The iPhone is a symbol of wealth. That's why 2 years old iphone with 4 years old spec is still topping over android. The average user doesn't even know what features and software the iPhone has over android.
As a native of a "developing country" who now resides in the US but still has most of his family back home, I can tell you the number 1 reason for the growth in iPhone sales in countries like those is "perceived status". The vast majority of users don't fundamentally care about any of the actual benefits of using an iPhone in the way Americans do. It simply stems from the fact that Americans are seen as more successful, and whenever they come to developing countries as tourists, they always seem to have iPhones, so that signals a certain level of prestige that most Android phones simply don't. Whether we wanna admit it or not, Apple wrestled the brand of the "Prestige Smartphone" from Blackberry many years ago and no Android manufacturer has been able to dethrone them. As high end smartphones became more mainstream outside of developed countries, it was only going to be a matter of time until this trend carried over as well.
Couldn't have said it any better. As someone from African who consumes a lot of American content. Status is key here. I mean we watch a lot of series and movies where the characters have an iPhone. Celebrities too. We may have all the features Americans have but we don't utilize the example is iMessage. We use third party apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Messenger (I wouldn't trust Meta for privacy though) and there's no segregation like "you have an Android, eww, green bubble," and all that.
Not really. A lot of ppl from developing countries pride themselves on saving costs more than prestige. I feel like iPhone value for money is unmatchable once ppl start realising it. I bought an android flagship phone while my friend brought an older gen iPhone of slightly higher price. My phone stopped getting updates after 2 years and stopped working after 3 years. My friend’s iPhone runs the latest software and the processor still holds up with no issues whatsoever. I switched to an iPhone now as I don’t want to keep changing my phones every 2-3 years to get the latest updates.
@@fuzzy295 My original comment wasn't anecdotal - it's factual. I regularly get questions regarding choosing to continue to use Android phones despite being in a different socioeconomic class relative to the one I grew up in because it's just a natural assumption that you use cheap Android phones until you can "afford" to buy an iPhone or until you have a family member in a developed country who can send you their old version when they upgrade. As it relates to phones still getting software updates, we as tech nerds would do well to understand that the average person doesn't care about OS updates as long as they keep getting updates to their social media and messaging apps to get the new features from those apps. From that standpoint, most average customers WILL NOT have "software updates" on their list of reasons for buying a phone. The average person only chooses to buy a new phone because of failing hardware, low storage, or some other surface level reason. Again, these are anecdotal points - they are facts.
lol, the truth is, if you don't have an iPhone, you're considered subhuman in younger circles Apple won the marketing campaign; outside of RUclips, I've never met an iPhone user who appreciates the tech or even cares what their phone is truly capable of it's all about fitting in for the vast majority
Very true, especially for high schoolers. At least 95% of everyone at my school has an iPhone and there is a big stigma against android, and not having an iPhone is a pretty bad look. People are so concerned about having the iPhone
I was in high school when it was legit 50/50 if not mostly Android. Starting from like 2016/17 I’ve never seen a single youngin with an android, unless it was in a third world country(duh).
Samsung needs to split their brand (like Toyota and Lexus). Their lower-level phones are typically their first impression with consumers who just need a smartphone and when these consumers graduate and start working they buy iPhone because their initial experience with Android left much to be desired but they never experienced flagship Androids.
It doesn't matter no blue bubble... A green bubble means a cheap budget phone regardless of what Android phone you have. iPhone users really don't know when it comes to technology. Some iPhone users still think Android only uses MMS/SMS
Well buying a cheap phone and thinking that's how android phones are, is called dumb user syndrome. Same applies to those saying how their $2000 mac is better than the windows machine they had(which is a 10 year pc that was $300)
Probably because Android manufacturers keep removing features from their flagship phones that people loved about Android such as the headphone jack and microSD card slot.
That's a big part of it I think , android used to be all about the extra features, but they tried to be like iPhones which have historically been fairly basic anyway, at the same time being very good at being basic. Add to that , android took away all the accessories in the box like the iPhone. Basically android is trying to be iPhone.
@@mikldude9376This is likely why Android flagships do not sell as well as they use to. I am an Android user myself, but I am willing to admit these companies should have stayed true to themselves. No wonder why the Galaxy A series has been outselling the Galaxy S series for the past several years.
@@michaelhall9146I strongly disagree I think a lot of people did care but company's just removed it and consumers didn't have a choice if they wanted to upgrade and it's just been so many years now that people moved on
One thing I noticed in family circles is the fact that Google has a slightly worse reputation regarding privacy than Apple, for some people that is enough to choose iPhone over Android Edit: the fact that some people are correcting me on “slightly worse reputation” means that Apple is really good at marketing
@@Fleecing1 Most people don't want to deal with unlocking the bootloader and potentially bricking their phone because they don't know what they are doing. Hell most people would just see the command line and avoid it altogether lol
I agree, I think Google's entire problem is their reputation (as an ad company) and their inability to at least make the impression to have a long term plan.
@@tiberseptim6648 most people buy phones like they would a toaster or microwave: they don't care what they buy, as long as it works. There's a Steve Jobs quote somewhere about this exact thing.
Very true. Considering I only use my phone to access the same 5 apps everyday, I wouldn’t go out of my way to switch to a new ecosystem just to use 5 apps. The extra features on androids most people just don’t use. Even with Home Screen customisation, regardless of how my home screen looks I look at it for 3 seconds at a time. If you want to do more with your phone then android is clearly the best way to go. But most people use phones to go on social media and text people. With tablets and laptops it’s different since I use those for a lot more than just scrolling through social media and messaging people
@@oneshotguy6372 I'm going to assume you're a non-native English speaker (I'm so sorry basically all of the Internet is in the worst language), but do you mind trying to say that again?
Outside USA android growing extreme level and iPhone is shrinking 😂🤣 These people don't even mention how iPhone 15 pro and pro max has thermal throttling issues while gaming, and the audacity of the iPhone is growing?, they need to check the real world numbers, not biased numbers
This is also the case in the Balkans! Like half of teenagers, and quite a lot more adults, now buy iphones rather than android! Not like they know why, because most of them have never had a premium android nor are they considering buying anything else from apple, but just because the iphone is cool!
@@Bilal.Hussain.Shaikh yes because when I go look for a phone the ONLY important thing to me is if it throttle games.... get real dude. I don't have a single game on my phones. android or apple. I literally couldn't care less about gaming. get a steam deck.
Yeah iOS optimizations ain't really all that. I switched from Pixel 6 pro to Iphone 14 and I've found that this phone is way less stable then the Pixel. I've had so many bugs. The most annoying one is where the phone will stop being able to use data. I have signal and all but for some reason it just refuses to let me use data or make calls. I have to restart it Everytime. And this has been an issues one all of the iphones i have used. Iv had the 5s and the 12. Both of them did it.
@@beni2ccif you see there’s something wrong with your data you may have a defected iPhone. My cousin’s first iPhone also had problems with data and I took him to an apple store so they could test it and they couldn’t even run the test cuz it dropped signal so they switched it for him and of course, the new phone is all good.
Because it is no longer about the phone. It is about the platform the phone plugs into. 1. The find my net work 2. The ecosystem 3. The App Store 4. The accessories market 5. The trade-in and resale value 6. up to six years of updates 7. CarPlay 8. Apple wallet
This. The iPhone is not anything special by itself but when you start adding devices you start experiencing the magic. Like Find my network and AirTag. Also the fluidity of the way it works. Android has Google Wallet and Samsung Pay similar to Apple Pay. But the way it works is so much better; double press the side button and FaceID identifies you while simultaneously unlocking and opening the app. No placing finger on scanner just one smooth fast motion.
Trade-in and resale value, I agree. Accessory market, I agree. The benefit there is that there are fewer iPhone models, so you will find accessories for it. Ecosystem, I guess that is true if you are already bought into it, but Google has an ecosystem as well. As for Apple Wallet, Google Wallet seems mostly equivalent. I've never seen any passes or anything that work on Apple but not Google. All the banks that support Apple Pay also support Google Pay, and retailers all accept both, and pretty much every one pays for everything using one or the other of them. For website/online purchases, Apple Pay does seem to be more supported than Google Pay.
Well said and depending on many other factors like needs, wants, location, use cases etc its true for not choosing apple as well Just speaking for myself here not trying to generalise for everyone 1. Never used and device search features like find my and android equivalent of it if the is - not because its useful but i never needed it until now (don’t know about future) 2. I have an anti ecosystem - android phone, ipad pro, windows laptop, dumb watch, non apple headphones apple products doesnt have the things i need ios is very restricted and macs cant game and dont care about my different products working together as i never needed it until now 3. didnt notice any major difference with play store and app store infact like play store interface better as it has a special section for app updates and you can put apps and games in wish list which cant be done in app store also the fact that app store is the only place if you want to get apps which i dont like 4. agreed - there are much more accessories for iphones as they have very less phones compared to hundred of android phones from many companies but not faced any problems for getting the accessories i needed for the products i use 5. never traded in or resold any of my devices so i will comment on it, but yes i agree apple products have better resale value 6. liked iphones and ipads for that reason and bought ipad for that reason but now samsung and google have promised 7 yrs of updates but still we will have to wait and see if they deliver on it and long updates are a good thing but i will get bored so i would buy a midrange phone 2 times with 2-3 yrs updates but to each their own 7. i dont have a car 8. in india i and almost everyone use upi (unified payments interface) which is great so wallets not needed hence i have said it before and will say it again - there is no one better option for everyone as both have pros and cons so buy what you need and want
I used android when I was kid to use modded apks to hack games or get free paid games. It's same reason I used to jailbreak ipod touches (pirate games and movies). Once I got a job and actual income, there was no pressure to ever do that, and the need to use android and its customizability went away completely. I can't spend 4-12 hours trying to customize a bootloader or something stupid when I have actual things to do. Now, everything I use are default apps, and apple simply does default apps the least shitty.
Ya, I have tried over like 250 custom ROMS from XDA, use it for a week or so and then load another version due to bugs😂. My first smart phone was a Samsung Windows phone (the very first Windows phone from Samsung) and XDA had custom ROM for that model too which I had installed and xda version ROM had way too many options compared to factory image. Now this is my first iPhone 15 which I bought a month ago, and absolutely no looking back. I still wonder why people are still behind specs! U put intel’s Xeon processor which is used in servers with 64-GB ram, android will still lag at times. iPhone is perfect for many , hence the market share has gone up!!
110% spot on. I think a lot of us grew up and wanted a phone that does the basic essential shit well 99% of the time. Like a Toyota corolla of phones. I finally permanently switched to iPhone like 7 years ago when my $850 LG kept crashing a month after i bought it.
Its simple. People debate about Hardware. But the mainstream does not care about that at all. They care about status, prestige. Hence why 80 % of school kids have iPhones. They just want to be "cool". You can think about that what you want, but at the end of the day, most of society cares about "status".
I will mention that I had an android and now that I have a daughter, I wanted her to fit in so I switched to iOS to give her the best opportunity to succeed in the US. I wore my android loving with my pride, but I’m weird and I don’t expect my daughter to hold my baton.
Pulled those % out of your arse ? Here`s what I found on 1 minute search: most Android users, mostly teenagers, are within the 18-24 range, boasting over 70% of the entire user base.
I asked my teenage relatives who actually switch from Android to iPhone few years ago, they just said its simply better. I asked why, they said the interface UI, longitivity, better ecosystem, system stability. You can be a fan of something, but being delusional is a regress of humanity.
That is actually same for the 98% of the world, just few tech fanatic loves to tweak everything about the phone, but the average none tech user just want it to work, without any tech knowledge requirements (and teachers, secretary, baker etc usually has low tech knowledge, they can't even install heir driver for the PC, so when you gives them 1000 options to choose, that will not help them..)
It's not, the advantage of android is functionality. The ability to make my phone behave exactly how I want it to behave instead of some company deciding for me. To put it in its simplest terms
@@xyz-ml9ff you can't do that with android. try making it not lag. try making better defaults app. try making it integrate with your watch or laptop better. this is the same argument linux users use. You can customise your house to be whatever you like. Except its just a plot of land with no roads and a rotting shack on it. customisability. but unless you're a world class designer, amazing programmar, have all the time in the world, then you can't do anything. Yes there are 1 million options on android. But not a single one of them is as good as the iPhone's default. Not even close. And I only want to use one not keep switching. Also living in the UK, most people have WhatsApp installed. But i still hate using it. iMessage is better. Period. That's why people use it. Everyone downloads youtube on their iphone (doesn't come pre-installed). Everyone downloads apps (thats why they have a smartphone). But FaceTime and iMessage are the best. period. they integrate so nicely. Take the photos app, calendar app, notes app, reminders and so many more. I have tried so many alternatives but finally gave up and just found myself loving the 'basic' pre-installed apps. There isn't any app that is better than these. Yes on paper. But try it for yourself and you'll quickly realise what's on paper is the stuff that, as it turns out, doesn't matter. What needs to be on the paper is the stuff that causes you to naturally use it. Where you find yourself using it when you didn't otherwise with alternatives. That's the only thing that matters. If you find yourself pulling your phone out to take pictures when you otherwise wouldn't, that's what matters. Not the specs and the thousand ways one is supposedly better than the other.
I will tell you based on my personal experience why I think many people are switching, and basically it just comes to budget Android being shit sometimes, so when people are willing to spend some savings on buying a high end phone, the first brand that comes into their minds is iPhone, because Apple marketed themselves as a high end brand with premium devices. So the people who bought low ends Smasung phones, when they think about Samsumg, they will remember that low end phone, so they will not think about Samsung phones the moment they go buying a high end one. tl;dr: Apple is the go-to top of mind brand for many people that just want to upgrade to a high end phone, because those people have used low budget Android phones in the past.
That’s a great point. Despite Samsung having phones costing higher than iPhones, their brand value has been diluted by the lower end offerings. I would much rather own a $40,000 Mercedes than a $50,000 Toyota even if I could afford one
@@well7885 Exactly. Those people who have used low budget samsungs will think that the higher end ones also have bad cameras, or think that they will also lag and become slow overtime. That's the image that those low budget phones give to their brands, so people will asume that the S line-up of Samsung (for example) are equally as bad. So, they will go buy an iPhone the moment they want to upgrade, because they assume it will have decent cameras and won't ever lag or slowdown.
@@AIejandroideSo true! you got also my experience having a lower budget phone of samsung and i just also think that their flagship will be shit also. So basically I'm in ip15 pm right now, no regrets of switching😊
@@CANDYDOGxx I mean, the experience that I'm telling is just based on what I see in my social media, where peopñe that I have seen using low end Androids suddenly after a few months or years now have IPhones, instead of the top of the line phones from the brand that they had before. But this is not my case, because since I'm a tech savy person I know that there are high end Androids that I enjoy using, like my current Z Fold 5, and there is not iPhone right now that could give me the same enjoyment.
@@CANDYDOGxx that is not my case tho, I have always prefered Android. Since I am a tech savy person, I find the OS much more appealing to my needs, and there is no iPhone alternative for my precious Z Fold 5 which I really enjoy using.
I used iPhones from 2014-2020. Then I used android from 2020-2024 because I was so annoyed of people calling me an apple sheep, and genuinely android has some things going for it. But I just bought an iPhone 15 3 days ago and I cannot say to you how much I love being back.
Real Samsung makes good devices yeah but once u in the Apple ecosystem. It’s hard to come out of it then been with iPhone since the iPhone 5s now currently got the iPhone 15 Pro Max.
Yep. I was in the same loop. Except I only used iPhone for about 4-5 years, then tested out Android because I was curious. Ended up going back to iPhone and honestly it is just better. Everyday use it feels like it's an actual part of your life. Android to me was like that as well, but more of a gadget? Like I wanna play with it mess with its features, etc... But iPhone feels like a device you just need in life. Like shoes, or a shirt. And it's amazing at doing it.
