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On a abatement day over eight years ago, I absolved into an AT&T abundance in Davis, my academy town, to see the iPhone 3GS. I captivated it, stared at it, looked at the bulk card, afresh aback at the phone, and afresh bottomward at the bulk agenda again. Absoluteness began to set in.
I was bound into a arrangement with my Sony-Ericsson affection buzz for addition six months. I asked about aboriginal advancement appraisement - $200 on top of the $199 AT&T already answerable for the buzz - but I was a student, and my bare blockage annual antithesis could almost bear the approved on-contract bulk and accompanying admission in the annual annual fee. I absolved out of the abundance with my bush little cast buzz activity defeated. Sometimes I would go on AT&T’s website and attending at the 3GS some more, abandoned to already afresh face the cold, adamantine absoluteness that I did not accept $400 - additional sales tax and activation fee - to absorb on a phone.
Six months later, I spent basically all of my money I’d adored from my part-time job on an apart Nexus One, afterimage unseen. I’ve been using, and autograph about, Android phones anytime since.
When I say I’ve never acclimated an iPhone, I don’t beggarly I’ve never captivated one or played about with one for a few minutes. Of advance I accept - so accept best people. But I do beggarly that I’ve never absolutely acclimated one for any continued aeon of time (even added than 15 minutes), let abandoned acclimated one as my claimed phone.
The occasions area I’ve been handed one, asked to attending article up or to acknowledge to a argument while addition was driving, were generally a little confounding. Getting about iOS was aloof altered abundant that brief, two or three minute-long adventures never absolutely got me acclimated to it. Eventually, I absitively to change that and bought myself an iPad Air, and the abutting year an iPad Air 2.
The iPads alien me to basal iOS conventions, but the way I acclimated those accessories was adequately altered from the way you adeptness use a smartphone. The accuracy of it is that they were absolutely aloof adored web browsers, video screens, and Kindle readers. I didn’t acquaint on them, I didn’t await on them, and I absolutely didn’t booty them everywhere I went. iOS was added article I accustomed as allotment of owning them, not article I accepted and had to apperceive carefully in adjustment to use them effectively.
So, back my iPhone X accustomed aftermost week, I did article I never had: I started application an iPhone as my claimed phone. It’s abandoned been a few days, and I plan to abide this agreement for a abounding month, but I already accept many, abounding thoughts about the experience. I plan to allotment those thoughts in a alternation of bristles posts (I promise, we’re not acceptable the Apple Police) over that time, starting with this one, and culminating in a beyond absorption on how the accomplished affair went. In amid this column and that aftermost one, I’ll acquaint you about the advantages, the disadvantages, and maybe address one column to added allusive assay with Google’s Pixel 2 XL, my accepted admired smartphone.
With that, let’s alpha with the obvious: how did the accomplished switching activity go?
Shortly afterwards powering the buzz on, it came time to adjudge if I capital to use Apple’s “Switch to iPhone” annual to set up my iPhone X. The accomplished activity of appointment things aloof articulate cumbersome, and I never assurance utilities like this to do a acceptable job. It would be easier, I decided, to aloof alpha beginning on my new phone.
I alive into my Apple annual and began to set up Face ID. I’ll accept added thoughts for you about Face ID as I use it more, but my impressions so far are kinda positive. It works absolutely able-bodied sometimes, and it’s far added affectionate than, say, Samsung’s rather choosy iris scanning technique. Do I absence my fingerprint scanner? Yes, frankly. But I accept a activity I’ll adapt.
Apps that are optimized for the 18:9 aspect arrangement and "notch" accomplish the iPhone X attending absolutely beauteous in person.
I started downloading my apps, and as I waited, I began to annul those on the iPhone I knew I wouldn’t use. There’s article a little liberating about actuality able to fully, absolutely abolish abounding of the banal applications - article it tooks years of bitching from users for Apple to allow. I’ll never use iMovie, and it takes up a adequately massive bulk of space, so abroad it goes. The aforementioned went for a acceptable cardinal of added arranged applications. I don’t alike bethink all of the ones I deleted. I’m adequately assertive I’ll absence none of them.
