After appx. 20 years in the apple eco-system I have decided to move on.
This will take time, i’m thinking 2-5 years.
My first order of business was a tablet. I couldn’t find a viable european tablet so went for a Samsung Tab S10 Ultra which has worked out great. It won me over from my pre-conception that android is somehow more budget, 2nd tier stuff. Its actually a very solid well-designed/built piece of kit in every way an equal to an iPad.
So i’m looking at Fairphone and Nothing right now for a new phone, i’m not in a hurry, I was supposed to upgrade my 14 Pro this autumn and i’m thinking that is still the time line.
Are there other european alternatives that I should be looking at?
Will air pods and apple watches still work in any sort of way with android? I will eventually replace them but both are still quite new.
Any advice from people who has already done this journey?
Pic ridiculous but related.
Currently typing on a Shiftphone 8, so maybe I can give some answers. First, the developers have stated that they will support the device with security patches at least until 2032. The Shiftphone is not officially released yet, that is correct, but they started sending out devices to early backers of their crowd funding. And being a rather small player, they still have a lot to do to fulfill all the preorders - they got way more preorders than they’ve expected. That’s why there is already an active custom ROM community around this device. Now to my personal experience: I absolutely love the idea behind it and being able to just take the battery out of the phone is (sadly, regarding older days) a game changer. I have to admit: the software feels a little bit like it’s still in beta. Of course, since Shift doesn’t has an armada of software developers as for example Google or Apple has, it’s harder for them to fine tune their drivers etc. Bluetooth has connection issues on my side, I mistype way more on my Shiftphone 8 touchscreen than I do on the Pixel 7a my wife uses and the programmable button on the left side of the device still has no settings menu to change its behavior. You see, the software is still under heavy development. But all that will get better as time goes on.