iPhone v/s Android
I am a writing assistant that helped me clarify to be talking about iPhone versus Android. Hopefully with a fresh Perspective usually here when you hear somebody talking about this subject you hear statements like android is more customizable than iOS apple is more privacy-focused android split-screen support is really useful iPhones continuity features are super useful android phones have USB-c a variety of devices always-on displays more customizable looks cameras with more megapixels and the ability to sideload apps iPhones get updates for half a decade to have better more premium support generally just work have better resale value have more accessories to choose from and generally just benefit from tighter integration of hardware and software and the list goes on but in this is actually I want to either dig a little deeper or maybe just zoom out a little further and cover some ground that's maybe more interesting or in some way maybe even more important now whether you're considering an android device or an ios device.
For your next phone there's always more than
one reason to prefer one over the other so one thing's for sure there's no
reason to trash somebody else's treasure use what makes you happy and let other
people do the same so let me start then by mapping out some of the top level strengths
and weaknesses for each side a top-level strength and weakness on the iPhone side of things is that the iPhones aren't a solitary product it's deeply interconnected
with other complementary apple products and services, in fact, I would go so far
as to argue that the iPhone itself isn't the real product that apple's trying
to sell here instead it's almost like it's more of a feature of apple's actual
product the famed apple ecosystem.
A deep ecosystem can feel like a really great
feature to somebody because the more apple devices a person buys the more
powerful and useful that ecosystem actually becomes the flip side though is
that the costs associated with building out the apple ecosystem makes switching
away expensive maybe for some people prohibitively so now a top level strength
and weakness on the android side of things is its reliance on Google’s surveillance
capitalism machine because at its heart Google is not in fact in the business
of selling phones as much as it's in the business of selling ads so the more private
information and experiences Google has access to the more personalized targeted
and effective their operating system apps services and yes ads can be now a
more personalized experience can feel like a really great feature to people
because the more company knows about you the more efficiently they can serve
you the flip side though is that that efficiency might come at the expense of
true autonomy if your information is productized and potentially exploited on this
platform can you ever truly be certain that the products you're buying and the
information you're consuming is of your own free will so pick your poison because
there really is no such thing as the perfect phone or the perfect company so i
guess at the end of the day a lot of your decision is going to come down to
which company you trust more real quick.
We’re talking about
phones features do matter but the really good features the ones that aren't
just gimmicks are fairly likely to eventually get copied by the other side we
saw this when widgets arrived on the iphone's home screen and we saw this when
swipe controls came to android devices and honestly there are countless other examples
with new iphones i think you generally know what to expect year to year probably
a more iterative approach to improving what's already a highly polished phone
that basically just works each year i think it's pretty clear that apple's mostly
concerned with competing against itself and only itself instead of trying to
outdo the latest and greatest android devices out there even though oftentimes
that is exactly what ends up happening similarly i think the majority of
android devices are basically fighting it out amongst themselves every year
mostly just trying to get a bigger slice of the overall android pie as a result
of that android manufacturers are incentivized to try to grab headlines by
being not just iteratively different but radically different if they can and
sometimes this does lead to breakthroughs like periscopic zooms but other times
it also leads to gimmicks like glasses-free 3D screens in either case what you would consider
the core smartphone experience rarely if ever changes year to year smartphones
text they game they browse they email they call they take photos they control
smart homes and a new form factor like a foldable or a more private browsing
experience like apple's private.
Relay don't really do
all that much to change the fundamental smartphone experience and like i said
the truly standout features are likely to get copied by either side within a
few generations now over the next decade or so a new platform is probably going
to emerge that will eventually replace smartphones probably some kind of ar or vr
platform in either case instead of just having tunnel vision and laser focusing
on which new phone has the coolest new feature every year
It might be good to take things on balance and
also consider what the future looks like and how happy you're likely to be in three
to five years because when you buy a new phone you're not just buying a phone
you're actually heading in a direction so if you buy an iphone the direction
that you're taking is heading straight into apple's ecosystem and over the next
three to five years you could really spend a decent amount of money investing
there but yeah you can get an apple watch and a mac and unlock your mac with your apple watch and you can start an
email on your ipad and finish it on your iphone you can send an intercom voice
message using your air pods that broadcast to the home pod minisaround your
house and you can scan items from your iphone directly to apple notes on your
mac you can get applecare for premium support you can use message you can set reminders
on siri on your apple watch that go off when you get out of your car play-enabled
car your iphone is going to last you for more years if you wanted to because you'll
get updates for longer and then you'll be able to sell it for a decent amount
because apple products retain their value longer and you can do it all while
feeling more secure and private.
