There hasn't been any groundbreaking smart phone releases in several years.
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Video Comparison: Samsung Galaxy S9 vs. iPhone X
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And in 6 months time, you will be that much closer to death. Why bother with any of it?
Why is having the thinnest bezel so important? Is there something it enables that you can't do with a phone that has 1mm more bezels around the phone?
It’s a bezel and it’s ugly.
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Because bezels are pointless. Bigger screens without bezels.
At the end, it is still a Samsung with absolutely no after sales services...(The after sales service is so bad that it is essentially non-existent...)
So 1 mm is going to be a show stopper to using a smartphone?
The elephant in the room is OLED PWM screen flicker on the X at a frequency that induces eye strain, whereas the Samsung phones don't have this problem. I can't even look at an X screen for more than a couple minutes. Thank goodness they're using LCD screens on the 8 (no flicker).
Genuine iPhone enthusiast here. I have to say, the S9 is a nice looking device. Ultimately its Android that doesn’t interest me. Hardware between smart phone manufacturers has high standards, but iOS and its security has me loyal.
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A couple of strong shots of Johnny Walker Red, and the eye strain isn't really a problem anymore.
I have seen the strain thread. Glad I don't have that problem. I have never noticed the flicker.
I definitely prefer the Samsung way- the iPhone X notch is so ugly. I don’t really notice it anymore but when I do , ugh.
Still makes absolutely no sense to put a sensor where it can’t be seen. It’s a compromised version of Touch ID for the sake of avoiding more Apple lawsuits.
As of March 2017, Android users were able to choose between 2.8 million apps. Apple's App Store remained the second-largest app store with 2.2 million available apps.
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“that you daily use”? Trying to move the goalposts by qualifying only Apps I use every day? Fine, here’s one I actually use daily.
Pixelmator. Can you find me the Android equivalent? I’ll try it on my S8 to see how it compares.
One problem with Android is it's an orphan. Microsoft has Windows and Apple has macOS. They both have mature desktop OSes with a large selection of powerful software they can draw on. As mobile devices have become more powerful we're seeing more and more features & abilities that were formerly on desktop move to mobile (just like software we run on the desktop today used to run on very expensive workstations or super computers). Android lacks this "big brother".
Another problem is scaling. Android has pretty much abandoned the tablet market to the iPad. Look at Samsungs most powerful tablets sold today. They don't even use last years 8895 processor let alone their latest the 9810. Further, companies like Samsung or Qualcomm don't make higher-powered versions of their mobile processor more suitable for a tablet (or even the new ARM Windows devices). Unlike Apple who makes the A9X or A10X which are significantly more powerful than the regular A9/A10. It's like they can't even be bothered to try and make a powerful tablet, which is the type of device where you'd actually want to do work on (compared to a smartphone).
Because of this lack of high-end tablet hardware there's no incentive at all for developers to try and make feature-rich and powerful software that can do things people used to only do on desktops. If they can't be bothered to try and make this type of software for a tablet, then what incentive do they have to bring it further and put those features into your phone? None. Which is why you don't see any high-end Apps on Android. There's nothing trickling down from the desktop to tablets to phones.
Now you have Google trying to figure out if the future is Android, ChromeOS or Fuschia. It's like they don't really have a plan for their OS strategy.
I don’t see the point of having a distorted display edge beyond trying to differentiate it from other phones, but I guess it comes down to personal taste.
Did you not read my posts? I said "powerful" Apps, not Apps in general.
Is more really more though? If anything, they should strive for less apps and better quality. This goes for both stores.
The only benefit to the display Edge is appearance. Outside of that it's next to useless.
Why don't you head over to The App Store and read all the reviews? Or go to their respective support forums and ask them directly?
Who is the judge of which apps are powerful and which are not? Nothing prevents developers to create "powerful" apps for both platforms. If anything, App Store (and Apple hardware) has more restrictions.
You wrote a huge block of text with useless things that I didn't ask only to make your first point stronger which is still not answered because Pixelmator doesn't use more than 2 cores.
Who's the judge? How about any normal user?
You're right nothing "prevents" developers from powerful creating Apps for both platforms. That doesn't change the fact that most don't bother for Android while they do for iOS.
Comparison: One has super helpful, awesome features such as iMessages and AirDop; the other doesn't.