I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.

In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.

Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?

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    My s23 ultra totally smokes iphones on camera quality, battery life, and screen. UI is of course subjective and people like what they’re used to.

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      I agree, but I think the problem for Android comes from the fact that since Google never set minimum hardware requirements early on, any Chinesium company could throw together ultra crappy components and say they have an Android device. So a lot of early low-spec phones were indeed really shit.

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        Imo the problem was rather that early Android was hastily thrown together shit. Phone makers just made it worse with unoptimised drivers and bloatware.

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        Battery is definitely a longevity concern on iPhones. Most people I know with iPhones are tethered to a charger when traveling or camping and other heavy use days.

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          But I mean also, despite right to repair concerns, apple has a large network of first party service centers that will do battery replacement for old phones at a pretty reasonable price.

          Plus with modern fast charging, it never feels like much of an issue. I get basically all day battery from a 20 minute charge during my morning coffee.

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            Wasn’t Apple the one that kickstarted the trend of non-replaceable batteries? And glued-in batteries that you need to take the whole phone apart? And also the trend of serialising batteries to phone so that you can only use 1st party ones and they’ll scream error messages at you?

            Before the stinking iPhone, you could buy a new battery for 20€$£ and swap it in 20 seconds. Apple isn’t the good guys for now charging you who knows how much for a service that’s designed to get you to buy a new phone.

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              1 year ago

              No corporation is the “good guy”

              Every product has trade offs and it all depends on what you personally value in your device

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              Despite that, people typically keep their iPhones much longer than they keep android phones. 3 years of software support is considered good for androids. iPhones get 6

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                People keep saying that, but when I look around, I mostly see either 5-years old 2nd hand phones with all kinds of cracked screens, or 200€ Samsungs that you get with a 15€ contract.

                I could theorise that people keep Iphones longer because they cost a grand, while you can get a perfectly serviceable Android for 200. Except that’s not what I’m seeing either. Most people who buy new iphones are shallow shampoo fanatics who need to have the latest bling, and shell our 1600 every year for a new X Pro Max Ultra Gold Fart. And the “old” one than goes to someone else for 1/3 the price, who might indeed keep it for 5 years. But the same goes with Android too anyway.

                Basically I wouldn’t be surprised if all that was another myth Apple keeps in circulation to make themselves look better. Just like that iMessage nonsense.