This was way back in Gingerbread. Things are probably a lot better now but as the saying goes, fool me once...
Apple would really have to screw up for me to leave iPhone.
To each their own...
I honestly hear more OS gripes with my Apple friends than my Android friends.
WAY more. Not to mention Apple deliberately facked the owners of older phones to get them to buy new ones. That is, unless, you happen to believe they deliberately crapified the performance of an $800 phone in order to extend the life of a $50 battery. In which case I have a lovely bridge I'd like to sell you.
Two of my closest friends are huge Apple guys and I hear them curse about their iPhones all the time. Yet they would never get anything else. They kinda remind me of some german car buyers, in that even though the product doesn't always work right they still think it's superior.
My only gripe about my iPhone 7 is that the battery life isn't great (and never has been). But I hear the same complaint from Android users too.
Quite frankly I really don't care if some aspects of Android devices are superior though. Having Macs at work and at home, an iPhone, an iPad, and two Apple TVs, I love how seamlessly everything is integrated. But I'm a fanboy – I've been using Macs for over 30 years now and am on my fifth iPhone.
My spouse and I got new phones this week. Her, an iPhone 8, and myself, a Google Pixel 2 XL. She upgraded from an iPhone 6 (running latest IOS), and I upgraded from a Nexus 6P (running Android 8.1.0).
We transferred all our stuff from old phones to new phones. With the Pixel, all I had to do was connect my old Nexus to my new Pixel with the USB-C cable, and press a couple of onscreen buttons during initial setup. The applet transferred everything from my old phone to my new phone, including contacts, saved messages, call history, photos, videos, media (music/movies), and ALL the apps. 1 Minute later, and it was done. It even rearranged my homescreen to be identical to my old phone. As in, my apps were all in the same places, and I had all the same widgets.
My spouse, however, was prompted to put her old phone next to her new phone, in order to transfer. Fair enough. But all it transferred was her contact list, and message history. Nothing else transferred. She uses her phone for work (music and playlists), so it was fairly important to have everything moved over, including pictures. So I had to google how to do it. First step, install iTunes on her laptop. 2nd Step, plug in her old phone and create a backup. This took 10 minutes. Next, plug in her new phone, and update to the latest version of IOS. This took another 10 minutes. 3rd Step: FINALLY, we could restore her old phone's backup to the new phone. This took another 10 minutes. All told, it took us about 45 minutes to figure out and actually transfer her old phone into her new phone. And even then, it seems to have missed all of her playlists. It has synced the music she had on her old phone, but not the all important playlists (she has about 100 of them).
I couldn't believe how cumbersome and involved the iPhone transfer process was, especially in comparison to Google's experience. Here I was thinking Apple was the company of accessibility and ease, and it was waaay more difficult to do a simple phone transfer.
What's more, why do you STILL need to plug your phone into a computer to do a full backup? I can backup my Nexus to Google's Cloud service, perform a factory reset, and re-download everything including my home screen settings, apps, pictures, music, contacts, etc. All wirelessly. The Pixel will be capable of the same thing (I haven't started using it yet as I'm still waiting for my case to ship from Amazon). All this plugging in of iPhones to computers is archaic and outdated.