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by scarface_74 1064 days ago
> Did your app purchases form the Google Play Store automatically transfer to your Apple App store, and did your photos off your Google drive transfer to your iCloud, or vice-versa?

Which apps would those be that you have to buy on iOS and Android separately? Most non game apps are subscription based that work across platforms.

My photos are already sync to Google Photos on my iPhone and if I had an Android device, I would just download the Google Photos app.

Music bought on iTunes has been DRM free since 2008 and Apple Music is available on Android.

Apple, Google, Amazon and a few other platforms and most of the studios participate in MoviesAnywhere where you buy movies from one platform and it shows up as purchased on the other platforms

What data is “trapped”?