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People love their iPhone vs Android arguments. I admit I used to revel in it back when smartphones were new and every update was massive. I'll even admit I'm still riding the high of winning one of these arguments in a bar in 2010 by using my Moto Droid's camera flash as a flashlight.
But there's only so many ways to joke about Apple's feature lag. There's only so many ways to correct or explain things like green text bubbles, worse picture quality in some apps, or that the cheapest android is not going to be able to compare to the Apple flagship, yadda yadda yadda.
Now when someone tries to drag me into one of these conversations my whole mind just glazes over. I have a pocket computer I can do near anything with, and you have a fashion accessory. We are not the same. If you like the fashion accessory then that's fine with me, but if you have to put down my choices in order to justify your own then you're going to have a bad time. I had to maintain a work iPhone and help others with theirs for many years so I am very, extremely, intimately familiar with its limitations, just as you are about to be.
Realistically their fashion accessory is also as pocket computer that can do anything (that they want it to do).
A lot of the main android selling points these days are more niche use cases.
Eh. I take your point, but disagree. Working in IT I have the privilege of hearing how frustrated iPhone users constantly are with their devices. But it's a frustration they're used to and to replace it with a more functional device would cost them status so it's a nonstarter.
Just last weekend I was helping a friend set up a pi-hole and he got stuck changing the DNS server IP in his router. The router only had an app and it wasn't working on his iPhone. I was able to download the app, login to his account, and change the DNS setting while he was still trying to get the app to start. This after an hour of him teasing about my Android. I'm not saying this has never happened on a non-apple device but when you have that much more control over your device and applications it makes it possible to actually troubleshoot and work around those kinds of issues. The iPhone is just a phone and social media machine. I'm carrying around the most powerful tool on my toolbelt.
And I don't mean to disparage people who like iPhones, everyone is entitled to what they like and it takes all sorts. I am just saying I think the argument is silly at this point.
Yeah but what percentage of those end users would be capable of debugging their device even if it was an option?