i'm stuck using ios and iphone and that's not necessarily a bad thing but i wanted to go over
why hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and here's a few reasons why i'm currently stuck
using ios now the first one is probably pretty obvious if you've been following me for any amount
of time i've been using iphone for a very long time that means i've recommended them to friends
and many more and just about every single person i know with the exception of two people that i talk
to regularly uses an iphone and that brings me to my first point imessage imessage has me locked in
so that it's very hard to go anywhere else the reason i say that is not only does it work on
iphone but it works on ipad and mac and it's just seamless between all of them it syncs with icloud
and it makes things very easy now if you're outside of the us this may not be as familiar
to you because maybe not as many people use it or they might use something such as whatsapp
however in the united states out of all my friends and family only two people use android
so every single person is on imessage you can see whether or not they've read the reply if they have
read receipts turned on it's very easy for group messages and of course it's encrypted end to end
if we go into it so within imessage you can see here that i have high quality links photos i've
shared that stay very high quality and then of course your keyboard is end to end encrypted
and doesn't use any texts unless you need to switch to sms which it can do on its own so if
you're texting with someone on an android phone it just automatically jumps to sms messaging
and sends to that android phone so that's something that's really helpful
and out of all my friends and family like i said there's only two people that don't use an iphone
so in the united states iphones are pretty much the main thing around at least for my
family and friends that doesn't mean that's the way everywhere but people that don't have
imessage in the united states don't always just jump to whatsapp they typically use the
default messaging app that's installed like on the pixel with the google messaging app
so the pixel here they'll just use the default messaging app instead of something else of course
you have those options but right now that makes it very hard to leave iphone with just the simplicity
of syncing across devices it's super useful and of course it's end to end encrypted so that's
something also whatsapp is owned by facebook and many people don't care for facebook they don't
trust them at least a lot of friends i know and so they would much rather have apple manage messages
and have it end to end encrypted there now the second reason is find my friends now this
may not be a huge issue for many people and you technically can do this with google maps where you
can locate your friends and family and i probably use this more than most people do however i have
15 people that i follow or that follow me let me go into it and as you can see there's a bunch of
people spread across the east coast of the united states so every one of them are family members
and one friend that have access to my location and i have access to their location at any time
and this is super helpful especially for your direct family so my own children my wife if i ever
need to know where my kids are maybe they're going to a store maybe i want to see if they've arrived
to a mall safely i'll be able to go in here and check so this is something i use every single day
just to see where people are and people use that the same for me if i ever get together with family
and more so it just makes things very convenient also it traces devices and items as well so i
have items such as the air tags on a backpack and then also my keys i don't typically lose things
but if i ever need to find them i can easily and then my devices such as my ipad or iphone
so that makes it super convenient and something that we all use and it's very difficult not to
use that if i was to switch to android i'd have to have my entire family switched to doing that
on google maps or a third-party app now to go along with that and imessage is facetime facetime
again is something i use a lot with my family whether that be a multiple
call with different family members at once or just with me and someone else i use that all the time
now of course there's alternatives such as google duo and others but this is something again with
my direct family 15 people and friends and more it just makes things super convenient and easy
i have one family member that actually just bought an ipad so he can use the same thing
because we're all using apple devices and again it's encrypted and everything else so it's just
convenient something that we all use and of course works between iphone ipad and mac now something
that's not necessarily as important but i use every single day is airdrop now apple and google
have the same sort of functionality but apple's been doing it longer now and so if i go into
photos in photos you can see i have a wallpaper selected so i'll just air drop it to my ipad here
and you'll see here it'll take a second and then it airdrop to my ipad so i have the photo it's
the wallpaper from here just makes things super easy now you do have those things with nearby on
the google pixel and other android devices but it doesn't seem to be as seamless and it's only
more recent so it does work i've used it quite a few times already but it doesn't seem to work
as well for me but it does work between android phones but not android phones and iphones or macs
i wish this was an open standard and that leads me to should apple be forced to make these
open standards if you've been following along with the european union it looks like they're going
to be mandating certain sort of laws that may force apple to open their platform up to things
like that so one of them is imessage now i'm not necessarily against them opening up imessage to
different platforms i think it would be super nice to have an alternative to things such as telegram
signal and whatsapp or just the default messaging app so if we had imessage that worked across not
only iphones but android and maybe even windows i would love to see that now whether or not
that should be forced upon apple is something completely different in a different discussion
now facetime when it was introduced by steve jobs he said that it would be open and others
could use it and then they just never did that so i would love to see facetime integrate with
something like google duo or maybe other video chat apps that would just make it super easy
to use whatever you want to use and just work independently of whatever device you're using of
course that takes away from apple's sales and the reason you have device and ecosystem lock-in so
that's something that we may never see but steve jobs actually said it was going to be an open
industry standard we just never saw that and the other thing they may be forced to do is
open up everything else whether that be the app store and side loaded apps or third party apps
apple may be forced to do that and it looks like that could be sooner rather than later according
to the european union so that's something that's looking closer and closer to becoming a reality
and at this point we may see but we just don't know at this point so we'll have to see later
this year if they actually force apple to do that along with usbc on the bottom and making things
more interoperable interoperable between different platforms and different devices so switching for
me between an iphone and another iphone is super simple but switching between an iphone and an
android phone makes things much more complicated and complex now i do switch full time when i do
reviews of things such as the pixel i'll put my sim card in it and then i'll switch and my wife
just knows what to expect as far as that goes but it is a huge inconvenience for not only my wife
but my entire family including my children now again this could be changed if apple is forced to
open everything up now i've been using android for a very long time since the original public version
with the htc dream so i've been using android on and off for a very long time there's things
i like about it things i don't like about it but i definitely would welcome being able to more easily
switch between different things but whether or not apple should be forced to do that is
a discussion for another time now with all those things i've mentioned i'm not complaining at all
i'm just saying that those are the reasons i'm using ios and iphone and of course if you've
followed me for any amount of time you know that i cover every single update and have for many many
years so i've been doing ios updates all the beta updates and much more but i've also been covering
android updates for quite some time now i don't necessarily cover every single one of them but
it's just something that i'm aware of what both are capable of and both are great devices with
great operating systems so some have advantages over the others so android 13 or one ui might
have an advantage over iphone in some ways and iphone has advantages over android in some ways
so being stuck using any one of these is not really a problem it's just something i
wanted to mention where there's really ecosystem lock-in and maybe that will change in the future
but ios updates of course i make all of those videos and also share tips and tricks and
everything else and it's what i've been doing for years so i don't plan to stop anytime soon
but i'll also carry android with me from time to time also i keep it in my backpack
and this pixel is what i'm currently carrying now every single day along with me so i'm not
really stuck in the sense that i can't get out if i ever want to but it makes it very difficult
with those messaging apps and find my and more that i mentioned already not to mention shared
subscriptions such as apple music which will work on android but other apps as well apple arcade
the app store and all of the apps i've bought for years make it more and more difficult to get out
of using ios but i don't really want to get out of using ios there's things i would change of course
and we'll see ios 16 soon and i think we'll see some good changes with that so with all of those
things i'm not really stuck in the sense that i can't ever get out but i'm stuck in the sense that
it's very hard to change once you're actually using things to their full capacity but let me
know your experience in the comments below are you stuck using ios are you stuck using android
or are you enjoying using either one of them i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like
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the video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time