Hit the nail on the head. Sure, cherry-pick the “feature” in which Android/Google, Samsung, etc, does better than the iPhone. However, the whole system is where Apple excels. Android/Google can’t hold a candle in that regard.
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This! Thise 3 dots on ipad, so many accidental clicks on these… i too missed ability to make ipad simple browsing/consumption device. If i want to do sthing complicated, i got macbook.
Man, that tired old argument about Google being loaded with features the iPhone can only dream of.
I've seen many of these "features" over the years on Android and they're almost always under-baked and not the dream feature Google portrays them to be. Apple rarely gets a feature first, but when they do finally unveil something, they've taken the time to iron out the bugs and integrate it into the phone in a way that makes it worth the wait. I've never understood the excitement around getting poorly implemented features faster.
I've seen many of these "features" over the years on Android and they're almost always under-baked and not the dream feature Google portrays them to be. Apple rarely gets a feature first, but when they do finally unveil something, they've taken the time to iron out the bugs and integrate it into the phone in a way that makes it worth the wait. I've never understood the excitement around getting poorly implemented features faster.
These are awesome. I can't remember the last time I laughed at a phone ad... 😄
iPhone actually plateaued with the 11 Pro.
Genius marketing campaign. The pixel division is a star amongst the drab, sad, corporate censorship engine that is Google... soon to be replaced by real AI.
iPhone actually plateaued with the 11 Pro.
Genius marketing campaign. The pixel division is a star amongst the drab, sad, corporate censorship engine that is Google... soon to be replaced by real AI.
Apple is at least kind of trying with privacy.
But they are failing just as badly as anyone else - a phone is a tracking device by definition, pretty difficult to make this private. They try, but they fail.
In addition, they keep adding "agency" backdoors, they lost their fight with the FBI etc.
What do you think is the reason the FBI and government have stopped complaining that Apple locked down the iPhone?
Is it
A - Apple added backdoors as requested, or
B - They knew they lost so they... ummm...
Yeah. It's (A).
This is how it went:
FBI went to Apple, said, guys, we need backdoors. Apple said no, we are a privacy company, no backdoors. FBI went to 3rd party "hacker" tool manufacturers, bought their services. Apple tolerates it and doesn't fix those holes - plausible deniability on all sides, the FBI gets what it wants, they can get into any device. Apple gets to keep pretending iPhones are private and safe. Everyone's happy. The end.
A classic hypocritical compromise as they love to do in California.
100% agree with this.
iPhone has become like Android.
Android has become like iOS
At this point it really doesn't matter if you buy a big fugly brick from Samsung, or a big fugly brick from Apple - same difference.
Apple still has a slight edge in material but not in features, not in usability, not in day to day use, not in photography, not in size either.
Pixel is a worthy competitor, I am considering one.
Pretty bored of the lack of innovation on the iPhone. I got an 11 pro when the 12 was out as the 12 was much worse than the 11. 13 got better again, and there is a tiny, most marginal improvement on the 14.
It's basically like new car models now. The most minor, tiny differences are outlined in the marketing material, thinly hiding the fact that pretty much nothing has changed.
Apple used to add only features that made a difference; Samsung added features to have more features, even though they're totally useless. Apple has meanwhile joined Samsung on this - adding more and more useless stuff...
So so much tech is not used by the average consumer - my parents and brother barely venture into any tech on their tv, car or phone and don’t really care. They never alter any camera settings on their iPhones and couldn’t care less about hdr or super slow mode or Dolby atmos on the tv or eco mode on their car. Plateau’d but stable and easy to use is their main criteria….
This post should be printed out and put in every tech office in Silicon Valley
Even though I know this, it's hard to not get carried away when creating software. Very hard.
Microsoft did it 10 years ago. My other comment, probably right above this one only around 20 mins ago, has a link to the videos. I was a Windows Phone user around the time those came out. I remember them well.
iOS appeared to mimic Windows with the flat design and colorful devices (5C) at that time. FWIW both Windows Phone and iPhone 5C were flops, but I’m sure we all know that.
Anyway, the Cortana/Siri ads had the voice assistants conversing and usually had Cortana showing off some feature that Apple hadn’t yet implemented.
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Just got another iPhone. I really wanted to like it, but I don't. So back to the Pixel for me. Don't get me wrong, I use a Mac, MacBook , iPad and Apple TV. Its just the phones that are so stuck with a stale OS.
I daily drove an Android flagship as recently as last year so I'd not consider my experience outdated by any means.
And I've done more stuff under Android's hood than most people by a long shot, so I got a pretty solid picture of how things are.
The reality is that Android flagships have really damn good hardware, which is then promptly wasted on being a data harvesting machine stuffed with bloatware. Funny you should mention Samsung, as that's one of the main offenders at that.
If you're enjoying their latest offering, I won't take that away from you.
But I sure as hell don't enjoy burning say 15% of my battery life each day on building Google's data/telemetry empire, nor do I enjoy having my phone riddled with a pile of non-removable bloatware, nor do I enjoy my phone being a wannabe tablet/laptop with half baked features. Like what does a "more productive phone" even mean? That's just a phone that's trying hard to be something it's not, with dumb accessories like a non-optional stylus for instance. You want to be actually productive, you pick up a device that's best suited for that. Because if you planned to be productive in one way or another, you probably already have those other devices to do that on most efficiently anyway..
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I use iPhone and iPad as my mobile devices right now. I am hoping that messaging will open up soon and let me message my son who is on the autism on his ipad with whatever device I own. It's time apple. People are not moving platforms. I will always have an iPhone, but I want to use other devices too. I pay for apple + ultimate (whatever the top package is) for my family and will continue.
It's at the point where people have chosen years ago which platform they want. I want to use all platforms together since I am a geek.
That is correct. The phrase blind loyalist like overpriced is an opinion. However , technically anyone label anybody anything that’s within the rules. However it’s an opinion.
People who throw out labels like that, imo, are the ones that blind to the truth. their version of the truth is the correct version (and usually not). They conflate ideas from a posters or group and come up with some label. The people that label are the ones that are worse than the original opinion. /off-topic
Any it’s fun to see these companies take pot-shots at apple. Sometimes it comes back to bite them, like the pink champagne commercial.
Watch Lil Wayne give Samsung’s Galaxy S7 Edge a champagne bath
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One persons experience isn’t the norm
pixel was voted phone of the year in 2022 for a good reason. Very good phone and smooth software
Phone of the year is a bit like car of the year. Remember when ford thunderbird was voted car of the year. So what?
It means it’s highly rated which is a sign of how good a device it is. point is using one person’s experience to prove a point isn’t a good idea
For me, a persons experience trumps some “award”, cars and phones included. May be the same or not for others.