# I'm a Mac user who feels like she's done with the iPhone **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 9, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-mac-user-who-feels-like-shes-done-with-the-iphone/670782 "2013-10-09T16:29:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-mac-user-who-feels-like-shes-done-with-the-iphone/670782/41 "2013-10-10T21:39:47Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I don’t even have a music library anymore. I have about 30 misc. songs on my phone I collected for one reason or another, but don’t listen to them. And a few boxes of CDs somewhere in my house. I also use Pandora when i want to listen to music. Surprisingly, I’m really losing my interest in music as I age. It all seems so meaningless…maybe I’m depressed. You need a new drug. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-mac-user-who-feels-like-shes-done-with-the-iphone/670782/42 "2013-10-11T01:24:42Z")
> [@Polerius](#): > > I have a 4S and I am simply not upgrading to iOS 7. > > At some point some apps will stop working, but I will deal with that when it occurs, and hopefully by then iOS will mature a bit more and I can upgrade. I wish I’d done that. I hate the new iOS. It’s insipid, slow and I really wish I’d stayed with 6. I feel as if I’m locked in to Apple, though because I really like the way everything is shared automatically between devices (iPhone, iPad and MBP). Fingers crossed they’ll learn something from this abomination and the next upgrade will be better. ---
**Author:** ![Translucent\_Daydream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/translucent_daydream/32/16170_2.png) [@Translucent\_Daydream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Translucent_Daydream)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-mac-user-who-feels-like-shes-done-with-the-iphone/670782/43 "2013-10-11T02:17:44Z")
> [@ticker](#): > > When you plug an android phone into your computer it appears much like a USB flash drive. You can copy files, pictures, songs etc. directly between folders on your computer and folders on phone. If you are happy interacting with it this way rather than iTunes then no problem. SOME do. To get my new Galaxy S3 to act like a USB flash drive and not some sort of weird media sync device, I had to go onto the internet to figure out the process. I had to turn on developer options and fiddle a bit around in there to get the feature enabled. My older android phone didn’t have this issue, although its not really a big issue, just wanted you to be aware of it in case you were expecting it to just work. Battery life on my new android phone sucks without turning all of the stuff off and killing apps all the time, but I think that is just a lack of really great battery technology. Maybe in five or ten years it won’t be an issue. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-mac-user-who-feels-like-shes-done-with-the-iphone/670782/44 "2013-10-11T02:30:23Z")
> [@Translucent\_Daydream](#): > > SOME do. To get my new Galaxy S3 to act like a USB flash drive and not some sort of weird media sync device, I had to go onto the internet to figure out the process. I had to turn on developer options and fiddle a bit around in there to get the feature enabled. > > My older android phone didn’t have this issue, although its not really a big issue, just wanted you to be aware of it in case you were expecting it to just work. That is strange. We didn’t have to do anything in order to transfer files from and to my wife’s S3, other than plugging in the USB cable. The icon popped up automatically on her computer, like any other removable drive. > [@Translucent\_Daydream](#): > > Battery life on my new android phone sucks without turning all of the stuff off and killing apps all the time, but I think that is just a lack of really great battery technology. Maybe in five or ten years it won’t be an issue. My wife has a routine of recharging her phone right before bed; it still has some juice left by the end of the following day. Battery life has never been an issue for her, but then she has an extra battery that she swaps in on days of extended use. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-mac-user-who-feels-like-shes-done-with-the-iphone/670782/45 "2013-10-11T04:04:17Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > I hate the new iOS. It’s insipid, slow and I really wish I’d stayed with 6. . . . You can, however, "control your device [**by moving your head."**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/09/ios-7-features_n_4059355.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular) ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-mac-user-who-feels-like-shes-done-with-the-iphone/670782/46 "2013-10-11T04:28:26Z")
Being over the 2 yr mark with my iPhone i decided to jailbreak it instead of upgrade the OS.Very glad did. It just works the way I need it to, instead of the way Apple thinks I should need it to. But after this I don’t know if I can go back to iPhones as I learned that I like things how I like them, not how someone tells me I like them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-mac-user-who-feels-like-shes-done-with-the-iphone/670782.md?page=2)