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Because I can still - albeit with some amount of work - run whatever I want on my Android phone.
Not that it'll last, I guess, but as of today, still possible.
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.
The most popular smartphones around are all different Xiaomis and Huaweis, since you get good hardware for like $100-200 max. Do you think people buy them for android and now that iOS has widgets those people will move to iOS?
I 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.
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.
Well, iOS 14 makes a little bit of progress here. Which is great. But it will be very far away from Android. iOS will just "allow" this for Web and Email applications, while Android has a rich and open intent and app system that doesn't need permission from Google.
Android also has a great app chooser. Click on a web link and it will ask you in which browser you want to open it. Or set a default from there.
So, good small step forward, but still miles away from what you can do on Android.
FWIW, I’m an iOS user and wouldn’t consider Android for many reasons. But I would never say “almost no reason” to describe choices people make among the two main smartphone OSes.