Apple’s services exist to help boost hardware sales. Why do you think services like iMessage are available only on Apple devices?
You have that backwards. Apple only releases hardware to boost software sales. iMessages is only available on Apple devices because they want to sell iMessage and making a phone is the only way to control the distribution of it.
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Yeah, I dont think you know enough to criticize the most valuable company in the world. Im sure they know what they are doing.
Who do you believe knows enough to criticize them?
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So in fair turn, Windows should yank Office. Google should deny Apple users to YouTube. You want niche features, you imerse yourself in the ecosystem that has the services it owns. Google Maps? Ohhh, Nelly! Then you buy an Android phone, tablet or Chromebook if you want into THAT club's frontdoor.
Windows can't yank office because their dominance comes from file sharing and not file creation. Instead Microsoft makes really poor versions of Office that are just good enough to let users read and write in the office formats. Office for the Mac costs the same as Windows but is missing many of the features of the windows versions. Google uses YouTube to collect data for their search/ad business. Blocking users would devalue their ad serving. It's why Google still operates YouTube even though it directly costs more than it makes. Everything Google offers is just a way to improve their digital file of you. Their value comes not from the software but the data they collect. Apple's value comes directly from the software solutions they offer - and they mark up hardware in order to offer those solutions at low costs.
Different business with different revenue streams.
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My S8+ isn’t a third world plastic phone and is built with the same materials that are used in an iPhone. I don’t care about Apple News or Apple Maps because Google’s alternatives are superior anyhow. You’re awfully uninformed when it comes to modern high end Android flagship phones.
Having my own S8 and an iPhone X I can speak confidently about this one. They are made from the same materials. This is a limitation of resources found on Earth. Apple made their software and built a phone around it. Samsung built a phone and purchased a OS to run it. When things didn't work for Samsung, because they chose "premium" parts, they were forced to write their own code. Sadly, they care so little about the software they build incomplete software leaving duplicates apps as a solution to a single complete program. Google email and Samsung email. Google Chrome and Samsung Web Browser. The phone is littered with duplicates and the Samsung apps are always incomplete, buggy, and poorly optimized.
The Samsung ones are poorly made, but are required if you have any of their accessories. I got the Gear S3 Frontier and it really only works with Samsung's apps. That means I have my email going to 3rd part email client with notifications and then to the Samsung Email client with notifications turned off. All that just so I can have my watch get an email that can be read on my wrist. Don't even get me started about the poorly designed Samsung VR headset that overheats downloading apps. What good is a VR headset that can only run for 30 min?
I also have an Apple Watch Series 3 LTE. It works great with Apple mail for iOS, and other apps work well too. Apple's hardware isn't better than others hardware. Apples UX is, however, better.
But please, tell me about the 3rd party apps that are "superior" because everything I have seen on the 5 different Android stores I have installed on my Android all offer terrible alternatives to apple apps. They are ugly, unreliable, covered in ads, and want to much access to my personal information.
High end flagship phones are no better than low end android phones because better, faster, newer parts isn't the only part to solving to the mobile experience.
