Y'all remember how I said I recently found my camera? Here's a picture I found on it from 2016 of my phone at the time.
Notice how it's an iPhone? Yeah, so I've been an "avid" Apple customer since around the early 2010s, well from my childhood, through my teen years and into my early adulthood (yes, it's been that long already. How am I an adult??). But recently I was faced with a question I've been asking myself a lot lately.
Well, there are a lot of pros and cons to it, but here were my thoughts.
I've used Apple as my main device since about 2012/2013ish. I'm not the biggest Apple fan, but I don't hate it. It gets the job done, it's just what I've used since forever. I'm used to the layout, the functions, etc, etc. But as of late- and I believe I covered this briefly in my first, if not my second blog post- I've been slowly trying to distance myself from my usual tech, or at least the way I consume/use my tech. It's still pretty frequent of course, and I don't expect to ever just go cold turkey and cut myself off from tech entirely. It's an incredibly important part of my daily life and work, so I don't think I really would want to anyway. But I have been exploring the idea of different kinds of tech I'm interested in using more, as well as different brands.
Now, for context, my family used to be pretty heavy with Apple (My family all work with tech both for work and hobby, so we're avid tech users) until about sometime in my teen years when they began swapping over to other brands out of frustration with Apple (Fair enough). I've always had my personal gripes with Apple, but I had a lot that I felt kept me tied to it that I didn't really want to give up just yet.
Luckily, however, at my big (not really) age of 22, I've come to the realization that I'm itching for change. So, I've been going over the pros and cons of graduating from Apple and transferring over to something else. There's a lot I'm still not ready to give up yet (notably apps, social media, and quick contact), so I don't think I'll be taking up anything too simple quite just yet (such as a very basic flip/slide or dumbphone), but I do really love older tech or anything outside the norm with technology in this current day and age.
I'd been eyeing flip phones for a while, particularly those really fancypantsy ones that run on android and still have touch screen should you need it, but I didn't think I was quite ready to jump to that yet, so I considered my options.
On a whim on some random work day, I ended up going in and exchanging my iPhone 13. Initially, I was just going to upgrade to a 14 and decide later what kind of phone I'd like to swap to, but then I decided that if I didn't change now, who knows if I'd be ready next time. I could easily just put it off for the next time after that. And then again, and then again. And since I felt ready, I figured to do it now.
There were some more modern phones I figured to check out, like the Galaxy flip I'd seen quite frequently these days. They were very reminiscent of older tech for me and I loved the experimental style of combining touch screen with flip devices. It felt refreshing and new and interesting and fun.
However, where I went didn't have that, so I walked around to browse what they had, and lo and behold, they had the Motorola Razr. I decided to fiddle with it a little, check out its capabilities, and honestly? I felt comfortable with the idea of trying it out and seeing how I liked it, so I said fuck it. Let's do this shit now.
Do I still want an Apple iPhone?
Well, there are a lot of pros and cons to it, but here were my thoughts.
I've used Apple as my main device since about 2012/2013ish. I'm not the biggest Apple fan, but I don't hate it. It gets the job done, it's just what I've used since forever. I'm used to the layout, the functions, etc, etc. But as of late- and I believe I covered this briefly in my first, if not my second blog post- I've been slowly trying to distance myself from my usual tech, or at least the way I consume/use my tech. It's still pretty frequent of course, and I don't expect to ever just go cold turkey and cut myself off from tech entirely. It's an incredibly important part of my daily life and work, so I don't think I really would want to anyway. But I have been exploring the idea of different kinds of tech I'm interested in using more, as well as different brands.
Now, for context, my family used to be pretty heavy with Apple (My family all work with tech both for work and hobby, so we're avid tech users) until about sometime in my teen years when they began swapping over to other brands out of frustration with Apple (Fair enough). I've always had my personal gripes with Apple, but I had a lot that I felt kept me tied to it that I didn't really want to give up just yet.
Luckily, however, at my big (not really) age of 22, I've come to the realization that I'm itching for change. So, I've been going over the pros and cons of graduating from Apple and transferring over to something else. There's a lot I'm still not ready to give up yet (notably apps, social media, and quick contact), so I don't think I'll be taking up anything too simple quite just yet (such as a very basic flip/slide or dumbphone), but I do really love older tech or anything outside the norm with technology in this current day and age.
I'd been eyeing flip phones for a while, particularly those really fancypantsy ones that run on android and still have touch screen should you need it, but I didn't think I was quite ready to jump to that yet, so I considered my options.
On a whim on some random work day, I ended up going in and exchanging my iPhone 13. Initially, I was just going to upgrade to a 14 and decide later what kind of phone I'd like to swap to, but then I decided that if I didn't change now, who knows if I'd be ready next time. I could easily just put it off for the next time after that. And then again, and then again. And since I felt ready, I figured to do it now.
There were some more modern phones I figured to check out, like the Galaxy flip I'd seen quite frequently these days. They were very reminiscent of older tech for me and I loved the experimental style of combining touch screen with flip devices. It felt refreshing and new and interesting and fun.
However, where I went didn't have that, so I walked around to browse what they had, and lo and behold, they had the Motorola Razr. I decided to fiddle with it a little, check out its capabilities, and honestly? I felt comfortable with the idea of trying it out and seeing how I liked it, so I said fuck it. Let's do this shit now.
When I tell you my family was more excited about this than I was, it's a complete understatement. I didn't get my phone back until about 10PM and I left the store at around 8. They were all so excited to fiddle with it and see its capabilities, to explore its fun design, etc. It was honestly really entertaining seeing them be so excited about it, on top of the fact they were all pretty surprised I decided to swap from Apple in the first place.
But I've had the phone for about 4 days now Hi future Robo updating this, it's been a week actually and I've gotta say, I'm LOVING my new phone. I have some gripes of course, but I'm having a lot of fun with it. I'm still finding out cool new features and customizability options with this phone that are super exciting, and even photography and filming on my phone has been so fun.
Today I even went out to get some donuts (Happy national donut day to my donut likers out there), had my headphones plugged in, and was told I wear my phone like a Walkman. Absolutely hilarious comparison, thank you. LOL.
Today I even went out to get some donuts (Happy national donut day to my donut likers out there), had my headphones plugged in, and was told I wear my phone like a Walkman. Absolutely hilarious comparison, thank you. LOL.
Anywho, I'm having a good time with my new phone and with experimenting with all these new features that I've never had before and it's very fun. What with Apple releasing their new glassmorphic UI (Will make an entirely separate post about this), it's tempting to miss the familiarity of Apple, but I find I'm on my phone a little less now and I think that's been a nice experience for a change. I also just really enjoy the breath of fresh air that is trying something new and actually really enjoying it. I'm proud of myself for stepping out of my comfort zone!
UPDATE AGAIN: I didn't post this until now for some reason, not sure if I was going to add more to this post or not. Oh well. If I need to share more stuff, I'll make another post lol!
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