it's been 10 years android and i had a
healthy
happy relationship we whined we dined wewe did everything together but sixmonths agowe agreed to start seeing other peopletoo yeahi switched to an iphone and i feel likeit's finally time to to pop the bigquestiondo i regret it and i must have thanks tosurfsharkvpn for making this possibleso at the time when i switched i wasmoving from a samsung galaxy s20 ultrato an iphone 11 pro maxand so my very very first thoughts wereone the camerasare kind of boring having come fromsamsung and huawei phones which haveastrophotography modes and 108 megapixelsensors and 100 times zoom cameras inoticed immediately that yes the iphonewas goodbut it was also just a little sterile incomparison i really missed having a120hz refresh ratethe iphone just didn't feel as snappy oras immediate by comparisonand three i specifically remember themoment i'd finished setting up the homescreen of my iphoneand i was taking a look at it thinkingwelli guess that's kind of it then there'sno eye compacts or deep customization toexperiment withthis was probably going to be my setupfor as long as i used an iphonebit of a bummer now six months havepassedsince then i've had time to properlytest abs we've had the new ios 14we've had a model upgrade from the 11pro max to the 12 pro max and whilst iwould say that at its corenone of these three things have beenfixed my opinion about them has changedfor example i still wish we had morecamera features here butat the same time i am starting toappreciate that what you do geis super reliable i used to actuallyhave a bit of a force of habit wherewhen i was taking a portrait mode shot iwould take like six or seven photos justto make sure i have a good onei stopped doing that now i take onemaybe two becausei trust it or fun fact these iphone 12sare the first time that we've ever usediphonesto film parts of these videos nobody'snoticedi mean sure it might become obvious if told you exactly which shotsbut the point is it might not if ididn'tand subtle point this one picks upvoices better than any other phone i'vetriedit sounds good right and the other thin is that depending on which camerasyou're recording othe microphones on this phone change hothey pick up the audiolike when you're shooting something infront of you it'll use this microphonehereand then when you switch to the frontcamera it'll change to the frontmicrophoneplus even when you're just taking photosthis is far from the most exciting specsheet it's justthree 12 megapixel cameras but i'vetaken some awesome shots on itday or night or ultrawide or zoom thisis solid all-round if you did see myfull camera comparison recently you'llhave seen how within two yearsapple's gone from bottom of the pack atnight mode phototo pretty much the best you can get theonly times it's let me down is in thoseawkward middle indoor lightingsituations like when i'm taking nightmode shots i'm usually capturing staticthings like buildings or roadsbut in those indoor settings trying totake photos of people and catsit doesn't capture quite as fast as myold huawei for exampleso motion can be blurred okay hardwarei still miss 120 hours displays i feellike that's one thing that a 2020flagship phone should have but apartfrom thatalmost every other part of the hardwaof this iphoneand even the last iphone are top shelflike i still don't think these iphone 12phones are particularly nice to holdthanks to these sharp edgesbut wow were they durable this isactually the first phone thati've ever used without a case i'veactually dropped it twiceand both times i kind of froze on thespot nearly had a heart attackslowly kind of crept forward and pickedit up but it was finei haven't got a single scratch on thisiphone 12 pro maxyet or we've got speakers i was alreadyperfectly satisfied with the sounquality i was getting on my samsungbut the iphone 12 pro max is probablythe second best sounding phonei've ever heard second only to the asusrog phone 3and that thing's just a monster but ithink the biggest hardware changemoving from android to iphone is thatwhen you're on an iphoneyou kind of stop thinking about thehardware and that doesn't mean that thisis the best spec phone on the planetit's not this doesn't have the biggestbattery this doesn't have the highestresolution displayit definitely doesn't have the most rambut the software is so optimizedthat it runs well regardless evenactually onlast year's iphone i couldn't find asingle app on the app store that didn'twork or wasn't compatiblei didn't find a single game that myphone wouldn't play at the highestpossible frame rateand that kind of polish that alsocarried throughto what i produced with those apps likethe quality of my voice notes fromwhatsapp that jumped from hereto here moving from samsung to iphonethe video call quality that the otherperson seesthat improved too and probably the bestexample of this is snapchatand instagram stories without fail sincejumpingevery time i've posted an instagram
story somebody has asked me
what phone has that taken on because it
looked so good i
very rarely had that before except a
couple of times when i was using one of
those old huawei phones and
i'm doing a really good job of
controlling the bright areas people were
genuinely concerned about my microphone
quality i've only had one weird bug
with whatsapp just every now and again
while i was typing it would randomly
force close
which was pretty annoying but i've
reinstalled it and it seems to be okay
now
touchwood and if you're enjoying this
video the sub to the channel would be
tasty
what about customization though because
you remember that when i first set this
iphone up
the lack of customization is one of
those things that immediately hit me
well
it's not great but it hasn't bothered me
as much as i thought it would have
like if i think back to when i was on
android i would rarely fiddle with the
really advanced settings
things like changing the grid size of
the home screen or making my own widgets
so i'm not too bothered by those things
not being here
i've kind of developed a sort of muscle
memory for where every app is on my home
screen
i'm okay with it but what i would change
is how apple handles
icons because on android icon packs are
one of the quickest ways to completely
change the feel of your phone
without messing up where everything is
on iphone you have to create a shortcut
