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Comment by endisneigh

2 years ago

I bought a pixel and there was a process that transferred everything over. Not sure how much easier it can be.

Can it transfer the photos you have in iCloud? Or the passwords that Apple will “conveniently” store in its internal password manager? Or the bookmarks you have on safari? Or the messages you have on iMessage? Or the notes you have saved in your phone? Or the reminders you have set up? Or the alarms that you have?

I also recently switched from Android to iPhone. There was also an app that automated a lot of it. But there are a ton of tiny things that build up and lock you in to a platform. And they’re all marketed as helpful little addons! Why not backup your pictures to iCloud or get more storage space? It’s great in theory, but it makes that transition so much harder. It’s funny too, I’m actually very unhappy with my iPhone and want to switch back to an android, but I’m waiting. Why? Because it took me like 3 days to fully switch all my stuff over the first time and I don’t feel like going through that again.

  • > Can it transfer the photos you have in iCloud? Or the passwords that Apple will “conveniently” store in its internal password manager? Or the bookmarks you have on safari? Or the messages you have on iMessage? Or the notes you have saved in your phone? Or the reminders you have set up? Or the alarms that you have?

    Just want to comment, some of these (like passwords & bookmarks) are very easily exportable. iMessage is backed by MySQL, exportable in its own. Google can very easily make that integrations seamless if it so wanted.

Including the apps you paid for on iOS?

  • There are precisely zero computing platforms in which one may expect to transfer application code to a device running a different operating system. None.

    • Funny. I use Steam every day. I can buy a game and play it on three different operating systems.

      If Apple (and Google) didn't prevent competing stores, Steam would probably do the same -- and this is exactly what Epic wants to do.

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    • Windows, Linux, Android. Literally every major computing platform has portable apps except iOS and macOS.

    • Huh? There’s no shortage of compatibility layers and cross-platform applications. Outside of mobile devices it’s more like the norm.

      Operating system compatibility layers: WINE, Windows Subsystem for Linux, Linuxulator.

      Cross-platform runtimes: JVM, Mono, Electron.

      Cross-platform applications: Firefox, Chrome, Oracle DB, Postgres, MySQL, Apache, nginx, etc.

      Multi-OS software repositories: Homebrew, Steam, Epic, etc.

      Clouds even host FOSS-as-a-service.