“Apple has made no secret of wanting to convert as many Android users as possible over to the iOS platform,” Jim Lynch reports for CIO. “Toward that end, the company has released an Android app called Move to iOS that is designed to make it easy for Android users to switch to iOS.”
“I have to give Apple credit for doing this, it’s a rather bold gesture,” Lynch reports. “But it’s also a good thing for the Android users who really are considering a move over to iOS. Apple has gone out of its way to make it easy for Android users to switch to the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.”
Lynch reports, “In the Move to iOS app for Android, Apple has made it easy to transfer the following things: Contacts, message history, camera photos and videos, Web bookmarks, mail accounts, [and] calendars.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Hopefully Apple’s ‘Move to iOS’ app will prove to be very helpful to the legions who are dumping their fake iPhones and pretend iPads for the real things!
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Forgive me a loud & cruel Snidley Whiplash chuckle aimed square at Google, Android & Scamdung. Welcome all switchers to your more luxurious, stable, ecotastic & advanced mobile digs!
This was my idea during iOS 6 or 7 days after converting a bunch of Android users to iPhone and needing to transfer stuff. About time! Hopefully it works well!!
Waiting for the “Move to watchOS 2” app to, um, ship.
And this is why I won’t buy iOS devices. If the shoe were on the other foot, would Apple have approved the App?
applecynic, you ask: “If the shoe were on the other foot…”
Except Android itself is a total rip-off of iOS. It was basically the “Android-instead-of-iOS” program. Apple owes Google nothing; Google has already ripped Apple off. So please stop your “holier-than-thou” attitude and “shoe on the other foot” bullshit. Google’s Android is a total rip-off.
Besides, Google is giving Android away free, right? So no one is being hurt.
For those who want to switch from Android, which is well know to be a superficial rip-off of iOS …but lacking any of the security protections, I say: POWER TO YOU!
Right away, your partisan thinking makes you think I’m defending Google. I’m not. In fact, though you would have no way of knowing this, I believe Google search should be treated as a public utility and regulated as such. If anything, I’m an anti-partisan.
I treat Apple with the same contempt that I would any censor, and any IT department that restricts me. At work, it’s okay, they own the device, if I purchased an iPad, I would.
Sorry, I just don’t see it. You say: “Right away, _MY_ partisan thinking…??? Excuuse me? The shoe is certainly on the wrong foot here..
No, you are not defending Google: you are impugning Apple. And doing so without cause. You are putting Apple down because you think Apple would not approve a “switch from iPhone to Android” app. My point was simply that Google has had a huge “switch buyers from iPhone to Android” program for years now. And, in my view, Apple owes Google nothing. Did you worry about the whole “shoe on the other foot” thing when Google ripped off iOS in the first place? Didn’t think so.
My position has nothing to do with partisanship. It has to do with respecting Intellectual Property and appreciating honest competition.
If I misconstrued you, I apologize. I’m bashing Apple on their merits, not on behalf of anyone.
You say Android is a “stolen product”. They’re all stolen products, or at least “competitively inspired”.
Still, if I were to see things entirely your way on the matter, these big boys can defend themselves, they don’t need me (or you) to do it. So in my case, I’m presented a choice between a thief, and a censor. Since I would be the owner of an iOS device, to me, the lessor evil is the thief, over the censor. That’s what impacts me directly.
You do know that you can’t have an App on the Apple Store that lampoons Donald Trump, for instance. Since there’s no other store, this is censorship. And that’s the mildest example I can come up with… DO you think I can get an App in that promotes the virtues of Android on the App Store? I know why from Apple’s point of view, but that serves Apple’s interests.
I have no problem with standards of decency, civil discourse, and fair competition. If people think this constitutes censorship, they are simply wrong.
There are plenty of places people can go to lampoon Trump or anyone else, for that matter, or to rant about any issue that irks them. Why would anyone expect that Apple must accept such lame-brained stuff on their commercial app store? …in the so-called interest of freedom of speech?
Sorry, Apple has no obligation to debauch its own enterprise in the interests of patriots, civil libertarians, anarchists, …or Google Aandroid fans.
Because after Apple sells the device it’s no longer theirs. Thus they have no inate right, post-sale as to their opinions over me.
Actually, if you bother to read the software license, you do NOT own any of the operating system. Hence, Apple can choose what you can and cannot execute within that OS.
It is the standard boilerplate invented, or at least popularized, by Bill Gates. If you don’t like the limitations, return the device and choose a different one, but I bet Samsung, LG, etc., have that same license clause. I know Microsoft does.
You see me rooting for MS? They don’t censor though…
Last year, Apple started providing instructions as well as a service to help iPhone users who had switched to Android and were having trouble receiving SMS or text messages from iPhone users. So NO. Apple are not being dicks to people switching away from iPhone.
