If Apple made iOS more customizable (i.e. replacing launchers etc) I wouldn't see a reason to keep with Android. I certainly don't see any reason to replace my Pixel with another Pixel at this point (been fiercely loyal to the Nexus/Pixel line since Nexus S).

Hostility is hostility, and when limited to choosing among devices that are a pain in my ass, Pixel no longer has any advantage. Google is converting Pixel into leverage for the rest of their products. Bye.

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lawn a day ago | parent [-]

Why would you move to Apple when you're upset that Google is copying what Apple has done for many years?

And even after that, the Apple ecosystem is even more closed down than Android.

	▲	const_cast a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Because the android ecosystem and android devices like the Pixel have a lot of disadvantages - we just look past them because of the customizability and openness-ish of android. Of android just becomes iOS but worse, then just use iOS. Currently android is iOS but different. But for many years now it seems Google has been shooting for iOS but worse.
	▲	fluidcruft a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Because using Android is always extra friction in my life. I have tolerated it because of the ideals of Pixel and Android (which Google has slowly and deliberately evaporated). Also Apple does a better job at standing up to government bullshit (where Google tends to stay suspiciously silent). So when they are on equal ideological footing, Apple as a consumer product company wins against the Google surveillance apparatus. Basically: Apple is a better Apple if Google wants to turn itself into even more of a pathetic Apple wannabe.