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I want to switch to android (self.android)

submitted 1 year ago by Jumper775 to c/android

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I am currently an IOS user, however, as the title suggests, I wish to switch to android. This is because I would prefer to use free software and not be locked into the apple ecosystem. That being said I am already locked into apple and would like to know how anyone else here has managed the switch.

I for one know I will face problems regarding group chats with friends and family on IOS, I will lose out on iCloud+ features, I will have to buy a replacement for my HomePod, I will need to replace apple home, etc.

How did anyone else here who has made such a switch replace or solve these issues?

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[–] deong 4 points 1 year ago

They chose to not create an Android client for iMessage to preserve the lock-in effect and keep people on iPhones.

There's a separate conversation around how well the existing Apple clients interoperate with non-Apple clients. And I think that is a mix of preserving lock-in effects, but also just not wanting to spend the money on developing things they don't care that much about. RCS is a shit protocol, and Apple doesn't really gain anything from supporting it, so they don't. It might be part of that decision that they don't want using Android with iPhone friends to be more pleasant, but it can also just be that they don't care enough to spend the money to do it.