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US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by ethbr0 »

rootusrootus wrote: post #10
mydriasis wrote: post #2

> Despite inflation numbers falling through the quarter and ongoing strength in the job market, consumers hesitated to upgrade their devices amid market uncertainty.” > Apple’s resilience was driven by strong promotions across postpaid and prepaid. Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile continued to offer $800+ promo credits for the iPhone 14 while old-generation iPhones were also steeply discounted across prepaid. We are seeing…

I have a love/hate relationship with Verizon. Okay, more often hate/hate, but still. They have the best network in this area when we're out in the sticks. But their pricing is pretty high. They'll offer $800 on a new iPhone, and then the credit comes one month at a time over 36 months. Meanwhile, you're paying $70-80 per phone. You might as well take the upgrade when available, if you're going to stick with them, bec…

I switched to prepaid MVNO because I didn't want to do research everytime I made a billing decision with Verizon / ATT.

Give me a monthly price. Give me a monthly data number. Then stop talking.

Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by lrvick »

sourcecodeplz wrote: post #12
salad-tycoon wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What did you settle on? I’m starting to fantasize this reality too. I have an iPhone now.

That's just an exercise though really. You NEED a smartphone nowadays for everyday life: banking, gym access, maps, etc.

Not had a smartphone or even a cell phone plan in years. I live in silicon valley and run a b2b company.

I manage bank accounts, travel a lot, keep up with friends, clients, and peers, etc etc, and get by fine with looking up directions before I leave with a paper map as a backup.

Turns out you actually do not NEED a phone. I have a very digitally connected lifestyle which makes it that much more important I be -disconnected- whenever a workstation screen is not in front of me so I can be -present- in whatever I am doing or with whomever I am doing it with.

Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by martin_drapeau »

salad-tycoon wrote: post #6

I finally convinced some in-laws to get an se2 after telling them it wasn’t really cheaper to keep buying terrible no name Samsung phones every other year. They have also both become photographers now and can FaceTime easily to see grandkids. So mark me down for contributing 2. Your welcome Apple.

FaceTime and iMessage always work very well and out of the box. No installation/configuration required.

This, in my mind, is the biggest selling feature for iPhones to baby boomers. Locks them in forever as well.

Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by throw9away6 »

matchbok wrote: post #7

Years and years of terrible decisions from Google (15 messaging apps, Android SDK glitches that still exist from 2010, copying Apple's features instead of leading) will only continue to let Apple dominate. There's simply no reason to choose Android - iPhone does everything better, for the same price.

Yeah pixel line phones are the only decent android devices but they aren’t as good as iPhones and they cost the same. 6 or so years ago they were competing at the 400-500$ range and were actually a good trade off

Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by PhilipRoman »

matchbok wrote: post #7

Years and years of terrible decisions from Google (15 messaging apps, Android SDK glitches that still exist from 2010, copying Apple's features instead of leading) will only continue to let Apple dominate. There's simply no reason to choose Android - iPhone does everything better, for the same price.

I'm sorry, but - "for the same price"? You must live in a very different place than I do.

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Post by the_third_wave »

mydriasis wrote: post #8
salad-tycoon wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What did you settle on? I’m starting to fantasize this reality too. I have an iPhone now.

I'm going to be getting a Nokia 6300 4G. Smart enough to have google maps, dumb enough to stay out of my head. I've been recommended to "just get a GPS" -- they're like $300, and I'm cheap :) so my dumpy little phone will have to do the job. That's like, the #1 thing I _really need_ out of a phone; the rest is distracting trash. The best part is that you can pay _ridiculously low_ prices month to month through variou…

> I've been recommended to "just get a GPS" -- they're like $300, and I'm cheap :)

Get a second-hand Android device for those tasks, install LineageOS and F-Droid/Aurora Droid, don't put in a SIM card and you're set for much less than $300. You'll be running free software - e.g. OsmAnd for mapping using off-line maps, no connectivity necessary - and you won't be feeding Google (et al) your data as you will using that Nokia. The battery will last a long time with connectivity disabled as well, longer than that on those $300 GPS receivers.

Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by eimrine »

sourcecodeplz wrote: post #12
salad-tycoon wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What did you settle on? I’m starting to fantasize this reality too. I have an iPhone now.

That's just an exercise though really. You NEED a smartphone nowadays for everyday life: banking, gym access, maps, etc.

You can have a non-ios non-android device for maps, visit a non-requiring a smartphone gym, use a plastic card instead of NFC and a website instead of bank app. Also use phone/email for voice/text conversations instead of 14 apps every one of which are full of ads.

Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by rootusrootus »

Even the cheap folks in my extended family are starting to switch to iPhones. The TCO is better, as is longevity and use experience. The only way to be cheaper is to stick with awful budget android phones and then you give up on the experience and extended software support. Get burned a couple times by that, and pretty soon a basic iPhone SE starts to look really appealing. Especially for people who don't want to upgrade every couple years.

Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by diffeomorphism »

prox wrote: post #5

iPhone has always been a superior experience to me. While it may not have that tinkering ability like an Android, on the whole Apps are much higher quality, more paying customers as a dev, lots of things that just work between devices. I think it’s deserved in that sense.

> lots of things that just work between devices

Only if those are apple devices. Between an idevice and a windows or linux laptop the "just works" factor has been quite unimpressive.

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