Mine is the complete opposite. I used Android phones from 2014-2020 and that was a solid time to use them since they were so different and had features IPhone didn’t. By the time I brought my Galaxy S20 FE I already was considering the iPhone since Android OEM’s did away with the things that made Android special (headphone jack, different materials like plastic/aluminum, front facing speakers, SD card, etc.
See fellow nerds.....average consumers really DON'T care about high refresh rate. I've tried explaining to friends and family about this feature and all they could tell me was "oh that's nice but I don't really care about it. I just want good cameras."
Lmao its painfully true. I main a sony xperia 1V and all my family cant fathom that i like the manual contols that it gives me when everything can be automatic.
@@MACTEP_CHOB Average consumer care about prestige. I had several costumers considering a switch from android to iphone. When I ask them why, they always answer "Many other ppl habe it too"/"all my family members use iphone".
Yeah kinda... Until you notice that UX in android is even far better and well thought than apple... Its mind boggling that iphones dont have the most basic and obvious feature of an universal back button. My brother uses iphone for 7 years now and he even tells me that he sometimes does look for the "Go back" button. Its the false premise of thinking that android is complex, because you have so many fcking options to choose from. However if you want it to be simple, just dont change anything and go along. Your experience will be better on android than on iphone due to simple things like a go back button. If you want to go deep inside your phone the doors are wide open as well.
HEY DREW! I work in Vodafone and from what I've seen from the average consumer there are two main reasons for this. 1: Apple's market share is very resistant to shrinking because most average iOS users are afraid to make the switch over to Android, stating that their other Apple devices won't work as well if they do. 2: the average smart phone user is getting younger and younger. We see 12 and 13 year olds coming in to get smart phones now on a daily basis and they don't even consider androids to be an option because there's still this stigma around Android. Most young people see it as the broke person's phone. Apple is better at customer retention and have positioned themselves as the premium mobile device so they don't have to worry about offering a better device because they know the majority of people who change from one major OS to the other are going to change from Android to iOS.
The iPhone is simply a better product, but more than that, the ecosystem is unbeatable there isn’t even a decent find my iPhone competitor on Android and let’s not mentioning the fragmentation problem and the poor design of Android itself with the “garbage collection”.
@@Adamtendo_player_1 This is true only in places like the US, the Find My network relies on other iPhones in the vecinity to locate your lost device, since the US is mostly iPhones that is easy to do, but in other countries where there are more Android devices than iPhones that is just not possible, same issue with Apple Maps etc.
@@Adamtendo_player_1 "iphone is simply a better product" is simply a wrong statement. Also no. Samsung ecosystem is on par with Apples ecosystem, if not even better, as you are not locked to one specific brand of a laptop, but literally have every other windows laptop as an option. Additionally your Samsung home devices can connect to your ecosystem to. You could build a whole house with Samsung devices communicating with each other. The UX is actually majorely questionable. Even the simplest feature of an universal back button is not given, while it being so obvious, so you actually have to search for a way to go back on every single app. My brother uses iphones since 7 years and he told me that he still sometimes get confused how to go a step back. I work in an electronic store and selling smartphones. I have contact to lots of costumers. I have quite a lot of costumers considering android devices, however thrown back by the decision, solely because of the ecosystem switch. I also have quite a lot android users considering switching to iphone. I always ask what the reasoning is for the switch. The most common answer is "Many other ppl have it too"/"All my family members have an iPhone".
@@chomp5558 This is false. You obviously haven't learned and mastered both ecosystems. And even if Samsung were better, it's only better until the battery in your phone swells up like a pregnant whale, or maybe even catches fire. System means EVERYTHING, and this also means whether 19 megabytes of your data are getting sold daily by Google. "I don't care, I got nothing to hide?" -- Are you sure? Your passwords, logins, credit cards, social security number, and all that are not valuable to you? Every day a new database with personal info on it is getting hacked. What sucks is when it's a database you shouldn't even be on but your data was sold there by data brokers.
I have using Android for over a decade. I tried last years iPhone and I just do not like iOS compared to Android, everything seems locked and limited compared to Android. Also I love GBoard on Android it's miles ahead the Apple Keyboard.
@@riickyworld1It's working because Android manufacturers are trying to copy them. Why buy an Android if it's the same as the iPhone? Exactly. Android needs to stop copying Apple and start being different again
No it's that band that they put on China That's what's working not the software there's some phones in China that is not global anymore and some phone can't use Google operating system anymore hence Android so it seems that Apple is leading but they quietly eliminate Google if that band is removed then android jump up back
@@riickyworld1 coz of the thirdies ,majority south asians and south east asians also south americans buys an iphone just for the logo i have many european friends they all got androids
It’s a few reasons why iPhones are quickly becoming the most bought smartphone. 1. The quality of the iPhones are just… better. 2. Apple has been adding more features with every iOS update 3. Most Android handsets behave like iPhones. Everything from the animations to the Home-Bar is… copied. 4. Affordability. iPhones are no longer the most expensive 5. Integration. Apple products talk to and work with each other seamlessly 6. Longevity. iPhones get updates for years on day one.
1, 2, and 6 are objectively wrong. But you are correct on 3, 4 and 5 1, quality between similarly priced iPhones and androids is the same. There is no quality difference between an iPhone 15 pro max and a galaxy s24 ultra. 2, while Apple has been adding more features, Android is still miles ahead. Things that Android gets trickle down to Apple devices a few years later. 3, yup. Android copied a ton of ui from Apple in the early years and a lot of that stuff is foundational so both OSes feel extremely similar 4, absolutely. Almost all folding Android phones from every manufacturer cost $1800+. By comparison a $1300 15 pro max is a steal of a deal. 5. Aaple’s ecosystem. Enough said. Google is getting better but it’s still miles away. 6. Both Samsung and Google offer 7 years of guaranteed full OS updates now. Apple still only does 5-6. Overall it’s a tie between iPhone and Android. The real reason people are switching to iPhone is that a lot of the low end Android users were a captive audience. If you only had $200-300 to spend on a phone you were getting an Android even if you wanted an iPhone. Now a lot of these people are starting to make more money and finally have options, so they finally get what they wanted. Apple customers on the other hand always had options so they are there because they want to be not because they have to
1 Im going to disagree with heavily, android phones can have p good build quallity and design thay i actually prefer. 2 isnt uniqe to apple. 4 is sorta true in that apple closed the bar as far as most people care, but android still has the edge, 5 is true if you have all apple products and have a lot of friends with apple product (which tbf does apply to a lot of people) and while 6 is true, android has mostly closed the gap. Samsung for example has 7 years of updates. The biggest thing is honestly just that apple has a better reputation, and when ios/android have mostly reached parity, theres not much reason for 99% of people to care about abythinf else.
@SteveDonev you are wrong in multiple ways.. That is true Android showed us more things first, but most of them already throwed away, and using that methid what Apple showed.. (like 120Hz are all LTPO and not fixed 120Hz, wireless charging also will change, since the MagSafe accepted by wirldwide and Android manufacturers also using it, same for tons of other thing like text recognization, what can you find in your phone? You need an individual app like Google lens and the camera for it, or it's useable system wide everywhere, without any requirements, so you can use it your own insta picture what Google lens can't even do..). Android just put a lot of early access into the phone, but the full release usually comes from Apple.. and personally i prefer to pay the same evolution just once, not twice (once for the early access and once for the full release).. The 7 years OS update also just a bad example, because the equally powerfull one year old phone will not get it, you must buy a new phone for it, by the way Apple promising only 4-5 years, but they always give you a lot more.. for example the iPhone 6s from 2015 still got the iOS 15.8 security patch a few months ago (Oct 2023, and if you calculate the years between Sept 2015 and Oct 2023, that is more than 8 years already, and they not even forced anybody to by a new phone for that...)
I personally avoided Apple and even barked at 2019... in previous years. But in 2019, I decided that I would try the iPhone and the first question was how will I manage in a closed system if I have been using Android for more than 8 years. Well... when the first iPhone 11 arrived, when I got it up and running and got to the main menu, then apps... I immediately fell in love, I immediately paid attention to the iOS animations... So I went from a 90hz Android to a 60hz iPhone screen. I used the first model in question for over a year until I bought another iPhone, I had already decided long ago that I would stay with Apple. Apple still has a significant edge in security, operating system animations and more. What I love most is the speed, ease of use and security
Running Moto Edge 40 at 240+hertz with Animation at 0.5x speed and its feels amazing compared to my friends iPhone 15 Max and the 8020 MediaTek SoC is much weaker
@@alwhitney68 lmao exactly my s23 ultra has 256gb and when I had a cheap lg phone with 32gb, I still did not use the sd slot. SD cards made sense back in era of pocket pcs 20 years ago because even high end models only had less than 100mb of internal storage. Sd cards are for cameras.. also sd cards are slow and they suck.
@@alwhitney68Exactly lol. I was using SD Cards to expand my phone's storage back when phones only had 8-16 gb of internal storage. My current phone has 128 gb, so I have no need to get an SD Card, especially considering SD Cards are slower than internal storage
Android vs iPhone, Michael Jordan vs Kobe Bryant, Captain America vs Iron Man, Batman vs Superman. There will always be someone or something vs someone or something lol. Polarity is the way of this Universe. Smh. 😂
Apple's success is a mix of 3 factors: 1. Very good marketing and brand positioning. 2. Focus on reliability and ease of use (hardware and software). 3. Being a north american company and thus having a strong advantage in that market, which happens to be the biggest market in the world. So consumers, specially north americans, just go with Apple as their defaulf option because it's well marketed and it's from "murica", even though there are better value options. This often shields the company from it's own mistakes, putting them in a very safe position which draws attention globally.
Actually, China is the biggest smartphone market in the world, India is second place, ease of use is debatable since most things I do on my Pixel 7 pro with 1 or 2 steps, I do on my iPhone 12 with 3 or 4 steps, marketing and brand positioning I do agree, I know a lot of people going into debt just to get an iPhone, heck, I know people using cracked iPhone 8s thinking their phones are superior than a Samsung Galaxy s24 ultra. 😅
@@chomp5558 I agree, the lack of a universal back button irks me to no end. I also don't like being limited to the App Store, there are tons of great apps on Android that would never be allowed in the Google Play Store
My two cents: - iPhone is easy - iPhone has the walled garden experience that will rarely have a major issue - iPhone DOES have a cult following that will pressure friends and family into buying them (albeit this is much more rare than some people seem to think - it DOES happen, particularly in American high schools, but it's only one piece of the puzzle and likely a small one) Is Android ahead in sheer features? Yeah. That's why I switched - it wasn't infrequent for me to try to do something on my iPhone, not see a clear way to do it, google how to, and be told that I couldn't. But I'm a tech nerd. The general public doesn't care about sideloading an alternative RUclips with slightly different features tailored to music streaming, they'll pay for RUclips Music and be done with it. The general public doesn't care about having a gesture to go back a page, they'll use their other hand to reach the corner of the phone and hit the arrow pointing left. They don't care about the thousands of options Androids have in case you happen to want to use them, they'll look through the simpler settings on iPhone and set them once and forget about it. Android objectively lets you do more than IOS allows, but IOS is simple, and to a lot of people that's more important. And hey, if you want the extra customzation, Android is right there, you can buy it instead.
@@BobLadif-jk3hx I consider iOS the one to have more "uncharted territory" compared to android. I find it more interesting as a tech nerd because of the restrictions. If the number of android users that sideload are low, then the ones on iOS is even lower. I personally find android boring but hey different strokes for different folks.
At our high school, kids will get made fun of or bullied if they have an android. All kids want for Christmas is the brand new iPhone. I think having a pen in a phone is way cooler than the name starting with a lowercase I.
@djplonghead5403 And that happens at some schools. I doubt it's many of them, I know it's not all of them because the school I went to wasn't like that, but hey, it very clearly does happen. I've also heard of cases where people on dating apps will immediately lose interest if they text someone and see a green bubble, which, while shallow, is a real concern that could cause people to switch to iPhone purely for social reasons. The people who dogmatically claim that anyone with an iPhone is a sheep are flat-out wrong, but the implication Drew made that there isn't a kernel of truth to it isn't right either. It does happen, it's just not everyone.
As an African I hardly know people with a flagship Android phone (and they are available). I know many people with an iPhone. Most people I know using an entry-level Android aspire to have an iPhone. I always ask them why not just buy the flagship Samsung or whatever manufacturer they currently use when they get the income and they're usually surprised that good (if not better) Android's exist. I'm on my 7th iPhone now and I do prefer iOS but I try recommend friends to try a flagship Android before switching to iOS.
I always find iPhones to be the most balanced in terms of overall package. Great cameras, decent battery life, great screens, good for gaming, most optimized apps, years of software updates. Not the best at any single thing but always a solid overall package.
Yeah, and for most people who can afford it, that is AMAZING! If you want something (which you will once you have used that thing for a long time AKA S-pen) you will most likely find that on android.
its objectively the best at videography and the battery life of the 15pm is on par with the latest s24 ultra. your comment is such a generic outlook that noone seems to fact check because it just "makes sense"... mUh 200 MegApiXels tHo!!!!!
@@cqlyx2564 Just to be clear, IMO, calling the iPhone the most balanced is unironically the highest complement I can give to a smartphone (you know, a device that does everything).
S24 U Specs: Sharper camera but colors a bit blander, longer battery life than the 15 pm, better screen than the 15 pm, better GPU performance therefore gaming performance additionall better thermal management, yeah optimized apps + for apple, longer updates on Samsung. Mmmhh... its logical that iPhone is better 🤡
False. This is a misconception that many people have. iOS has majority market share in many countries like Japan, UK, Switzerland, Taiwan, Sweden, Canada, etc. It's not just the US. Android has majority global market share.
Both markets are growing to be honest and Android is far from shrinking its crazy ridiculous how much Android sells for their entry-midrange devices especially in 3rd world countries where the cheap phones are actually pretty capable.
Bro In my country, android doesn’t exist This is global okay. If you don’t understand, just pass, but if you think android is winning, you are just dreaming. It’s amazing that android smartphones are billions of them out there, but still, all go and no show
I hate when android fans pick and choose the best of ALL the android phones to compare to ONE iPhone. It’s like saying humans suck because cheetas are faster and gorillas are stronger
It’s not about picking the best of all android phones. It’s about similar pricing. You can’t really expect a 300 dollar phone to hold up against the iphone. It just happens that the android phones that have similar prices to the iphone are the best ones
A lot of these points just aren’t true anymore. Samsung is starting to push 7 years of software support for their high end smartphones and 4 for their lower end ones So resale value is actually better on Samsung since it makes more sense to buy a phone that will work and be able to download any app in 7 years Drop this act of Apple is worth more, people need to see Apple will slowly fall soon
s22 wont even be getting the same features that the s23 lineup will in oneui 6.1 but nearly every iphone gets new software features on the next update.
@@ssimt s9 still works, not as smooth because software was bad back then. Apple perfected the OS in like 2015 but android just recently in 2023 Now from 2023 and onward they will last the same, Android may even last longer as hardware is better and software support is also longer now
After owning 15 pro for 2 weeks ,I may show off my phone to friends at first ,but as time passes on ,I don't feel it anymore ,just a phone ,I would rather have better battery life gaming performance with vapour chamber cooling (15pro cooling sucks which lead to underclock of cpu and fps loss) and also a bypass battery charging while gaming and I can confidently use max settings 60fps on genshin and hsr without damaging battery on my another s24+
I became an Apple sheep about a year before I went on social security. It's the built-in interoperability between devices. And the trade-in values. Airdrop, Continuity Camera, Universal Control, iMessage, Siri...
Continuity camera requires a MacBook to work, and the market share for MacOS is much lower than Windows. A recent update to my Pixel gave it their equivalent of continuity camera. It is a bit more fiddly to set up, you tap on the notification when you plug it in with a USB cable, and you can select to have it in camera mode. Then it presents itself to the computer as a webcam. That works in Windows and MacOS.
