General Over 10 years of Android I no longer want to upgrade, but I am afraid of Apple.

Psypeke · August 10, 2024

Hi all, I've owned android for 10 years, my last iPhone was a 5s.
I'm a bit tired of android, the many Chinese phones don't satisfy me, Samsung in europe sells you a different phone than the decent American one (exynos is a really obscene chipset and I currently own an s22+). Pixel looked like the messiah, but it's exynos based and focuses on useless things like some AI features, forgetting fundamental things like an ultrasonic fingerprint reader.

You can understand my desire to spend a lot of money on a Samsung s24 and have a non-top experience really annoys me.
I was thinking of switching to Apple, and at most in a year, switch back to Android if something interesting came out.

But I can't decide, mainly because I'm afraid I won't find ipa, and I don't have time to stand behind the revoke every 7 days.
I can put up with emulators without JIT, as much as I hate it, and put up with safari disguised as firefox, but not having the freedom to install what I want or having to revoke it every 7 days just doesn't suit me.

At the moment, coming from android do you think it's really that bad to switch to Apple? (I was planning to switch to 15)

Thanks so much for all your advice.

Rook · August 12, 2024

Hi!

Seeing that you are getting tired of Android, a fresh OS wouldn't hurt as ultimately they're both similar.

However, iOS is indeed less open when it comes to sideloading and you would have to deal with the 7 day re-signs unless you go for a 3rd party signing service such as iOSGods App+ or enroll yourself in the Apple Developer Program.