Why do Android users look at iOS as just a crippled software? The closed nature of iOS is not a disadvantage, rather it’s the reason many of us stick with the iPhone and not Android powered devices. On the whole, iOS is stable, extremely polished, secure, and has the best App Store.
Furthermore, I have had Android devices. Used them for years, and I hardly ever got major OS updates. What’s worse, I would see other Android users using different hardware running the latest software and I was beholden to my hardware manufacturer and or network provider waiting for an update. There’s no getting around the fact that Android can never offer the solidness of iOS because everything iOS runs on is Apple hardware, whereas there are so many different Android devices to write software for.
To each their own. I can recognize the strengths in the hardware and software of Android, but Android users just don’t seem to ‘get’ why iOS users prefer iOS. iOS is absolutely NOT some sort of handicapped software.
From the perspective of someone who values the features baked into Android (hardware and software), iOS is most certainly crippled.
This is because there is so much you cannot do on an iOS device that you can on Android (I use Galaxy devices exclusively, so YMMV).
Apple has slowly been introducing features through OS updates, but on the Android devices I've had OS updates were somewhat moot; there was nothing the OS update would bring that I needed/wanted, because the core of Android devices already had the gotta-have-it features.
Android OS updates mostly
refine what's already there, while introducing some new features.
To be more specific, these are the features I've had on my Galaxy devices for years (I switched to a new Galaxy S4!) that Apple STILL doesn't provide:
1. RAM: Older Android handsets do not suffer like iOS ones.
2. Filesystem access: Apple is bringing this (kinda) onto iOS only now, and it's nowhere near the same
3. Back button: Using iOS is like having a Mac with a one-button mouse. Oh wait...
4. Customization of OS look and feel: Themes give me a new "OS" at will and allow me to truly personalize my device
6. MicroSD storage: You can never have too much space, and the flexibility to swap it out quickly
7. Headphone jack: Bluetooth is convenient, but not as convenient or stable as wired connections. Android has the OPTION
8. Built-in stylus: When you need/want pin-point precision, you cannot beat it. Not indispensable, but nice to have
9. Real widgets: I prefer the Android way
10. App tray: I can make the endless row of icons go away until I need them
11. Wireless charging: Finally Apple brings this to iPhone now
*EDIT--forgot one:
12. Split-screen multitasking: This is one of the biggest reasons I'll stay Android.
I'm curious as to what feature you were jealous of on your older-OS Android device that was brought about by a new OS.
I have a Note3 and a Note5 in my family now that I really never needed to OS update, because they did all of the above.
Given Apple will never offer what's on my list I'll be out of the iPhone loop forever.
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Weren't you talking about a Note 3? Cause that got OS updates for a whopping 15 months. Honestly not the best example. I thought you have a Note 3. Do you have, like, all the Notes?
I have a family of 5. So right now we have a Note3, Note5, 2 S7Edges, and my new Note8 (which replaced my Note5) in my household. Everyone switched from iPhone and REFUSE to go back when I gave them a choice, because they'd miss out on features, regardless of Mac/iOS integration (I have an all-Mac household).
With Galaxy devices you don't need to do an OS update to gain features (I value), they were already there. OS updates mainly
refine the existing features (they do add a few sometimes). Hardware updates add (and sadly remove, then sometimes reintroduce) hardware features. Look up the history of Note devices to see the differences in both hardware and software (
capability, not OS).
