Apple Reportedly Making Tool To Let iOS Users Transfer To Android

Some of you guys might recall that back in 2015, Apple made an app called Move To iOS that allows Android users to easily transfer contacts and data and other files over onto iOS. This meant to help make switching to an iOS device much easier, although safe to say that the reception of the app was not very well-received by the Android community.

However interestingly enough, a report from the Telegraph has revealed that Apple has a new app in the works, and this time this particular tool will apparently facilitate the transfer of iOS data over on to Android. Essentially this is an opposite to what Apple’s Android app does. Does that sound weird? Why would Apple want that, you ask?

Turns out this might have to do with legal issues rather than an altruistic move. Apparently EU carriers are concerned that by making it hard to leave the iOS ecosystem, fewer users are willing to switch to an alternative platform, such as Android, and are forced to keep using iOS because of that.

While Apple has yet to officially launch such an app, the report claims that Apple has privately agreed to do so, presumably to avoid any anticompetitive complaints or lawsuits. In any case if iOS users really wanted to switch over to Android and vice versa, we reckon that app or no app it will still happen.

Tyler Lee
Categories: Apple, Cellphones, Rumors
Tags: Android, Apps, iOS