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Owning an iPhone and embracing the Apple ecosystem for messaging, photo sharing, health data and apps can seem like fun, but the moment you try to break free of it and make a shift to Android you discover that you've been lured into a walled garden. And the walls are pretty high.
Digital ecosystems are strange things in that you don't really start to feel the boundaries until you're already walled in, and by then it's usually too late -- or at least close to being too late -- to do much about it.
This is exactly how I feel about the iPhone ecosystem, and the broader Apple ecosystem. After many years of voluntarily embracing the ecosystem that Apple offered, I now feel trapped by it, and feel that the only reason I'm staying in it is because I'm being held hostage.
But I am planning my escape.
I probably need to explain the hostage thing a bit more. No, Tim Cook isn't over at the PC Doc HQ holding a lime green water pistol emoji to my head. But he is menacingly waving that cheery-looking squirt gun at my data and communications.
Fortunately, breaking free of iOS, and the wider Apple ecosystem isn't impossible. I can't guarantee that you can get everything you put into the ecosystem out of it -- I'll come right out upfront and say that health data is one aspect, but would you want that to be easily migrated around? -- but for most people making the switch from iOS to Android won't be all that hard.
And if you plan ahead of time for a possible future transition, you'll make the switch much easier if you choose to do so down the line.
Caption by: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
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