Do you use Gmail for your email?
Years back when I was looking at trying to get Apple and Google to play nice with one another, the issues were that things like contacts and calendars didn’t play nicely together. Is that largely resolved?
I have 5 Gmail addresses and fastmail running with 4 custom domains and various aliases. The Gmail app has no issues with Gmail (it has a unified inbox of all accounts) and I’m running the fastmail app for fastmail, also no issues.
I moved all my contacts from iCloud to my Google accounts. They still appear on macos and they all appear on android. You can view all contacts from all accounts in one view. It was also allow you to see how many contacts are in each account and you can specify which account is the default contacts account. I’ve had no issues moving across and have all my contacts.
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I’ve been on Gmail for years and have had no issues with mail, calendar, or contacts syncing to all my Apple devices through the native applications. Super easy.
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Everyone has a set of apps they use all the time. Since I don’t use any of your listed ones I have no experience with them on either platform. That is becoming more and more my environment. The apps I use all the time are typically cross platform or niche. Niche are typically not on iOS or inferior there if available and cross platform ones are fine for me.
OTOH I LIKE granular settings. I want to see the details. The flip side is as a developer for Android I am also forced to code in when my app needs specific system settings and permissions and explain how to get to them to enable or disable them.
This conversation has me really questioning remaining on iOS again. As part of a general major system clean-up I’m re-evaluating everything. I have a iPhone 13 and when it finally bites the dust I am pretty sure I’ll take a good long look at Android phones. The cameras were keeping me on iOS but now Android has parity with iOS on the higher end phones. Liquid Glass could be the straw that breaks my back and kicks me out of the Apple ecosystem completely.
I’ll be honest, I’m not sure why you haven’t jumped to Android already…it seems like it’s way more suited to what you like/need. I think cameras on Android phones are on parity if not better than iPhone a lot of the time.
Do you think you’d go Samsung or Pixel (or something else)? I think if I made the jump over I’d prefer more of the Pixel vibe than the extra Samsung stuff (but Samsung makes some really good hardware).
I think Todoist’s design is better on iOS. Widgets too. Functionally widgets are better on Android, but they’re ugly.
1Password I had constant issues with. Most of it was related to the browser’s Autofill. It just would decide to stop prompting me to fill in form fields.
Obsidian also had odd conflicts with the back gesture, and its design wasn’t as seamless with the phone’s UI.
All that to say, if you love Android, then keep on truckin’. I will likely get there one day. 
Maybe it’s time Apple adds real UI theming to their operating systems. This way people who want translucent, hard to read text can have it, people who want clean, readable UIs can have something else and even people who want Star Trek UIs can have that too.
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They can bring back “Hot Dog Stand” from Windows 3.1.
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I see none of this on Android 16. Everything is smooth and polished. 
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Photos and a seamless download using Photosync into a folder structure I can easily import into LightRoom Classic is one reason. I only switched out of Omnifocus for tasks in 2023 and for 2024 and 2025 I was working on AnimalTrakker and had no time to consider further infrastructure changes. Just finishing spinning up another registry with AnimalTrakker and am again at a point I can consider major changes or updates to my systems. I move very slowly when things are working well enough. My shopping app is another reason although it’s dead and no longer supported. I’m thinking of trying to replicate its functions using Claude Code and make it multiplatform. Shortcuts that create custom notes for my biosecurity log that feed directly into Obsidian is another one that would take me a while to change plus I’d need to get official approval again that my logging meets the requirements of the SSAW program to do it. Not ready to stick my toe into that tarbaby right now. Date&Time Calculator is a nifty little utility that I love and depend on and use all the time again no longer supported and no Android version.
Calendar is already now on my own CalDav server and I subscribe to it with Apple Calendar. That one’s easy to change. Contacts is currently undergoing amjor changes as I try to implement the link using BarCuts to make Obsidian my ground truth for contacts and it feeds Apple Contacts only. I’d have to see how I could adapt.
Re devices, not Samsung, probably a Pixel. I’ve seen all the extra trash Samsung installs that is hard/impossible to remove.
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That’s why I’ve gone with Pixel. Samsung’s bloat duplicates everything. Two calendars, contacts, payment, etc. And getting rid of it is no easy task. Pixel is kind of vanilla Android and everything seems to work well.
The other thing is cost. Google always do fairly decent trade ins. For a 512gb Pixel 10 Pro XL + Google Case I paid £886, trading in an iPhone 13 Pro Max that was having issues.
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I’m not sure how we went from the moon and Liquid Glass to Android 
, but coincidentally, I read this article in Apple News this morning. It seems pertinent.
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Apologies! My bad! I’ll 
Read the article, but I think he’s been drinking only the Apple cool aid.
even expensive Android phones can’t match the iPhone’s fit, finish and build quality after all these years.
This is untrue. The Pixel 10 Pro XL I have is every bit as good as an Apple device. And you get way more bang for your buck with Android. Flagship Samsung phones are also known for they quality.
I also disagree with his cost of switching. I’ve been using cross platform apps for about 4 years now. Besides that the cost of an Android device compared to an iPhone means the money you save would probably cover the cost of software needed. It also doesn’t take into account that many people are not cross Apple devices, but cross platform. Very few businesses seem to have all Apple devices by default. It’s just too expensive. Many folks I know have either a Windows or Android device for work.
Then there’s the thorny issue of AI that Apple simply doesn’t offer with anywhere near the feature integration to something like a Pixel.
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No apologies needed, we have all hijacked threads.
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Read the article, but I think he’s been drinking only the Apple cool aid.
There is a reason it is called “Cult” of Mac. 
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Rajesh might agree with you. He did say “I don’t use an iPhone as my primary phone.”
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