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What are your top reasons you stay with the iPhone instead of other platforms?

So many good reasons in this thread and I love them all. The ecosystem, the simplicity, the support, the updates, the apps... But there's one more reason that hasn't been mentioned yet. I'm not necessarily saying this is a huge reason for staying, but it's definitely something that I love about the iPhone.

The one phone a year release cycle.

First of all, only having one phone allows Apple to focus so much more time and attention to the iPhone and create the perfect balance. When samsung is creating a dozen smartphones a year just hoping one of them will good for you.

Secondly, it makes life so much easier and simpler. I know options are supposed to be a good thing, but when I make such an important decision like what my smartphone will be for the next 2 years, I go crazy analytical comparing and contrasting everything. There are so many android phones out there I would go crazy trying to decide, and I might end up second guessing myself.

Lastly, I am guarenteed the best phone in my ecosystem for a full year. It would kill me if I was with android seeing the latest and greatest phone come out every couple months. My carrier contract would seem like a nightmare, jailing me to my phone. I can live pretty comfortably with my two year upgrade cycle on the iPhone :)
 
I love how easy it is to use and if something goes wrong then you just pop into an apple store and they sort it on the spot. My girlfriend even dropped her iPhone 4 and got it ran over twice and they swapped it for £119. No other carrier/network/manufacturer would do that for you.

Also, you have all these android phones that sport fancy specs that beat the iPhones but it has to have beefy hardware to run the Android platform. Android is the windows of PC's, you create an OS that needs to run on infinite hardware configurations and therefore can never be as stable as iOS that's developed for one single hardware base.
 
cr0fty said:
I love how easy it is to use and if something goes wrong then you just pop into an apple store and they sort it on the spot. My girlfriend even dropped her iPhone 4 and got it ran over twice and they swapped it for £119. No other carrier/network/manufacturer would do that for you.
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U.S. Cellular has really good service, and probably lots of places will look at stuff for you, and most people don't live near an Apple store, though that's cool you've gotten good service.

Also, you have all these android phones that sport fancy specs that beat the iPhones but it has to have beefy hardware to run the Android platform. Android is the windows of PC's, you create an OS that needs to run on infinite hardware configurations and therefore can never be as stable as iOS that's developed for one single hardware base.
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Windows is 100% stable. It runs on a wider variety of hardware, but not THAT much wider. Mainly just AMD's CPUs, which are of course just as valid x86 as Intel's are.
 
This has been mentioned, but being able to walk into an Apple store with a defect and have your phone replaced on the spot is wonderful. Same goes for Apple care + (in terms of accidental damage). I WISH there was an option that good for the Android devices I use.

Everything else is variable. If I didn't have the opportunity to have a work AND a personal line, my choices would be much harder to make. Plenty of things I love about Apple/iOS and just as many that I love about Android/Google.
 
It just works.

It's really that simple. Sure the awesome Apple ecosystem (iTunes, etc) is a big part of it too. As is the plethora of awesome apps. But at the end of the day, there's something to be said for a device that JUST WORKS. No ROMs, no tweaks, no tinkering. The jailbreak option is there if you want it too.
 
I have to say All of the Android devices released before, and out now are so cheap looking and feeling. Having owned over 10 so called high end Android devices (too many to say all of their names #) I refuse to buy another. Android needs to focus hard on hardware!

Not to mention announcing a different device every two seconds. Making a two month old device seem obsolete...
I got sick of that update debacle also.

Look at the Galaxy nexus on Vzw ugh!
That device was my last straw with Android for some time.
 
matttye said:
Haha contradicting yourself in the very next sentence!
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Note the "IF YOU WANT IT" as opposed to Android's "IF YOU WANT YOUR PHONE TO RUN EVEN REMOTELY SMOOTH" :D :D :D

The vast majority of iPhone users do NOT jailbreak, and have no need or desire to do so.
 
Axne1 said:
I have to say All of the Android devices released before, and out now are so cheap looking and feeling. Having owned over 10 so called high end Android devices (too many to say all of their names #) I refuse to buy another. Android needs to focus hard on hardware!

