The iPhone 6s and its Plus version were two popular smartphones released by Apple in 2015. As I spent a month using the iPhone 6s as my daily driver, I got to experience firsthand all of the unique features that Apple had to offer.
One thing I noticed about the camera on the iPhone 6s was that it was mostly a standard experience. I actually didn't find too much that was better or worse about this than plenty of other good Android cameras out there. The reason for this is because when the iPhone 6s camera does pretty well, it does actually quite wonderfully, taking out really detailed and having the right color depth to them. However, lower light situations tend to be just as bad, which I wouldn't say that the iPhone camera is any better than any other good Android cameras.
I did like one aspect of the camera on the iPhone 6s, which was the auto mode being what you see is what you get when it works really well. Then you're good to go. However, I would prefer a manual mode because if the auto mode doesn't get what I want then I can always tweak it in a manual setting. Additionally, there's the fingerprint reader on the iPhone 6s and 6s plus, which honestly, I think that the fingerprint reader on the iPhone 6s and 6s plus happened to be some of the best ones out there. They rival that of the Nexus 6p, and I would put them pretty much at the same place.
One thing I didn't like about the fingerprint reader was that when I used a shortcut it turned the camera shortcut into a useless feature. But overall, the fingerprint reader on the iPhone 6s and 6s plus was something that you could rely upon, which is exactly what I wanted. When I used this as my daily driver, I didn't have to deal with too many problems with the phone, but the main reason for that was because I actually enjoyed cross-platforming.
I made sure that a lot of the applications that I use can be used in Android or iOS, such as Cloud Magic. All I had to do was install Cloud Magic sign into that account and all my emails were synced. However, there is one particular thing that stood out to me when it comes to Google Maps versus Apple - Google Maps is vastly better than Apple, which is just the way it is. It's much more accurate, and also not as hard to navigate because I'm so used to the Google Maps iteration.
But once I came back to Android after using the iPhone 6s for a month, I came to one big realization that when it comes to customization - it takes on two different premises. When it comes to these two ecosystems, in the one case you have the iPhone which on the inside is just icons just splashed around the home screens and it actually felt like a bit of a sterile experience when you turn on the phone you know exactly where the absent icons are going to be half the time. It's really easy to just get into the phone swipe around hit the app and then you're good to go.
Meanwhile, on Android, you can actually cater exactly where you want the apps to be or you can rely on the app drawer, so there's always that little bit extra that you are doing in order to make the experience your own. Not to mention the fact that once I got my Nexus 6p I was able to get into the wallpapers, actually change what lockscreen was on there, change what launcher was on there even and really intensely personalize this particular device to what I wanted. When it comes to Android, I don't really like putting cases onto my phone so customization has to come from within, which is exactly what I do.
Meanwhile, on the iPhone, customization is more of an external experience because you have a lot of cases third-party accessories are really robust and there are so many of them out there for the iPhone that you can actually make your phone look different from other people's on the outside. On the inside it's kind of a really ubiquitous experience and that's kind of what iOS was going for and they did achieve that, but that being said having the actual customization and having my phone be literally mine from the inside and out if I wanted to is really what makes me gravitate to Android.
In conclusion, when I got back to my Android phone after using the iPhone 6s as my daily driver for a month, I got a real good sense of how much I preferred the Android experience. Having the actual customization and having my phone be literally mine from the inside and out if I wanted to is really what makes me gravitate to Android.
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