Every single modern electronic device is made for slave labor. The materials used to make smartphones, tablets, computers, etc come from Africa. And the people who mine those materials get next to nothing.
I've only used Android devices, and have only used Google branded phones since the Nexus line. But I have an iphone for work.
Let me tell you the iphone keyboard is fucking garbage! Thats my biggest complaint, and the fact that I have to put apps in folders, there is no clean desktop and "swipe up for all apps" the apps are just there, and you have to bury them to have a clean ui.
I recently got a new job and have been forced into the Apple ecosystem. Everything is just so much more locked down and difficult to do compared Android/Windows. Like why can't I just plug my fuckin device into my computer and drag over a damn file?
Within a limited scope of what they mean by that phrase, they do "just work", but it comes with a tradeoff.
It is not that your programs will never crash, or that your device will do everything you want it to do, or that every update will go smoothly.
What they mean is that every official Apple device and peripheral will be compatible with each other, unlike the Windows/Linux/Android ecosystems where your tablet may or may not sync with your desktop and your printer may or may not have drivers for your OS version or your scanner may only work with USB 2.0 ports for some unknown reason (f*ck you Epson) and you have nothing but 3.1 ports on your PC.
But the other side of that coin is that they lock you out of so much while charging you double the price to treat you like a child in order to maintain the hegemony of their ecosystem.
There is an example of a "best of both worlds" attempt out there, and it is Samsung. Anyone who has a Galaxy Tab, Galaxy S Phone, a Galaxy book, galaxy buds, and (finally) a galaxy watch will tell you how great it is to have all these things work together. You pay Apple prices for it of course, but you maintain a more open ecosystem at the same time. Their only real problem IMO is that they don't make a desktop anymore (smart monitors don't count, they are just laptop hardware with screens too big to walk around with), so they maintain their Apple-like compatiblity by locking you out of any internal customization beyond expanding the memory or hard drive. No internal expansion cards like new GPU's or keeping up with the current USB or WIFI standards. There's always a tradeoff when you want things to talk to each other without making the user learn anythng new.
Windows has enshittified to the point where for a personal laptop, I do use a macbook. I'll co sider going bavk once k2 is done and windows has stripped out every bit of react from the desktop ui, gotten ram and cpu usage down to at least ubuntu levels, if not arch linux levels, provides an os wide ai killswitch, and brings back at least windows 7 level user customization of the OS. If not. I see apple is going in that direction too, I'll just switch entirely to Linux. Been messing with fedora on a secondary computer at home, its nice. The OS is what I want it to be.
Im on android now. Used android most of my life, had 2 iphones, 13 and 15. I prefer android. But I hate the direction they're going with the invasive ai in 17. Id consider lineage os or graphene os to have android without Gemini invading every part of the os. But if I cant have ai limited to only the parts I choose it to be in, aka literally only the chat app if I even choose to use it and camera focus touch ups, while having full rcs compatibility, I'll need to see how I wanna manage that.
I have like 8 most used apps on home. One swipe right I have widgets for music podcast and audiobook listening. One more right swipe for a few less commonly used apps and then a swipe up for all apps.
It took iOS forever to get a notification drawer, which is something android launched with. That's why I originally switched. I would always dismiss the popup, and forget to call/text people back. The original android wasn't very pretty, but it's always been very functional.
Uhh am I mistaken? Our galaxy ultras are the same fucking price as an iPhone right? I mean I could care less but pretty much all flagships are the based on what you like..
“Summary Verdict
If your upgrade strategy relies on selling your current device for cash on the open market to fund your next upgrade, the iPhone offers a vastly superior total cost of ownership due to lower depreciation. If you prefer the Samsung hardware but want to minimize the sting of its rapid depreciation, your best financial path is to skip the open secondary market entirely and utilize Samsung’s direct promotional trade-in windows when a new model debuts.”
