I just switched to Android because iOS is so incredibly buggy. Android is pretty buggy too, but not nearly as bad. I'm afraid we're currently living in dark times for software :(
As someone who switched from Android to iOS and even dual carried for a period of time, I found Android light years more buggy AND janky than iOS. Google still remains years behind there, and I don't see that changing.
Interesting. I wonder if usage patterns are a factor here. I also dual carried android/iphone (actually, I still do). I honestly consider the iOS of today the buggiest software I've ever used.
I find that MobileMail is horribly buggy, but there are rarely any bugs in my usage path (Gmail and other Google apps, Safari, Messages, Notes, Camera and Photos, Snapchat, Apollo, GitHub, Apple Music, my bank app, and a few others). What apps do you use most and what's so buggy?
I don't really use too many apps overall. Most of my bugs are in the core OS itself and Safari.
For example, I get hit with this one pretty often (blank page in Safari): https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250740002,
Going to reader view and back sometimes fixes it. Force quitting Safari always fixes it.
Fairly often Safari will stop accepting input. Force quitting fixes it. Also often after a pinch zoom, it snaps right back to 100%. This happens on Reddit and HN very often.
Airdrop works maybe ... 5% of the time? Just now I tried to airdrop an image to my wife. My phone said "waiting...", and nothing happened on her phone at all. Tried several times. Nothing. Airdropping to a Mac I think I've gotten to work once or twice.
I email myself URLs from Safari. But about half the time I have to email myself, wait a few seconds, go into Mail's outbox, and then send the email from there. Otherwise it will just sit in the outbox indefinitely. This is actually true of all emails, but I use the Gmail app now for normal emailing. Added fun, sometimes the outbox doesn't show up until you force quit Mail.
Lots of annoying lack of polish issues. For example, expand an image in messages to be full screen, then return to the thread. Often you get a blank screen, because it has scrolled itself down beyond the messages by about a screen's worth. Sure, just scroll back up to fix it, but I expect a better experience from such an expensive phone.
My previous address (I just moved a week ago) has not been added to Apple maps despite the complex existing for about 2 years now. When you enter the address you get a different address about 10 miles away. Sure, not a bug but a data issue, but all the same from the user's perspective. This caused all kinds of pain. So many people use Apple Maps because they just use the maps app that came with their phone. I got situations like this, https://i.imgur.com/v13VYZM.png, all the time. Package deliveries, appointments at my house, you name it, it was such a mess. I contacted Apple support, they assigned me a support representative. Over Facetime I showed him my address not being in Apple maps and how it is in Google maps. After 2 phone calls with him and many emails, I finally just gave up and accepted it.
These are the ones I can think of quickly. I've also had tons of issues with carplay and many, many third party apps. But it's hard to know who is to blame for these issues.
Over on Android, the only real issue I've encountered is part of the phone understands I have work and personal profiles, and other parts think I don't have a work profile and want me to set one up. Admittedly, this is a pretty annoying bug that does cause some headaches, but it's really the only thing I've hit. Chrome, Gmail, pretty much everything else has been just fine for me.
I just had a discussion with someone on Lobsters about the actual cost of a lower-end iPhone versus a similarly-priced Android phone and the iPhone appeared cheaper:
> The Pixel 4 is $799 and the Pixel 3a is
$399 (although it may be on sale right now depending on your region).
The iPhone 11 is $699 and the iPhone SE (2nd generation) is $399. Both
provide additional discounts if you trade in your current phone (and
since iPhones have a lot more resale value, you can get much more for
your trade-in). Google provides three years of security updates,
starting from the time that the phone is released. Apple provides four
or five years of security (and feature!) updates. You can get the same
amount of usable life out of a brand-new Pixel as a one- or two-year-old
iPhone, which puts the per-year price strongly in Apple's favor. Other
Android devices, like those made by Samsung, are usually even more
expensive and have fewer years of guaranteed security updates. Apple
even backports extremely high-severity security patches and major bug
fixes (like the GPS rollover patch) to devices that would be considered
"obsolete" by Android manufacturers.
So the iPhone might be a higher upfront cost, but it's a significantly lower per-year cost, especially if you get last year's model or the SE.
Maybe I've been really unlucky, but I haven't seen an iPhone realistically surviving more than 3 years with real usage. Buttons dying and the battery barely surviving a day was pretty common. I know there will be survivor examples out there, but without knowing the average it's hard to compare them.
> Other Android devices, like those made by Samsung, are usually even more expensive and have fewer years of guaranteed security updates
That doesn't seem accurate. I'm using a Samsung, 3.5 years old, and it works fine; was still getting security updates until April of this year, over 4 years after release.
Apparently they guarantee three years on the flagship Galaxy S/Note models and there’s no similar guarantee on any of the cheaper models. It sounds like they’ve gotten better at it with the flagships than the last time I used a Samsung (back in the S4 days).
Pixel and Samsung were intended to compete with iPhone, so the cost is going to be somewhat similar. Also, these go on huge sales every year, whereas iPhone never does. If you buy these at cost, you're doing it wrong. If you're really concerned about cost, you get a new Motorola for about $200, and there's even cheaper options out there.
Maybe, but I don't spend money on high end phones, I don't really see the point if you are not going to play games. I have an LG G4 and honestly, don't really need more.
Are you running LineageOS on it? How are you getting security patches? I wouldn't be comfortable having the device with my most sensitive information on it running an out-of-date operating system, but maybe that's just me.
