Yeah I probably will, when this one breaks. I had Android always before and I'm pretty unimpressed with Apple. HN'ers love to imagine that only Apple has their interests in mind unlike other BigCos, but no Android phone I had ever nudged me out of the blue, in the middle of other work, to "turn on Google Drive" with just "Ok" and "Ask me later" as the options.
I have an android phone and it hates me almost as much as apple, but it has better hardware for a lower price, and I can technically use f–droid
Oh yeah, it's super easy to turn off notifications from any app except the built–in adware.
Until recently (moved to GrapheneOS) I ran stock Android for years and never had an issue with turning any notifications from default apps. Maybe this is different with other manufactures and custom OS version (e.g., Samsung's)? I think the only thing that bugged me was Google Play pushing new features/ways to give them money, but that was only within the app itself when I opened it. Notifications of that sort were all easily blocked. The only notifications I got and get are ones I want (99% of it are messages from messaging apps, calendar reminders, and alarms).
My Motorola phone gives me a notification asking me to rate the audio quality after every single call. I can't turn off those notifications without rooting the phone. All I can do is uninstall updates to the phone app and disable automatic updates for that app, so at least they won't add more notification spam and can't keep rearranging the UI of the most important app on the phone.
I’ve used iPhones exclusively as my daily driver phone for almost 20 years now.
It’s tempting to get a phone that GrapheneOS supports at my next refresh.
I generally like Apple’s technology. I like their high level stability - they don’t launch things as experiments in the same way other technology companies do. They seem to make a serious effort at only launching things they plan to keep around and refine. I think that’s the only user-friendly way to do it.
But I’m concerned about the post-Cook era particularly because in recent years the hardware has gotten better but the software has gotten worse. It is starting to feel like Apple is unable, unwilling, or incapable of focusing on two sides of the coin at once.
The software side is more data hungry than ever, no matter what they do with that data. They are seemingly desperate for services revenue on top of premium prices for devices. It was insane that any release, let alone how many releases, automatically enabled or re-enabled (after prior user disablement) Apple Intelligence. They finally stopped disrespecting asserted user choices but it took them awhile. That in particular really soured me. They had already learned that lesson (for some reason they had to learn that lesson period) with automatic OS update settings.
I’ve been working for a few years now on extricating myself from the connected services sides of both Microsoft and Apple so that it will be far easier to make the leap to GrapheneOS (or an analogue) when and if I decide to.