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Spotted the Google employee! No seriously though this couldn't be farther from the truth. My wife has the latest galaxy phone running android and the experience is just abysmal compared to iOS. I am a long time android user that recently converted to iOS and I'll never go back. It's leagues better. I am no Apple fan either, but even less of a Google fan at this point.

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My wife got a high-end Android phone for work (she just put the SIM card in her iPhone, which her employer allows). Of course, I couldn't resist playing with it. Besides what you say, I was also surprised how laggy rending of animations, etc. was. I kinda expected that they'd have solved it by now.

Which animations? Personally, I just think the default transitions are always too slow. I enable debug tools and crank them up to half speed. The phone ends up feeling much faster even though its just animation speed.

Agreed. 1.0x animation speed feels like molasses. 0.5x animation speed feels like it ought to be the default.

Samsung phones have customised UI which is significantly different than what this Android 13 Pixel rollout looks like. You and the OP aren't talking about the same thing.

OneUI is actually much better than the shit Google has tried to pull with A12/A13.

As a Samsung OneUI user (and occasional Pixel user as a developer) I disagree.

I like Samsung for their customisability and additional features, but the UI is very much in a "yeeeeeshhh" category.

I am sorry have used Android 12?

My last samsung phone would randomly disconnect from the mobile network, without any warning, and would keep showing it had signal available.

Of course that meant I would lose calls and texts, because it showed no indication of being effectively offline.

The only fix would be a full reboot.

Which is completely moronic for a brand new and expensive phone. More so if you think that receiving and making calls is the flipping basic purpose of a phone.

I have since then switched to an iphone, using the same sim card and provider, and having no issues so far.

I might go back to android in the future, but surely not to samsung.

Regardless of customizations, they use same animations. Even high end galaxies are nowhere near iPhones, and I say that as an Android developer and user for 8 years. Framedrops, jank, inconsistent styles, it’s just impossible to fix, it seems. Or Google doesn’t care.

And no, it’s not different on Pixels, it also drops frames and has nowhere near as fluid animations as iOS.

No, they really don't use the same animations (or even look the same).

Moreover, at least comparing S22 and Pixel 6 Pro I have at hand, the S22 is significantly laggier and slow, while Pixel isn't.

Sure they do, or you think Pixels roll out custom animations bypassing OS framework?

It's the other way around, Samsung rolls out custom UI which changes and bypasses animations.

Do you have any links where I can read about this?

This was probably the case in the past, but I was surprised by how similar Samsung's Android 12 is to Lineage OS 12 on the Note 10. They've kind of converged.

Have to get a Pixel to really experience Google's design. Samsung loves to make things worse for no good reason.

OP is being sarcastic. I wasn't sure until I looked at OP's submissions and noticed they're all pro-Apple

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