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They seem to spar off each other. Apple is notorious for hanging back and refining new tech, Android is faster to innovate, ship, and iterate. They’ve both got

by codq 4y ago

They seem to spar off each other. Apple is notorious for hanging back and refining new tech, Android is faster to innovate, ship, and iterate. They’ve both got their pros and cons, innovations and derivatives. Neither are really ‘underdogs’.

metadat 4y ago
I hesitantly disagree; the only thing better about Android in my experience is the Samsung Camera AI makes pictures pop in a way which is unrealistic yet pleasing to the eye. Apple is the one pioneering features at this point, especially in the privacy space. Does Gartner cover this? If not, I wish they would do a quarterly feature matrix analysis. The Apple pics might not look as good, but the Apple camera app is far smoother than flagship Android and the Apple pictures look more realistic.
- MBCook 4y ago
  I’m in the iPhone camp. Always have been. And I think Apple’s camera tech is better. That said, some of the stuff Google has pulled off with the Pixel cameras is very impressive. Like the ability to shoot simple astrophotography.
- xtracto 4y ago
  Can you do wide selfies with apple phones?
MBCook 4y ago
You could argue Apple is at 20% world wide market share, but they have the lion’s share of the high end market so that’s kind of disingenuous. Really I think the term “underdog” can only be applied to some individual Android manufacturers or any non-Android non-iOS based phone.