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[โ€“] MurrayL@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Nice to have the option I guess, but Iโ€™ve yet to encounter a platform migration tool that didnโ€™t make a complete mess of something, not to mention the fact they transfer however many years of cruft along with everything else.

Itโ€™s like moving house and bringing all the dust with you.

I find itโ€™s far easier to just have a clean slate and manually transfer data that matters.

[โ€“] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, this is the sort of thing hhat gives me more confidence in a product nowadays. If I'm not stuck with a product, and moving away is really easy, there's less incentive for entshitification.

Sadly, with only 2 realistic players in the game, this barely makes a difference.

[โ€“] naeap@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago

I Just pre-ordered the new Sailfish OS phone from Jolla - which is pretty much just Linux

Hopefully that (and some others) will bring some diversity...

[โ€“] maam@feddit.uk 15 points 14 hours ago

Last week, the European Commission said that Apple and Google designed and implemented the new transfer system to comply with the Digital Markets Act in the European Union, but it is not a Europe-only feature. The new setting is available worldwide in the iOS 26.3 beta, and it can be found under Settings > General > Transfer or Reset โ€ŒiPhoneโ€Œ > Transfer to Android.

[โ€“] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Nice to know if I ever come back to ~~Apple bis in the making~~ Android