@GarrusVakarian88 I mean it’s “Apples” ecosystem of course it’s going to use apples apps so they can all work together wonderfully, I haven’t heard many complaints from people who actually own and use apple products on a day to day, just android /windows folks who are complaining from the outside in
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S21 overseas when I was living there. I came back to the states and the screen broke. I went to Samsung, and they told me they can't fix it because it's an international phone. I said Apple would never do that BS! I fixed the S21 because my credit card had cellphone protection, but if it breaks beyond repair or is lost, I'm switching to iPhone. Samsung screwed me!
I will only go over to iPhone when there OS isnt as cartoony with huge icons and when they get rid of the dynamic island, until then i am sticking with google pixel, its as close to an iphone as I am going to get
I really want to know when android fans finally accept that iPhones aren’t bad just because they don’t look good on paper sometimes. There’s a reason why more and more people are buying iPhones.
I love the answers here in the comments. So I’ll try and honor them by covering something minor but different. In conjunction with the aforementioned ecosystem, I’ll add features. No, not just any features, but useful “life” features. iMessage. Handoff/Continuty. Find My. ECG. Blood Oxygen. Fall Detection. Crash Detection. SOS via Satellite. Stolen Device Protection. Pick any one of these, add the requisite hardware and you’re already ahead of the pack. Combine them all, with optimization, ease of use, brand trust and longevity….and you have your answer. It’s no surprise that a lot of the features listed are mainly dependent on the hardware specific to them, and that speaks to the next point: good parts procurement and inventory management. That’s Tim’s strong point. And of course we wouldn’t be here if not for the vision of Steve, Steve, and Jony. I’m sure I missed a lot, but hope somewhere in there is my point. 🤷🏾♂️
every feature you listed is on android except for fall detection, crash detection, and sos via satellite. and even when you commented this, apple lost the ability to use blood oxygen sensor 💀
I’ll tell you something, I only had the 4S as my first and only iPhone until now and YES, Android is “superior in hardware”. I’ve been using android since the galaxy S4 and have gone through 500, 200, 800 USD phones and no matter the price bracket, android has always felt like I’m using a device that I had to “accommodate to” (No sh**, right) Since the 15s with type C came out I got an iPhone 12 and a 13 mini to test iOS and indeed, iPhones feel like a polished experience and not like “you’re running software on this hardware”. Also, as a NON Us resident, find my and activation lock make so much of a difference as I’m basically un-robbable. And also, something I hate about android in retrospective, is that they’re not always improving, you have to seek and investigate to see if the Xphone 3 5G is better than its past generation or in some cases, a manufacturer introduces a feature and then kills it in the next generation, which is SO annoying. With an iPhone you ALWAYS know: If it’s the +1 generation it’s better in every regard or at least slightly better in most regards, but nothing goes back.
I've been an apple user for as long as ive had phones (I'm 21), never used android. I just switched to android last month as I wanted a flip phone and I absolutely love it
Because people literally say confidently that they'll not date you if you do not have an iPhone. 'That you're broke if you have an Android', or 'How can you not afford Apple?' They're all using iMessage, and no Apple user would bother using WhatsApp or Telegram for others. The bottom line will always be this. Android and Windows, both, are far, far superior, practical, easy to use and more fit for more than 90% of the people. All these morons that you see around yourself, have had/ or use shitty Samsung A Series phones and garbage laptops for years, and when they can finally buy something expensive, they buy an iPhone and a MacBook, are amazed by them, and then start belittling others who do not use Apple. Without knowing how Android works on a Samsung S Series phone/ Pixel/ OnePlus 12, and let's not even begin with Windows on any laptop above $800-900. That fucking MacBook Air would be destroyed by any Windows laptop costing same or a bit less, have better Specs, similar impeccable build quality, more ports, no dumb notch and perform better in almost all aspects [except for Battery life, which currently sucks on Windows laptops, and speakers]. Shaming people and looking down on people not having a product of a brand does not automatically entail that it is superior or better. But this is how Apple's dominated the Smartphone market in the US [there are other factors too, like superb build quality, long Updates etc, but they've been nerfed out as of today]. Apple is a 'Status Symbol'. You're perceived to be rich if you have an Apple product, no matter how inferior it might be to its competitors.
To me it’s privacy. I came from BlackBerry, and when it died I jumped to Android together with BlackBerry. But after several years I finally grew tired of fighting Google for my data and when Apple started marketing themselves as pro privacy I made a leap of faith and tried iOS. It actually took me several years of using two phones before I finally decided to goes fully into Apple ecosystem. Mostly because Microsoft disappoint me twice by first selling under performed Surface Go which I end up giving to my sister and me buying an iPad and later stop upgrading my old Thinkpad T470 to Windows 11 that pushed me into buying a MacBook. As such, in 2024 I’m now fully in Apple ecosystem and can probably and rightly be called Apple sheep.
My next phone might be an iPhone since Google is ruining Android. - Storage Access Framework has killed performance. On Android 11, access speed to microSD cards can be reduced from 50-100 times because of crappy APIs. - Apps I bought are being deleted as Google comes up with crap policies. (Meanwhile Apple has loosened up their policies, for example allowing emulators.) - Android has become less open (and has been for a while) as they replace AOSP apps with Google apps. An example of this would be AOSP "Music Player" being replaced by "Google Play Music, which was yet again replaced by "RUclips Music" (losing local file playback in the process). - Google Play Services is bloated and kills battery. I have some old devices with degoogled custom roms that can get up to a week of battery life, simply because of not having Google Play Services. Add to that how OEMs have been removing features like removable batteries, headphone jacks, microSD slots, and durable plastic/metal designs... I might as well get an iPhone especially as Apple's OS is at least ore polished, is becoming more open, and gets more years of official support. Android has lost it's touch, especially among power users like me.
Number one reason that I choose iPhone is security/privacy. Everything in my life is on my phone. I trust Apple (and their walled garden) more than Android
The biggest and the major factor which works for apple is that their brand image and brand perception is a lot lot better than android especially in the general non tech savy public , you won't believe how some individuals i have met think that iphones have unlimited ram and are using a iphone 7 in 2024 that is just one of a few example . That apple logo is what is increasing the iphone sales especially in the developing countries where non rich people want to appear rich by buying a iphone no matter if the price is their half a years salary .
When it comes to Apple v. Android the choice comes down to “which trillion dollar company do I trust with my most intimate information with?” Apple has to win in that regard. They’ve got the most security for the average person features. But if I were to leave I would go Third Party Android Rom like GrapheneOS or lineage and just opt out of the duopoly entirely. Android with Google is chasing the iPhone while entrusting my info with an Ad company. Not ideal. Long story short… what will get me to leave iPhone is a compelling anti iPhone like a fair phone with a third party rom. Otherwise the iPhone is just the best default option.
id get like 2 phones: pixel 8 (w/ grapheneos) and iphone 15, so that i can have both ecosystems. for laptops, i would go for macbook air 2020 and system76 laptop
Why is everyone acting like Apple having 7/10 of the Top10 phones are from them? That's literally happening EVERY year. This is not new with 2023... Sometimes it's 6/10, sometimes it's even 8/10. It's normal for years
Lmao that beginning part sounds just like all the Android ppl I run across on RUclips. They’re only arguments are “you’re all stupid” and “you’re just sheep” 😂 weirdos
The only reason some say that cuz iPhones users will admit for example say Samsung is better but still proceed to buy an iPhone. Just seem kind of stupid. But I at least tried apple but I came back to Samsung and I'm here to stay
I started out in 2010 as an Android fanboy, and I _want_ to love Android again, but I kind of hate the direction that the tech industry is moving in as a whole. Android phones used to have legitimate hardware differences that set it aside from the iPhone, but over the years, manufacturers have been stripping away those features. So now, I just use the phone as a tool and media consumption device. Since I work in IT, and 95% of the people I work with have iPhones, with almost exclusively Apple computers (aside from some CAD and robotics labs) and iPads, and we have AppleTV's all over the place for projecting, so it just makes sense to have an iPhone. I hate the walled-garden, but it is what it is. I don't really like phones in general any more, so I'm just picking whichever one does the job better.
I can’t say why it’s growing in the world, but I think here in the States it’s the customer service that there’s a Apple Store you can bring your phone and also again at least here in the states, you can call Apple support and you can talk to a live person and I’ve actually use the service and found it helpful and get fixed if there’s a problem or you can buy it right there and I also think iMessage is a big deal here in the States. Even with those advantages I have to say I like android better for a number of reasons like I have 60 gigs of music and it’s easy to put on my phone and also the universal back gesture and multitasking and notifications is better on android oh one more thing which may sound small but you can’t set up the home screen the way you want unless it’s full so if you wanna put an app somewhere or a widget it moves on you unless the screen is totally packed out so I guess visual person that just bugs me to no end. Anyway, I have an iPhone 13 mini and I have a galaxy S 24+ and I know those are totally different phones but I go back-and-forth.
Reasons : (according to me) 1) BBD sale in india in the month of nov 2023 (14,128 gb went for around 600 usd) 2) Sentiment that if spending more,why not to buy an iphone 3) Illusion that games run more smooth in iphone as compared to androids 4) Showing off factor 5) Samsung switching to exynos for global market and constantly using exynos in mid range ,which people dont prefer 6) Google using a sort of exynos(heating and network quality) 7) Games storing data in their own server rather than google play games,making switching easy 8) People getting bored of android 9) People financing their phones more easily 10) OnePlus is no more a suitable mid to high range phone to buy due to the destruction of the old lovely oxygen OS. 11) Chinese phone's increasing prices,like the redmi note that was supposed to be around 15 to 20k INR is around 30k (double) and we can get an iPhone 14/15 in BBD sale for 50 ,so why not invest more in iPhone.
People buy iPhones because it has an Apple logo on the back. They lose their critical thinking (If they have any, right Americans?) and buy that crap. So sad this happens...
Anytime the masses are into something that is a red flag for me! I don't do what everyone else is doing! But to each his own! All I know is for me, I'll go my own way and not follow the masses...
Well I bought an iPhone 14 (switched from Android) recently for the same reasons you stated, the animations, fluidity and snappiness of the software. But, I’m having a really frustrating experience. The operating system is really not that snappy. The animations are smooth, sure, but that results in them being a tad slower. And every time you want to click a button or do a gesture, you have to wait a couple seconds . I always find myself tapping buttons/doing gestures 2-3 times before they perform the action they are intended to. The best example would be on youtube, when you minimise and maximise a video using the swipe up and swipe down gestures respectively.
Simple... iOS might be worse overall productivity wise but it gets the basics better (animation curves, scrolling behavior etc...) that people just don't see the reason to choose Android: "Why do i need file management", "why do i need better typing", "why do i need 3rd party apps?", "why do i need a phone that turns into a full blown PC?", "why do i need customization if it just works?" All i do is swipe up down left right on social and that looks better on iOS.
I switched from Android to iPhone largely because “it just works”. It’s the 6+ years of security updates, the third party app optimizations, the compatibility/integrations with other hardware and software, the consistent UI, iMessage, GamePigeon, iMessage group chats, etc. For example, Android Auto’s UI was (I can’t speak to nowadays for obvious reasons) absolutely garbage and it was constantly crashing on my Pixel 2. I would try everything to debug the issue, but the issue would always crop back up. My iPhone 12 has rarely had any issues with Apple CarPlay and the UI is simple and reliable. As much of a tech nerd as I am, I don’t enjoy constantly having to debug issues with my phone or its compatibility with other software / hardware. Things either work with the iPhone or they don’t. I don’t have to hunt through tech specs /manuals to figure out which specific Android brands and models work with my other technologies. Something as simple as pairing Bluetooth headphones could sometimes be a hassle (back in 2016).
It’s the consistency prime example of the iPhone has a problem affecting 40000 people they will take care of it quick Android makers will take months or even years to fix it which sucks at this point I love my pixels but iPhone is my phone because wit just works with barely any hiccups
I switched from a Galaxy S22 Ultra to an iPhone 15 Pro Max. I am actually quite happy. I was an Android user since 2009. I had a Palm Pre before that and a Moto Q (Windows Mobile) before that one. Even though I’m 34 I’ve never had a “feature phone” or a “dumb phone”. I think that this iPhone 15 Pro has made me the happiest in terms of a smart phone since the Palm Pre.
The answer is simple. Social Media iPhones are more optimised for social media and that's literally one of the primary reasons that most phone buyers today, purchase their phones. From the camera quality to how the experience is better when you use social media on iOS. Especially for uploading content and even shooting content within those social media apps, without using the phone's native camera app. Factor in the hype behind the Apple logo as well as overall ignorance of what mordern Androids are capable of, from Apple users. It was kinda of inevitable that this would happen.
I think it is mostly because Apple is seen as a luxury brand so people don't really care about the specs or price, they really go into debt just to buy the latest iPhone, heck they buy old iPhones thinking they are superior to modern Android devices, they just want to be part of the "Cool kids".
@@MACTEP_CHOB Not just TikTok. Most socially media apps. Especially Instagram which is where camera quality takes top priority. So it doesn't matter if you have a phone with better cameras than an iPhone. If it's not optimised to upload those pictures with better quality. Then it's pointless to have that phone as an avid social media user/content creator.
Everyone forgets to mention the Apple Store. People love looking at the new iPhones in person, and they really like that there’s a physical store to go to when their products are having issues
Rich, cool people use iPhones. That's the perception. You're a loser if you use an Android. Apple is more of a lifestyle brand than a tech brand. People want the image of using an iPhone in public, so they pay more for a worse device.
Great video. I think the answer is even simpler. Apple users have been surveyed, studied, questioned and polled for close to two decades. The answers rarely change. 1-Ease of use, 2-build quality (ohhh pretty❤️) 3-the devices are well maintained by APPLE (great customer support, frequent updates and they last long) 4-resale value, 5-every device we like works well with their other devices (ecosystem). 6-they just work! (People enjoy using them, stable OS. It’s not because millions are “flexing” or the really dumb “it’s MARKETING”. Edit: forgot a big one-Security.
@leviandhiro3596 it's not for everyone, but the majority of the world are just "simple" users (so not tech fanatics), and for them it's easier. There are a lot of Android user who ask me how he can reach this/that after they switched phone, but not a single iPhone user did that ever, because even the new phone use the same method like their previous phone, so they already know how to use it if they used it previously (so they only need to learn once, not once per phone purchase..)
@@TamasKiss-yk4st Im pretty sure majority of iphone user dont even know any features and ways of using android as a system, hence why they think its easy to use. Their is a german saying "Dont tell a farmer a fruit he hasnt seen before". What it basically means is that the uninformed apple user will be happy with ios, until the apple user gets the gist of the features of android. If you dont know about the universal back button, located at the lower right corner, functioning in every app the same way, you will not miss it. However if you know its existance, every time you search a way to go back, you will be missing that one button. I actually asked my brother, who has been using iphone since 7 years, if he sometimes searches for a way back. He confirmed it. He said that its worst with app in app situations, in which he can wither go to the main page or leave the app in app, but not go a single step back.
@@chomp5558 Android/PC users really need to let go of the delusional and self-soothing belief that Apple users “don’t know”. It’s Android and Windows not Linux or writing code. It’s not that we don’t “know” enough, We. Don’t. Care. We shop for personal computing devices like everything else and we LIKE Apple. Android users seem incapable of understanding the basic concepts of human nature or respect the fact that people VALUE different things. We like Apple’s attention to detail and how they try to create a user experience that is innovative, fun and functional. They focus on what we can do with our devices, not to them. We like their emphasis on security, privacy and accessibility. We like their design aesthetic and stable operating systems. How they don’t sell us to the highest bidder, not constantly tracking or drowning us in bloatware. We KNOW why we choose Apple, what we don’t know is why you care so much. PS, the iPhone had the back arrow on earlier phones, it wasn’t earth shattering when it was gone.
I've been on iOS for 10 years and recently sold my iPhone 15 Pro for a Google Pixel 8 Pro and I'm honestly loving it. It took a couple of days to get used to the different software, but I really think Google has done a great job at making a great phone.
