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I don't know how much of a difference there really is, but it surely cannot be worse than my current phone. It's budget (low-mid tier, and it shows), the camera is far from good, and my OEM's variant of Android has annoying additions that aren't allowed to be disabled. I'm hoping that iOS will be at least a slightly calmer experience, and that the better hardware will do its part to annoy me less even if I'm buying used.

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This is an interesting take. I'd assume iOS could just be considered an OEM variant of a mobile OS. I switched to samsung, and its UX is pretty consistent.

> my OEM's variant of Android has annoying additions that aren't allowed to be disabled. I'm hoping that iOS will be at least a slightly calmer experience

Would android's additions still seem like annoyance if stock (and every variant) included those additions?

tbf, I think iOS is a pretty good OS (like most modern OSes).

> Would android's [OEM's] additions still seem like annoyance if stock (and every variant) included those additions?

100%. By additions I mean to say things like notifications that cannot be dismissed or hidden, or other aspects of this firmware that to my knowledge don't occur on any other ROM, but seemingly exist to annoy without providing a benefit.

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