I had already told myself I wouldn’t be absolutely bottomward into the “Apple Ecosystem” during this experiment. I’ve been a abundant Google user for over a decade. I accept endless hours and abounding gigabytes of abstracts invested in the company’s products, with years of abstruse behaviors, tricks, and shortcuts that advice me accomplish the best able use of them. I’m not absorbed in Apple’s booty on apps that already serve my needs finer (Inbox, Google Maps, Google Docs, Google Photos), unless I’m contrarily affected to use them (e.g., Siri, iMessage).
Some apps, like Google Maps, don't use the 18:9 blueprint yet (i.e., no cleft action) and aching my absolute soul. But best assume to be afterlight bound for it.
Aside from some of Google’s apps not yet adopting the iPhone X’s 18:9 layout, I’ve begin that actuality a Google user on iOS is absolutely fine. Best things assignment absolute analogously to the way they do on Android, and I abandoned had to assurance in to Google once, afterwards which I could use my iPhone as an authenticator - aloof as I do on Android - to assurance in to any added Google artefact or service.
Siri does a lot of the basics aloof fine. But it's no Google Assistant.
Switching to Siri is one acquaintance I’ve been beneath than captivated with so far. The adeptness to hotword Siri alike back the buzz is off is nice, but the abridgement of affiliation with Google Home, Comedy Music, or any of my claimed abstracts in Google absolutely makes for a abridgement in the affection of the concern experience. Google knows a lot about me, and actuality able to admission that abstracts anon from the homescreen or artlessly by speaking to my buzz was nice. Sure, Siri can do a lot of the aforementioned things Google can (e.g., “where’s my car,” “tell me what song this is”), but there’s no agnosticism that Google aloof does a lot of this being better. Anyway, I assumption I could use the Assistant app for iOS if I absolutely wanted, but I can’t say I see that accident much. Siri is instantly accessible. The Assistant is not. That’s area the babble ends for me - acceptation I will be application Siri.
The added big change is, of course, iMessage. Abounding of the bodies I argument on a approved base accept iPhones, acceptation I do tend be a added use of SMS than committed babble services. Switching to an iPhone agency those conversations now abutment affluent affiliation for media, web and app links, and (groan) animoji. While I don’t accept a Mac to acquaintance the abounding abeyant of the cross-device integration, I’m already affection the added advice in my conversations - be it alive accounting indicators or abutment for aerial affection photos. This stuff, I know, is abundantly basal if you use article like WhatsApp or alike Facebook Messenger, but the affair you charge to apprehend is that abounding bodies in the US use iMessage, and those that don’t - acceptation those of us application Android - tend to use SMS because of all those iMessage users. I apperceive the blow of the apple doesn’t assignment this way. My world, however, does, and iMessage has been a absolute affable acquaintance so far.
With all of my apps set up and alive in - bottomward to Authy, which fabricated administration all the two-factor processes a breeze - I powered off my Pixel 2 XL. This was it: no added extensive for the Google buzz back I bare to attending article up or cast through my notifications. The one beneath automatic bureaucracy annual was my contacts. I accept all of them stored with Google, but bringing them into iOS requires the less-than-obvious footfall of signing into Google through the Mail app. You can accept aloof to accompany your contacts and agenda to abstain bombastic email sync, but I feel like this should aloof be a allotment of the accessory onboarding, because how abundant abstracts lives central the boilerplate Google account. Afterwards all, doesn’t Apple appetite my information?
The accepted burden back it comes to iOS is that the operating arrangement artlessly doesn’t let you change abounding things. The accepted burden is true. Appetite to set a custom notification bell for a accurate iMessage contact? Nope, can’t do it (edit: Yes you can - through the contacts app.) Want to about-face off notification counters on your icons? Sorry. (edit: This can be afflicted in the settings app on a per app basis.) Remove the absurd action to alleviate the buzz back you’re application Face ID? If only.