Mostly maybe yes the apple
ecosystem is great unless or until apple does something that you don't like what
if someday apple decided to not scan for illegal images but to scan for people
who might belong to a certain religious group or any other group because i
would hate to see tools that were developed with a good purpose at heart turned
into weapons of intolerance.
Now if you choose to
buy an android device you're buying into a future with more device options and
with more opportunities for customization that's right you're going to be able
to change your launcher to put app icons wherever you want you can root your phone
and install custom firmware you can bypass google's app store and side load
apps you can use a phone without a notch that has expandable storage and
includes a headphone jack or you can buy a phone for even less than 400
You can split your
screen to read an article and watch a twitch stream at the same time you can
use one usbc charger to charge your laptop your switch and your android phone
you can get that always on lock screen of your dreams you can ask more
complicated questions of google assistant and expect smarter answers you can
get a phone with a stylus and yes you can easily theme your devices yep all the
options and customizations are great until or unless well let's just say i
shudder to think about everything that google not to mention facebook while
we're at it knows not just about android users but honestly about the entire
population does google know you better than you know yourself.
Do advertisers in the words
of a retired harvard business school professor surveillance capitalism is the
unilateral claiming of private human experience as free raw material for translation
into behavioral data these data are then
computed and packaged as prediction products and sold into behavioral futures
markets she wrote a book a while back and it caused a big stir because she goes
on to say that these smart and personalized devices and experiences that so
many
People enjoy might
actually in some way even be putting democracy at risk wow it's like you might
think you're really informed but maybe you're only as informed as x y or z has
allowed you to be and you wouldn't know the difference here's the way i see it
when you buy an iphone you're buying a puzzle piece and it's a real nice puzzle
piece all on its own but you're not gonna realize the full picture until you
assemble the rest of the puzzle i.e until you buy other apple products which
all become so much better together likewise when you buy an android phone
you're still buying a puzzle piece but it's just the overall puzzle that these
pieces fit into is just much much smaller google's puzzle ecosystem is growing
samsung's puzzle slash ecosystem is growing but neither one comes anywhere
close to matching the actual grandeur the gravity of apple's massive puzzle
slash ecosystem and smaller android manufacturers for the most part really are
just selling individual puzzle pieces mostly so decisions
For me personally I can just say i have chosen
to go down the iphone and apple route at least for
The time being it
served me really well in the past and i do feel like I produced high quality
work using apple's products some people like one linus sebastian might think of
iphones as incremental expensive and boring but to me iphones are reliable
premium and ready to go right out of the box i find that for me personally i
wouldn't be spending a whole lot of time customizing the grid layout of my home
screen or trying to overclock or under clock my phone for gaming or battery
performance if you're looking to get into the apple ecosystem you can do so for
as little as 399 with the iphone se and you could even install all your
favorite google apps if you really wanted to and even create a shortcut to use
google assistant in place of siri you can essentially turn your iphone into a
kind of an android in a way while still being able to take advantage of all the
benefits of being in the apple ecosystem now if you're looking to switch over
to android you really can't pull all your apple apps over with you the only
apple app that's really available over on the android side is apple music but
there are all kinds of phones at all kinds of price points with all sorts of
form factors with all sorts of manufacturer takes on what the best version of android
might look like and you get to choose from all of those now you do have people
out there saying things like android phones are categorically cheap or complicated
but honestly those are just stereotypes there are plenty of expensive android
devices out there made out of really
nice and premium materials and i found that the android experience can be as
complicated or as straightforward as you make it alright well that's it for this blog.
I hope that you found this blog to be
different than you expected and different from other blogs on the subject that
you've seen both in content and tone i really tried hard to make this useful so
hopefully you feel more empowered as you go to pick out your next phone now
that was actually the paragraph i was going to say that's what i hope this blog
took a slightly different approach than most others you've seen about this subject
and maybe made it even easier for you to make your final decision don't forget
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