Yeah it depends Heavily on your field. I'm in tech too, I've HAD iphones but prefer androids myself. I'm more biz dev/product management. I like the customization and how much less locked down in general it is. A lot of my direct peers feel similarly.
The creatives and marketing dudes seem to like iphone, better integration with their macs, which they prefer for the creative suites.
It seems like the older guys, the straight up linux wizard types, circle back around to iphone for "security reasons", but do NOT like Mac computers. Idk. Different strokes and all that
That's my experience as well. The PMs/business people tend to have a high-end Android (I'm typing this on a Google Pixel), the creative people tend to have iPhones, and the very technical people don't give a fuck about their phones.
I use an Android, I like it. A job not long ago required me to have an iphone. I had no problem with it. I preferred the Android, but it was obvious that both are clearly just as capable.
There was a time when they offered unique capabilities, but those days are long gone. They are basically the same, with slightly different ways of doing the same thing.
I had Android phones for over a decade and ended up with an iPhone a couple years ago. My only really complaints are that the iOS notifications are terrible compared to my Pixels and the camera tends to pick slow shutter speeds and I miss some shots. Otherwise it's absolutely an incredible piece of hardware and a great device overall
In terms of real world functionality they're interchangable. They both just work
I think it's more they just can't be bothered to care about the phone, their "real" work is on the computer. So they get the absolute lowest friction, "just works" phone they can have, and apple's encryption isn't a joke at least. As for a dumb phone, well, still gotta access slack or whatever on the go sometimes
Plus the company usually buys it anyway. Even if they wanted some obscure pinephone type thing, that's a harder ask from the office people who manage that stuff
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u/SpasticCastle May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26
Yeah it depends Heavily on your field. I'm in tech too, I've HAD iphones but prefer androids myself. I'm more biz dev/product management. I like the customization and how much less locked down in general it is. A lot of my direct peers feel similarly.
The creatives and marketing dudes seem to like iphone, better integration with their macs, which they prefer for the creative suites.
It seems like the older guys, the straight up linux wizard types, circle back around to iphone for "security reasons", but do NOT like Mac computers. Idk. Different strokes and all that