Granted, I’ve only owned four Android phone and two tablets in my time but all of them worked immediately out of the box with no additional customization required after the initial setup (Google account, time zone, etc). Being able to change things is a feature and is optional.
iPhones seem to have consistently better battery life than even the best Android phones, beyond what might be reflected in the wattage rating of the batteries themselves. Someone once explained to me how it was because the entire Apple operating system was just better optimized, but I don’t know enough about it to explain. Apple hardware is also quite well built, much better than most android phones.
I will say that after trying a couple of brands, I have found Huawei phones and devices to be consistently the best built, certainly compared to most other android phone makers. All the Huawei devices I have bought are still working well, while every single Lenovo(as an example because I also have a couple of those) device has crapped out within a year of purchase. their software is still a bit clunky in places and they are more expensive than the cheapest Android phones but they are still much cheaper than Apple and certainly do the job for me.
I’m definitely taking a good look at this myself. On my previous smartphone, a Samsung S2 E4GT, I flashed a Google-based custom ROM, which effectively turned it into what a Pixel would have been like at the time. The absence of OEM bloatware made for a remarkable improvement in performance. The only reason I haven’t done that for my S5 is because I haven’t found a suitable corresponding ROM for it.
Not necessarily. I’ve known people who crack every screen on every device they get.
Honestly, depends on how you use your phone.
Again, not necessarily. 98% of what you’ll do on a phone, you can do on iOS or Android.
Neither is better than the other. It’s user preference.
Marketing. All manufacturers have high end phones. iPhones, Samsung, and the Google Pixel can all get into the $800+ range depending on what features the devices have. Other manufacturers make very competitive high end phones, but don’t have nearly the marketing cost. This keeps the consumer cost low. Asus is brand that comes to mind right now.
Have you looked at Apple’s profit lately? That profit comes from the iPhone, which means you are paying for it. On the other hand, because of Apple’s volume and limited number of models, Apple has better economies of scale than anyone else on the planet for smartphones.
I cracked my last Window’s phone screen and gone for the ZTE to learn the Android OS. Most of my family has iPhones and I want to compare. No matter what you use, learning a new phone OS is a pain in the ass.
For me the selling point for iPhone is software support; with Android you are pretty much on your own when you walk out the store.
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