I’m sure google has done a great job with their Android platform in the pixel device, but it’s not enough to become the Apple of Android lol. And that’s because google isn’t a phone brand. Like when you hear google, you hear oh it’s a search engine, or a page to search stuff. Not Android. Or pixel. There’s still a lot of people that don’t even know google has pixel phones.
@@riickyworld1 they deleted my comment but I’ve seen this persons exact comment posted by multiple accounts on iPhone specific videos. It seems like google and android are trying to make it seem like people are switching when they really aren’t
My biggest problem with the iPhone is that I've never met anyone that actually likes iphone. Their whole thing is oh well my family has one of my friends have one so I won't be included in the group chat. That's where I think iPhone is really crappy because they have not built better tech they have just made their text so exclusive that if you don't have it in many cases you could be mocked or made fun of or left out of things
I dropped android recently because Google forgot that customizations and features is why people love it. The widget that I can’t remove on their launcher makes me not purchase android phones. Why force me to have a widget that is so useless? Also, Apple is innovating with new things like night stand and allowing customization while android has horrible Lock Screen widget capability. Also, Google now sort of sucks now. Give us the option to have a widget drawer such as iOS. In short, don’t let Apple beat you at the customization game. Pixel was and is the downfall of android as android is suffering and pixel is getting exclusives. Dumb Google.
I’m mad at Google as I am Mr Android. I loved Android and never had a single Apple device ever. Every time I tried to use an Apple device, I had a list so long on things android did better. Than things got worse and worse with android and kept improving with iOS and basic usability things like android keyboard, fingerprint sensor, face unlock, etc got worse and worse.
This is all great for Apple, but I hope they also learn from their own experience. They released iPhone with USB-C because they were forced to by the EU, but it turns out it made everyone happy and made more sales. They really should learn that, even if many people may buy their products no matter what, actually listening to the customers is a good idea and will generate more sales. In the same way, they should listen to developers, repairs people, and generally all the parties that are contributing to this ecosystem.
A lot of why I prefer iPhone over Android phones is software, as Drew mentioned. I find it easier to use most of the time and I like being able operate various iPhones from different years because iOS versions are so similar.
I switched to IPhone after 10 plus years with Samsung. I did this because I got to a point in my life where I stopped caring about all the specs and customization that android kept trying to shove down my throat. I just wanted a phone that did phone things. Almost everyone that describes an I phone says, “It just works”. And that’s what I needed in a phone. 4 months in, I’m really happy with this IPhone 15 Pro!
Well said 13 year android user here. I used to root my phone and do all kinds of things..my pixel was so glitchy... I'm 37 years old now and I just want something that works I'm too busy to be clowning around with my phone. Bought iPhone 14 pro Max. For the dating scene too...chicks like iPhones
(Lets not mention that costumization on android is volunteering, so if you dont want to "clown" around, you can basically use the phone out of the box and still be happy, cuz the set expectations are so low, that even the 200€ A15 should be able to manage it. However you can still throw 1000€ at apple for nothing surely) yeah
I used to be a diehard Android fan. Had an s20 for a while, a pixel 7 for around a year, and then a Pixel 8 Pro which was lackluster and I eventually returned it for an iPhone 15. I had an iPad prior to this so I guess I was staying with android simply because the charging cord was consistent between the two. Now that the iPhone has USB-C, it's so much more convenient and I've further fallen in love with how much more productive the Apple ecosystem is. I now have a macbook pro even though I told myself years before that windows was superior. Apple really isn't bad at all
For me its 2 reasons, samsung removed all the good reasons to choose samsung over iphone, like SD card slots, headphone jacks. My 2nd reason is im fed up with my samsung phone spying on me, if i say i want to buy a tv outloud, 20 mins later i get ads for tvs, if i google vacations to mexico for example, suddenly my RUclips and Facebook feeds are full of videos and ads of trips to mexico. Its just tiring and that doesn't happen on iphones
Honestly, i think there are a lot of reasons for people to buy an iPhone. Some of them might have more than one reason and some of them might actually have all of the reasons i mention: 1/ Proven stability/trusted brand 2/ Great apps/app store (safe to use as well compared to others.) 3/ longevity - (iOS updates/safety updates.) 4/ Design 5/ Cameras - (iPhones might not have the best cameras, but they do have great cameras. Also, for filming, it has been proven that they have actually one of the better cameras. For photo's, it's a different story.) 6/ Great eco-system. (Works together with your Mac/ Apple Watch/ Air Pods/ iPad,...) I honestly think that it's the whole package (or like i mentioned, for some people it might even be only one of these reasons mentioned) that sway over a lot of people to an iPhone. I also think that the "pressure" from kids in school might not be underestimated! If someone got an iPhone in school, others might be bullied because they don't have newest thing. That's horrible of course. But kids can be awful to each other. These are just my personal thoughts of course. But i'm curious to see what other people think! 🙂
Honestly in my opinion, I feel like Apple and Android have their ups and downs. I just like triggering apple fans though since their reactions are funnier, but you seem pretty genuine though, so I will share my opinion. IPhones do have great cameras I will admit, plus I really like their eco-system as well, and AirDrop is very cool. Android cameras can also be good though. Some of those Android cameras are getting a lot better which honestly was shocking to me at one point. Android is a lot more open-source when it comes to small app developers, unlike the IPhone. Plus I can download old apps off of the web with android. Where with IPhone I have to go through the process of modding it, which is a big pain in the rear. Emulation is also really cool in my opinion, unfortunately Apple is a lot more strict when it comes to emulation so that sucks. I also really like how customizable android is as well, I like making my personal stuff unique to be fair though so I understand why it isn't for everyone. But I do like how unique the android phones can look. Comparing the s24, to the OnePlus 12, and then to the Nothing Phone 2. They just look so different, like there is a phone for everyone. To be fair though that is because it is a more opened source OS. But the IPhone doesn't really have much options unfortunately. But as a wise man once said "If it ain't broke. Don't fix it!" which absolutely destroys that argument. A lot of Apple fans just seem to look down on android users though, like they are better than them. Which is a horrible view on other people. Nobody should think like that because of something you own. Sorry about the long paragraph!
@@KrudDavolis That's okay man, i don't care to read a bit if a person is respectful to me. (Which you very much are!) 🙂 And you made all fair points and all facts. Android is more customizable and more open. The only thing you can customize on the iPhone i guess is the wallpaper and the lock screen. Though the lock screen has its limits. At least for now. I hope that with each new iOS update, there will be more options available. What would concern me the most is getting viruses and what not when you download apps from a website on your phone. That's the thing i do like about the "closed walled garden" from Apple. Though i'm not sure if you really can get viruses on an Android phone or not. I never owned an Android smartphone to be honest and up until now, i do like the way my iPhone works with everything, from my Mac desktop to my Macbook Pro. So it's really hard for me to go to a Samsung or a Nothing phone for example. Although those would be my first 2 choices if i would go with an Android phone. I guess as a third it would be a Pixel. Lastly, i would never look down up on people who use an Android phone (or whatever product for that matter.) I think people should use what they feel works for them. I know the world isn't like that, which is really sad (and pathetic.) Thank you for being nice and open minded at least!
I tried S24U for a week. Great hardware, but the software was sooo buggy and some apps didn’t even have the same features as on iOS. Eventually I went back to my good old 13 Pro Max.
what was so buggy? What part of the software? I use both an iPhone and an android phone. It is an honest question what part of the software on an android phone do you find so bad?
depends on personal preference i guess, im still using my iphone 13 but im planing on upgrading to a new android soon, both os have ups and downs but i just like android more. its not about something being objectively better, its preference
@@mqproductions I didn't tell S24U is buggy. 1P apps are fine, no issues, actually loved some of them like Good Lock and Sound Assistant, where I could map my volume keys to change songs while screen locked. The issue is with 3P apps like: 1. Spotify not opening properly links and turns out its an android issue for years (at least for some people) and no tutorial helped. When opening link to a song/playlist, it opens the app, but leads to nowhere, or just black screen. I always had to use my iphone next to me to open a song that friends send me. 2. Dark mode is either non existent, or not possible to auto choose for apps like snapchat and tiktok. Why tf I can use auto dark mode for snapchat on iOS, but not on Android? 3. It's a bit irritating when the whole phone becomes sluggish down to 60 Hz when camera is active, for example in snapchat or in-app camera functions, like picking up a photo to send in Telegram chat. Same for navigation apps. Open navigation app? Punished to 60 Hz no matter what you do. 4. This is not exactly 3P app issue, but when you add a contact as a whitelist for DND/Sleep mode, it only adds it's number for calls or SMS. No integration with other chat apps or voip calls. On iPhone, when I add contact as a whitelist for DND/Sleep mode, I can allow for example, specifically Telegram messages and calls to go through for that contact. I didn't see this possible on my S24U and personally for me, it is crucial.
My mom has had her 11 since launch day. After 4 years the charging port stopped working because of water damage. They're great phones and i even owned a 13 pro for about a year. I bought a MacBook and apple watch soon after. Now I'm on a samsung phone because I was tired of having to connect my phone to my laptop just to sideload apps. Do I regret it? No, the difference in quality between iOS and Android isnt huge anymore. You can buy the latest android or iOS and expect at least 3 years out of that phone unless your battery dies.
It’s “fun fiddling with stuff, either because you love it or have nothing better to do” vs “thing that works no matter what. You can use it with your eyes closed and pretty much expect almost the same result. Always”. Looks like more people are starting to have something better to do than adjusting every little letter to their liking. 😄 “customisability”
I changed from Android to iPhone with the iPhone 13 Pro Max as iOS has got closer to feature parity with Android. It's not there yet but it's close enough for me. I now have the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Financially it has become a no-brainer where flagship phones are concerned as second-hand values are way higher than they are on Android - meaning the price to upgrade to the latest and greatest is actually a lot less than you might think. The sale of my 13 Pro Max covered 60% of the cost of the 15 Pro Max where with an Android device you would be looking to cover maybe 20% to 30% of the new device. Android flagships are just as expensive as iPhones so upgrading on Android is actually more costly in real terms. The whole "Android is cheaper" argument only works for budget handsets - not for flagships. Android flagships will cost you more in reduced second-hand and trade-in values.
iPhone is just so much easier to use. It gets easier to use the more you use it. It doesn’t get slower with bloatware, safe, straightforward. The moment these new users started to use iPadOS or macOS, they’ll be hooked and not easy and willing to ditch the fruit for other make and model.
Really? As an Android user I absolutely hate the inconsistent back button and how Apple hides all the advanced options for every app in the damn settings.
The bloatware and Safety thing was relevant on Android years ago, Pixels have no bloatware, and overall Android are as safe as iPhones since it restricts 3rd party app download by default and they have Google Play Protect to verify the safety of apps before you install them.
The coping some Iphone users are coming up with is laughable Just be honest and say the real reason -Cause you can afford it -Social Status -Sheep that runs with the crowd
I think it’s the iPhonification of every phone. Why not get an iPhone when every other manufacturer is trying to be Apple?
Exactly. Brilliant 👏🏾
This is the exact reason I got an iPhone. I had always used android, back when they had all the features I liked.
The iPhone is a symbol of wealth. That's why 2 years old iphone with 4 years old spec is still topping over android. The average user doesn't even know what features and software the iPhone has over android.
The question is why has ‘iPhonification’ become a thing?
For me, it was the opposite. I switched to iPhone because of the Androdification of iOS, starting with iOS 14
As a native of a "developing country" who now resides in the US but still has most of his family back home, I can tell you the number 1 reason for the growth in iPhone sales in countries like those is "perceived status". The vast majority of users don't fundamentally care about any of the actual benefits of using an iPhone in the way Americans do. It simply stems from the fact that Americans are seen as more successful, and whenever they come to developing countries as tourists, they always seem to have iPhones, so that signals a certain level of prestige that most Android phones simply don't. Whether we wanna admit it or not, Apple wrestled the brand of the "Prestige Smartphone" from Blackberry many years ago and no Android manufacturer has been able to dethrone them. As high end smartphones became more mainstream outside of developed countries, it was only going to be a matter of time until this trend carried over as well.
Couldn't have said it any better. As someone from African who consumes a lot of American content. Status is key here. I mean we watch a lot of series and movies where the characters have an iPhone. Celebrities too. We may have all the features Americans have but we don't utilize the example is iMessage. We use third party apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Messenger (I wouldn't trust Meta for privacy though) and there's no segregation like "you have an Android, eww, green bubble," and all that.
Not really. A lot of ppl from developing countries pride themselves on saving costs more than prestige. I feel like iPhone value for money is unmatchable once ppl start realising it. I bought an android flagship phone while my friend brought an older gen iPhone of slightly higher price. My phone stopped getting updates after 2 years and stopped working after 3 years. My friend’s iPhone runs the latest software and the processor still holds up with no issues whatsoever. I switched to an iPhone now as I don’t want to keep changing my phones every 2-3 years to get the latest updates.
@@fuzzy295 My original comment wasn't anecdotal - it's factual. I regularly get questions regarding choosing to continue to use Android phones despite being in a different socioeconomic class relative to the one I grew up in because it's just a natural assumption that you use cheap Android phones until you can "afford" to buy an iPhone or until you have a family member in a developed country who can send you their old version when they upgrade. As it relates to phones still getting software updates, we as tech nerds would do well to understand that the average person doesn't care about OS updates as long as they keep getting updates to their social media and messaging apps to get the new features from those apps. From that standpoint, most average customers WILL NOT have "software updates" on their list of reasons for buying a phone. The average person only chooses to buy a new phone because of failing hardware, low storage, or some other surface level reason. Again, these are anecdotal points - they are facts.
Samsung came close to being the prestige android but that note 7 really dented their rep.
Yep 70% of iphones sold in India are on EMIs,
lol, the truth is, if you don't have an iPhone, you're considered subhuman in younger circles
Apple won the marketing campaign; outside of RUclips, I've never met an iPhone user who appreciates the tech or even cares what their phone is truly capable of
it's all about fitting in for the vast majority
Most people dont understand this.
Very true, especially for high schoolers. At least 95% of everyone at my school has an iPhone and there is a big stigma against android, and not having an iPhone is a pretty bad look. People are so concerned about having the iPhone
I was in high school when it was legit 50/50 if not mostly Android. Starting from like 2016/17 I’ve never seen a single youngin with an android, unless it was in a third world country(duh).
@bracedgod4505 very true. Kids are being raised as apple consumers now, so apples market share can only go up
Yeah, 80% of my school has iPhone.
Samsung needs to split their brand (like Toyota and Lexus). Their lower-level phones are typically their first impression with consumers who just need a smartphone and when these consumers graduate and start working they buy iPhone because their initial experience with Android left much to be desired but they never experienced flagship Androids.
I agree, I wish they also just kept the cool S logo on the old devices. that could’ve been iconic like the apple logo
This is the solution right here
It doesn't matter no blue bubble... A green bubble means a cheap budget phone regardless of what Android phone you have. iPhone users really don't know when it comes to technology. Some iPhone users still think Android only uses MMS/SMS
@@anon2414I agree. Quickshare or whatever, no Airdrop!? Bye! That's how strong Apple's ecosystem is.
Well buying a cheap phone and thinking that's how android phones are, is called dumb user syndrome. Same applies to those saying how their $2000 mac is better than the windows machine they had(which is a 10 year pc that was $300)
Probably because Android manufacturers keep removing features from their flagship phones that people loved about Android such as the headphone jack and microSD card slot.
That's a big part of it I think , android used to be all about the extra features, but they tried to be like iPhones which have historically been fairly basic anyway, at the same time being very good at being basic.
Add to that , android took away all the accessories in the box like the iPhone.
Basically android is trying to be iPhone.
@@mikldude9376This is likely why Android flagships do not sell as well as they use to. I am an Android user myself, but I am willing to admit these companies should have stayed true to themselves. No wonder why the Galaxy A series has been outselling the Galaxy S series for the past several years.
Most people don’t even care about a headphone jack and micro SD card slot 😂
@@michaelhall9146If you plan on taking a lot of photos and videos, you will wish that you had a microSD card slot.
