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...but my Android runs Firefox with uBlock Origin. I forget that cookie banners exist until I use my iPad. It also runs two background apps pretty reliably: a GPS logger and Syncthing. It respects my default web browser and music player choices.
Quality is subjective. For my specific needs, I prefer Android. If those things were solved I would have an iPhone.
All of these are minor gripes (and the latter even resolved going forward), but why pay a premium for a device that irritates me?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/xtq9pq/samsungs_pr...
Thankfully, it does look like you can uninstall these packages and most of the other Samsung bloatware using adb or the Universal Android Debloater[1] but it is still some of the most exceptionally disgusting behaviour I've ever seen from a major tech company and I hope that either the EU or some other governing body forces them to fix it or Google bakes something into Android that makes it impossible for them to do. Either way, I will be jumping ship to a more trustworthy brand as soon there is one that has an adequate desktop mode with Quadlock case support.
- Build a Dex competitor
- Allow apps to communicate outside their sandboxes if I allow them to
- Make it quicker and easier to edit settings
- Stop doing ridiculous things like borking USB-C ports on non-pro models
Especially for the flagship Android phones like the Pixel Pros, I really don't think there is a noticable difference. They have excellent build quality, camera quality is so similar to iPhones that I couldn't tell which one is better, and on the software side I think it's a matter of being used to it (where I'm a lot more comfortable on Android).
Signed, a decade+ android user.
However, will end users really notice the gap? Not really.
The free software ecosystem is nice cause the mobile apps are way more functional. You can do almost anything you can do on your laptop. Syncthing, K-9 mail, newpipe, firefox (with ublock), orbot, libretorrent, etc. are a few pretty good reasons to use AOSP.
its kind of stylish too. google put out this "material you" thing which basically makes it so the whole OS uses the same color pallete.
The only thing I miss about my iphone was that it was nice and small and could be used in one hand.
Sorry to hear about your shadowban, it's annoying.
Not every post or comment does well. You'll be better off if you don't take it so personally.
Your request is honestly a little difficult for anyone to answer. "As a long-time Apple user I've long suspected that despite the public specs, Android phones are crap. Can any long-term Android users confirm for me whether their phone is crap?"
If there is a long-term Android user out there who finds Android phones to be crap I'd assume they would have long since switch to a different type of phone.
That's a wrong assumption to make. I think there are a lot of reluctant Android users around.
I'm one of them, and I've been using Android phones for well over a decade now.
I don't mind Android itself and the selection of apps, but I've never liked the phones themselves.
The Android phones I've used weren't sensibly sized, or had quality and reliability issues, or were generally tolerable except for one fatal downside (like a bad camera, or limited storage), or were too expensive for what was being offered.
The iPhones I've used have generally been decent, from a hardware perspective. I find the software situation to be terrible, however.
For me, a bad Android phone with tolerable software is at least kind of usable.
A great iPhone phone with unsuitable/insufficient/frustrating software is unusable.
Given that those have been the only viable options for a while now, I resort to using Android phones, even if I've consistently disliked the phones themselves.