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Yeah but Apple products are so expensive, outside of the USA, most[1] people still use Android simply because their budget for a phone is maybe ~$300-$400 and t
by HappyTypist 4y ago
Yeah but Apple products are so expensive, outside of the USA, most[1] people still use Android simply because their budget for a phone is maybe ~$300-$400 and they don't want a SE with the body from 5 years ago.
[1]: 73% according to StatCounter.
- PaywallBuster 4y agothe new SE is quite affordable though and it lowers the barrier of entry
- 2143 4y agoSure, but Android phones with better specs (and bigger screens) are cheaper. People naturally gravitate towards those.
- judge2020 4y agoUnless you get stuck with an Exynos-powered Samsung phone[0]. 0: https://reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/v5nkpm/s22_horrible_experience/ https://reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/v5nkpm/s22_horrible_ex...
- pietro72ohboy 4y agoSamsung is not the only option around. A lot of Chinese OEMs (Vivo et al.) make fantastic android phones at very affordable prices.
- brtkdotse 4y agoHave you ever seen a non-techie buy a phone? No one cares about specs.
- Arn_Thor 4y agoSpecs might be better, but in real-world performance Apple provides the smoother experience. Not to mention that software support is sparse and short-lived for Android phones in that budget range. Sadly...
- theshrike79 4y agoThis is directly from Pratchett's "Samuel Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness". Well-off people can afford the iPhone SE, which will get updates for 5-6 years. Poorer people get the fancy schmancy latest Android device with 42 front cameras that'll stop getting OS updates in a year or two. After 3-4 years it's completely unsupported by anything and bordering on unusable, at this point even the security updates have stopped. Then they go get a new Android phone and GOTO 10.
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- Batman8675309 4y ago>that'll stop getting OS updates in a year or two. Buy better phones then? Samsung and Google both offer 5 years of updates now. >after 3-4 years it's completely unsupported by anything and bordering on unusable No they aren't, and we all know you don't have a source to support this.
- theshrike79 4y ago"Now" being the operative word here. 4+ years ago this wasn't the case and I watched people get burned by shitty support multiple times - all the while my iOS devices chugged along. Even flagship phones could get 0-1 official OS level updates. Oh, and check the fine print on those promised "updates". IIRC the Samsung one guarantees "security updates" for 5 years - basically they'll backport fixes for high enough severity CVEs to older phones. You won't be getting 5 Android OS updates on them. I'm willing to bet actual money that no more than a half dozen Android models you can buy _today_ with Android 12 on them will get Android 16 as an official update. On the other hand I can pretty much guarantee that the iPhone 13 being sold today will still get iOS 20.
- kaba0 4y agoThey have a huge second (or third-forth)-hand market though (which is actually maybe the greenest part of Apple’s operation and one I will applaud them for). Most people would probably be much better off buying a 4-5 years old iphone than buying the latest shitty low-end android phone thrown at them by telecom companies that will be slow even as new and will be literally unusable a year later. (Though the same disgusting practice is used on laptops where a mid-class 5 years old laptop can easily outclass a “modern” low-end one..)
- perryizgr8 4y agoMy phone budget is regularly $1000 and I still can't justify buying an IPhone.