@@michaelhall9146I strongly disagree I think a lot of people did care but company's just removed it and consumers didn't have a choice if they wanted to upgrade and it's just been so many years now that people moved on
One thing I noticed in family circles is the fact that Google has a slightly worse reputation regarding privacy than Apple, for some people that is enough to choose iPhone over Android
Edit: the fact that some people are correcting me on “slightly worse reputation” means that Apple is really good at marketing
@@Fleecing1or they aren't techies who even know they exist.
@@Fleecing199% of people don’t care
@@Fleecing1 Most people don't want to deal with unlocking the bootloader and potentially bricking their phone because they don't know what they are doing. Hell most people would just see the command line and avoid it altogether lol
I agree, I think Google's entire problem is their reputation (as an ad company) and their inability to at least make the impression to have a long term plan.
@@realityos being the company that had to drop don't be evil as a catchphrase didn't help I'm sure.
Most people buy smartphones like they would toasters, microwaves, silverware, or ovens. This is exactly what Steve Jobs wanted and was hoping for.
what that means?
@@tiberseptim6648 most people buy phones like they would a toaster or microwave: they don't care what they buy, as long as it works. There's a Steve Jobs quote somewhere about this exact thing.
Very true. Considering I only use my phone to access the same 5 apps everyday, I wouldn’t go out of my way to switch to a new ecosystem just to use 5 apps. The extra features on androids most people just don’t use. Even with Home Screen customisation, regardless of how my home screen looks I look at it for 3 seconds at a time. If you want to do more with your phone then android is clearly the best way to go. But most people use phones to go on social media and text people. With tablets and laptops it’s different since I use those for a lot more than just scrolling through social media and messaging people
And he success...well even it may after he pass away but his dream is true now.
@@oneshotguy6372 I'm going to assume you're a non-native English speaker (I'm so sorry basically all of the Internet is in the worst language), but do you mind trying to say that again?
" iOS is Growing! Android is Shrinking.....".in the United States
I’m Portuguese and Angolan. And it’s the same on both.
Outside USA android growing extreme level and iPhone is shrinking 😂🤣
These people don't even mention how iPhone 15 pro and pro max has thermal throttling issues while gaming, and the audacity of the iPhone is growing?, they need to check the real world numbers, not biased numbers
This is also the case in the Balkans! Like half of teenagers, and quite a lot more adults, now buy iphones rather than android! Not like they know why, because most of them have never had a premium android nor are they considering buying anything else from apple, but just because the iphone is cool!
Even if it's true so what ? Why do people like you oddly defend Apple like it's one of your kids lol. Jeez
@@Bilal.Hussain.Shaikh yes because when I go look for a phone the ONLY important thing to me is if it throttle games.... get real dude. I don't have a single game on my phones. android or apple. I literally couldn't care less about gaming. get a steam deck.
Why is it so hard for people to realize software optimization is so much more important than hardware specs?
Yeah iOS optimizations ain't really all that. I switched from Pixel 6 pro to Iphone 14 and I've found that this phone is way less stable then the Pixel. I've had so many bugs. The most annoying one is where the phone will stop being able to use data. I have signal and all but for some reason it just refuses to let me use data or make calls. I have to restart it Everytime. And this has been an issues one all of the iphones i have used. Iv had the 5s and the 12. Both of them did it.
@@beni2ccthis is also noticed this issue but it got fixed after software update
@@onceajordanive been switching between iOS and Android for years now and I've been experiencing this issue since iOS 10.
@@beni2ccif you see there’s something wrong with your data you may have a defected iPhone. My cousin’s first iPhone also had problems with data and I took him to an apple store so they could test it and they couldn’t even run the test cuz it dropped signal so they switched it for him and of course, the new phone is all good.
has nothing to do with your phone@@beni2cc
Because it is no longer about the phone. It is about the platform the phone plugs into.
1. The find my net work
2. The ecosystem
3. The App Store
4. The accessories market
5. The trade-in and resale value
6. up to six years of updates
7. CarPlay
8. Apple wallet
Well said.
nah, nothing of this.
it simply is the quality and reliability you can't get anywhere else.
This. The iPhone is not anything special by itself but when you start adding devices you start experiencing the magic. Like Find my network and AirTag. Also the fluidity of the way it works. Android has Google Wallet and Samsung Pay similar to Apple Pay. But the way it works is so much better; double press the side button and FaceID identifies you while simultaneously unlocking and opening the app. No placing finger on scanner just one smooth fast motion.
Trade-in and resale value, I agree.
Accessory market, I agree. The benefit there is that there are fewer iPhone models, so you will find accessories for it.
Ecosystem, I guess that is true if you are already bought into it, but Google has an ecosystem as well.
As for Apple Wallet, Google Wallet seems mostly equivalent. I've never seen any passes or anything that work on Apple but not Google. All the banks that support Apple Pay also support Google Pay, and retailers all accept both, and pretty much every one pays for everything using one or the other of them. For website/online purchases, Apple Pay does seem to be more supported than Google Pay.
Well said and depending on many other factors like needs, wants, location, use cases etc its true for not choosing apple as well
Just speaking for myself here not trying to generalise for everyone
1. Never used and device search features like find my and android equivalent of it if the is - not because its useful but i never needed it until now (don’t know about future)
2. I have an anti ecosystem - android phone, ipad pro, windows laptop, dumb watch, non apple headphones
apple products doesnt have the things i need
ios is very restricted and macs cant game and dont care about my different products working together as i never needed it until now
3. didnt notice any major difference with play store and app store infact like play store interface better as it has a special section for app updates and you can put apps and games in wish list which cant be done in app store
also the fact that app store is the only place if you want to get apps which i dont like
4. agreed - there are much more accessories for iphones as they have very less phones compared to hundred of android phones from many companies but not faced any problems for getting the accessories i needed for the products i use
5. never traded in or resold any of my devices so i will comment on it, but yes i agree apple products have better resale value
6. liked iphones and ipads for that reason and bought ipad for that reason but now samsung and google have promised 7 yrs of updates but still we will have to wait and see if they deliver on it and long updates are a good thing but i will get bored so i would buy a midrange phone 2 times with 2-3 yrs updates but to each their own
7. i dont have a car
8. in india i and almost everyone use upi (unified payments interface) which is great so wallets not needed
hence i have said it before and will say it again - there is no one better option for everyone as both have pros and cons so buy what you need and want
I used android when I was kid to use modded apks to hack games or get free paid games. It's same reason I used to jailbreak ipod touches (pirate games and movies).
Once I got a job and actual income, there was no pressure to ever do that, and the need to use android and its customizability went away completely. I can't spend 4-12 hours trying to customize a bootloader or something stupid when I have actual things to do.
Now, everything I use are default apps, and apple simply does default apps the least shitty.
Ya, I have tried over like 250 custom ROMS from XDA, use it for a week or so and then load another version due to bugs😂. My first smart phone was a Samsung Windows phone (the very first Windows phone from Samsung) and XDA had custom ROM for that model too which I had installed and xda version ROM had way too many options compared to factory image.
Now this is my first iPhone 15 which I bought a month ago, and absolutely no looking back. I still wonder why people are still behind specs! U put intel’s Xeon processor which is used in servers with 64-GB ram, android will still lag at times. iPhone is perfect for many , hence the market share has gone up!!
110% spot on. I think a lot of us grew up and wanted a phone that does the basic essential shit well 99% of the time. Like a Toyota corolla of phones. I finally permanently switched to iPhone like 7 years ago when my $850 LG kept crashing a month after i bought it.
yeah same for me. @@ArvindJShetty
That's some bullshit right there, Android apps are basically the same shit, I use both platforms
@@RagingBadthey aren’t the same shit. Instagram for example on iOS is just better than Android counterparts
A battle as old as my nephew
how old is your nephew?
I just want a third major OS
Agreed, a decade ago competition was much better and innovative when we had Windows making phones.
we also had has ubuntu touch, firefox os... but they all flopped
Microsoft needs to start making Windows phones again
@@trimidsmod6391 Microsoft is busy destroying Windows
good working as ios and freedom more even in android
Its simple. People debate about Hardware. But the mainstream does not care about that at all. They care about status, prestige. Hence why 80 % of school kids have iPhones. They just want to be "cool". You can think about that what you want, but at the end of the day, most of society cares about "status".
I will mention that I had an android and now that I have a daughter, I wanted her to fit in so I switched to iOS to give her the best opportunity to succeed in the US. I wore my android loving with my pride, but I’m weird and I don’t expect my daughter to hold my baton.
@@JosefTorkelsen good job teaching your daughter to keep appereances and be a phony, and I mean that as irony
Pulled those % out of your arse ? Here`s what I found on 1 minute search: most Android users, mostly teenagers, are within the 18-24 range, boasting over 70% of the entire user base.
I asked my teenage relatives who actually switch from Android to iPhone few years ago, they just said its simply better.
I asked why, they said the interface UI, longitivity, better ecosystem, system stability.
You can be a fan of something, but being delusional is a regress of humanity.
advantage of android is customization, have never felt the need to customize anything other than my wallpaper, screen brightness, and alarm tone
That is actually same for the 98% of the world, just few tech fanatic loves to tweak everything about the phone, but the average none tech user just want it to work, without any tech knowledge requirements (and teachers, secretary, baker etc usually has low tech knowledge, they can't even install heir driver for the PC, so when you gives them 1000 options to choose, that will not help them..)
That’s why it’s not really an advantage. It’s only an advantage if that’s something u want
@@TamasKiss-yk4st you guessed right i'm a teacher lol
It's not, the advantage of android is functionality. The ability to make my phone behave exactly how I want it to behave instead of some company deciding for me. To put it in its simplest terms
@@xyz-ml9ff you can't do that with android. try making it not lag. try making better defaults app. try making it integrate with your watch or laptop better. this is the same argument linux users use. You can customise your house to be whatever you like. Except its just a plot of land with no roads and a rotting shack on it. customisability. but unless you're a world class designer, amazing programmar, have all the time in the world, then you can't do anything. Yes there are 1 million options on android. But not a single one of them is as good as the iPhone's default. Not even close. And I only want to use one not keep switching. Also living in the UK, most people have WhatsApp installed. But i still hate using it. iMessage is better. Period. That's why people use it. Everyone downloads youtube on their iphone (doesn't come pre-installed). Everyone downloads apps (thats why they have a smartphone). But FaceTime and iMessage are the best. period. they integrate so nicely. Take the photos app, calendar app, notes app, reminders and so many more. I have tried so many alternatives but finally gave up and just found myself loving the 'basic' pre-installed apps. There isn't any app that is better than these. Yes on paper. But try it for yourself and you'll quickly realise what's on paper is the stuff that, as it turns out, doesn't matter. What needs to be on the paper is the stuff that causes you to naturally use it. Where you find yourself using it when you didn't otherwise with alternatives. That's the only thing that matters. If you find yourself pulling your phone out to take pictures when you otherwise wouldn't, that's what matters. Not the specs and the thousand ways one is supposedly better than the other.
I will tell you based on my personal experience why I think many people are switching, and basically it just comes to budget Android being shit sometimes, so when people are willing to spend some savings on buying a high end phone, the first brand that comes into their minds is iPhone, because Apple marketed themselves as a high end brand with premium devices.
So the people who bought low ends Smasung phones, when they think about Samsumg, they will remember that low end phone, so they will not think about Samsung phones the moment they go buying a high end one.
tl;dr: Apple is the go-to top of mind brand for many people that just want to upgrade to a high end phone, because those people have used low budget Android phones in the past.
That’s a great point. Despite Samsung having phones costing higher than iPhones, their brand value has been diluted by the lower end offerings.
I would much rather own a $40,000 Mercedes than a $50,000 Toyota even if I could afford one
@@well7885 Exactly. Those people who have used low budget samsungs will think that the higher end ones also have bad cameras, or think that they will also lag and become slow overtime. That's the image that those low budget phones give to their brands, so people will asume that the S line-up of Samsung (for example) are equally as bad. So, they will go buy an iPhone the moment they want to upgrade, because they assume it will have decent cameras and won't ever lag or slowdown.
@@AIejandroideSo true! you got also my experience having a lower budget phone of samsung and i just also think that their flagship will be shit also. So basically I'm in ip15 pm right now, no regrets of switching😊
@@CANDYDOGxx I mean, the experience that I'm telling is just based on what I see in my social media, where peopñe that I have seen using low end Androids suddenly after a few months or years now have IPhones, instead of the top of the line phones from the brand that they had before.
But this is not my case, because since I'm a tech savy person I know that there are high end Androids that I enjoy using, like my current Z Fold 5, and there is not iPhone right now that could give me the same enjoyment.
@@CANDYDOGxx that is not my case tho, I have always prefered Android. Since I am a tech savy person, I find the OS much more appealing to my needs, and there is no iPhone alternative for my precious Z Fold 5 which I really enjoy using.
I used iPhones from 2014-2020. Then I used android from 2020-2024 because I was so annoyed of people calling me an apple sheep, and genuinely android has some things going for it. But I just bought an iPhone 15 3 days ago and I cannot say to you how much I love being back.
iOS is 🐐
Real Samsung makes good devices yeah but once u in the Apple ecosystem. It’s hard to come out of it then been with iPhone since the iPhone 5s now currently got the iPhone 15 Pro Max.
@@juicedoutterrtrue I’m there rn just wish google released a pixel with pen support that could replace my iPhone and iPad
Yep. I was in the same loop. Except I only used iPhone for about 4-5 years, then tested out Android because I was curious. Ended up going back to iPhone and honestly it is just better. Everyday use it feels like it's an actual part of your life. Android to me was like that as well, but more of a gadget? Like I wanna play with it mess with its features, etc... But iPhone feels like a device you just need in life. Like shoes, or a shirt. And it's amazing at doing it.
Mine is the complete opposite. I used Android phones from 2014-2020 and that was a solid time to use them since they were so different and had features IPhone didn’t. By the time I brought my Galaxy S20 FE I already was considering the iPhone since Android OEM’s did away with the things that made Android special (headphone jack, different materials like plastic/aluminum, front facing speakers, SD card, etc.
See fellow nerds.....average consumers really DON'T care about high refresh rate.
I've tried explaining to friends and family about this feature and all they could tell me was "oh that's nice but I don't really care about it. I just want good cameras."
So why don't they buy good cameras then?😂
Lmao its painfully true. I main a sony xperia 1V and all my family cant fathom that i like the manual contols that it gives me when everything can be automatic.
Do `average consumers` care about charging time ?
@@MACTEP_CHOB Average consumer care about prestige. I had several costumers considering a switch from android to iphone. When I ask them why, they always answer "Many other ppl habe it too"/"all my family members use iphone".
@@MACTEP_CHOB Nope because they don't know any better. I bet if they used a phone with SuperVOOC for a bit they would
Let’s not forget about the younger demographic… very few of them care for android
So if the younger prefer trap and kfc then its ok or you have a half baked brain at 40?
fr peer pressure is huge in gen z
Android: here's an open system but we don't give a flying fuck about your experience.
IOS: Here's North Korea but in a 7 stars hotel
Yeah kinda... Until you notice that UX in android is even far better and well thought than apple... Its mind boggling that iphones dont have the most basic and obvious feature of an universal back button. My brother uses iphone for 7 years now and he even tells me that he sometimes does look for the "Go back" button.
Its the false premise of thinking that android is complex, because you have so many fcking options to choose from.
However if you want it to be simple, just dont change anything and go along. Your experience will be better on android than on iphone due to simple things like a go back button. If you want to go deep inside your phone the doors are wide open as well.
HEY DREW! I work in Vodafone and from what I've seen from the average consumer there are two main reasons for this.
1: Apple's market share is very resistant to shrinking because most average iOS users are afraid to make the switch over to Android, stating that their other Apple devices won't work as well if they do.
2: the average smart phone user is getting younger and younger. We see 12 and 13 year olds coming in to get smart phones now on a daily basis and they don't even consider androids to be an option because there's still this stigma around Android. Most young people see it as the broke person's phone.
