are implemented don't even provide particularly good feedback — the little bouncy arrow thing when sliding in from the left to "go back" is awful and nowhere near as good of a visual cue as sliding-over is (like iOS does).

That's not to say that iOS design is perfect — it isn't by any stretch. It's a damn sight more consistent and predictable though and much easier to explain to non-technical users.

iOS is more consistent, yes, more consistently bad. Android is inconsistent but has much higher average quality.

The notification system alone is leaps and bounds better. The fact that you can use uBlock Origin on Android also makes the UI far more pleasant.

Makes sense, thank you. I suppose some it's good the competition had some effect

> but iCloud stinks. Google by far as a better cloud platform for a standard user.

In what way?

I can attest this for photos.

Google Photos is a third-party app, and it syncs photos a few magnitudes faster than Apple Photos.

I never know in which state Apple Photos are at any given moment: is it syncing? is it stuck? why?

Apple Photos manages syncing based on things like network connection and especially battery life. If your battery is below a certain level you have to manually resume syncing. That might be part of the issue.

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