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I've switched between ios and android a few times, but currently on iOS. * I would say the hardware is actually not as good as most Androids (my screen scratches, alloy AL/Ti are absolutely dumb material choices for something like a dentable phone). Up until recently, Android had expandable storage on android via SD cards, but that's pretty much gone these days. Androids typically lacked dumb things that drive up phone price on iPhones, but they've been hard at work on closing this gap and making things more pricey for no reason... but generally the phones are far more durable and repairable. * The iOS software isn't as great in many many areas (Google voice to text works far better, texting actually works to the outside world, no shared filesystem folders like "Downloads", anti-competitive behavior with other brands of smartwatches like Garmin, you can't actually turn an iPhone off, many many other artificial dumb limitations) * but iOS is better in some areas: Google is not vacuuming up personal life and monetizing it (when google does it, its "business" when others do it, is "hacking"), iCloud clipboard sync is a neat trick if you have a Mac, iMessage on Mac is a great experience, FaceTime works pretty danged well, international eSim experience is actually quite good on iOS, iCloud keychain and sync is actually pretty good) I think after this iPhone dies or Apple slows it down enough, I'm going to switch to GrapheneOS and figure out how to replace iOS keychain sync/clipboard sync. |
I don't know about iPhone, but my Galaxy S21 doesn't turn off when you hold the power button, you need to pull down the notification area 2x (for the more detailed buttons) and turn off from there. There is an option for changing power button back to showing the power menu, but it wasn't the default (and writing this made me look for it and change it, should kinda tell you how often I actually need it...).