Apple is better at customer retention and have positioned themselves as the premium mobile device so they don't have to worry about offering a better device because they know the majority of people who change from one major OS to the other are going to change from Android to iOS.
The iPhone is simply a better product, but more than that, the ecosystem is unbeatable there isn’t even a decent find my iPhone competitor on Android and let’s not mentioning the fragmentation problem and the poor design of Android itself with the “garbage collection”.
there are no winners the twice are suck
@@Adamtendo_player_1 This is true only in places like the US, the Find My network relies on other iPhones in the vecinity to locate your lost device, since the US is mostly iPhones that is easy to do, but in other countries where there are more Android devices than iPhones that is just not possible, same issue with Apple Maps etc.
@@Adamtendo_player_1 "iphone is simply a better product" is simply a wrong statement. Also no. Samsung ecosystem is on par with Apples ecosystem, if not even better, as you are not locked to one specific brand of a laptop, but literally have every other windows laptop as an option. Additionally your Samsung home devices can connect to your ecosystem to. You could build a whole house with Samsung devices communicating with each other.
The UX is actually majorely questionable. Even the simplest feature of an universal back button is not given, while it being so obvious, so you actually have to search for a way to go back on every single app. My brother uses iphones since 7 years and he told me that he still sometimes get confused how to go a step back.
I work in an electronic store and selling smartphones. I have contact to lots of costumers. I have quite a lot of costumers considering android devices, however thrown back by the decision, solely because of the ecosystem switch. I also have quite a lot android users considering switching to iphone. I always ask what the reasoning is for the switch. The most common answer is "Many other ppl have it too"/"All my family members have an iPhone".
@@chomp5558 This is false. You obviously haven't learned and mastered both ecosystems. And even if Samsung were better, it's only better until the battery in your phone swells up like a pregnant whale, or maybe even catches fire. System means EVERYTHING, and this also means whether 19 megabytes of your data are getting sold daily by Google. "I don't care, I got nothing to hide?" -- Are you sure? Your passwords, logins, credit cards, social security number, and all that are not valuable to you? Every day a new database with personal info on it is getting hacked. What sucks is when it's a database you shouldn't even be on but your data was sold there by data brokers.
I have using Android for over a decade. I tried last years iPhone and I just do not like iOS compared to Android, everything seems locked and limited compared to Android. Also I love GBoard on Android it's miles ahead the Apple Keyboard.
Limiting the software has worked for Apple though… as you can see. iPhones are taking over the world.
@@riickyworld1It's working because Android manufacturers are trying to copy them. Why buy an Android if it's the same as the iPhone? Exactly. Android needs to stop copying Apple and start being different again
No it's that band that they put on China That's what's working not the software there's some phones in China that is not global anymore and some phone can't use Google operating system anymore hence Android so it seems that Apple is leading but they quietly eliminate Google if that band is removed then android jump up back
@@riickyworld1because msot people are not into having the control in their hands, they take whats given to them by apple.
@@riickyworld1 coz of the thirdies ,majority south asians and south east asians also south americans buys an iphone just for the logo i have many european friends they all got androids
It’s a few reasons why iPhones are quickly becoming the most bought smartphone.
1. The quality of the iPhones are just… better.
2. Apple has been adding more features with every iOS update
3. Most Android handsets behave like iPhones. Everything from the animations to the Home-Bar is… copied.
4. Affordability. iPhones are no longer the most expensive
5. Integration. Apple products talk to and work with each other seamlessly
6. Longevity. iPhones get updates for years on day one.
1, 2, and 6 are objectively wrong. But you are correct on 3, 4 and 5
1, quality between similarly priced iPhones and androids is the same. There is no quality difference between an iPhone 15 pro max and a galaxy s24 ultra.
2, while Apple has been adding more features, Android is still miles ahead. Things that Android gets trickle down to Apple devices a few years later.
3, yup. Android copied a ton of ui from Apple in the early years and a lot of that stuff is foundational so both OSes feel extremely similar
4, absolutely. Almost all folding Android phones from every manufacturer cost $1800+. By comparison a $1300 15 pro max is a steal of a deal.
5. Aaple’s ecosystem. Enough said. Google is getting better but it’s still miles away.
6. Both Samsung and Google offer 7 years of guaranteed full OS updates now. Apple still only does 5-6.
Overall it’s a tie between iPhone and Android. The real reason people are switching to iPhone is that a lot of the low end Android users were a captive audience. If you only had $200-300 to spend on a phone you were getting an Android even if you wanted an iPhone. Now a lot of these people are starting to make more money and finally have options, so they finally get what they wanted. Apple customers on the other hand always had options so they are there because they want to be not because they have to
Quality of iphones are just better? It isn't 2012 anymore fam.
1 Im going to disagree with heavily, android phones can have p good build quallity and design thay i actually prefer. 2 isnt uniqe to apple. 4 is sorta true in that apple closed the bar as far as most people care, but android still has the edge, 5 is true if you have all apple products and have a lot of friends with apple product (which tbf does apply to a lot of people) and while 6 is true, android has mostly closed the gap. Samsung for example has 7 years of updates.
The biggest thing is honestly just that apple has a better reputation, and when ios/android have mostly reached parity, theres not much reason for 99% of people to care about abythinf else.
@SteveDonev you are wrong in multiple ways..
That is true Android showed us more things first, but most of them already throwed away, and using that methid what Apple showed.. (like 120Hz are all LTPO and not fixed 120Hz, wireless charging also will change, since the MagSafe accepted by wirldwide and Android manufacturers also using it, same for tons of other thing like text recognization, what can you find in your phone? You need an individual app like Google lens and the camera for it, or it's useable system wide everywhere, without any requirements, so you can use it your own insta picture what Google lens can't even do..). Android just put a lot of early access into the phone, but the full release usually comes from Apple.. and personally i prefer to pay the same evolution just once, not twice (once for the early access and once for the full release)..
The 7 years OS update also just a bad example, because the equally powerfull one year old phone will not get it, you must buy a new phone for it, by the way Apple promising only 4-5 years, but they always give you a lot more.. for example the iPhone 6s from 2015 still got the iOS 15.8 security patch a few months ago (Oct 2023, and if you calculate the years between Sept 2015 and Oct 2023, that is more than 8 years already, and they not even forced anybody to by a new phone for that...)
@@SteveDonevGrade 5 titanium bonded with aluminum vs Grade 2 titanium bonded into plastic same quality????🤔🤔🤔🤔
I personally avoided Apple and even barked at 2019... in previous years. But in 2019, I decided that I would try the iPhone and the first question was how will I manage in a closed system if I have been using Android for more than 8 years. Well... when the first iPhone 11 arrived, when I got it up and running and got to the main menu, then apps... I immediately fell in love, I immediately paid attention to the iOS animations... So I went from a 90hz Android to a 60hz iPhone screen. I used the first model in question for over a year until I bought another iPhone, I had already decided long ago that I would stay with Apple. Apple still has a significant edge in security, operating system animations and more. What I love most is the speed, ease of use and security
Running Moto Edge 40 at 240+hertz with Animation at 0.5x speed and its feels amazing compared to my friends iPhone 15 Max and the 8020 MediaTek SoC is much weaker
I believe but it is really amazing that even basic iPhones have 60 hz screen it is still smooth.
The 11 is when I switched over too and I’m in deep now.
@@ddemonology even if a display can't show more fps having refreshed images helps make motion feel more fluid and thus faster
ease of use and security..what?
the speed thing i understand, but ease of use ?wtf? what so hard to use on android...
I mean, the removal of the sd card from the high-end phone was the death of android
BS, phones now have plenty of storage even the base models.
When the SD card was thing most people did not even know there phone had it, or cared.
@@alwhitney68 lmao exactly my s23 ultra has 256gb and when I had a cheap lg phone with 32gb, I still did not use the sd slot. SD cards made sense back in era of pocket pcs 20 years ago because even high end models only had less than 100mb of internal storage. Sd cards are for cameras.. also sd cards are slow and they suck.
@@alwhitney68Exactly lol. I was using SD Cards to expand my phone's storage back when phones only had 8-16 gb of internal storage. My current phone has 128 gb, so I have no need to get an SD Card, especially considering SD Cards are slower than internal storage
@@beardsntools💯
SD cards wouldn't even be able to load videos for seconds.
@@rrrr3666who thought getting a $20 sd card on their phone would be good when its hundreds to upgrade the phone storage so just get better sd cards
for me, it is just like the Gaming PC vs Consoles and/or Macs argument, no matter how good the hardware is, software is what ties it together.
Consoles are better for gaming tho, if price is considered.
Rest, PCs can do 8K gaming if you have 19 14900K + RTX4090.
@@rrrr3666 peasant
Android vs iPhone, Michael Jordan vs Kobe Bryant, Captain America vs Iron Man, Batman vs Superman. There will always be someone or something vs someone or something lol. Polarity is the way of this Universe. Smh. 😂
Jordan vs LeBron. No one ever says Jordan vs Kobe lol
I’ve been a lifelong iOS user, but I now use iOS because it ties in well with macOS, and I despise Windows.
What's your beef with Windows?
Might I suggest Linux to you?
@@abhigyanmadhukalyano thanks lol
@@abhigyanmadhukalyayeah but Linux won’t tie as well with Android like a Mac with an iPhone
@@abhigyanmadhukalya I dislike Linux because it is too complex.
The only thing holding me back from completely switching to ios is the file management on iPhone.
Yeah?
Just use both man. I do and always will
The Files App does pretty much the same thing on iOS
I completely agree. Soo hard to move files
@@MrSamPhoenixit what I said on another channel iOS file app does everything and well too copy ,move and all
Apple's success is a mix of 3 factors:
1. Very good marketing and brand positioning.
2. Focus on reliability and ease of use (hardware and software).
3. Being a north american company and thus having a strong advantage in that market, which happens to be the biggest market in the world.
So consumers, specially north americans, just go with Apple as their defaulf option because it's well marketed and it's from "murica", even though there are better value options. This often shields the company from it's own mistakes, putting them in a very safe position which draws attention globally.
I thought India was the biggest market now (and has been for years).
@@anthonyt425 India is the most populous country. I'm referring to economy.
Actually, China is the biggest smartphone market in the world, India is second place, ease of use is debatable since most things I do on my Pixel 7 pro with 1 or 2 steps, I do on my iPhone 12 with 3 or 4 steps, marketing and brand positioning I do agree, I know a lot of people going into debt just to get an iPhone, heck, I know people using cracked iPhone 8s thinking their phones are superior than a Samsung Galaxy s24 ultra. 😅
Its so funny how everyone mentiones ease of use, while ios is a very inconsistent operating system.
@@chomp5558 I agree, the lack of a universal back button irks me to no end. I also don't like being limited to the App Store, there are tons of great apps on Android that would never be allowed in the Google Play Store
My two cents:
- iPhone is easy
- iPhone has the walled garden experience that will rarely have a major issue
- iPhone DOES have a cult following that will pressure friends and family into buying them (albeit this is much more rare than some people seem to think - it DOES happen, particularly in American high schools, but it's only one piece of the puzzle and likely a small one)
Is Android ahead in sheer features? Yeah. That's why I switched - it wasn't infrequent for me to try to do something on my iPhone, not see a clear way to do it, google how to, and be told that I couldn't.
But I'm a tech nerd. The general public doesn't care about sideloading an alternative RUclips with slightly different features tailored to music streaming, they'll pay for RUclips Music and be done with it. The general public doesn't care about having a gesture to go back a page, they'll use their other hand to reach the corner of the phone and hit the arrow pointing left. They don't care about the thousands of options Androids have in case you happen to want to use them, they'll look through the simpler settings on iPhone and set them once and forget about it. Android objectively lets you do more than IOS allows, but IOS is simple, and to a lot of people that's more important. And hey, if you want the extra customzation, Android is right there, you can buy it instead.
@@BobLadif-jk3hx I consider iOS the one to have more "uncharted territory" compared to android. I find it more interesting as a tech nerd because of the restrictions. If the number of android users that sideload are low, then the ones on iOS is even lower. I personally find android boring but hey different strokes for different folks.
At our high school, kids will get made fun of or bullied if they have an android. All kids want for Christmas is the brand new iPhone.
I think having a pen in a phone is way cooler than the name starting with a lowercase I.
Not really...
@djplonghead5403 And that happens at some schools. I doubt it's many of them, I know it's not all of them because the school I went to wasn't like that, but hey, it very clearly does happen. I've also heard of cases where people on dating apps will immediately lose interest if they text someone and see a green bubble, which, while shallow, is a real concern that could cause people to switch to iPhone purely for social reasons.
The people who dogmatically claim that anyone with an iPhone is a sheep are flat-out wrong, but the implication Drew made that there isn't a kernel of truth to it isn't right either. It does happen, it's just not everyone.
@@djplonghead5403yeah sure 🙄
As an African I hardly know people with a flagship Android phone (and they are available). I know many people with an iPhone. Most people I know using an entry-level Android aspire to have an iPhone. I always ask them why not just buy the flagship Samsung or whatever manufacturer they currently use when they get the income and they're usually surprised that good (if not better) Android's exist. I'm on my 7th iPhone now and I do prefer iOS but I try recommend friends to try a flagship Android before switching to iOS.
I always find iPhones to be the most balanced in terms of overall package. Great cameras, decent battery life, great screens, good for gaming, most optimized apps, years of software updates. Not the best at any single thing but always a solid overall package.
Yeah, and for most people who can afford it, that is AMAZING! If you want something (which you will once you have used that thing for a long time AKA S-pen) you will most likely find that on android.
its objectively the best at videography and the battery life of the 15pm is on par with the latest s24 ultra. your comment is such a generic outlook that noone seems to fact check because it just "makes sense"... mUh 200 MegApiXels tHo!!!!!
@@cqlyx2564 Just to be clear, IMO, calling the iPhone the most balanced is unironically the highest complement I can give to a smartphone (you know, a device that does everything).
But can you put icons where you want them ?
S24 U Specs: Sharper camera but colors a bit blander, longer battery life than the 15 pm, better screen than the 15 pm, better GPU performance therefore gaming performance additionall better thermal management, yeah optimized apps + for apple, longer updates on Samsung. Mmmhh... its logical that iPhone is better 🤡
"You make car run again please" 😂🤣😂🤣😂
iOS outperforms android in market share in the only in the United States.
I don’t think that really matters if the worlds market share is taken up 20% by just one brand
False. This is a misconception that many people have. iOS has majority market share in many countries like Japan, UK, Switzerland, Taiwan, Sweden, Canada, etc. It's not just the US. Android has majority global market share.
@@saiefjoy2906yep, iMessage is what fall behind outside the US. Line, Wechat, WhatsApp is king outside the US
Both markets are growing to be honest and Android is far from shrinking its crazy ridiculous how much Android sells for their entry-midrange devices especially in 3rd world countries where the cheap phones are actually pretty capable.
Bro
In my country, android doesn’t exist
This is global okay. If you don’t understand, just pass, but if you think android is winning, you are just dreaming. It’s amazing that android smartphones are billions of them out there, but still, all go and no show
I hate when android fans pick and choose the best of ALL the android phones to compare to ONE iPhone. It’s like saying humans suck because cheetas are faster and gorillas are stronger
It’s not about picking the best of all android phones. It’s about similar pricing. You can’t really expect a 300 dollar phone to hold up against the iphone. It just happens that the android phones that have similar prices to the iphone are the best ones
A lot of these points just aren’t true anymore. Samsung is starting to push 7 years of software support for their high end smartphones and 4 for their lower end ones
So resale value is actually better on Samsung since it makes more sense to buy a phone that will work and be able to download any app in 7 years
Drop this act of Apple is worth more, people need to see Apple will slowly fall soon
s22 wont even be getting the same features that the s23 lineup will in oneui 6.1 but nearly every iphone gets new software features on the next update.
iPhone X still works smoothly. Now grab a Samsung s9… 😂
@@ssimt s9 still works, not as smooth because software was bad back then. Apple perfected the OS in like 2015 but android just recently in 2023
Now from 2023 and onward they will last the same, Android may even last longer as hardware is better and software support is also longer now
Because owning an iPhone is considered a status symbol
Apple cult
After owning 15 pro for 2 weeks ,I may show off my phone to friends at first ,but as time passes on ,I don't feel it anymore ,just a phone ,I would rather have better battery life gaming performance with vapour chamber cooling (15pro cooling sucks which lead to underclock of cpu and fps loss) and also a bypass battery charging while gaming and I can confidently use max settings 60fps on genshin and hsr without damaging battery on my another s24+
And also s24+ (even my exynos)has higher GPU performance than a17pro,but for high performance sustain u need good cooling
Status of Apple zombie
@@lollol-ek9rx IDK why Samsung keeps gimping their cooling while putting special overclocked chips in their phones
I became an Apple sheep about a year before I went on social security.
