Although I do enjoy using the iPhone 12 Pro (especially given how compact it is), I still primarily use Android. You might think that I've become an iOS convert. I use several wonderful indie apps daily on my Android devices that I wish I could find on iOS (like Pure Writer, a markdown editor). This isn’t meant to detract from the incredible apps that you can download from the Play Store. While Android doesn’t lack for app availability or diversity, iOS simply has higher quality versions in my experience, in addition to apps that are unique to the App Store. Especially coming from mostly Nexus, OnePlus, and Pixel phones, I expect something on an Android device to be weird or go haywire. Certainly, iOS isn’t without fault, but I like the sense that my iPhone will work when I pick it up and slot in my SIM.
Apps work in much the same way, gestures on the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro are integrated beautifully, and the OS itself seems to focus on working right out of the box. Everything feels like it belongs when you use iOS. That leads me to what makes iOS work so well: its cohesive design. The latter complaint might be addressed with Android 12, but we’ll have to see how many app makers actually take advantage of it. I’m using the latest and greatest when it comes to Android and some apps still slog, take forever to open, or hang when I tap their notifications. It not only looks nicer in subtle ways, but it feels like it works better than its Android counterpart. On iOS, the app runs as smooth as butter. On Android, it’s clunky and slow with choppy animations and sluggish transitions, even on a Galaxy S21 Plus. Whereas with Android, you might find some apps that use Material Design, like most of Google’s suite, but different applications can feel disparate.Īlso, sheer app performance on iOS feels better for the most part. The ones on iOS looked beautiful and had a cohesive design language. Using the same apps on both my iPhone and Android phone - for example, DS File for my Synology NAS or my banking app - I was blown away by the differences. Speaking of apps, the selection and quality available in the App Store handily beats the Play Store. But from a strictly new user perspective, iOS takes a step ahead. Granted, if you’re restoring the iPhone or Android device from a backup, they both feel pretty similar. Setting up a new Android phone for the very first time isn’t as easy by comparison. From setting up TouchID to installing some apps, the process was seamless. I like to think that I can learn new technology pretty quickly, but even so, Apple does an excellent job with new user onboarding. Using iOS for the first time, I had no idea what I was doing.
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