I also use iOS for my work and Android for personal,like them both but android is more OPEN than ios by a longshot!
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I also use iOS for my work and Android for personal,like them both but android is more OPEN than ios by a longshot!
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As a developer and person who used to own Android phones and tinker with them a lot, I genuinely can't imagine what you want to do with your phone that you can't do on an iPhone.
Sure, theoretically you can do loads of stuff, but from a practical standpoint I could never think of a real feature that I wanted that wasn't already available on iOS.
As for obsolescence, an iPhone usually gets around 5 years of software support, which is personally the max amount of time that I'd keep a phone anyway. Are you really going to keep your Android phone for a period of time longer than 5 years and then port the new Android OS yourself (if no one does it over at xda-developers)?
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It's 2020 and there are still people spouting this fanboy rubbish?
As a iPhone 6+ owner, when I went to see 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max, the difference in width felt more noticeable than the length. The other phones had longer screens, but the width stuck out to me. It felt squished in. Only the 11 Pro Max matched the width of 6+. The more you can fit on a single line (obviously to a point), the better I find it is for prolonged reading.
I hope they release a SE+ with similar size to 8+ and its width.
Ofc I can, iOS captive for WiFi hotspots is takiiiiiing so much time to connect to hotspots vs Android "crap". Sometimes I was left speechless that my gf with her "crappy" phone was able to use Internet, while I was waiting my iPhone X to connect.
I think it’s hilarious when Android supporters claim that iPhones stop working if they don’t get a software update. First of all, it‘s plainly false. Second, they are completely ignoring the fact that iOS supports much older phones than comparable Android releases. In addition, because Android updates require manufacturer support, many Android phones cannot be updated when new versions of Android are released.
Ah yes. I’ve had that too. I’m wondering if it’s by design.
I remember I think Apple devices having troubles connecting to WEP networks a ways back.
Strangely enough my Apple devices always show less wireless networks than other devices.
Exactly! That is the first thing I notice when I see a phone like this. They are the new "candy bar" phones.
And then, the wrap-around display...
Unwrap that candy bar!
I have an iPhone 5 that still functions. Not sure what 'done' means to you. I'm no Apple fanboy, but when a very old iPhone 5 still runs smooth and has pretty much full iOS functionality on it, there's something to be said for that.
Sure you can't load custom ROMs onto an iPhone, but you don't need to. That's sort of the point. And 95% of Android users wouldn't know how to do it anyhow, 1% brick their devices trying, 3% do it once or twice and move on and the remaining 1% push to extend the life of their old Android slabs. I've been there - loading different ROMs onto old devices. I've had many Android phones over the last 5 years including Essential etc. All sorts of fun.
But my iPhone XS Max is just 'there'. It always works, I can mirror the screen and control it on my Matebook X Pro thanks to Dell Mobile Connect now, and I have zero concern about Apple declaring it EOL. Even if I have it when that happens, I know it will continue to function for years and years and operate smooth as silk, just like my 5 still does.
Funny, you noticed different size bezels and did not notice a notch which is much more ugly.
That is because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You might find the notch ugly but others have different opinions.
thats the problem with samsung and
google, they try to make their phones like full blown computers, but we dont need that. certain things we do on phones and other things we do on laptops and computers. so samsung in trying to make their phones like full blown computers make it more messy and complicated
Sure. But people in general have consistent attitudes. There are people who do not care about the notch. That's fine. But the only reason people who care about the different width of the bezels would not notice the notch is a brand bias.That is because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You might find the notch ugly but others have different opinions.
Having developed for both android and ios over the past year has really made me realize how much better iOS is than Android.
And you or I don’t know what the masses consistent attitudes are, even if this is a truism and not a strawman.
And conversely the People who find the notch ugly but accept bezels and pop up flash have brand bias as well. (if the original statement is a truism and not another strawman)
They actually did for quite a few years. The last version, Windows 10 mobile, was a great OS, but unfortunately they were too late to the game and couldn’t get the developer support they needed to attract more users to make continued development worth the time, effort, and cost.
Apps were either poor quality or non existent. This drove most users away, and in the end they gave up, which was a huge shame.
I had a Lumia 950XL towards the end of the OS life. It was a really nice phone, and ran great with the W10M, but the lack of first party, and quality apps overall, saw me head back to iOS.
Really? Why?
I don't have one, but it seems to me it would be more comfortable to hold. Especially for smaller hands.
You mean the Chinese conglomerate BBK (2nd largest phone maker in the world or something like that) that for years pretend "OnePlus" was a startup fronted by one of their shill employees pretending to be a hip "founder"? It just so happens the fake news tech media happily ate that all up and the OnePlus astroturfing shills swallowed it hook line and sinker (although I don't think they have any shills left, at least any not disgruntled for being taken for a ride)
Without the punctuation at the right places, the run-on sentence makes little to no sense. I simply gave up following on after the question mark, since you are making it hard to comprehend what you are trying to say.
Yeah. Who uses Android in 2020 except for techies, people who can't afford iPhones, and people with specific needs like frequent travel? Tech has progressed.
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You're skipping a whole lot of OS design if you say iOS is BSD with a GUI. I respect wanting to own the phone's destiny, but do you really use that power? I imagine the most important part is keeping the phone up-to-date after the manufacturer has stopped.
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Why is there a "vs." in this article? It should have been an "and".
The comments are better.
FWIW, One Plus is still a better "deal" than the other premium flagships, but now we get to truly say "other premium flagships" since the value proposition that one was, is no longer in effect. The 7 and 8 series halfway and fully closed the gap in features and moved upwards in price as a result. Even with the mid-range, fastest guts versions offered with the 8, non pro, the deal doesn't approach what we saw with the 7t.
Maybe the 8t will surprise, but at $700/900 the 8s are $100 and $2-300 under what they compete against.
The pro is the fastest Android made currently. It's got the best screen and best skin on Android. People who understand tech probably like Android and root-friendly nature of OP better than the walled garden of Apple regardless of price, but everyone knows you pay more for Apple than an open OS marketplace would dictate, so there's not much sense comparing the top spec phones at all.
One plus will win that battle.
The SE vs the vanilla 8 or 7t? That'll be interesting.
The comments are better.
FWIW, One Plus is still a better "deal" than the other premium flagships, but now we get to truly say "other premium flagships" since the value proposition that one was, is no longer in effect. The 7 and 8 series halfway and fully closed the gap in features and moved upwards in price as a result. Even with the mid-range, fastest guts versions offered with the 8, non pro, the deal doesn't approach what we saw with the 7t.
Maybe the 8t will surprise, but at $700/900 the 8s are $100 and $2-300 under what they compete against.
The pro is the fastest Android made currently. It's got the best screen and best skin on Android. People who understand tech probably like Android and root-friendly nature of OP better than the walled garden of Apple regardless of price, but everyone knows you pay more for Apple than an open OS marketplace would dictate, so there's not much sense comparing the top spec phones at all.
One plus will win that battle.
The SE vs the vanilla 8 or 7t? That'll be interesting.
what advantage do you think that the ‘hole punch’ camera offers? Do you think consumers honestly care about the ‘form factor’ of a camera? I would say the results are what matters versus the actual design.