Iphone VS Android

 

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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 iphone's

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 side load

apps iphones get updates for half a

decade 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 video i actually 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

ways 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 iphone

isn'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 couming 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 gonna

come down to which company you trust

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with all the camera comparison videos

the battery comparison test the side

side-by-side benchmarking here on

youtube i actually have to say that i

feel like comparing model versus model

and feature versus feature year after

year is actually not quite as important

as people maybe assume obviously when

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 homepod minis

around your house and you can scan items

from your iphone directly to apple notes

on you mac you can get applecare for

premium support you can use imessage you