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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by Linda what's up everyone welcome back to the episode of a Retton Jers riffs I'm realist John wrencher this is the show where I just talk about anything and we're looking super electronic sometimes their rants sometimes their rays sometimes are nonsensical sometimes I'm sitting like eight stories up my high horse but it's always something that's going on in my mind so this whole week and part of last week I've been reviewing the HTC One m8 and prior I have been using an iPhone 5s so I want to sort of share my experience what it's like for someone like you who might be considering picking up you know either the HTC One m8 or the Galaxy s5 or another Android device maybe has been an iOS stalwart some of the harder things that I've encountered and what we can do to possibly mitigate them so let's go ahead and get started so I've had the awesome privilege the past week of checking out this guy the HTC One m8 and prior to that as I proposed I have been reviewing at least for the past probably four months I've been using an iPhone 5s and switching full time to the HTC One m8 I run into some difficulties this isn't an iOS which is an Android type video or what side you're on but a lot of people switch back if we're from the west's so for those of you folks that maybe are using iOS now thinking about going to Android here's some difficulties that I ran into and maybe we can crowdsource some solutions for them the first one is iMessage so a lot of people are still trying to send messages to my phone number via iMessage they weren't using the email address associated with it as well so text messages we're bouncing back which means I didn't get a lot of tech messages which was also kind of nice for the first few days until people realize that I was no longer using iMessage and then it's a little knowing to not be able to use iMessage now obviously there a ton of alternatives I've talked about bbm there's whatsapp and such I would be prepared when you switch to get some lost tech messages along the way people automatically associate your phone number with iMessage and maybe not the email so bear that in mind and along those lines as well if you have an iPad another Apple device at home there's text messages that people think they're sending might actually just get sent to those devices so you might not even get them until you take a look at your iPad so that's kind of a bit of an annoyance so the next issue has to do with photos and iCloud I as I mentioned seem to mention all my videos I got a little kid at home I take a lot of pictures and I loved when I snapped a picture with my iPhone automatically sync to iCloud and I could view it on my iPad and I could do a shared guide and my wife could see it I don't have this you have that same ability on an Android device now there are things like Dropbox which I've been using starts taking my photos up to the cloud um I wish there was a way to sort of get from there over to iCloud or my pictures live on my Mac at home so not really an elegant way to do that I can plug the phone in and I can pull the pictures from there and treat it as a camera but adds an extra step and an extra step and extra step it's not as elegant as it would have been so be prepared for that if you don't use photos a lot then you're not really gonna have to worry Android's got a built-in application that does sync things for you if you want to stay in android you're not gonna have that problem at all just the initial move something to bear in mind they take a quick minute to thank our friends know for all good peeps at lynda.com if you want to just better yourself and learn something new lynda.com offers thousands of engaging easy-to-follow tutorials taught by pros so if you learn software creative and the business skills you need to maybe be a little more successful membership starts just 25 bucks per month and provides unlimited 24/7 access you can learn at your own 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such so directed sync back so I took my iPhone sunk it with Google contacts and I tried to pull from Google contacts down to the Android device and still not all the pictures were there now if you use Facebook or other social media applications you can pull down those pictures and associated with the contacts but this wasn't didn't work as well as it had in the past something that sort of strange did I noticed but overall it's a pretty easy transition to go from iOS Android to go back from Android to iOS but those are the three things I noticed were a little bit more difficult I know people ask me what's the biggest problem about switching iOS or what should I look forward to when I switch or what should I be aware of so I know going into it that's probably be the three thing is obviously there are ton of ways around it and it's not a which one's better which one's worse actually I think both of them are pretty equal when I use iOS Android public equally throughout the year but spare mind if you looking to make a switch I get that question all the time and asked about flow and it's sort of too long an answer to do I'm just one question so I thought Rangers risk the perfect spot to do it thank you guys for watching if you have any solutions for any problems during their problems you run into I'd love to hear I'm leave them in the comments right down below until next time I'm John Wright enger' see you guys next video buh-bye what's up everyone thank you for watching that video if you want to see more the latest and greatest tech news you can subscribe to our main TechnoBuffalo channel by clicking the button right down below in my pants region or click on the buttons to your right to see more videos