wettems35 said 🔗
Ive stuck with Android since the g1. I have an iPhone for work but I never really use it cause they can monitor it.
What have been the biggest reasons you switched and never went back?
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the inability to have control over my phone when needed
my last Sammy at the time had the bootloader locked, so no more root possible, there were ways around but it would have been way too much time consuming, to add, the battery life was always something abysmal where I had to manually customize all running apps to limit the battery usage to last till the end of the day
and Even after that, leaving my phone unplugged (accidentally) overnight would guarantee me waking up with a completely dead battery
I had switched to the LG cause it had a larger battery (at the time) which would have helped for all-day use, and i didn't want to walk around with an extra battery charger everywhere.
One day a software update popped up on my device, and the message was stating clearly that my data would be kept safe (what was I thinking) so i just hit update ...
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everything was deleted. Gone. I had a bunch of important files in it that I didn';t have the chance to back up at the time, so I was desperate to get them mack. Attempted a data recovery by trying to tap into the device's storage and lo & behold, the update provided an added feature:
locked bootloader
I was fuming. Updating software yielding to dataloss is a thing of the late 90's / early 2000. NOT 2015
Switched to an iPhone 6s+ (at the time) to take advantage of the larger screen (I came from Galaxy and had the note in the past so I would have never downgraded the size of my screen lol) and literally ALL The problems mentioned disappeared. Haven't lost a byte of data since 2015, devices have been running really well with really good self-regulating power management, I don't remember the last time I woke up with a dead battery (and I tend to forget to charge it a LOT at night lmao)
currently on the 11 pro max and won't upgrade unless I have a really good reason. To add, I would be completely turned off if I couldn't jailbreak my phone tho lmao