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    I'm in the converted camp.

    I was on apple for 3 years after my nexus 5 bit the dust and setting up the p2, it really shows how far android has come.

    Google assistant is so far ahead of siri it's maybe a bit unfair to even bring up, here's an example: My wife's name is (I guess) hard for computers to pronounce. With Siri, I would have to go through a dumb amount of steps to correct this just so that car play would allow me to use voice commands to call her instead of remembering some obscure pronunciation. Don't even get me started on friends who's names are in any way considered ethnic.

    Using assistant, the pronunciation was figured out on it's own in what I can only imagine is a ridiculously complicated algorithm, but one that seems simple and intuitive to me, the end user. The future of that AI looks pretty incredible.

    Transferring data from the iphone to the pixel was pretty seamless as well, thought that it would be choppier - I've got gmail, google business and exchange accounts to deal with. Only a couple apps weren't available on android, none of which I care too much about fortunately.

    I can still understand the argument that Apple's ui is cleaner and simpler, but most of that seemingly comes with a lack of choice around what you can do with the phone in the first place.

    To each their own and all that, but overall I'm impressed.

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    • See that's the thing - I can't think of a single time I felt limited by a lack of choice. Lack of choice as in what? Customizing it?mg33
    • I mean it's the last thing on my list here, but in that instance, yeah it's the customization that sets it apart for me - both on the phone and per app.ben_
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