[Nexus 6  General] coolpoete:
i have the iphone 7 plus and my older Nexus 6. Honestly I have been going back and forth on both devices and can say that I like them both. For me the best thing about the iphone is that the battery life is better, like much better. I tend to stick with the same apps on both devices and keep notifications similarly. The standby time on it is just a lot better. If the phone is not being used and in standby mode there is no battery drain. From 100% if I take the phone off the charger at 6:30am and don't touch it till 12:00 noon it will maybe drop to 99/98%. No lie. On my Nexus that's not the case. I'm still trying to figure that one out, and therein lies some of the biggest differences between the platforms. Real day use, i'll come home to 65% battery on my Nexus and 80% on the Iphone doing the same things. Not sure if Apple is fudging the numbers but considering the Nexus is older than the Iphone it is what it is I guess. On Android there is much more to "figure out" than IOS. For me that's not a huge deal because I like to tinker and change and have options, and that's why I like Android/Nexus.

I'll admit I'm not that good at all when it comes to flashing and modifying kernels, and maybe that could be at the core of battery life issues but I don't feel like I should really have to do that to get the same or better battery life. I honestly think that no matter what the Android OS is just going to drain on idle no matter what. So I'm trying some things like Greenify and seeing what will happen. Still a work in progress there. I'll figure that out.

The biggest frustration I have with ios is that I like to be able to copy my mp3 files from my PC to my device at various times and like to be able to rely on my own downloaded music rather than cloud music. Sometimes I just can't find what i'm looking for on the various music services. That process of copying and syncing is an absolute NIGHTMARE! Itunes sucks big time when it comes to that. I get syncing errors, I have to turn this off uncheck that... and if you are not paying close enough attention it messes up my Windows PC directory where my files are saved and creates duplicate files. Horrible, horrible, horrible! I know there's dropbox but it just seems a bit cumbersome. Why have a 128gb device that you can't store your own files on. When it works I don't know how I got it to work and I consider myself to be more than a novice. I built my own PC myself. What should take a few minutes on Android to drag and drop from one folder to another can take hours on ios! Just last week I found a 3rd party program that I can drag and drop my mp3's as I wish. Even with that there's a learning curve. It's as if Apple does not want you to have your own, they would rather you pay for Apple Music. If you're willing to do that, great for you, it's smooth sailing.

The best thing to me about owning an Iphone is the resale value. After 2 years the iphone will be worth so much more even as a trade in than any Android device.. well, maybe except a Samsung Galaxy. If I decide to keep the phone long enough and after I finish my payments on Verizon I will still have at least a $300+ device I can trade/upgrade/sell. That will never happen with Android devices.

I say all this to say that if anyone reading is planning to switch just keep in mind you have to approach the 2 phones in 2 different ways. You can't really apply much of any learned behavior from one platform to the next and once you've accepted that you will learn to appreciate both. At the end of the day for me the "fanboy" bashing that people do online is pretty senseless. Both phones have their advantages and disadvantages.