I have been a pretty faithful Android user from early on, but lately I'm feeling a little... jaded, with regards to Google's stuff. I'm getting sick of receiving what feels like also-ran treatment, between my phones which are regularly abandoned by the manufacturer within 6 months to a year of purchase, to my WearOS-based watch that integrates well with my phone but is a subpar experience is almost every way compared to most other wearables (with little hope in sight of any real response from Google). My current phone is an LG V30, and it was the first Android phone that I paid "flagship" price for. Never again. The phone is "nice", sure, but it was abandoned by LG within 1.5 years of purchase. It was even supposed to be a part of some program Google was doing to guarantee more updates. Hah. It's now 3.5 years old, and although that might be "old" by phone standards, it isn't in reality, but already the vibration motor is broken, the headphone jack barely works, and the fancy "Quad DAC" that you're supposed to the headphone jack with doesn't work at all. The screen is nice and the battery is still decent, but come on. Combined with the fact that the version of Android and any LG software will never ever be updated again, and I can't believe I paid the money I did for it. Then there's my tablet...an old Samsung tablet, with a beautiful screen, but immensely out of date since Samsung abandoned it 5+ years ago. I'd blame it's sluggishness on age, but it's always been a ****** performer, particularly when web browsing, and especially when compared to my wife's iPad, which is exactly just as old. They were both new at the time we got them, and hers still gets iOS updates and still runs circles around my tablet in terms of smoothness and performance. Seriously, wtf.
tl;dr, I'm sick of Google seemingly abandoning all their projects and not showing the kind of focus to actually polish their existing ones. So I'm considering switching to iPhone. Anyone else feel the same? Or do you want to talk me out of it?
tl;dr, I'm sick of Google seemingly abandoning all their projects and not showing the kind of focus to actually polish their existing ones. So I'm considering switching to iPhone. Anyone else feel the same? Or do you want to talk me out of it?