This. You may see me hate Apple but deep down I don't really care. Yeah, I don't like the customization aspect/look of Apple software but Apple has some really smart people building really cool stuff, whether I like it or not. I personally am just a Google Pixel fan because I've been using Android since I was a child (Nexus 7 tablet) and am used to the interface and look.
Maybe we should consider that possibly… this is just a wild guess… but there may be a slim sliver of a chance that iPhones are better than Androids in some ways. And Androids are better than iPhones in some ways. And Apple makes features that Androids don’t have. I’m really tired of the crazy arguments we always have, not just online but in person. Every argument about Apple versus Android always devolves into the Android guy screaming the top 5 things about Android and the worst 5 things about Apple, and the Apple guy doing the same but reversed.
The fact is… without competition, either platform would be garbage. They each need the other one (and the people saying the other one is better!) to get better themselves. So I’m going to stop saying one is better than the other. I like iOS better because it has better aesthetics (which is a personal opinion), I’m used to it, and I’m in the ecosystem. Some may like Android better. So be it.
Stop trying to get people to change their minds, though. They won’t.
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I think the only reason I dislike Apple, besides whatever company practices they have which are bad (it seems there is always something in a company), is that they promote compatibility only between their own products. I understand it from a marketing standpoint, but it's greedy and manipulative, if not simply inconvenient to the consumer.