Not to mention announcing a different device every two seconds. Making a two month old device seem obsolete...
I got sick of that update debacle also.

Look at the Galaxy nexus on Vzw ugh!
That device was my last straw with Android for some time.
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Well as far as i know the only focus of android is software ;) and its doing a pretty good job at it , if you feel the need to bash "quality" of hardware blame samsung , motorola, sony , htc , etc..... Not that theres something wrong with it but hey just my opinion :) to each is own
 
* Consistency. I tried the original Galaxy S for a few months then went back to iOS. Then the GS2 for about a month, then back to iOS. I like how iOS feels like it gets out of your way and I don't really notice the OS there at all most of the time.

* Timely updates

* Great warranty and service support directly from Apple

* Good resale value

* Oh and also I develop for iOS too so that might affect my decisions a bit too
 
I've wanted to just try Android for a while now to see how it is since the iPhone 4 was the first smart phone I ever used. However, the main reason I've refrained is because I have too much money invested into Apps on my iPhone that would be useless if I switched to Android. So for me it's just more logical to stick with an iPhone.
 
-ecosystem.
I will never go back to windows and the iphone works best with my mbp: the address book, ical, itunes, etc.
-timely updates.
I've seen too many stories where it takes months or years for an android phone to get an update. Unless you're willing to hack, you're usually going to be stuck with whatever version of android that came with your phone.
-I don't have to hack if I don't want to.
When I get my carrier unlock from at&t this summer, I'm going to decide if I still want to jb. Android pretty much forces you to hack to unlock the useful stuff.
-small form factor.
My fingers are stubby and can't hold the 4" phones one handed. However, the rumor that the iphone is staying the same width, but being lengthened would work for me. Some of these android phones need to get off the steroids.
-app store.
There are certain apps that will be delayed or may never see the android store--more so in the tablet market.
-battery life.
Unlike android, I'm not forced to carry a charger for my iphone. It turns out that you have to hack to access the power management options in an android. While I have no problems with hacking, I know plenty of other people don't know how to, don't want to or lack the technical ability to do so.
 
I had an old iPod Touch that I had quite a few apps on. I actually did buy a low-end Android phone last year (Virgin Mobile Optimus-V) and could not get used to the OS when compared to the iPod. I downloaded an IOS emulator to that just to keep things at least looking similar which made it easier to organize my apps.

But one thing that started really getting me frustrated about the Android I had was the small amount of internal memory on board the phone vs. the huge external memory card that I bought for it, and many of the apps I downloaded required that they be installed on the internal, so that was frustrating. This combined with the fact that I still carried my iPod Touch for music/videos in the car for the kiddos, plus every time we went somewhere where I wanted to take pics, I had a camera too...plus not wanting to pay again for apps on the phone I had already paid Apple for, combined with the 4S coming out and SIRI really intrigued me (I tried numerous "copies" of Android apps that purported to be "just like SIRI"), I said "the hell with it" and got me a 4S. One phone, no more separate camera and iPod Touch.

Now, clearly I didn't have the best, fastest, most polished Android. But I did have one and I can say without hesitation that compared to the 4S, MY Android phone was not nearly as nice as the 4S. The 4S camera is outstanding, the amount of accessories for Apple products is simply overwhelming when compared to my old Android, I'm used to the way iOS operates, and on most of the apps which I had an Android version and compare it to the iOS version, the iOS version is smoother and more polished. Here's an interesting article related to that:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/easier-design-apps-ios/

YMMV.
 
There have been a few main things that have been keeping me on iPhone. First being that I have made an investment in apps, and jumping ship to the Android side permanently would mean I would have to repurchase some things. Secondly, I have used my wife's Samsung Captivate and Galaxy S II Skyrocket and at times they seem buggy and utterly confusing. I am not saying I dislike the Android platform, it is one of my alternate favorites besides Windows Phone. However, it needs to be a little more polished and cultivated to work well on all devices and to have timely updates to them that are not held in limbo by phone carriers. If they were to do that, then it would make me consider jumping ship.

These areas are where Apple with the iPhone and Microsoft with Windows Phone (to an extent) are excelling in.

That being said that is why I stay with iPhone.
 
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