It's the built-in interoperability between devices. And the trade-in values.
Airdrop, Continuity Camera, Universal Control, iMessage, Siri...
Siri of all things ...
Continuity camera requires a MacBook to work, and the market share for MacOS is much lower than Windows.
A recent update to my Pixel gave it their equivalent of continuity camera. It is a bit more fiddly to set up, you tap on the notification when you plug it in with a USB cable, and you can select to have it in camera mode. Then it presents itself to the computer as a webcam. That works in Windows and MacOS.
@@Spicysauced he did name many things other than siri
Siri is utter garbage
@@Spicysaucedat least he didn't named the stupid cutout in the midle of the screen as a feature 😂😂
In India most people buy apple products as a status symbol may be for apple ecosystem.
The EcoSystem is Still Years ahead of the android experience
@GarrusVakarian88 I mean it’s “Apples” ecosystem of course it’s going to use apples apps so they can all work together wonderfully, I haven’t heard many complaints from people who actually own and use apple products on a day to day, just android /windows folks who are complaining from the outside in
I dont think you know what are you talking about, women prefer apple because they need expensivd pretty stuff..
@@Teluric2 the S series Samsung costs about the same as iPhones, if you get no b1 tches just say that 😭
People got tired of chasing features they don’t use and wants something that works well and works well for a long time
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S21 overseas when I was living there. I came back to the states and the screen broke. I went to Samsung, and they told me they can't fix it because it's an international phone. I said Apple would never do that BS! I fixed the S21 because my credit card had cellphone protection, but if it breaks beyond repair or is lost, I'm switching to iPhone. Samsung screwed me!
Here's how I see it. iPhone is a phone for everyone. Android has a phone for everyone.
I will only go over to iPhone when there OS isnt as cartoony with huge icons and when they get rid of the dynamic island, until then i am sticking with google pixel, its as close to an iphone as I am going to get
I really want to know when android fans finally accept that iPhones aren’t bad just because they don’t look good on paper sometimes. There’s a reason why more and more people are buying iPhones.
I love the answers here in the comments. So I’ll try and honor them by covering something minor but different.
In conjunction with the aforementioned ecosystem, I’ll add features. No, not just any features, but useful “life” features. iMessage. Handoff/Continuty. Find My. ECG. Blood Oxygen. Fall Detection. Crash Detection. SOS via Satellite. Stolen Device Protection.
Pick any one of these, add the requisite hardware and you’re already ahead of the pack. Combine them all, with optimization, ease of use, brand trust and longevity….and you have your answer. It’s no surprise that a lot of the features listed are mainly dependent on the hardware specific to them, and that speaks to the next point: good parts procurement and inventory management. That’s Tim’s strong point. And of course we wouldn’t be here if not for the vision of Steve, Steve, and Jony.
I’m sure I missed a lot, but hope somewhere in there is my point. 🤷🏾♂️
every feature you listed is on android except for fall detection, crash detection, and sos via satellite. and even when you commented this, apple lost the ability to use blood oxygen sensor 💀
@@goldendemon1015 Crash detection was on the Pixel line before the iPhone
only in the USA and why are they so screwed that they can't have a date if they don't have an iPhone LMAO
Based on your pic is true if you re 14.
@@Teluric2 average apple fanboy
I’ll tell you something, I only had the 4S as my first and only iPhone until now and YES, Android is “superior in hardware”.
I’ve been using android since the galaxy S4 and have gone through 500, 200, 800 USD phones and no matter the price bracket, android has always felt like I’m using a device that I had to “accommodate to” (No sh**, right)
Since the 15s with type C came out I got an iPhone 12 and a 13 mini to test iOS and indeed, iPhones feel like a polished experience and not like “you’re running software on this hardware”.
Also, as a NON Us resident, find my and activation lock make so much of a difference as I’m basically un-robbable.
And also, something I hate about android in retrospective, is that they’re not always improving, you have to seek and investigate to see if the Xphone 3 5G is better than its past generation or in some cases, a manufacturer introduces a feature and then kills it in the next generation, which is SO annoying.
With an iPhone you ALWAYS know: If it’s the +1 generation it’s better in every regard or at least slightly better in most regards, but nothing goes back.
I've been an apple user for as long as ive had phones (I'm 21), never used android. I just switched to android last month as I wanted a flip phone and I absolutely love it
Because people literally say confidently that they'll not date you if you do not have an iPhone.
'That you're broke if you have an Android', or 'How can you not afford Apple?'
They're all using iMessage, and no Apple user would bother using WhatsApp or Telegram for others.
The bottom line will always be this. Android and Windows, both, are far, far superior, practical, easy to use and more fit for more than 90% of the people.
All these morons that you see around yourself, have had/ or use shitty Samsung A Series phones and garbage laptops for years, and when they can finally buy something expensive, they buy an iPhone and a MacBook, are amazed by them, and then start belittling others who do not use Apple.
Without knowing how Android works on a Samsung S Series phone/ Pixel/ OnePlus 12, and let's not even begin with Windows on any laptop above $800-900. That fucking MacBook Air would be destroyed by any Windows laptop costing same or a bit less, have better Specs, similar impeccable build quality, more ports, no dumb notch and perform better in almost all aspects [except for Battery life, which currently sucks on Windows laptops, and speakers].
Shaming people and looking down on people not having a product of a brand does not automatically entail that it is superior or better. But this is how Apple's dominated the Smartphone market in the US [there are other factors too, like superb build quality, long Updates etc, but they've been nerfed out as of today].
Apple is a 'Status Symbol'. You're perceived to be rich if you have an Apple product, no matter how inferior it might be to its competitors.
Android just doesn’t really innovate. It’s more of copying Apple
To me it’s privacy. I came from BlackBerry, and when it died I jumped to Android together with BlackBerry. But after several years I finally grew tired of fighting Google for my data and when Apple started marketing themselves as pro privacy I made a leap of faith and tried iOS. It actually took me several years of using two phones before I finally decided to goes fully into Apple ecosystem. Mostly because Microsoft disappoint me twice by first selling under performed Surface Go which I end up giving to my sister and me buying an iPad and later stop upgrading my old Thinkpad T470 to Windows 11 that pushed me into buying a MacBook. As such, in 2024 I’m now fully in Apple ecosystem and can probably and rightly be called Apple sheep.
Apple devices aren’t that private, use a CalyxOS and Linux-based phone and OS.
My next phone might be an iPhone since Google is ruining Android.
- Storage Access Framework has killed performance. On Android 11, access speed to microSD cards can be reduced from 50-100 times because of crappy APIs.
- Apps I bought are being deleted as Google comes up with crap policies. (Meanwhile Apple has loosened up their policies, for example allowing emulators.)
- Android has become less open (and has been for a while) as they replace AOSP apps with Google apps. An example of this would be AOSP "Music Player" being replaced by "Google Play Music, which was yet again replaced by "RUclips Music" (losing local file playback in the process).
- Google Play Services is bloated and kills battery. I have some old devices with degoogled custom roms that can get up to a week of battery life, simply because of not having Google Play Services.
Add to that how OEMs have been removing features like removable batteries, headphone jacks, microSD slots, and durable plastic/metal designs... I might as well get an iPhone especially as Apple's OS is at least ore polished, is becoming more open, and gets more years of official support.
Android has lost it's touch, especially among power users like me.
Number one reason that I choose iPhone is security/privacy. Everything in my life is on my phone. I trust Apple (and their walled garden) more than Android
Average apple slave
The biggest and the major factor which works for apple is that their brand image and brand perception is a lot lot better than android especially in the general non tech savy public , you won't believe how some individuals i have met think that iphones have unlimited ram and are using a iphone 7 in 2024 that is just one of a few example . That apple logo is what is increasing the iphone sales especially in the developing countries where non rich people want to appear rich by buying a iphone no matter if the price is their half a years salary .
When it comes to Apple v. Android the choice comes down to “which trillion dollar company do I trust with my most intimate information with?” Apple has to win in that regard. They’ve got the most security for the average person features. But if I were to leave I would go Third Party Android Rom like GrapheneOS or lineage and just opt out of the duopoly entirely. Android with Google is chasing the iPhone while entrusting my info with an Ad company. Not ideal.
Long story short… what will get me to leave iPhone is a compelling anti iPhone like a fair phone with a third party rom. Otherwise the iPhone is just the best default option.
id get like 2 phones: pixel 8 (w/ grapheneos) and iphone 15, so that i can have both ecosystems. for laptops, i would go for macbook air 2020 and system76 laptop
Trust the one that can track when even turned off 👌 Apple is just sneaky and people believe it
Why is everyone acting like Apple having 7/10 of the Top10 phones are from them? That's literally happening EVERY year. This is not new with 2023...
Sometimes it's 6/10, sometimes it's even 8/10. It's normal for years
Lmao that beginning part sounds just like all the Android ppl I run across on RUclips. They’re only arguments are “you’re all stupid” and “you’re just sheep” 😂 weirdos
The only reason some say that cuz iPhones users will admit for example say Samsung is better but still proceed to buy an iPhone. Just seem kind of stupid. But I at least tried apple but I came back to Samsung and I'm here to stay
No, it’s because people, or more like children are following a trend
Simple answer is cheaper options like iPhone SE and older iPhone models are selling really well in developing markets.
IDK why because they are worse than any Android phone in the same price point. Ridiculous that Apple is still selling a 60hz LCD display in 2024
I started out in 2010 as an Android fanboy, and I _want_ to love Android again, but I kind of hate the direction that the tech industry is moving in as a whole. Android phones used to have legitimate hardware differences that set it aside from the iPhone, but over the years, manufacturers have been stripping away those features. So now, I just use the phone as a tool and media consumption device. Since I work in IT, and 95% of the people I work with have iPhones, with almost exclusively Apple computers (aside from some CAD and robotics labs) and iPads, and we have AppleTV's all over the place for projecting, so it just makes sense to have an iPhone.
I hate the walled-garden, but it is what it is. I don't really like phones in general any more, so I'm just picking whichever one does the job better.
I can’t say why it’s growing in the world, but I think here in the States it’s the customer service that there’s a Apple Store you can bring your phone and also again at least here in the states, you can call Apple support and you can talk to a live person and I’ve actually use the service and found it helpful and get fixed if there’s a problem or you can buy it right there and I also think iMessage is a big deal here in the States. Even with those advantages I have to say I like android better for a number of reasons like I have 60 gigs of music and it’s easy to put on my phone and also the universal back gesture and multitasking and notifications is better on android oh one more thing which may sound small but you can’t set up the home screen the way you want unless it’s full so if you wanna put an app somewhere or a widget it moves on you unless the screen is totally packed out so I guess visual person that just bugs me to no end. Anyway, I have an iPhone 13 mini and I have a galaxy S 24+ and I know those are totally different phones but I go back-and-forth.
Reasons : (according to me)
1) BBD sale in india in the month of nov 2023 (14,128 gb went for around 600 usd)
2) Sentiment that if spending more,why not to buy an iphone
3) Illusion that games run more smooth in iphone as compared to androids
4) Showing off factor
5) Samsung switching to exynos for global market and constantly using exynos in mid range ,which people dont prefer
6) Google using a sort of exynos(heating and network quality)
7) Games storing data in their own server rather than google play games,making switching easy
8) People getting bored of android
9) People financing their phones more easily
10) OnePlus is no more a suitable mid to high range phone to buy due to the destruction of the old lovely oxygen OS.
11) Chinese phone's increasing prices,like the redmi note that was supposed to be around 15 to 20k INR is around 30k (double) and we can get an iPhone 14/15 in BBD sale for 50 ,so why not invest more in iPhone.
People buy iPhones because it has an Apple logo on the back. They lose their critical thinking (If they have any, right Americans?) and buy that crap. So sad this happens...
Anytime the masses are into something that is a red flag for me! I don't do what everyone else is doing! But to each his own! All I know is for me, I'll go my own way and not follow the masses...
Well I bought an iPhone 14 (switched from Android) recently for the same reasons you stated, the animations, fluidity and snappiness of the software.
But, I’m having a really frustrating experience. The operating system is really not that snappy. The animations are smooth, sure, but that results in them being a tad slower.
And every time you want to click a button or do a gesture, you have to wait a couple seconds .
I always find myself tapping buttons/doing gestures 2-3 times before they perform the action they are intended to.
The best example would be on youtube, when you minimise and maximise a video using the swipe up and swipe down gestures respectively.
Simple... iOS might be worse overall productivity wise but it gets the basics better (animation curves, scrolling behavior etc...) that people just don't see the reason to choose Android:
"Why do i need file management", "why do i need better typing", "why do i need 3rd party apps?", "why do i need a phone that turns into a full blown PC?", "why do i need customization if it just works?"
All i do is swipe up down left right on social and that looks better on iOS.
I switched from Android to iPhone largely because “it just works”. It’s the 6+ years of security updates, the third party app optimizations, the compatibility/integrations with other hardware and software, the consistent UI, iMessage, GamePigeon, iMessage group chats, etc.
For example, Android Auto’s UI was (I can’t speak to nowadays for obvious reasons) absolutely garbage and it was constantly crashing on my Pixel 2. I would try everything to debug the issue, but the issue would always crop back up. My iPhone 12 has rarely had any issues with Apple CarPlay and the UI is simple and reliable.
As much of a tech nerd as I am, I don’t enjoy constantly having to debug issues with my phone or its compatibility with other software / hardware. Things either work with the iPhone or they don’t. I don’t have to hunt through tech specs /manuals to figure out which specific Android brands and models work with my other technologies. Something as simple as pairing Bluetooth headphones could sometimes be a hassle (back in 2016).
But how can you survive without back button ?
@@MACTEP_CHOB Mindboggling right. Ppl handicap themselfs and call it "easy to use"
People just buy Apple because it's the most ubiquitous. Stop assuming that the average person puts research into things. They don't.
It’s the consistency prime example of the iPhone has a problem affecting 40000 people they will take care of it quick
Android makers will take months or even years to fix it which sucks at this point I love my pixels but iPhone is my phone because wit just works with barely any hiccups
I switched from a Galaxy S22 Ultra to an iPhone 15 Pro Max. I am actually quite happy. I was an Android user since 2009. I had a Palm Pre before that and a Moto Q (Windows Mobile) before that one. Even though I’m 34 I’ve never had a “feature phone” or a “dumb phone”. I think that this iPhone 15 Pro has made me the happiest in terms of a smart phone since the Palm Pre.
The answer is simple. Social Media
iPhones are more optimised for social media and that's literally one of the primary reasons that most phone buyers today, purchase their phones. From the camera quality to how the experience is better when you use social media on iOS. Especially for uploading content and even shooting content within those social media apps, without using the phone's native camera app. Factor in the hype behind the Apple logo as well as overall ignorance of what mordern Androids are capable of, from Apple users. It was kinda of inevitable that this would happen.
I think it is mostly because Apple is seen as a luxury brand so people don't really care about the specs or price, they really go into debt just to buy the latest iPhone, heck they buy old iPhones thinking they are superior to modern Android devices, they just want to be part of the "Cool kids".
social media like tiktok ?
