“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.”
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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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