re: Why do so many people have an iPhone?

Google is killing it with the pixel phones and allot of people have no idea

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iPhone people who still think they have a superior product are just sheep

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This is a silly comment.

iphones stay in service longer than android phones.
iphones hold their value longer.
Globally, eliminating budget phones from the numbers and people prefer iphones.

There's nothing wrong with android. It's just aimed at budget conscious (or people that have no choice.) People that can afford to buy iphones tend to buy iphones. The numbers bear this out.

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This idea that Android was made for cheap phones is just bunk

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Tell that to the manufacturers. The vast majority of android phones are budget devices. If you take out developing countries and focus on major economies, then ios outperforms android in marketshare.

Look man, I don't really care what your preference is. But android phones have not been able to capture the flagship market.

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This is a silly comment.

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No it isn't really that's exactly what I felt like for 2 years.

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iphones stay in service longer

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People keep them longer because they don't change there is no real innovation going on since probably the first iPhone

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There's nothing wrong with android. It's just aimed at budget conscious (or people that have no choice.) People that can afford to buy iphones tend to buy iphones. The numbers bear this out.

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Budget conscious? That's the sheep mentality and exactly what I'm talking about with Android you have choice you can buy a cheap phone if that suits you and will perform most daily tasks easily or get a Flagship Device that pushes the envelope. But the android phones are cheap days have been long gone you need to check again and Samsung has the best Hardware period of any smartphone company. The watches are stylish and just as snappy as any Apple watch I had the Apple Watch Ultra and didn't notice any difference in performance from my Galaxy Watch Ultra and even my Classic Watch 8. Apple watch is kinda bubbly looking like a pixel watch its not something you can wear all the time and look good. Classic 8 or 6 is that watch.

But enjoy your apple products and I'll enjoy mine, that's what makes America Great you have choice

Don't assume all that about Apple users, and don't assume they haven't tried Android products. I used Android for years, going back and forth. Last was a Samsung phone, high-end, don't recall the model.

Last one, after a couple of years, slowed down to a crawl, and sometimes I could not even answer the phone. I also bought some Samsung tablets, and most of the apps suck, if you can even find one that also exists in the App Store.

Also, don't discount someone who uses MacBooks and iPads. Using the entire Apple ecosystem is quite seamless.

Not sure about the politics stuff, I don't get any of that on anything I use.

I am at a point where I just want shite to work, and I don't have any emotion or opions on either side after that.

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Also, don't discount someone who uses MacBooks and iPads. Using the entire Apple ecosystem is quite seamless.

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I had an iPad pro also (forgot generation) , I went all in really didn't use the iPad as much as I thought I would. Tablets are kinda pointless to me others may find use for them but it's user preference I guess. I would find a foldable phone of better use.

I can respect someones opinion who actually tried it and I mean actually (like used it for a year or two)and found one or the other more suited for them like yourself. But soon as I see the cheap comment I know who I'm talking to, sheep. I also don't mind trying new things I'm actually on a Pixel 10 Pro XL and Google phones have the best software experience period imo or all. It's one of those things that you don't know until you know. Then you might leave it thinking you want your old operating system back, but at the same time you'll find yourself missing some of the little things. The Google phone did better. It's a catch-22. It's how they keep selling products lol. I myself am going to try the new fold 8 Ultra because I've never had a foldable I want to try everything that's how I am. That's why I tried Apple also. But I'll never lock myself into one ecosystem, that's exactly what Apple does and tries to make you feel like you're locked into them and there's no alternative. Figured that out pretty quickly

I use my iPad Pro all day with work. Goodnotes App lets me search the 1000’s of notes by names and can recognize handwriting. I can save each note in a customer file on my server. My texts on both iPad and iPhone and Mac are simultaneous and photos are on all devices at once. I use my AirPods Pro all day listening to music, on hearing aid mode (I’m old and deaf) take calls on both my cell phone and my desk/work phone through the VOIP app. The AirPods sync with both the phone and the iPad simultaneously. I can have music, hear better and take calls all in my ear.

Then there’s FaceTime. I probably use FaceTime for almost 1/2 of my calls. This is especially nice with grands, and children who live across the country.

My iPhone allows payments with tap to pay on the screen. (Androids may have this).