Apple’s new tool fixes that missing iMessage problem for Android converts
Deregister and Turn Off iMessage – Apple Support
You also know very well, that they had to. First off, it wa stheir bug that usurped user’s SMS capabilities in the implementation of iMessage, and it was their mistake the service had to be deregistered before switching phones.
There was also a looming class action, and I believe governmental inquiry into the matter.
Just recently we’ve had “confederate flag” controversies with Apps. Breasts have always been an issue, as well as competing products that “duplicate functionality”.
I may remind you that Apple banned all Wiley publications (briefly)because of a book they published that pissed off Jobs. These are all okay, as long as other stores are available. They aren’t. This is censorship.
From your writings I envision you as a democratically, liberal mined person. I’m surprised at your zealous support of a censor.
You pull this ‘I know how and what you think’ leaps of stupidity quite a lot. You make a few equally bizarre assumptions in your diatribe above. Have fun with that.
I’d be happy to discuss what, if any, of the above are actual Apple problems. But I’ve never had the sense you’re worthy of the effort. You just like to find stuff to bitch about.
And here I thought I was being gracious and complimentary…
As far as stupidity goes, when you realize that electromagnetic radiation IS light, then you can comment on my stupidity. 🙂
Wrong again. Light = electronmagnetic radiation. NOT the opposite. Light is only the human visible portion of the electromagnetic energy scale, as stated in every dictionary in existence.
Are you and kent sharing drugs today? If you think you were being ‘gracious and complimentary’, as I stated to kent: Come back tomorrow after the drugs wear off.
Surreal morning around here.
And electromagnetic radiation = light!
By the way, equations work in both directions. All EM is light, the qualification “visible” is arbitrary from person to person and species to species. The Compton X-Ray observatory actually “sees” X-Rays. SOme birds see UV, some snakes see IR. Color blinded people don’t fully see red/green.
Would you say a red/green color blinded person doesn’t see the light?
Only on mescaline.
I’m done trying to educate a fool.
Are we playing ‘Who gets the last word?’ Or are you attempting to measure the number of education degrees I have versus you? It doesn’t really matter.
I WIN! 😛
Oh, the credential card. Surely you know science doesn’t rest on credentials, it rests on the scientific method.. Now put that card back in your pants!
D I C T I O N A R Y – I told you to read it. There never was an argument about the meaning of ‘light’.
Allow be to give you the correct answer more precisely: light is the visible subset of frequencies within the electromagnetic spectrum. Therefore, they are not equivalent since some frequencies are not visible to the human eye. Fool.
It is arbitrary, and varies from individual to individual. In a few eons, when humanity has evolved to see into the ultraviolet, we will be re-defining visible light, but not light itself. Argue all you want, but until you can give a true species independent physical basis (you won’t), you’re wrong. Vision is but one means of detection.
I prefer to learn my science from scientific literature, not dictionaries. Next time you decide to call someone stupid, do a gut heck first.
Thus the conclusion: Hopeless applecynic. You are stupid. Go back through this lovely flame exchange and notice. In fact, you’re willfully stupid. There is nothing worse. You don’t have to be that way! You CHOOSE to be that way.
Thus ends me end of this endless exchange.
“And this is why I won’t buy iOS devices.”
Yeah right, that’s why. It’s not that you’re just a troll who’s here to rag on Apple. I believe you, I really do.
See my responses above.
Perhaps they would, perhaps they wouldn’t. This is one reason why I prefer iOS. The store is carefully screened for bad software. I am protected and I don’t have to worry. The flipside is that every once in a while you have an app that could potentially be useful, but that Apple, for some reason, feels is unacceptable. I can live with that. Some others, perhaps not.
In all fairness, Google’s actions with android give Apple every right to reject a iOS to android app.
And I have zero problem with your preference on where to shop. I also have zero problem with Apple carrying whatever they desire in their store. Where I do have a HUGE problem is with Apple locking out competing stores.
I’m not saying I’m thrilled about it, but it would take a whole lot more than that to get me to move away from the Apple eco-system (iOS / Mac OS / iCloud).
Even I have a six core Mac Pro (would have preferred a tower). What I say is “iOS only”.
Probably this falls also into Tim Cook’s chat yesterday on ‘Charity’ and ‘seeing others in pain makes me want to act’.
🙂
Naturally, thousands of bitter Fandroids have given it a 1-star rating on Google Play
It will be very gratifying to monitor the popularity of this app on the google play store. By design and function, this is the last app an android user will ever download. Download numbers for It will give us a pretty good indication how many people are switching.
I’m sure the eating and the reviews will mostly be abysmal (there’s nothing worse than a rabid fandroid), but majority of migrants will likely find it and use it. Once on iOS, they’ll never bother to go to play store to leave a review.
Imagine if this app ends up on the top ten most popular on android…
That would be hysterically funny!
Funny to still see iHaters or clueless people perpetuate the wrong things about Apple stuff. They hate Apple for all the wrong reasons.