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what's up guys and drivers here my nume better is the squash man internet celebrity chef pancake wall ninja I've used a knife on my whole life another may have set some of you guys so I'm gonna give Android shock for a week let's see how it goes so you probably have a team you for and that's because I typically work behind the scenes here at TechnoBuffalo directing editing and shooting content for the channel so why would I switch is an iPhone user to Android well the story goes back quite some time alone the guys in office one me switch for a while and that's because every time I've had the shoot funeral with an Android phone I have no idea what the hell I'm doing no idea how to get around the interface use any of the features I don't even know what any of the pictures were they eventually got fed up they took my iPhone they locked it out John gave me a Nexus 6p made me use it for a week how'd it go let's just say I'm kicking back now I got my Angel City IPA just poured it inside of my medieval times a mug classic drinking companion let's go ahead and talk about what happened so with computers I'm a lot more flexible from my own personal work I use a Windows PC when I'm on the go I use a MacBook Air at work I'm generally editing on iMac so I've operated in both Windows and Mac ecosystems for those well the phones I've only used iOS I've never really tried out Android so switching to a new mobile OS was very difficult but then again it opened my eyes to a lot of new things the first big adjustment was the fact that there was no physical home button not having the ability just to pick up my phone and know immediately where the home button was is very weird it threw me off after a little bit I got used to it and I will say that actually kind of liked the way that the multitasking button was its own dedicated feature there so the first few days we're definitely the hardest and that's because I've had my iPhone configure the same way or at least I've managed configure it the way it is now over the course of six or seven years so all of my passwords all my apps that I typically use all of them have all the presets that have been saved in there on iOS since the beginning of time and going to Android I had to download everything again I had to enter all my passwords in which by the way didn't know any of end of being this huge undertaking that really pissed me off and I think that was the biggest takeaway that came from switching to androids that having my iPhone maybe really stuck in my ways in one day alone I've nearly lost my mind trying to get this to work I was over at Starbucks and I was trying to open up my account information I couldn't do that and I ended up holding up the line for about 15 minutes I'd ended up going to a football game with my buddies and of course we had to get our drink on a lot of refreshments and I was trying to venmo them and I couldn't do that because I could remember that password it is just that going on and on and on I had no idea how to get access to my typical apps so that was a huge frustration I also missed the convenience of touch ID for some of my usual apps like Bank and this is the stuff that really made the transition to a new OS especially frustrating not being able to use the functionality of my phone the same way that I'm accustomed to on an iPhone my halfway through the week I started to feel more comfortable things were getting easier and as I was using apps I found that really the app experience is really not that much different than what I have on iOS pulling up Yelp for restaurant reviews essentially the same all my social media apps work more or less the same snapchat still sucks on Android probably one of my favorite features was all the customization options that are available to you on Android and that's something that I've really liked that you can set default apps I wanted that on iOS for a very long time I tried to do it more or less by using I use outlook from my email and so I've set my default browser to Chrome for that but you're very limited and what you can do whereas Android gave you flexibility to set anything and everything specific to your needs which is something new to me as an iPhone user I play with them a little but I found that they ended up making my homescreen feel a little too cluttered but I like the fact that customization is there that you have those options as opposed to the standard grid layout of iOS it kind of reminds me of how it is on a PC where you can arrange your desktop icons in a way that makes sense to you and it's convenient so probably my most frequently used favorite feature on Android was Google now and I guess I went through my Gmail and parse all this information it found out when I had packages arriving at the office told me where I parked my car gave me news recommendations specific the certain topics and I'm interested in like tech and naming and these are all features that I guess I have on iOS I mean I have Apple news I also use automatic with my iPhone so that tells me where I park my car but I like the fact that just swiping left it was all available in a convenient easy to read newsfeed that seem way more accessible and made a lot more sense to me that does on App where I'm having to jump between apps so it just seemed to work better and also that was pretty cool they gave me recommendations for relevant news so when the Olympics was happening after opting Anna gave me updates on all the medal counts for different countries events and so on so that was really neat I like that I did miss iMessage and actually had friends over getting mad at me because my text messages were being received as green instead of blue and I never really used FaceTime during the week that I was switching to Android but I've been hearing like good things about duo as a potential fix for that so if I were using Android for a longer period of time I put I try that out well in all I'd say like despite the difficulty adjusting it was really cool to see what Android had to offer and it wasn't an easy week by any means I had a really hard time getting up to speed and it was extremely frustrating there are many times where I thought was gonna phone out my car window but it's cool to see what features I've wanted on iOS on another mobile operating system and I think that's probably the best thing that come out of this experience is that it opened my eyes to what the other side is like in a lot of ways it's it's better than iOS I think both ecosystems have their strengths and weaknesses but like the customization options that you got with Android and those seem to be very powerful and that's what's got me intrigued so it's really not out of the realm of possibly that I might be revisiting Android for an extended period of time to actually try out those features see what it's like to use the phone and long-term situation and who knows maybe I'll end up switching permanently any other iOS to Android converts out there what was your experience like leave a comment down below thanks for bearing with me through my first video I hope you guys liked it give it thumbs up and I'll see you next time