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Why is that a bad thing? Android is shit, everyone knows that.

I used Android from 2009 (HTC Dream) until 2021 (bought an iPhone 13).

I switched to iPhone because:

• Android (and Google as a whole) is an ecosystem that pays its bills by giving 3rd parties access to your personal information, and because of this Android will never offer privacy features that iPhone does
• iPhone offers far better privacy and security features
• The vetting and security that Apple puts into the App Store makes me more comfortable. The Google Play store is a cess pool garbage apps that have serious privacy concerns that Google is very slow to respond to
• iMessage is superior to RCS

However, there are some factors that make Android better (based on features alone):

• The fact that everything you download is just treated like normal "files" in the phone's file system. You open your file explorer, and you can access everything (iPhone's silly distinction between things that live inside "Photos" versus things that live inside "Files" is extremely stupid)
• Being able to side-load apps that you manually download on your own as APK files means that you can do things that Apple doesn't allow on their app store. Like video game emulators
• Android allows other web browsers. All 3rd party browsers on iPhone are actually just reskinned versions of Safari. Android allows entirely different browsers that are built on their own technology. This means that you have access to browsers with plugins that offer you more advanced features
• Android allows the installation of custom "Launchers" (a replacement for the UI of the home-screen of the operating system), which offers more customizability.
• Keyboards vary from brand to brand on Android, but all of them are lightyears ahead of iPhone's trash keyboard

Customer satisfication matters.. a lot.

I had such a terrible experience with the first few generation of Android phones, such as the phone app, the thing the device was called, took 10 seconds to open! And this was just a tad below a flagship phone!

Android have gotten better but once I switched, I switched. Android would really have to have a true game changer to have me change. And it's not any little gimmicky toys or folding screens, but something that rivals the invention of the internet, some groundbreaking AI or something that isn't on iPhones.

I worked 3 years as a representative for an android brand. I was always top 3 in my team regarding results and sales. Even if I could convince people to buy android, I could never convince myself. Also 8 in 10 people in my team used iPhones. It’s not just younger people. While the iPhone is not perfect, it’s simply better, more polished and more reliable. Get a new case and screen protector for your 3 year old iPhone and it still feel new, while your 3 year old android is ready to be recycled by then.

I think it still comes down to user experience. A phone's OS is not supposed to get in the way of you using it. It's been a while since I've had an android phone, but for instance I remember when an app crashed it would give a dump of the technical details. People don't want to see what's going on under the hood. They either want it to just work, or to completely exit and then try again. Android is still a "tinkerer's phone." Even I, a computer programmer, want a phone that lets me do what I want to do, with a phone that is designed around a refined, intuitive, high-quality OS.

Here’s the thing about Android, there’s too many types of android phones and I’m unsure whether which one is better. Compared to Apple, it’s simple.

Make a dope new phone that has some qualities/looks from the 2000’s and you got me switching. I love my iPhone but I would give my left nut to just have something basic like a blackberry or a flip phone with a touch screen and some smart capabilities. I don’t need a tiny computer but I wouldn’t mind having access to internet, email, music and texts/calls

Kids need to be reminded that being a hacker is super fucking cool, and you aren't doing cool hackery shit on iOS.

I'm an iPhone user. But I'm also an old school hacker guy. I really want kids to learn more about this stuff.

Computing and the internet being a little bit difficult used to be a feature, not a bug. You had to learn a baseline to get involved. It wasn't accessible, but it was effective. We need more of that.

I'm really tired of helping a Gen Z person troubleshoot a problem on their PC and them struggling to understand what a path is or how to navigate a Windows filesystem to find what they need. You know? We're failing these kids and young adults. We're failing them so badly. We need to make this stuff cool again.

The only people who will benefit from an Apple monopoly are the Apple shareholders, not the Apple customers.

This has been a thing for a while now....like when I got my iphone 4 in grade 8.... 2011

Android has never been cool. Even when I was in high school androids were taboo

95% of the teenagers I see wear the same model of Nike shoes

Blaming an iMessage blue tick is such a massive over-simplification.

Its about what Apple stands for as a brand. They only push luxury, premium products. They never compromise. They avoid ever looking cheap, whether thats hardware, software, letting users make all their app icons pink and star shaped, whatever.

Its also about what Android is perceived as. The name is literally a synonym for a robot which already is a bit geeky. Theres a million shitty android phone brands/types for every one good one.

There is also not a single android phone released last year that ticks every box. S23U has a pen and is pretty huge. Not for everyone. S23+ has a lower res screen. Pixel camera module looks weird Onelus is too niche, again weird camera module

And people complain apple arent innovating? They don’t have to. The competition is shooting itself in the foot, every single year.

Teens get what their parents buy them. Period, lol.

To be honest, I got my first iPhone ever this year (had always android since LG, the pixel OG, 3 and 5), and I don’t think I will ever go back to android. The only thing I miss from the pixel is that I preferred the camera for photos at night. But video on iPhone is unbeatable