I’ll be honest here, in the many, many switches between operating systems from my days as a youth on Windows 95, 98(SE), 2000 and XP though to my years on linux via Fedora 1 through 15 and somewhere between all that the multitude of multiple other operating systems including MacOS which I currently reside upon .. in all that time I was fairly accepting of the fact that when I switch from one OS to another even within the same realm of kernels (fedora -> Debian) the only things I was taking with me was what I had backed up onto a drive.
Cloud storage for a good deal of this time did not exist and most of my backups would have been consolidated on a single massive 120GB drive 🦹 but sure times have changed, the cloud exists but to trust the company making operating system and the migrator away from it is utterly backwards - Apple should be working on the Android -> iOS and vice verse.
My guess for the holdup here is most people store data within iCloud and this afaik is not an option on Android, which puts the focus on Apple allowing some form of migration platform/framework that allows an app/program to talk to iCloud and pull down the data … or just release an iCloud app on android and say job done… I suspect however knowing Apple and its current malicious compliance with EU related requirements this will lead to Apple building out a framework/API for iCloud for this purpose but charge an enormous usage fee to the provider…
I don’t have a point here really other than if they do not add some form of migrator app/platform I will not care, if they build some form of restrictive/expensive API then I am more likely to care despite the fact none of this effects me all that much … I still do things the ye olde way and I’m fine with that.
I just hope Apple and Google understand they are leaders in the tech forefront at the moment and at some stage need to act like they are run by adults not petulant children being forced to eat veggies.
9to5Mac wroteSwitching from one platform to another is never easy, but in some cases, it can be harder than it needs to be. But, in response to the EU’s DMA, Apple has confirmed it is working on a “user-friendly” way to transfer data from an iPhone to an Android device.
As a part of Apple’s “Non-Confidential Summary” of the DMA Compliance Report, the company goes over the changes that will be made to iOS to fit with the EU’s Digital Markets Act. One of those efforts, Apple explains in the document, is to improve user data portability between iOS and “different operating systems.”
source: https://9to5google.com/2024/03/07/apple-iphone-android-data-transfer-improvements/