Asking because this is me. I am a senior android developer and I’ve used an iPhone for the past 2-3 years.
Why?
- Because my family and friends all use iMessage and it’s hard to get them to switch. I am aware of beeper, but I’ve been on their waiting list for over a year now. Similar thing for FaceTime, though I don’t use that much so not a big deal.
- Airdropping files to my mac is just so easy and convenient. Also my girlfriend prefers my phones camera to hers a lot (she has an older iPhone), so will often take pictures with my phone (a lot of pictures), and then airdrop them to herself.
- The last android phone I had was a Pixel 3xl, and it was just so incredibly buggy and laggy when I needed it most. I know that things have changed. But I have seen a lot of people reporting an ton of bugs with their pixel 6 on Reddit. Also the fingerprint sensor has gotten a ton of bad press on that phone. I would actually prefer a fingerprint sensor to Face ID, Face ID is awful for me. I have looked at some Samsung devices. I used to be into one+ phones, but they’re not really as good anymore.
- AirPods and AirTags. I lose my keys a frightening amount, and AirTags are great for tracking that and helping me actually find them. AirPods for audio quality are just fine, but the mic and easy pairing is why I really had them.
But I’ve had this fomo recently about switching back to Android out of fear of my (remote) co workers finding out that a senior member of their team does not even use android or own an android phone. I honestly thought about buying a pixel 5 and just using that I were to ever meet any of them in person. For work I just use a company provided phone.
I chose to do android development just because I had a history of side projects and college projects with android, so it just felt like a more natural transition for me to do it professionally. I don’t really favor ios over android or android over ios development.
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I find iOS so counter intuitive, as buggy as my android phone (which is definitely buggy as well). I hate face ID, definitely prefer my fingerprint sensor.
But at the end I think it's more about I'm used to it, the cost of moving to iOS is just too high.
On the professional side, swift is so much nicer though, I really like it.
iOS has become pretty buggy itself.
Also I haven’t used swift, but i really like Kotlin. Will have to give swift a try
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