Why do people still choose iPhones over Android phones?

Can easily do mobile banking via browser. Just you to chase.com and log in. Who needs a permissions-hungry app? Your app is probably functionality-crippled compared to the full site anyway.

Windows Phone doesn't work with Apple's purposefully walled-off garden? BIG SHOCKER The joke is on you for walling yourself in...guess you'll have to buy an iPhone. OneDrive, Microsoft's analogue to iCloud, has apps on all platforms so that anyone, including iOS users AND windows phone users, can use it. Imagine that.

Still glad you spent $700 you didn't need to?

"Yes, a windows phone will make a call, you cant text, it has a calculator and you can maybe play Angry Birds...that's pretty much it." This statement is beyond false and you've clearly outed yourself as a troll. Goodbye.

ask the user wrote:

Can easily do mobile banking via browser.

...you've clearly outed yourself as a troll. Goodbye.

LOL, so screams the Computer Guru. You're such a pathetic troll. Yes, please leave, and don't come back.

ask the user wrote:

Can easily do mobile banking via browser. Just you to chase.com and log in. Who needs a permissions-hungry app? Your app is probably functionality-crippled compared to the full site anyway.

Windows Phone doesn't work with Apple's purposefully walled-off garden? BIG SHOCKER The joke is on you for walling yourself in...guess you'll have to buy an iPhone. OneDrive, Microsoft's analogue to iCloud, has apps on all platforms so that anyone, including iOS users AND windows phone users, can use it. Imagine that.

Still glad you spent $700 you didn't need to?

"Yes, a windows phone will make a call, you cant text, it has a calculator and you can maybe play Angry Birds...that's pretty much it." This statement is beyond false and you've clearly outed yourself as a troll. Goodbye.

I have a job, I have no kids, I have disposable income, I want what I want. I guess I could drive a Honda Fit like a sorority girl but I choose to drive something a bit nicer. I have a nice house although living in the YMCA or under a bridge is cheaper. I don't give two asses of a rat what phone you use, why do you care what I use?

seriously.... wrote:

I don't give two asses of a rat what phone you use, why do you care what I use?

Some user of windows products cannot stand that other people refuse to see things their way. In their world everyone has a $50 windows phone, drives a used Honda Fit, and lives in their mom's basement.

"ask the user" is a troll ... he will claim he is not ... but he is troll.

This is the type of footage my "Honda Fit" Windows Phone Nokia Lumia 1020 (purchased for $250 outright) can capture...

http://vimeo.com/91537662

You stand by your "Honda Fit" analogy?

Nokia != Honda Fit

Before Apple came around with the iPhone, Nokia was known the world round as the premier phone hardware manufacturer. Some might say they are still the best...only to be labelled trolls.

Come back to this thread in a few years when Windows Phone market share is higher than iOS

ask the user wrote:

Nokia != Honda Fit

Before Apple came around with the iPhone, Nokia was known the world round as the premier phone hardware manufacturer. Some might say they are still the best...only to be labelled trolls.

Come back to this thread in a few years when Windows Phone market share is higher than iOS

Everything runs in cycles. Who thought the Walkman would be non-existent after having such a dominate market share for close to 30 years? How many iPods are sold nowadays? The Windows phone very well may have a higher market share than Apple in a few years but they certainly don't now and I will have gone thru another 4 iPhones in that time. I guarantee there was a ding dong just like you saying "come back to this thread in a few years when Windows Zune market share is higher than iPod". There's no reason to come back to this thread because there are 100 threads just like it already started by ding dongs just like you. And just like the other guy said, why do you care what someone else buys? Don't treat your god damned phone like a religion because after all it's just a god damned phone made with the same parts by the same people in a shit hole in china.

Pre-Paid Cheapo wrote:

I'm about to sign up with Cricket. Want me to use you as a referral?

Sure, assuming they still have it. I saw the rebate program for referrals ($25 to both the referrer and the referree) when I was looking into Cricket, but didn't take advantage because I needed a phone ASAP at the time. I've been on vacation with my parents the past week and my mom wants to ditch her flip phone for an Android phone (Moto G) on Cricket, so I tried looking for the referral program, but I can't find the page. Do you have a link? Or is the program dead?

Dupont Boy wrote:

Apple was very clever in locking people into devices. The web services are a huge part of the stickiness of users. These same users are perfectly willing to sacrafice privacy and control for convenience.

If you really cared about how your phone worked and security, you would buy an android type phone which allows you to remove the battery i.e. not Nexus, and root it. 99.5% of smartphone users will never do this, so this is really a moot point.

I find Amazon music to be more than adequate. They are aware of my consumption habits, but I always use a VPN on my computer and phone, so they at least do not know where I am, etc.

We better hope the Chinese government never makes a $1trn bid for GOOG. All of our safety would be at stake were that to occur.

Yeah, cos we sure got screwed when China had the winning bid for Shell oil.

Oh wait, what?

dude, really? wrote:

And just like the other guy said, why do you care what someone else buys? Don't treat your god damned phone like a religion because after all it's just a god damned phone made with the same parts by the same people in a shit hole in china.

Don't treat your phone like a religion? So says the Apple fanboi? har har har

I don't really care what someone else buys. Not going to lose sleep. It's just the guys like you proclaiming Apple's godliness that are annoying. Look I know the iPhone is a perfectly good smartphone. It's just that both Android and Windows Phone are superior to iOS at this point. So I'm a troll for replying on a thread that asks which phone OS is best? Right on topic.