Microsoft might be the worst company, and by far the worst tech company in terms of tech support. They simply do not speak English as a primary language and it takes 20 minutes to get them up to speed with a tech issue. It’s buggy and my outlook crashes 5-10 day on my PC desktop. The outlook calendar will not integrate and/or properly share. 10 years ago we had to adopt iCal for our shared calendar and it never glitches. Ever.
The Android users have a far harder time using iCal but we found ways to get them on board with the rest of us.

Then there’s security. Safari doesn’t track you. There’s NEVER a virus and the mail app scans all your mail for viruses. You’ll never have a bug with Apple. Ever. Microsoft and onedrive is the most hacked least secure cloud servers there is. I could write a book longer than the Bible on the reasons I hate Microsoft but business requires PCs even tho I try to use my iPad and Mac where/when I can.

Then there’s the elephant in the room. Green Texters. My disdain for Green Text knows no bounds. Every single message to a Green Text is sent as an SMS text message like the 2005’s texts were. That message is pinging off a cell tower even if on WiFi it’s still leaving the message universe to become a phone call and then come back. It ruins family and work group texts. This means one single green texter now causes group texts to have to go find a tower and bounce back. And God forbid one member on the group has poor signal, that photo or video or text will take 40 forevers to finally get delivered. And if green texters send photos or videos they come as thumbnails and you have to download them before you can view them. Green texters ask us blue texters all the time what’s the problem? They don’t get it. Blue texts to other blue texters are instantaneous as in damn near live and in real time. Photos, videos, texts etc are right then. Plus you can still edit blue texts even after they’re sent vs the 4-5 follow up texts explaining that you fat fingered a word or two that make no sense as sent.

Did I mention FaceTime? I have a 3 year old grandchild who does not want to talk on the phone like 1985. They want to see us and we want to see them. There’s no way to FaceTime an android user.

So while I understand android folks like to use their phones as a computer but I seriously don’t need that. I use my phone to communicate. All that computer shite I use on my cheap-arse $300 PC.

I have had an iPhone since the day iPhones came out 6/29/07 and I have had every single upgrade since.

Sorry for long post but I’ve spent all day pinging copiers after having to swap out a bridge and the routers were not loving it nor the printers. Or rather the 25 PCs weren’t having it and I had to re-enter new IP addresses for everything. And the only devices in our office that didn’t require any of that? The iPhones. They still printed and never stopped. I know the androids aren’t PCs but most people who swear by androids make me to believe they are PCs.

For me and my office the Apple phones just work.

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Tell that to the manufacturers. The vast majority of android phones are budget devices. If you take out developing countries and focus on major economies, then ios outperforms android in marketshare.

Look man, I don't really care what your preference is. But android phones have not been able to capture the flagship market.

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This doesn't support your assertion. It's tough to compare because the two go at it in such different ways. One manufacturer vs. many. Are there budget phones? Of course. The manufacturers would be stupid to not go after that market. But pointing them out and failing to discuss the premium ones is just intellectually dishonest or plain ignorant.

Ok.

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Apple is all marketing and 'status'.

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Android is all status for Westerners who get to bleat about not being sheep like Apple users. There's an air of superiority they bring (not including the budget crowd) crowing about Zeiss and Leica lenses, etc., that 99.5% of the public has no clue about.

I genuinely DGAF, the best phone I ever had was the Nokia Lumia 920, which I'd still be using if I could. Google is an awful, awful company, and I want zero to do with them or their services and devices. I don't have a choice besides some janky Linux phone I can't enroll in BYOD, or iOS that I can. /Hand wringing.

FlyingTiger82, you are so, so wrong. Here is a list of malware for MacOS that's a little dated.

Outlook new sucks, but never crashed on me in the way you describe. Outlook classic can be switched to with a little slider in the top corner. Who calls a company for tech support? For Microsoft, Technet used to be the jam, where I found answers to all my own questions (now Microsoft Learn.) Trackers can be disabled through Edge extensions, using a real browser like Brave (which is why I've never seen an ad on TD), watching YouTube through something like FreeTube, etc. I've been a OneDrive user since it was SkyDrive, and it's fine. I can scan from my MFP directly to a OneDrive account, just like I could to iCloud.