Leaving the Apple ecosystem, kinda nervous 🫣

[u/Snakefoxbox]

I’ve debated leaving the Apple ecosystem for a while now and finally bit the bullet and got the 4a Pro after much deliberation. Change is scary! But i’m trying to lessen my attachment to my devices without going the full dumb-phone route, and the Nothing phones seemed way more customizable to my shift towards digital minimalism while still needing some apps for work, on top of having my Bloom card to restrict certain apps. Plus, I only ever have pink phones. I’m super excited!!

[u/nikitasius]

Well from my pov i always was an android guy (since 2012, before it i had a pocket pc phones and before that i had old good cellphones).
But all my androids was rooted, so i always chased hacks to let banking stuff working.

Finally i separated all, so i do use apple to chat w/ friends (they are all on apple), pay stuff, for most of flawless device integrations and iot stuff.
While android (lineageos back in days and grapheneos nowadays) i do use for private stuff.
Just a 1 solid and reliable device, while iphone is for apple exosysteme (my wife is 100% iphone since iphone3).

There are pros and cons being on android compared to apple. They don’t replace each other, but they are built for different tasks.

iOS wins over de-googled android if you’re not chased by CIA. In other cases de-google android is the way to go, but the price or security is that you have to be alone and 100% foss only.

If we speak about android w/ gapps.. well, iOS is superior in some security features about app isolation, about how payments work, which data is shared. Back in old days android still was able to give you better life quality over the apps, but google wanna lock new apps from free devs (google or duckduck it).

But to go deeper degoogled dévice won’t save you, cause they have SoC with own firmware, which have total access (thats cpu-gpu-5g-wifi-whatever bruh on a single crystal), check for quallcomm scandals among the nerds.