By this logic, there's no reason to buy Windows laptops over MacBooks, because MacBooks can actually do anything a Windows laptop can.
Yup, so I guess that's why Mac market share is a whopping 10-20%.
After iOS 14, there's almost no reason to buy an Android phone anymore
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Re: After iOS 14, there's almost no reason to buy an Android phone anymore
#22This article is ridiculous flame bait.
Without that headline nobody would have even looked at it so understandable. Just a reminder that you don't have to click on every link (or read every article) on the internet.
Re: After iOS 14, there's almost no reason to buy an Android phone anymore
#23Writing that as a mobile game developer:
As long as supporting variety of devices on Android makes me suffer during long debugging evenings - I think that open nature of Android makes the mobile innovating much faster.
Competition between Android phones is enormous - which results with such great hardware features like 90Hz+ displays, truly full screen displays, under-screen fingerprint reader. Picture-in-Picture, Split view - those things were available for a long time on Android - and I loved to add support for them.
I think iOS would be never like nowadays if no Android was released, without Android will never innovate as much - due monopoly of one company using that OS.
Re: After iOS 14, there's almost no reason to buy an Android phone anymore
#24Apple can't compete on price and more apps are available for free on android. Having the most features only matter to a very small population. Something rarely talked about. Having an iphone gives the impression you have more money than technical ability.
What kind of "technical ability" do you need to operate a phone?
Re: After iOS 14, there's almost no reason to buy an Android phone anymore
#25I don't love Google but the fact that Apple has been caught doing shitty stuff like slowing down older phones and having to pay out a $500 million settlement when they were caught is enough reason for me to stay away.
Can this myth die? They throttle phones with old batteries that cannot provide enough current. This avoids that phones reboot spontaneously. Replace the battery and it is as fast as ever. I used an iPhone 6s (2015) until recently and it was still butter smooth on iOS 13. I gave it to my niece who is still happily using it.
They lost a $500 million class action lawsuit. I'll try to be open minded but my time is valuable so can you provide a stronger heuristic than the settlement?
Re: After iOS 14, there's almost no reason to buy an Android phone anymore
#26Until there is a full fledged Firefox with uBlock Origin, there is no way for me to leave Android.
If you aren’t using the element blocking features in uBlock a Origin (not sure if it’s supported on mobile) and are using only subscribed blocklists, then using NextDNS as the DNS provider could be an option. It’ll take care of blocking for all apps, not just for one app (like Firefox). It’s kinda like running a pi-hole on the cloud.
Re: After iOS 14, there's almost no reason to buy an Android phone anymore
#27I have one, money. If there were apple phones on every price point it'd have been a different story. Add in modular customizations (camera options, camera locations, # of wifi, size options) and I'd be a fan.
Re: After iOS 14, there's almost no reason to buy an Android phone anymore
#28This article is ridiculous flame bait.
Without that headline nobody would have even looked at it so understandable. Just a reminder that you don't have to click on every link (or read every article) on the internet.
I wanted to give it the benefit of a doubt, but then my suspicions were confirmed and I wanted to warn others.
Re: After iOS 14, there's almost no reason to buy an Android phone anymore
#29After reading the article, i have a feeling that the author has not actually used an Android phone, instead has only read about what features an Android Phone has.
Re: After iOS 14, there's almost no reason to buy an Android phone anymore
#30Writing that as a mobile game developer: As long as supporting variety of devices on Android makes me suffer during long debugging evenings - I think that open nature of Android makes the mobile innovating much faster. Competition between Android phones is enormous - which results with such great hardware features like 90Hz+ displays, truly full screen displays, under-screen fingerprint reader. Picture-in-Picture, Sp…
> I think iOS would be never like nowadays if no Android was released, without Android will never innovate as much - due monopoly of one company using that OS.
The same would be true the other way too. Without iOS and Apple, Android-the-OS would be stuck with data sucking, data slurping, battery draining apps and users being buried in an ecosystem that thrives on this right from the company making the OS (most Android users wouldn’t know what rooting is or how to avoid all the data being collected and exfiltrated). Google has also started to change its tune and some of its behaviors on this front (though it’s still not as much as iOS).