> And changing car brands is way easier than changing smartphone ecosystems, should one of the two players decide to screw you.
In what world ?
I have switched from iOS to Android and vice versa multiple times while still driving the same car.
In what world ?
I have switched from iOS to Android and vice versa multiple times while still driving the same car.
Did your app purchases form the Google Play Store automatically transfer to your Apple App store, and did your photos off your Google drive transfer to your iCloud, or vice-versa?
Read my comment again, I ware referring to the ecosystems not being interchangeable, not the phones themselves.
The incompatible ecosystems is the tie-in that keeps people tied to their respective walled gardens, not the physical HW phone brick itself which is interchangeable. Once people invested enough money in one ecosystem, they're less likely to switch to the competition as all their data and purchases are trapped.
Fanboys don't like you pointing out the hard to swallow truth pills. They expect comments to validate their lifestyle choice, not contradict them. Any contraction is a direct offense to them.
> I’m in the middle of switching from android to IOS
At least for you it's easy, because all google apps exist for iOS, but switching away from iOS is absolutely impossible as there is no iCloud or iMessage for Android, so all your data remains hostage with Apple if you try to move.
1. Download Google Drive for iOS
2. Go to the Files App
3. Select all in your iCloud Drive
4. Copy
5. Go to your Google Drive in the Files app
6. Paste
Just like you would copy files from one drive to another.
They are not "great" but they are more than enough to download a zip with all your files and all your photos. From there you go where you want.
And apps are available for iOS that let you access all of them. If you install Google Drive on the iPhone, your drive shows up along side iCloud in the Files app and open/save file dialoga
Do just the opposite of this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36803905
I’m sure there are ways to migrate your email. Thunderbird?
Which apps would those be that you have to buy on iOS and Android separately? Most non game apps are subscription based that work across platforms.
My photos are already sync to Google Photos on my iPhone and if I had an Android device, I would just download the Google Photos app.
Music bought on iTunes has been DRM free since 2008 and Apple Music is available on Android.
Apple, Google, Amazon and a few other platforms and most of the studios participate in MoviesAnywhere where you buy movies from one platform and it shows up as purchased on the other platforms
What data is “trapped”?
Since every app that I pay to use that has an Android version is subscription based, yes.
> and did your photos off your Google drive transfer to your iCloud, or vice-versa?
Since I can download the Google Drive app on my iPhone and it shows up right next to iCloud Drive on the Files app and in File dialogs. Yes.
As far as photos from iCloud to Google, just download Google Photos on your iPhone and sync your photos.
Anything else?
That's not a direct transfer, it's a workaround which requires you to have free storage on your phone greater than the amount of photos you have.