[Galaxy S6 General] nathanaelhorn:
It's over. Android is the poison that you should stay away from

Hi all,

I love this question since it has been one I've been asking myself ever since the Note 7 explosion debacle.

And after giving it a lot of thought I want to share my view with everyone and please be open about what I'm about to share with you.

I've always owned flagship android phones because I love android for its customizability and up until the Samsung Galaxy s6 I always owned flagship HTC's because the build quality and design was far superior of that of Samsung and the hardware difference was always neglectable. Then when Samsung came out with the S6 I switched simply because the HTC flagship contestant got thicker (or not thinner in each case and it was pretty thick compared to the Samsung and Apple phones due to the full metal body) and the hardware specs were just a tick worse than the Samsung GS6's + I wanted the best camera on the market and that was the Samsung GS6 at the time, on top of that, the Samsung Galaxy S6 design was beautiful compared to the previous models.

I made the switch and was happy! But...

Now, still using the phone and goddddddddddd I'm so annoyed by the amount of times that I had to hard reset it, install an "optimized" ROM and the amount of lag I'm experiencing using the Android OS... MEANWHILE my girlfriend, Who I've been with for 5 years and has an iPhone 5s for a bit more than 3 years and ONLY ever owned Apple products, doesn't have ANY problems with her Apple products...

She is still using a 2008 Macbook Pro which works smoother than my HP Spectre X360 which is not more than a year old...

Her Macbook battery and iPhone battery last longer than my Windows laptop and Android Galaxy S6 ... So finally it kicked in that it's not the phone but the operating system that ducks everything up... And frankly while I'm ranting on about anything that's not Apple, my HP Spectre X360 (also flagship model Laptop, top specs) is feeling crappier than my girlfriends 2008 Macbook Pro...

So living with an Apple user for 5 years I finally caved to the convenience of Apple products which don't have the frickin' problems I have with Windows or Android and who's products just work so much better than any flagship that will ever come out for Android or Windows simply because these companies are not able, professional or dedicated enough to make their OS as optimized and smooth as Apple has with their OS + Hardware and the problem is that even if they try, which I'm sure they do, there are too many different devices with different hardware that there'll never be something as optimized as an apple product coming from an android/windows using phone/laptop manufacturer.

Now to answer your question, I will not switch to the Samsung Galaxy S8 simply because I know that within a year, I will again experience lagging, a bad phone battery and I'll never be able to get the great synchronization that Apple has with its products... (Partly also cause I live in China and google services are blocked here).

Instead, I will slowly switch EVERY product I have to an Apple product. Starting with my phone when the iPhone 8 comes out.

. Once I have the iPhone 8 I'll wait until I'm either super sick and tired of my HP Spectre x360 or if I have enough money to easily afford the next Macbook pro model once it comes out.

And for my desktop which I built myself... that'll also get replaced eventually... Don't know by what yet, but certainly by something from Apple...

I'm tired of fixing issues on Windows products, and let's all be honest... they are plentiful and appear for no ducking good reason....

Cheers, and if you feel the same way, please let me know! I'd love to see if anyone here finally got to the same realization and feels the same way.