A magically minimalist Android makeover
Thursday, 10 July 2025 ()
When people ask me about the difference between Android devices and an iPhone these days, my answer is almost shockingly simple: It’s all about choice.
· With an iPhone, you’re committing to using your phone in the way some sweater-vested executives within Apple think you should use it. It’s the Apple ecosystem and the Apple way, through and through. If you like that and that aligns with your own personal phone-using preferences, hey, bravo! It’s a match.
· With an Android device, you can use your phone in basically any way you want to use it. You aren’t locked into any one particular ecosystem of software, accessories, or philosophies — and if there’s any part of the standard experience that doesn’t jibe with your style of gettin’ stuff done, you can change it and make it work exactly how you like.
Now, of course, we can quibble all day over the many minute differences between the two platforms — but ultimately, that mindset mostly sums it all up: If you like the precise way Apple thinks you should use your phone and you don’t mind sticking to that specific prescription, an iPhone will work brilliantly for you. If you crave anything more or different with your mobile device experience (and you don’t mind venturing outside of the carefully constructed Apple bubble and its assorted bits of
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