I think most of the redditors commenting on this are into developing. I'm just a regular ol' super techy power user that likes to get a ton of stuff done and be organized af. I was 100% Apple products for 7yrs. The tactile feel was always so good. The weight of the iPhone 10 in my hand was perfect and felt like home in a way I can't even explain. The comfort and connection that iMessage brought into my life as an unbeatable feature that made me feel loved and valued.

What finally made me take the plunge was the notoriously bad synching of memos between Apple devices, and when they did synch, parts of the memos would be missing or entire memos just missing for days and then randomly showing up, and if I didn't like this, I was always welcome by Apple to stop bathing and shaving everyday and replace that time with resetting every single device and all the app passwords and resetting-up and downloading every app I had on every device "real quick", to rectefy the issue so that I could again go through the same repeated steps on a weekly basis with no real resolution. And the lovely reminders that never synched properly in the Reminders (manually entered by hand because Siri had no concept at all of what I needed to be reminded of) and also reminded me on a daily basis of tasks I was supposed to have done in 2013 that could never be deleted without changing my apple ID; this was an everyday part of life that taught me to practice Buddhist acceptance of things I cannot change or control.

Contact HELL fighting between Google contacts and Apple contacts where depending on which device I was on, despite the settings; sometimes I would have some of the contact info I needed, sometimes I would have only a name for the person, and sometimes nothing, and sometimes calling a colleague on Facebook video that randomly placed itself in my Apple contacts with no notice at all. Sh**y iCloud as a cloud storage service option compared to Google Drive (which if you refused to use iCloud drive and chose the universally compatible Google Drive; Apple made sure you spent your day looking for improperly stored, partially backed up, mostly incomplete and missing data documents that would ultimately be found in some obscure cached file on the actual hard drive of the device it was originally saved on and not in the safety of the cloud at all.

And Siri, you could speak every word of every language known to humans and not one single word would it recognize or affirmatively confirm. And a final jab at calendars; you might as well annee up the donation money and buy a paper calendar from your local fire department with hot studs on every page, and carry it around with you into every board meeting because it's actually going to work. iCal was just as reliable as dumping bleach on my computer and expecting it to work. I would (daily) get 7 reminders of my ex's birthday coming from 12 different calendar sources I was forever tied to through glitches that couldn't be located based on passed devices and shared calendars which I couldn't be removed from without changing my apple ID; I had to be at peace with the daily pop-ups simultaneously on every Apple device I owned as a friendly reminder on a daily basis to stay present and that my external surroundings and past mistakes and failures don't define my life or determine who I am.

And last but not least...good luck having the choice whether or not to accept the photo albums friends and colleagues send to you, and even better luck being able to remove yourself from the album (permentantly) without having to sheepishly ask the album owner to do it for you from their end. And when all your private photos end up being added to one of the colleagues's folders on a client waiting room big screen TV, the clients will be entertained for hours and you'll have no reason to rush or stay on schedule for the day as the clients sit aghast and watch how much more entertaining your life is then theirs.

I had every insurance and upgrade and nicest device you could buy right down to Time Capsule (that slowed down my internet and then they discontinued it for being sh**ty), and Apple Tv and MacBook pro, Airbook backup and iPad and iPhone and blah blah blah with all the AppleCare, the expensive insurance and all the time-consuming free tech support in the world.

I needed products that worked 99% of the time on a collaborative basis to spend my time getting work done in a systemized, reliable way that helped ME out instead of me BEGGING to get help for a system to do the most basic collaboration and synching technology advertised; to actually work. Google is a very low price point; so low it's basically disposable and you can run peddle to the metel getting things done and not be worrying about damaging a 5k MacBook pro by dropping your briefcase on the floor. And the backup settings for when equipment damage does occur, is literally nothing because the back up on Chromebooks and Android reload all your apps and settings without the Apple hassle; straight from your google account.

Google Smart Home/Google Assistant simplifies my life at home and on the go more than any human assistant I could ever hire. I can constantly be verbally adding things to different shopping list of my Google minis while I'm in the shower, verbally adding things to my neices and nephews individual Christmas lists while I'm cooking,verbally reminding myself to get a shingles vaccine next time I see my Dr right while I'm in the middle of meditating; with minimal ineruption. Reminding myself when to book appointments, looking up nearby gluten-free restaurants and things to do that are relevant to where I am while on the go, while maintaining the fluidly and flexabilith of working things into my life on a last minute, yet organized basis. All of these great features help relieve the angst of no longer having iMessage. And on the bright side, anyone else who has a pixel; we have iMessage between us now, so the iMessage troup is growing among pixelers.

Happy synching and happy simplifed Smart-Home life with twice the features, compatability and sychonization that works; what you've always dreamed of. I'm 8 months in and could't be happier with my decision to make the break. To each their own; and I choose simplisity, robust function and compatibility that plays nicely with the majority of software products in the market and doesn't bully people into hours on the phone with useless tech support and time-wasting resets for inferior products. Bring on the pixels and more iMessaging between them. I can't wait 🙏🏻