Both Android and WP come on great phones at a number of pricepoints. Apple iOS generally works fine (notice I didn't say it "just works" - the iOS 8 debacle is plenty enough to disprove that). There is simply no reason to chose Apple anymore. You've already pegged your next 4 phones as iPhones? Pretty irrational if you ask me. Why not evaluate what's out there at buying time? My data is portable and choice or phones/OS/carrier is something I can switch on a dime. Of course none of my data is locked into ITunes DRM or iCloud (especially not my nude selfies). My advice...Stay away from Apple. Nothing but overpriced proprietary firewire, DRMs, lightning cables etc etc. Stay flexible and open-minded.

my own 2 cents. I persisted with buying Apple products (ipods and iphones) for several years for one simple reason - iTunes and feeling as though I was somehow 'locked in'. Don't get me wrong, they're very nice peices of hardware and the OS is fine.

A couple of years ago, after yet another faulty ipod (iphones were all fine, except the drop off in battery life over time was alarming) I jumped ship and bought an HTC One X. I now have an LG G3. Both of these are a gazillion times better than any iphone I ever had in every respect (although I should clarify the last one I had was an iphone 4 and I'm well aware that they've evolved hugely from there), the transferral of music wasn't an issue at all, I let the Music manager transfer all my files overnight and that was that ... done.

I certainly don't hate iphones, my wife has one and loves it, it's perfect for her. The bottom line is though, that there's probably 20+ phones out there right now that would be more than adequate for me.

I love these apple vs. anything threads. So enjoyable to read. Apple fans making all kinds of excuses to justify buying overpriced products. "It's simple, it works." So simple it has to cost $700. Anyway, carry on please.

phones phones phones wrote:

Doesn't make since to me, I get the whole "cool" appeal but I would still think people would buy a better quality phone that is cheaper over a phone that is cool to have that is expensive. I just picked up the new Moto X and this thing is amazing, it has so many features that the iPhone doesn't have and it's much cheaper. I just don't get it.

The iphones were benchmarked processing way faster than any android, even the 5S still beats them all.

The camera was professionally benchmarked and beat out them all too regardless of megapixels. People dont understand anything about how all this works and try to compare specs.

Iphone has less ram because the phone works so much better that it doesn't need it. But most see more ram and assume its a good thing.

Then there is the fact that all top als are designed for it first and foremost because that's where the money is

Droids are almost always out of date, most droid owners don't know they are using an ancient version of droid and that they get upgradss a year late unless they had a Google phone.

How can that be? Android phones and Apple phones use common hardware components, displays, and chips available from the electronics industry. Android phones use the same OEM processor and OEM camera hardware as the iPhone.

Same insides wrote:

How can that be? Android phones and Apple phones use common hardware components, displays, and chips available from the electronics industry. Android phones use the same OEM processor and OEM camera hardware as the iPhone.

Hardware and software have to work together. Apple has their own special parts to their camera which make it better. People didn't understand before either that more pixels isn't neccesarily better when Apple came out with larger pixels. Android phones don't make their software and try to plug in bloat crap. If you control everything you can make a seamless product. In many it's a blow out and they only lose to a tablet that is designed for gaming thrown in there for comparison.

Iphone also wins in web browsing battery life surprisingly.

I love the cool colors that iPhone comes in. I like to coordinate my shoes, purse, and ensemble each day, having several iPhone 5S's makes me look more together and professional. This is very important as I aspire to be a top producer of Amway products ... those cosmetics and hair brushes don't sell themselves. You have to have an edge and this is mine. There is nothing like pulling one of of my tastefully large handbag and making an important call in front of the customer. VERY professional = more sales.

I encourage anyone who needs a professional appearance to 'reach for the stars' to go iPhone. ALL the people I know with 5 figure incomes I know have iPhone. I hope to be one of them!!

iPhone Forever wrote:

I love the cool colors that iPhone comes in. I like to coordinate my shoes, purse, and ensemble each day, having several iPhone 5S's makes me look more together and professional. This is very important as I aspire to be a top producer of Amway products ... those cosmetics and hair brushes don't sell themselves. You have to have an edge and this is mine. There is nothing like pulling one of of my tastefully large handbag and making an important call in front of the customer. VERY professional = more sales.

I encourage anyone who needs a professional appearance to 'reach for the stars' to go iPhone. ALL the people I know with 5 figure incomes I know have iPhone. I hope to be one of them!!

all valid points and good reasons, thank you for reinforcing why I don't have an android phone

albert bell gramh wrote:

AppleGuy wrote:

In the US, you don't have to think twice. Most flagship phones are $199, so why would you get anything but an iPhone?

iPhone for $199? riiiiight

Apple users again showing how naive they are. You don't think the real cost (plus some extra skim) of the iPhone is built into your consumer-unfriendly 2-year contract? Keep living in your iTunes world.

So, let's talk about the service rates.

Do most providers charge a higher monthly service rate for an iPhone than an Android based phone?

A two year commitment is no big deal to me. I don't need to upgrade more often than that.

Same insides wrote:

How can that be? Android phones and Apple phones use common hardware components, displays, and chips available from the electronics industry. Android phones use the same OEM processor and OEM camera hardware as the iPhone.

Android phones use a wide variety of processors and supporting hardware based on the price point of the particular handset. The Android OS and application software thus has to be compatible across a broad spectrum of hardware configurations. This makes it difficult and expensive to optimize software performance for a particular handset. Apple on the other hand is only releasing a couple handset types a year and they are all, relatively speaking high spec devices. Because the target hardware set is limited, optimizing the OS and application software for particular handsets is much easier.

The flip side of the Apple model is that it makes it more difficult to move to the absolute latest and greatest hardware bits. Hence high end Android devices likely will always lead iPhone in hardware specs, but they won't necessarily lead in integrated hardware/software performance.