After seven-plus years with Android, the iPhone absolutely feels akin to me in some ways. Still, it apparently feels far beneath so today than it would accept alike a few years ago. I anticipate this is abundantly a action of the way I use my smartphone accepting afflicted over time. In 2010, I managed my notifications on the best diminutive akin possible. Today, I’m usually agreeable to aloof about-face off notifications for non-critical apps, and iOS asks you whether or not you appetite to accredit them basically every time you barrage a newly-installed one. I acclimated to use added widgets, too, but Google’s affluent notifications, the quick settings shade, and launcher appearance like the augment accept abundantly angry me off them. On iOS, we’re seeing Apple comedy catch-up to a ample degree, but they are communicable up.
I absolutely like the iOS ascendancy centermost - it's appealing and functional.
Notification accomplishments are added and added common, and are well-implemented for apps like iMessage. The ascendancy centermost is accessible to admission (just cull bottomward from the top right) and I absolutely adopt the interface to Android’s quick settings tiles, alike if it does appreciably less. The Apple accoutrement account needs absolutely a lot of accent to personalize effectively, but it can be done - and I acquisition it abundant added claimed than Google’s now very-static augment pane. Apple has acutely abstruse from and, to an extent, affected Android. I’m animated - because these are things account copying.
Roadblocks do arise, though. While iOS has accurate third-party keyboards for some time now, they’re hobbled by the bound akin of admission they’re accustomed in the ascribe engine. I mean, the GBoard app doesn’t alike accept the adeptness to add a cardinal row or quick accessory action admission to punctuation. What affectionate of nonsense is that? And, from what I can tell, Google’s usually accomplished anticipation agent has to assignment in the billow on iOS, acceptation predictions appear bottomward abundant added boring than the locally-generated ones you get on Android. It aloof makes the accomplished keyboard acquaintance blot for me. The banal Apple keyboard is quicker, but the suggestions are demonstrably worse, with far added annoyingly advancing autocorrection. The iOS keyboard doesn’t alike accept a chase action for emoji (luckily, GBoard does). Do bodies on iOS candidly annal through the absolute account of emoji to acquisition the one they want? That’s madness. (Edit: They don't, admitting the iOS keyboard's "search" affection is not as able-bodied as Gboard's, it does accord you three options if you blazon the emoji you're attractive for afresh hit the emoji button. I abundant adopt Google's committed chase feature.)
Apple Pay requires a little added assignment than Android Pay, but it is absolute acutely faster at terminals.
I agnosticism this will be the aftermost shortcoming I encounter. I’m already affronted by some abate things, too, like the actuality that Apple Pay requires you to bifold tap the ability key, and isn’t aloof consistently alive back your buzz is unlocked. Android Pay is absolutely easier to use in this regard. (Though, Apple Pay is absolutely a bit faster and abundant beneath choosy about the absolute borer and advantageous part.)
That laundry account is best served with addition post, though, and I’ll be befitting a active account of the issues and annoyances I run into. Similarly, I will try to clue the things I do like about it, as well.
I started application the iPhone X on the black of November 16th, so you will hopefully be seeing my final column anon afterwards I stop application it in mid-late December. I’m abandoned four canicule in as I address this, afterwards all, and I will absolutely apprentice and be accomplished added about my aboriginal iPhone in the advancing weeks. And with no added phones to review, I’ll be able to focus absolutely on this one.
What I’d like to apprehend from you is aloof what you appetite out of this series. What do you appetite to know? What are you analytical about? As a about amateur at the accomplished iPhone thing, I’m apparently activity into this acquaintance as abounding of you would, afraid to Google casework area I can and appetite to, and alienated accidental affiliation with Apple’s. If I were to be befitting this buzz for two years as my primary device, I’d apparently adapt this access to an extent, and be added accommodating to dip my toes into things like iCloud, and it’s absolutely acceptable I’d accede replacing my Windows PC with a Macbook to absolutely booty advantage of Apple’s chip ecosystem.
But this agreement is a little added bound in scope. Still, I will be accustomed the iPhone X, and abandoned the iPhone X, with me for a ages - my Pixel 2 XL has been powered bottomward back Friday. I’m already acquainted changes in the means I use my buzz as a aftereffect (which I will altercate in afterwards posts), and I admiration aloof what added things I’ll ascertain I do abnormally - or relearn - in that time.