Making an assumption here, but I assume you loathed the browser lock in because you tried using a different browser, probably Chrome. Thing is, for iOS, you have to drink the koolaid to truly see the benefit. Personally coming from Android it's so nice not being asked which app I want to open a link in all the time, I dont have to think about it. I know that sounds silly because you can choose a default, but it's too many options, I don't want to have to choose and think which option I'm going to want more often as long as it works.
While I suspect you're right (a number of my family members use a full Apple ecosystem and love it), to someone who doesn't there seem to be an almost endless number of changes you need to make.
I've had a couple of iPhones, and at times tried to fully use their system, but that promised "perfect simplicity" seems to always be around one more corner. Change your browser. Change your music provider. Change your backup procedure. And after all that, your Windows PC is a problem. And there I hit a wall, because I can't justify changing my PC, which is my livelihood, to an unfamiliar system in the hopes of simplicity.
I'm not knocking the Apple paradigm for those who are inside it. But transitioning to that apparent state of seamlessness feels nigh impossible.
On mobile. Your mobile browser has nothing to do with your desktop browser AFAICT.
> Change your music provider.
Apple Music, Deezer, Spotify, YouTube music (or whatever it's called now) all work perfectly on iOS, no?
> Change your backup procedure.
Theoretically yes, if you were performing manual mobile backups before. Otherwise,you just let Apple handle it (and you're free to back up the gigantic image files that iTunes leaves on your PC yourself)
> After all that, your Windows PC is a problem.
What is your windows PC a problem for?
> that promised "perfect simplicity" seems to always be around one more corner
I disagree. If you use safari and iCloud you get the perfect simplicity.
On Android, that simplicity doesn't exist. I bought a flagship (galaxy s9) phone about two months ago, (my first android) only to find out that on a £700 phone:
- Samsung bundle their own crapware, including a crappy launcher and a borderline unusable keyboard
- They have their own standard for messages, health, Samsung pay, contacts, and camera, and their own app store.
- all of the above are slightly different to the Google versions, or the Huawei versions.
- they have bugs breaking fundamental functionalitied (work profile custom keyboard). Am I supposed to research every android feature I'm interested in using and check it's going to work on the (flagship) handset I try and buy?
- permissions. There are apps out there with the crappy old permission model, some apps that just ask for catch all permissions and refuse to work without them, and the monitoring of permissions on Android is laughable.
- updates. I found out yesterday that actually the android update has to go through Samsung, and then through my carrier, so it'll be 6 months before I get the latest version of Android (based on last year) on my brand new top of the line device.
Overall, almost that I've done on Android has been more difficult than on iOS.