for each and every app
you have to download every icon
individually and then apply the new
icons to the new shortcuts
one by one i did find a couple of other
methods but they've all got their own
caveats
and it just feels like the iphone is
sitting in a pointless middle ground
like if apple is going to let users
change the way their icons look anyways
they might as well make that process
easy and fun like what if apple made a
first party app
with all apple approved themes on it and
you could just hit one button
and it would apply instantly that would
be amazing also
what is up with the way that apple
handles wallpapers how is it that the
wage change wallpaper is still
to find settings to scroll down to hit
wallpaper to hit choose new wallpaper to
pick a category pick a wallpaper click
set
and then click set both it's more
complicated than my relationship status
and while you do technically get some
inbuilt dynamic moving wallpapers
as far as i can see unless you jailbreak
your phone there's no way of getting any
more
the only live wallpapers that you can
download are actually just static
wallpapers
that can move but only if you hold down
whilst being on your lock screen
but i just don't understand in what
situation anyone would ever do that
so it's not perfect but it is better
than it used to be
ios 14 means you can now add a bit of
personality to your home screen
and the fact that they allow widgets
from third-party apps is a solid step
forward
plus it's kind of novel to me that every
iphone user
gets the same update on the same day
it's not like when you're on a samsung
where you see
oh android 11 has some awesome features
i can't wait to try it
like next year or something when i
actually get the update
no it almost felt like a community day
on twitter when everyone got ios 14 at
the same time
and it felt like the whole world was
showcasing all the new setups they'd
made using it
also just on the note of customization
i've also realized that
while yes the internal customization you
can do on the iphone
is much worse than android the external
customization you can do
is greater you know i have that
smartphone gadget series right where i
showcase all those weird but wonderful
accessories
well of the 150 or so gadgets i've shown
in that series
probably only five of them don't support
iphones
whether it's cases whether it's camera
lenses or gaming controllers
i think most companies build for iphone
first
and it makes sense even though samsung
usually sells more phones
overall apple sells far more phones on
average
per model and so if your company can
only build let's say a case design for
10 different phones
you're gonna make sure that the iphones
are part of that plus you've also just
got the fact that iphone users
have a higher propensity to spend on
accessories
so no this is not my dream experience
but at the same time for each one of
those issues that i had to start with
with ios and iphones
the somewhat uninteresting cameras the
lacking hardware the poor customization
they've not disappeared but they have
become less of a problem one more thing
though
apple is definitely a company who
operates on a
if it ain't broke don't fix it
philosophy and so
i would say of all brands of phones with
apple you probably have
the least actual change between
generations like if you look at
samsung's phones last year versus this
year
huge change if you look at xiaomi's
phones huge change again
but it's not really the case here when
apple makes changes
it's usually because they're planning on
keeping them they have a formula that
works
and they want to make careful
incremental improvements to it
whereas when a lot of android phone
makers add features they've got no
intention of keeping them
it's more a case of we've got this new
phone how do we make something cool
for this model that people are going to
talk about so you'll quite often have
samsung or huawei or xiaomi announced
something amazing
let's say that their next phone is going
to have a hundred times camera zoom
and then on the following model after
that they decide well most people
actually didn't need that
let's just make it 50 times now and so
for apple i think this
slower strategic build it's both a bad
thing
and a good thing i've been using an
iphone now long enough to experience
what it's like upgrading from one to the
next and it was one of those cases where
i was so excited i ripped open the
packaging i transferred all my stuff but
then there was a little moment of
okay everything's transferred and
everything
looks the same i guess i'll just carry
on doing what i was doing
everything from the software to the
hardware feels so similar that
it is possible to sometimes forget
you've actually swapped phones
i had less of that initial oh i can't
wait to try the new 100x zoom camera
more of a okay this is going to be great
from now on my photos will be brighter
and my downloads will be faster
it's less drastic but more deliberate
evolution
okay so to conclusively answer the
question do i regret switching to iphone
huh no there are things i miss but for
the purposes of what i want from my
phone
it was a good decision besides the fact
that i already used a mac for work
has brought up some interesting
opportunities like you might know this
already but if you use an iphone
and a macbook your macbook can take
calls which might sound a lot like one
of those features that's
really cool to have but you'll never use
but i use it every day
i'm someone who's very productivity
focused so when i'm working at my
computer i purposefully tried to stay
away from my phone
but when i used to do this on my old
android some part of me was
a little bit uncomfortable like what if
there's a delivery driver who's trying
to call me
what if there's an emergency what if
there's some sort of work meeting that i
completely forgot to schedule i don't
have to worry about it now
i can do my work i can keep instagram
and twitter away and i can be rest
assured
that if someone needs to reach me they
still can
airdrop is good enough that even though
i transfer a lot of photos between phone
and computer
i haven't had to plug my phone in once
to do that transfer when you're trying
to find a wi-fi to connect to on the go
you can always just connect straight to
your iphone's internet from your laptop
it's a great feature and i don't use
this one much
