Soldier Boy

Just finished this video. I think, as someone who has always used a hybrid ecosystem consisting of various products from different brands, I can add some input for anyone who wants an ecosystem that won't break as Arun faced. First of all, products from the same brand will ALWAYS work better together. So, AirPods will, of course, pair better with Apple products compared to a Sony TWS with an Oppo. Instead, Arun should've used an Oppo/OnePlus TWS. They make one of the best TWS too. I much prefer my OnePlus Buds Pro 3 over Airpods Pro that I had, and it syncs perfectly with my OnePlus/Oppo smartphone with all the missing features Arun mentioned. Second, a MacBook will always pair better with an iPhone compared to an Oppo. It'd be weird to ask for a similar performance, and it's not even Oppo's fault. But Oppo does have a pretty cool asset. It's called O+ Connect, which brings some of the Apple ecosystem benefits like copy and paste between Mac and Oppo, and easy to share files like Airdrop, screen cast, and so on. Third, Apple Watch Ultra is Apple's flagship product, Galaxy Watch 8 isn't. This should've been a Galaxy Watch Ultra, which, funny enough, has more health features than Apple Watch Ultra and also has most of the integration with third-party accessories and more. But, there will be accuracy issue because you are not using products from the same brands, so they don't sync as instantly. To solve this (you need to do it only once), you need to give Galaxy Watch Manager, Galaxy Wearable, and Samsung Health these three apps permission to run all the time without being optimized for battery, the accuracy will jump astronomically. Third-party accessories, same brand ecosystem integration, no one is touching Apple or Samsung anytime soon. BUT it's very possible to live with a hybrid ecosystem. You just have to iron out some initial quirks because, by default, these products weren't meant to work as seamlessly as their own brand products. The hybrid ecosystem I'm currently using, 🟢 Oppo Find X9 Ultra as my primary phone + ⚪️ MacBook Pro as my primary workstation + Galaxy Watch Ultra as my Smartwatch + 🔴 OnePlus Buds Pro 3 as my TWS + ⚪️ iPhone 17 Pro as my secondary phone, and they work quite well together. I use O+ Connect to keep my iPhone and MacBook connected to the Oppo. I use HeyMelody to use all OnePlus TWS functionality on iPhone, I use Merge to keep my iPhone 17 Pro and Oppo Find X9 Ultra to connect and talk with my Galaxy Watch Ultra (If it were an Apple Watch, I'd have used O+ Connect). The list goes on, but as you can see, it's a pretty tight integration despite being devices from different brands. tldr: Leaving the Apple ecosystem fully and not missing anything out can only be achieved by switching to the Samsung ecosystem because no other brand has all the ecosystem components, including laptops. It's not possible for anyone else to replicate that experience, but if someone really wants to, it's very possible to build a hybrid ecosystem. It won't be perfect (Doesn't make sense to expect that), but it would be very good 🔥

I’ve been using the iPhone Ultra Fold clone, the Huawei Pura X Max, for the past day. I’m OBSESSED! I now know 100% that I’m upgrading to the iPhone Ultra this year, despite missing the telephoto camera. Video coming soon!!

Just finished this video. I think, as someone who has always used a hybrid ecosystem consisting of various products from different brands, I can add some input for anyone who wants an ecosystem that won't break as Arun faced. First of all, products from the same brand will ALWAYS work better together. So, AirPods will, of course, pair better with Apple products compared to a Sony TWS with an Oppo. Instead, Arun should've used an Oppo/OnePlus TWS. They make one of the best TWS too. I much prefer my OnePlus Buds Pro 3 over Airpods Pro that I had, and it syncs perfectly with my OnePlus/Oppo smartphone with all the missing features Arun mentioned. Second, a MacBook will always pair better with an iPhone compared to an Oppo. It'd be weird to ask for a similar performance, and it's not even Oppo's fault. But Oppo does have a pretty cool asset. It's called O+ Connect, which brings some of the Apple ecosystem benefits like copy and paste between Mac and Oppo, and easy to share files like Airdrop, screen cast, and so on. Third, Apple Watch Ultra is Apple's flagship product, Galaxy Watch 8 isn't. This should've been a Galaxy Watch Ultra, which, funny enough, has more health features than Apple Watch Ultra and also has most of the integration with third-party accessories and more. But, there will be accuracy issue because you are not using products from the same brands, so they don't sync as instantly. To solve this (you need to do it only once), you need to give Galaxy Watch Manager, Galaxy Wearable, and Samsung Health these three apps permission to run all the time without being optimized for battery, the accuracy will jump astronomically. Third-party accessories, same brand ecosystem integration, no one is touching Apple or Samsung anytime soon. BUT it's very possible to live with a hybrid ecosystem. You just have to iron out some initial quirks because, by default, these products weren't meant to work as seamlessly as their own brand products. The hybrid ecosystem I'm currently using, 🟢 Oppo Find X9 Ultra as my primary phone + ⚪️ MacBook Pro as my primary workstation + Galaxy Watch Ultra as my Smartwatch + 🔴 OnePlus Buds Pro 3 as my TWS + ⚪️ iPhone 17 Pro as my secondary phone, and they work quite well together. I use O+ Connect to keep my iPhone and MacBook connected to the Oppo. I use HeyMelody to use all OnePlus TWS functionality on iPhone, I use Merge to keep my iPhone 17 Pro and Oppo Find X9 Ultra to connect and talk with my Galaxy Watch Ultra (If it were an Apple Watch, I'd have used O+ Connect). The list goes on, but as you can see, it's a pretty tight integration despite being devices from different brands. tldr: Leaving the Apple ecosystem fully and not missing anything out can only be achieved by switching to the Samsung ecosystem because no other brand has all the ecosystem components, including laptops. It's not possible for anyone else to replicate that experience, but if someone really wants to, it's very possible to build a hybrid ecosystem. It won't be perfect (Doesn't make sense to expect that), but it would be very good 🔥

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for everyone who doesn't understand why I'm calling the Huawei Pura X Max a CLONE of the upcoming iPhone Ultra.. here are photos of it next to the iPhone Ultra metal prototype. Almost identical! No other foldable including the original Pura X matches the design this closely. The reason it's a clone is because Chinese phone makers can copy every Apple iPhone design aspect without getting sued, since their phones are banned in the USA, so Apple can't do anything about it. Prototypes of the iPhone Ultra were leaked many months ago, so Huawei likely saw what's coming, and decided to frontrun and rush out this exact foldable phone design and got it onto the market 5 months sooner than Apple. Samsung is doing pretty much the SAME thing, coming out with a wide version of the Galaxy Z Fold 8 in July.. ONLY because Apple is making their foldable wide.

I’ve been using the iPhone Ultra Fold clone, the Huawei Pura X Max, for the past day. I’m OBSESSED! I now know 100% that I’m upgrading to the iPhone Ultra this year, despite missing the telephoto camera. Video coming soon!!