Last friday I stopped using my last Lumia and switched to Android. Lumia was actually really good, but as the very little sofware support started to die out it was time to let it go.
This is not a joke. It'd be interesting to know what is the major difference what makes us see things so differently, as always when I have touched an iPhone, I've hated to use it. I've felt everything is made so stupid and people are talking about how easy, quick and fun it is to use. I've been playing around iPhones more than once or twice and every time I've hated iPhones more and more.
Lucky for me, Android seems good enough, even if lacks some things that WP could have been.
The pleasure you derived from using a Lumia phone has always been a mystery to me. You seem perfectly healthy and normal otherwise.
Maybe it's an engineer thing.
Conversely, I find iOS and Android clunky to use. In and out of apps, in and out of the home page, the whole whack-a-mole thing. It's probably something everyone's used to, but Windows Phone had a better vision - where it would collate all apps, people and content fluidly on the live start page, or the various hubs. It was simply a more elegant design that no one bothered to get used to.
You are a man stronger than me.
It has to be an engineer thing.
"Man, those boys at Apple are stupid as they don't have as many engineers as we have. They will lose in this competition so hard!", unknown source from Nokia when they started to produce Lumia phones.
I agree, Windows Phone was pretty good as an OS. The live tiles, the hubs, the pinnable tabs etc made it pretty much a far more efficient interface than Android or iOS, which were rudimentary "grid of icons". Barely different from the dumbphones of the 90s. The Windows UI was different to be sure, so there's a learning curve, but I feel it was far more elegant, and simpler to use. Obviously, iOS and Android copied the general cleaner, minimalist style later.
Too bad it was too late and hence didn't get any support from app developers. I had a Lumia a long time ago, I do recall it had the best camera on the market at the time. It was going well for a few months, but then I hit upon an app which was only on Android and iOS. I had to return it right then.
That said, Windows 10 now encompasses all form factors, so I can see a future once foldable displays and such hit the markets.
I don't find much of a difference between Android or iOS, personally, though I do prefer the freedom of Android - which is why I use it. iOS feels like a dictatorship, albeit a comfortable one.
All kidding aside, yes, the cameras were top of the line on the flagship models.
As I started with Windows Phone, I didn't have an actual learning curve, as it became the native approach for smartphones for me.
The camera and camera software (along with maps) were good a long time, but now they are ruined too, at least on those parts I want.