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    • Blue and Orange@lemm.eeEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      Probably because it’s not 2010 and both platforms are matured to the point of being able to do almost the exact same things for the majority of users, so it’s just down to small personal preferences.

      • fireshaper@infosec.pubEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        This is so true now. I used to go back and forth between iPhone and Pixel phones, and then a few years ago decided it’s just nicer with an iPhone. I know I’ll get regular updates and I’ll get OS updates way longer than any Android phone will. The OSes are pretty much the same now, little tweaks here and there between the two and they are nearly identical to how they work. And iPhone just has more QOL features over Android.

        • Acid@startrek.websiteEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          If anything that’s nonsense, iPhones are cheaper and easier to get repaired and far less to failure and I say this as someone who runs a store that sells phones.

            • Acid@startrek.websiteEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Try to as a normal non technical user get a random £200-300 android phone repaired that isn’t Samsung and then try to get an iPhone repaired and see the cost difference

      • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I think this is mostly right. There used to be big differences and now its very much just a preference. Except when price is taken into account.

        Apple no longer have an excuse for the high price of their phones because they are, as you said, basically the same as androids and in some cases just not as powerful.

        Androids have the advantage of competing with itself. There are many different makes and models of android all fighting for space so new features or improvements happen faster than they do for iphones. Apple have lost what made iphones unique and therefore “worth it” in many consumers opinions.

        If they are now basically an android they should cost the same as an equivalently specced android.

        • Acid@startrek.websiteEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          They do not work as well no, take for example if I buy an android phone + a Samsung watch + Sony headphones and run them together you know what happened last time. The Samsung watch broke the Sony headphones touch controls because of the apps not integrating properly.

          That’s the kind of it just works apple phones don’t deal with, I work with phones daily and the amount of people I see return android phones compared to iPhones is not even funny