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[–] NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Yea sorry but I disagree with the vast majority of things you said. Consistent, coherent, and well thought out experiences are pretty par for the course at this point, regardless of what flagship phone company you're buying from. The UX is great for people who grow up with the UX, just like android UX is great for people who grow up with it. Android users who switch to Apple generally think Apple's UX is dogshit, and vice versa. The UX argument is trash and the reality of it is that people just think whatever UX they're used to is the more intuitive one. Support is pretty much the same in my experience between the two, and I have an android personal phone and an apple work phone. The major difference is the image that Apple support airs is better. The vast majority of popular Android applications are just as stable and usable as Apple apps, and the ones that aren't are often niche enough that similar apps aren't even on the apple appstore. So it's a question of basically the same service for most apps, and then either no service or degraded service for lesser apps.

The one thing they have over android is the security argument, which is fair to an extent, but not this bulwark that a lot of people like to pretend it is. The Fappening, for example, still got plenty of explicit images from Apple phones.

All in all, apple is an advertising company first, and a tech company second, with admittedly improved security, but also admittedly security that isn't good enough to justify the price hike.