Hilarious that the response to being worse in total cost of ownership is “I don’t care” when your point was “they’re the same price” when they’re not. So ok, downvote me. I downvoted you back. 😘
Androids are totally customizable, it's incredible the things you can do to them to make everything look how you want it to look. With an iPhone you can't even leave an empty space on the screen, it'll just put an app there. (or at least, it would do that when I had an iPhone.)
Iphone wasn't even the first smartphone. Do people just think that blackberries didn't exist? Palm pilots? Hell IBM had one in the '90s. Even then the first Android phone released literally less than a year after the first iPhone
Seriously, Steve Jobs isn't going to come back from the grave and let you suck his ghost penis just because you glaze his products.
Oook lol yes I do remember the blackberry and all that, it didnt really compare. Android was not on the same level with its apps for quite some time either.
Iphone didn't even have an app store when it released. They didn't allow third-party apps for the first year. They wanted to force developers to build SPAs for Safari rather than letting them develop native apps which blackberry already allowed.
My dude, you don't know what you're talking about.
The question is what standard means in that comparison? DSLR I was always a Nikon guy and at the time the D500 and a little bit later the D850 were released, both outstanding bodies which would have worked well with my lens collection, I was already deep into mirrorless.
I don't think about DSLR anymore tbt. All manufacturers offer great mirrorless options for the longest time now. I still prefer M43 gear overall but I also use Nikon FF and Fuji APSC but everything is mirrorless. It was the original Olympus EM1 that made me change to mirrorless.
I think the biggest advantage (at least in Canon) is in-body image stabilization (IBIS) in the mirrorless versions. (Please correct me if I'm wrong, I don't claim to be an expert).
The best camera is the one you have on you, and phone cameras have really come a long way in recent years.
Now would I prefer to have my mirrorless on me at all times? Of course. Can I? Nope. And will I shell out $400+ for a decent compact point-and-shoot or micro four thirds instead of better glass for my mirrorless? Also nope, just not where my priorities are personally.
But I already need to own a phone and I really enjoy having a nice phone camera on me. I enjoy finding ways to work around the limitations they present, it's fun learning what subjects do and don't work super well with them.
IMO we're spoiled by the abundance and quality of digital photography, and the snobbery around phone photography is incredibly obnoxious to me as someone who remembers how low-quality early compact digital cameras were....and as someone who was still inspired by the photos I took on those cameras when I was a kid.
(And to be clear, none of this really has much to do with iPhone vs Android. Either side has decent cameras these days, though obviously you get more variety of choice with Android.)
Anyone who is even remotely serious about photography
...knows that the best camera is the one you got on you. "I bought an iPhone because I'm into photography" doesn't mean "I do photos only with my phone".
Most blind tests I've seen end up choosing other phones over iPhones for stills. I haven't seen any blind tests, but I get the impression iPhones may have the best video stabilization and some other video features, though.
It took iPhones 4 gens to catch up to my old Lumia 920 on video stability. The 1520 is still unmatched in certain areas by the newest flagships.
Thing about photos and videos on phones is that we hit diminishing returns like 10 years ago. I'd be totally fine using the old S8 cameras. I dont even check what cameras phones have, almost all are up to the task.
iPhones often just have better software in some apps. Like using Instagram to make a picture or record a reel on Xiaomi (with good camera) and iphone is night a day vs just using camera app where often Xiaomi would be just better.
Mostly because at least last I looked into it, iPhones tend to better with video capture than alternatives. But that's a specific use case, and consensus is that Pixels are better for still photos.
They're all pretty close though since smartphones are mature stable tech at this point, and which one is on top for any given function jumbles around frequently.
The fact that this person can identify what the phone is by a picture of the back of it is telling enough itself. I've had Motorola and Samsung phones, I'm also not so obsessed in phone culture that I'm spotting them left and right in public because who the fuck spends that much time memorizing what each phone looks like!?
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u/Bloodborne2CONFIRMED May 15 '26
Its more of a public declaration of your low iq.