@@MACTEP_CHOB Not just TikTok. Most socially media apps. Especially Instagram which is where camera quality takes top priority. So it doesn't matter if you have a phone with better cameras than an iPhone. If it's not optimised to upload those pictures with better quality. Then it's pointless to have that phone as an avid social media user/content creator.
Except it is not about phones but codecs. Not the Samsungs fault Instagram favors iphones.
@@JaydenAndrewsTech
Everyone forgets to mention the Apple Store. People love looking at the new iPhones in person, and they really like that there’s a physical store to go to when their products are having issues
Imagine actually caring about stuff like this......
Rich, cool people use iPhones. That's the perception. You're a loser if you use an Android. Apple is more of a lifestyle brand than a tech brand. People want the image of using an iPhone in public, so they pay more for a worse device.
You must have no friends and dont talk about losers that you are a simp.
So you get an iphone to look cool? 40 year old teenager spotted here.
Great video. I think the answer is even simpler. Apple users have been surveyed, studied, questioned and polled for close to two decades. The answers rarely change. 1-Ease of use, 2-build quality (ohhh pretty❤️) 3-the devices are well maintained by APPLE (great customer support, frequent updates and they last long) 4-resale value, 5-every device we like works well with their other devices (ecosystem). 6-they just work! (People enjoy using them, stable OS.
It’s not because millions are “flexing” or the really dumb “it’s MARKETING”.
Edit: forgot a big one-Security.
iOS for me is definitely not easy to use. It's like writing with my right hand but I'm left handed sure I can do it but it doesn't feel right
@@leviandhiro3596 ok. Thanks.
@leviandhiro3596 it's not for everyone, but the majority of the world are just "simple" users (so not tech fanatics), and for them it's easier. There are a lot of Android user who ask me how he can reach this/that after they switched phone, but not a single iPhone user did that ever, because even the new phone use the same method like their previous phone, so they already know how to use it if they used it previously (so they only need to learn once, not once per phone purchase..)
@@TamasKiss-yk4st Im pretty sure majority of iphone user dont even know any features and ways of using android as a system, hence why they think its easy to use. Their is a german saying "Dont tell a farmer a fruit he hasnt seen before". What it basically means is that the uninformed apple user will be happy with ios, until the apple user gets the gist of the features of android.
If you dont know about the universal back button, located at the lower right corner, functioning in every app the same way, you will not miss it. However if you know its existance, every time you search a way to go back, you will be missing that one button.
I actually asked my brother, who has been using iphone since 7 years, if he sometimes searches for a way back. He confirmed it. He said that its worst with app in app situations, in which he can wither go to the main page or leave the app in app, but not go a single step back.
@@chomp5558 Android/PC users really need to let go of the delusional and self-soothing belief that Apple users “don’t know”. It’s Android and Windows not Linux or writing code. It’s not that we don’t “know” enough, We. Don’t. Care. We shop for personal computing devices like everything else and we LIKE Apple. Android users seem incapable of understanding the basic concepts of human nature or respect the fact that people VALUE different things. We like Apple’s attention to detail and how they try to create a user experience that is innovative, fun and functional. They focus on what we can do with our devices, not to them. We like their emphasis on security, privacy and accessibility. We like their design aesthetic and stable operating systems. How they don’t sell us to the highest bidder, not constantly tracking or drowning us in bloatware. We KNOW why we choose Apple, what we don’t know is why you care so much. PS, the iPhone had the back arrow on earlier phones, it wasn’t earth shattering when it was gone.
It would be nice if you talk about Xiaomi software how it’s similar to iOS
I've been on iOS for 10 years and recently sold my iPhone 15 Pro for a Google Pixel 8 Pro and I'm honestly loving it. It took a couple of days to get used to the different software, but I really think Google has done a great job at making a great phone.
Exactly
Sure you did bud. I’ve been seeing this exact comment on multiple videos I guess google is creating fake accounts to promote android now.
I’m sure google has done a great job with their Android platform in the pixel device, but it’s not enough to become the Apple of Android lol. And that’s because google isn’t a phone brand. Like when you hear google, you hear oh it’s a search engine, or a page to search stuff. Not Android. Or pixel. There’s still a lot of people that don’t even know google has pixel phones.
@@riickyworld1 they deleted my comment but I’ve seen this persons exact comment posted by multiple accounts on iPhone specific videos. It seems like google and android are trying to make it seem like people are switching when they really aren’t
@@riickyworld1 no one wants the apple of android. We want the Android of android. Don't apple my android🗣️. Even though it's kinda happening
My biggest problem with the iPhone is that I've never met anyone that actually likes iphone. Their whole thing is oh well my family has one of my friends have one so I won't be included in the group chat. That's where I think iPhone is really crappy because they have not built better tech they have just made their text so exclusive that if you don't have it in many cases you could be mocked or made fun of or left out of things
This is the one. Incredible comment.
I dropped android recently because Google forgot that customizations and features is why people love it. The widget that I can’t remove on their launcher makes me not purchase android phones. Why force me to have a widget that is so useless? Also, Apple is innovating with new things like night stand and allowing customization while android has horrible Lock Screen widget capability. Also, Google now sort of sucks now. Give us the option to have a widget drawer such as iOS. In short, don’t let Apple beat you at the customization game. Pixel was and is the downfall of android as android is suffering and pixel is getting exclusives. Dumb Google.
I’m mad at Google as I am Mr Android. I loved Android and never had a single Apple device ever. Every time I tried to use an Apple device, I had a list so long on things android did better. Than things got worse and worse with android and kept improving with iOS and basic usability things like android keyboard, fingerprint sensor, face unlock, etc got worse and worse.
This is all great for Apple, but I hope they also learn from their own experience. They released iPhone with USB-C because they were forced to by the EU, but it turns out it made everyone happy and made more sales. They really should learn that, even if many people may buy their products no matter what, actually listening to the customers is a good idea and will generate more sales. In the same way, they should listen to developers, repairs people, and generally all the parties that are contributing to this ecosystem.
I rather die than using a google phone💀
A lot of why I prefer iPhone over Android phones is software, as Drew mentioned. I find it easier to use most of the time and I like being able operate various iPhones from different years because iOS versions are so similar.
I switched to IPhone after 10 plus years with Samsung. I did this because I got to a point in my life where I stopped caring about all the specs and customization that android kept trying to shove down my throat. I just wanted a phone that did phone things. Almost everyone that describes an I phone says, “It just works”. And that’s what I needed in a phone. 4 months in, I’m really happy with this IPhone 15 Pro!
Well said 13 year android user here. I used to root my phone and do all kinds of things..my pixel was so glitchy... I'm 37 years old now and I just want something that works I'm too busy to be clowning around with my phone. Bought iPhone 14 pro Max. For the dating scene too...chicks like iPhones
@@anon2414I have an iPhone XS
Isn't it kind of ironic that now Android is focusing on aesthetics and optimization and Apple is focusing on customization? 😅
(Lets not mention that costumization on android is volunteering, so if you dont want to "clown" around, you can basically use the phone out of the box and still be happy, cuz the set expectations are so low, that even the 200€ A15 should be able to manage it. However you can still throw 1000€ at apple for nothing surely) yeah
I used to be a diehard Android fan. Had an s20 for a while, a pixel 7 for around a year, and then a Pixel 8 Pro which was lackluster and I eventually returned it for an iPhone 15. I had an iPad prior to this so I guess I was staying with android simply because the charging cord was consistent between the two. Now that the iPhone has USB-C, it's so much more convenient and I've further fallen in love with how much more productive the Apple ecosystem is. I now have a macbook pro even though I told myself years before that windows was superior. Apple really isn't bad at all
For me its 2 reasons, samsung removed all the good reasons to choose samsung over iphone, like SD card slots, headphone jacks. My 2nd reason is im fed up with my samsung phone spying on me, if i say i want to buy a tv outloud, 20 mins later i get ads for tvs, if i google vacations to mexico for example, suddenly my RUclips and Facebook feeds are full of videos and ads of trips to mexico. Its just tiring and that doesn't happen on iphones
That used to happen on my iPhone all the time. I think it's more an app/tracking issue than an OS issue.
Apple does the same shit💀💀 just search about it
That's the apps not the phone
Do you really think apple isnt listening to you in secret?
Honestly, i think there are a lot of reasons for people to buy an iPhone. Some of them might have more than one reason and some of them might actually have all of the reasons i mention:
1/ Proven stability/trusted brand
2/ Great apps/app store (safe to use as well compared to others.)
3/ longevity - (iOS updates/safety updates.)
4/ Design
5/ Cameras - (iPhones might not have the best cameras, but they do have great cameras. Also, for filming, it has been proven that they have actually one of the better cameras. For photo's, it's a different story.)
6/ Great eco-system. (Works together with your Mac/ Apple Watch/ Air Pods/ iPad,...)
I honestly think that it's the whole package (or like i mentioned, for some people it might even be only one of these reasons mentioned) that sway over a lot of people to an iPhone. I also think that the "pressure" from kids in school might not be underestimated! If someone got an iPhone in school, others might be bullied because they don't have newest thing. That's horrible of course. But kids can be awful to each other.
These are just my personal thoughts of course. But i'm curious to see what other people think! 🙂
Honestly in my opinion, I feel like Apple and Android have their ups and downs. I just like triggering apple fans though since their reactions are funnier, but you seem pretty genuine though, so I will share my opinion.
IPhones do have great cameras I will admit, plus I really like their eco-system as well, and AirDrop is very cool.
Android cameras can also be good though. Some of those Android cameras are getting a lot better which honestly was shocking to me at one point.
Android is a lot more open-source when it comes to small app developers, unlike the IPhone. Plus I can download old apps off of the web with android. Where with IPhone I have to go through the process of modding it, which is a big pain in the rear.
Emulation is also really cool in my opinion, unfortunately Apple is a lot more strict when it comes to emulation so that sucks.
I also really like how customizable android is as well, I like making my personal stuff unique to be fair though so I understand why it isn't for everyone.
But I do like how unique the android phones can look. Comparing the s24, to the OnePlus 12, and then to the Nothing Phone 2. They just look so different, like there is a phone for everyone. To be fair though that is because it is a more opened source OS.
But the IPhone doesn't really have much options unfortunately. But as a wise man once said "If it ain't broke. Don't fix it!" which absolutely destroys that argument.
A lot of Apple fans just seem to look down on android users though, like they are better than them. Which is a horrible view on other people. Nobody should think like that because of something you own.
Sorry about the long paragraph!
@@KrudDavolis That's okay man, i don't care to read a bit if a person is respectful to me. (Which you very much are!) 🙂
And you made all fair points and all facts. Android is more customizable and more open. The only thing you can customize on the iPhone i guess is the wallpaper and the lock screen. Though the lock screen has its limits. At least for now. I hope that with each new iOS update, there will be more options available.
What would concern me the most is getting viruses and what not when you download apps from a website on your phone. That's the thing i do like about the "closed walled garden" from Apple. Though i'm not sure if you really can get viruses on an Android phone or not. I never owned an Android smartphone to be honest and up until now, i do like the way my iPhone works with everything, from my Mac desktop to my Macbook Pro. So it's really hard for me to go to a Samsung or a Nothing phone for example. Although those would be my first 2 choices if i would go with an Android phone. I guess as a third it would be a Pixel.
Lastly, i would never look down up on people who use an Android phone (or whatever product for that matter.) I think people should use what they feel works for them. I know the world isn't like that, which is really sad (and pathetic.)
Thank you for being nice and open minded at least!
I tried S24U for a week. Great hardware, but the software was sooo buggy and some apps didn’t even have the same features as on iOS. Eventually I went back to my good old 13 Pro Max.
what was so buggy? What part of the software? I use both an iPhone and an android phone. It is an honest question what part of the software on an android phone do you find so bad?
depends on personal preference i guess, im still using my iphone 13 but im planing on upgrading to a new android soon, both os have ups and downs but i just like android more. its not about something being objectively better, its preference
Yeah, the S24 Ultra is buggy...
Do you always tell lies? 😂
@@mqproductions I didn't tell S24U is buggy. 1P apps are fine, no issues, actually loved some of them like Good Lock and Sound Assistant, where I could map my volume keys to change songs while screen locked. The issue is with 3P apps like:
1. Spotify not opening properly links and turns out its an android issue for years (at least for some people) and no tutorial helped. When opening link to a song/playlist, it opens the app, but leads to nowhere, or just black screen. I always had to use my iphone next to me to open a song that friends send me.
2. Dark mode is either non existent, or not possible to auto choose for apps like snapchat and tiktok. Why tf I can use auto dark mode for snapchat on iOS, but not on Android?
3. It's a bit irritating when the whole phone becomes sluggish down to 60 Hz when camera is active, for example in snapchat or in-app camera functions, like picking up a photo to send in Telegram chat. Same for navigation apps. Open navigation app? Punished to 60 Hz no matter what you do.
4. This is not exactly 3P app issue, but when you add a contact as a whitelist for DND/Sleep mode, it only adds it's number for calls or SMS. No integration with other chat apps or voip calls. On iPhone, when I add contact as a whitelist for DND/Sleep mode, I can allow for example, specifically Telegram messages and calls to go through for that contact. I didn't see this possible on my S24U and personally for me, it is crucial.
@@mqproductions don't mind him bro, s24 isn't s4 lol.
Consumers are fickle, and apples control on app installs have kept people still buying lol
My mom has had her 11 since launch day. After 4 years the charging port stopped working because of water damage. They're great phones and i even owned a 13 pro for about a year. I bought a MacBook and apple watch soon after. Now I'm on a samsung phone because I was tired of having to connect my phone to my laptop just to sideload apps. Do I regret it? No, the difference in quality between iOS and Android isnt huge anymore. You can buy the latest android or iOS and expect at least 3 years out of that phone unless your battery dies.
Cuz ppl mistake iPhones as status symbols in countries like India, America, South Korea etc
It's hilarious hearing a Apple fanboy justify buying an iPhone. 😂
It’s hilarious hearing an android fanboy trying to defend their brand. Shameless and stupid. (Saying this as an android fan)
It’s “fun fiddling with stuff, either because you love it or have nothing better to do” vs “thing that works no matter what. You can use it with your eyes closed and pretty much expect almost the same result. Always”.
Looks like more people are starting to have something better to do than adjusting every little letter to their liking. 😄 “customisability”
I changed from Android to iPhone with the iPhone 13 Pro Max as iOS has got closer to feature parity with Android. It's not there yet but it's close enough for me.
I now have the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Financially it has become a no-brainer where flagship phones are concerned as second-hand values are way higher than they are on Android - meaning the price to upgrade to the latest and greatest is actually a lot less than you might think. The sale of my 13 Pro Max covered 60% of the cost of the 15 Pro Max where with an Android device you would be looking to cover maybe 20% to 30% of the new device. Android flagships are just as expensive as iPhones so upgrading on Android is actually more costly in real terms.
The whole "Android is cheaper" argument only works for budget handsets - not for flagships. Android flagships will cost you more in reduced second-hand and trade-in values.
1:57 THE RETURN OF THE OFFICIAL APPLE SHEEP!
iPhone is just so much easier to use. It gets easier to use the more you use it. It doesn’t get slower with bloatware, safe, straightforward. The moment these new users started to use iPadOS or macOS, they’ll be hooked and not easy and willing to ditch the fruit for other make and model.
Really? As an Android user I absolutely hate the inconsistent back button and how Apple hides all the advanced options for every app in the damn settings.
@@AdamSmith-gs2dvinconsistent back button is crazy honestly.
The bloatware and Safety thing was relevant on Android years ago, Pixels have no bloatware, and overall Android are as safe as iPhones since it restricts 3rd party app download by default and they have Google Play Protect to verify the safety of apps before you install them.
I use Android because it let's me do way more stuff. Best of all, Android is open-source.
I just recently switch to android. Yay im in the minority 😊
As long as you enjoy your phone and it fits your needs, be happy with it! And I am an iPhone user but I always acknowledge android phones
The coping some Iphone users are coming up with is laughable
Just be honest and say the real reason
-Cause you can afford it
-Social Status
-Sheep that runs with the crowd