One reason why I prefer appletv over a smart tv. The photos app, the music and podcast app and so on integrate well with my iPhone. It’s hard not buying a smart tv these days but I did not want one when I bought a new tv a few months ago.
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iPhone 13 is Significantly Faster Than Samsung's New Galaxy S22 in Benchmarks
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I didn't want a smart tv either and have some Apple TVs. But I recently bought a Sony 75 inch Bravia, and I don't think you can buy a decent TV any more without it being a smart tv.
The iOS 15 fiasco, the buggy Big Sur/Monterey, iCloud reliability, etc etc plenty of other examples. For a company that actually brags about it’s so called “tight” integration, they still have plenty of homework.
If they didn’t brag about it, it’s one thing. But the fact Apple kept bragging about it in every keynotes, well, they better stand up to their own claims that their stuff “just works.”
True. My parents have a very large tv also and the HD appletv which works fine for them. Some people criticize Apple for the older CPU in the appletv but a iPhone modern cpu in a appletv would be major overkill for tvOS.
It’s for people like you to take pictures of your ?
PPL commenting here, so what? Samsung has enough Power! Come here in 5 years and iPhone will be still buttery smooth while the Samsung will lag like 2015 phone.
I will say the experience has been a pretty positive one overall, bugs and all. I don’t remember what the iOS 15 fiasco was about, but I always update on day 1 and has worked out well.
Examples of things that continue to work:
1) I have 2013 Apple TV’s in my classrooms, which still support airplay mirroring very well, so I am happy that Apple hasn’t broken anything yet.
2) You don’t realise how much you miss your Apple Watch until you go down marketing without it one day and then realise the hassle of unlocking your phone or making purchases with Apple Pay, or even just taking public transport.
3) There’s some fun synergy when using my MacBook Air and ipad together (like I take a screenshot on my laptop and annotate on it from my ipad with Apple Pencil), and I am looking forward to trying out universal control with iOS 15.
4) I have recently migrated over to iCloud Drive to save some money on my Dropbox subscription, and because OneDrive seems to have messed things up with their latest update.
Lots of little refinements that quickly pay for themselves in the form of improved productivity overall.
True dat, except the S21 and S22 are not sub $400 phones.
That said, I don’t think it matters that much how fast the Max is unless people notice that the S22 is slow, which I doubt it is.
I feel this is the first time in a long time Samsung is doing the entire refresh as an “S” cycle what were used to for iPhones.
I don’t really see anything great with the design, the S22+ Ultra looks the best but the metal from raised exposed camera lens will get scratched and potentially the glass lenses themselves may also get damaged. We’ll see though.
My 8+ is not experiencing any such problems. At 4.5 years old release-wise, though I bought it 2.5 yrs ago so the battery is not ancient. Battery Health 86%.
Gave my mom my 7+ and her battery finally bit the dust. But at 4 yrs isn’t that expected?
It plugs in perfectly with my Anker charger (USB-C to light night). Really your only argument is about a charging cable ?!! Really?!?
But the os is where Samsung will continually fall into a lack lustre experience. The amount of duplicate apps for the same tasks the os ships with is has always been its major issue. Lets see in a few short weeks/months is a must to restart.
Agree with your examples as they were. But I think many people here can attest that the previous trust and reliability of Apple software has been seemingly degraded.
Like all Samsungs below that of my iPhon 12 mini in the geek bench score list.
Android phones suck. Synthetic benchmarks performance is much more important than not having a big ass notch on your screen.
No everyone is as comfortable as you are with buying used.
Longer support for older devices is much more of a benefit for app developers than consumers as it reduces their development cost
There are far more used phones in the marketplace so I'd think that most people either buy used or get hand-me-downs.