On: A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance

[bno1]

What does "locked in the Apple ecosystem" imply? Apps that don't have a satisfactory equivalent on Android, integration between Apple devices or general usability/user experience?

[unethical_ban → bno1]

Probably having tons of photos, contacts, email and whatnot in the apple cloud instead of Google or Amazon or local.

[mtgx → unethical_ban]

That's relatively trivial to switch. If anything it would be the ecosystem of purchased applications that you still intend to use.

Other than that, nothing should really keep you "locked-in" on iOS. Not even iMessage. You can use WhatsApp or FB Messenger with friends or family. It's not a big deal.

[evilduck → mtgx]

Google and Apple also both offer "switch" software that makes transferring the critical parts a trivial affair.

https://www.android.com/switch/

https://www.apple.com/iphone/move-to-ios/

I still like iOS better and don't intend on switching but the only "lock in" I feel exists is the years of sunk cost I have in purchased apps I still use.

I would disagree about iMessage though. I have older family members on iOS that would not use another messaging or video chat app. Our chat experience would simply degrade to stock SMS.

[lostlogin → mtgx]

Facebook - really?

[arvinsim → lostlogin]

You will be surprised on how Messenger is like iMessage of messenger apps in some countries outside the US.

[lostlogin → arvinsim]

I hope it doesn’t get that way in this country outside the US.