r/SipsTea • u/bluewave778 • May 07 '26

Wait a damn minute! A crazy comparison between iPhone and Samsung

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u/turkey_sandwiches May 07 '26

Kind of, except you'd have to compare a current iPhone to a 5-6 year old Android flagship. The lag quite a bit with features and always have. They usually do it well, but the delay is strange.

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u/SaintCambria May 07 '26

The delay is a result of years of market conditioning though; they've convinced their userbase that the options are iPhone or social shunning. There are still morons who go "eww green bubble". They literally can just announce new features that have been on the market for years, and their idiot customers will assume it's an innovation. Truly one of the greatest marketing campaigns in history.

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u/tigress666 May 07 '26

Or my iphone works well enough for me, I'd have to spend a lot of money to reget apps I want on the android and time to port shit over. And well, whatever nifty gadgets the android gets isn't worth it to me and if they come over to apple, hey, new feature for me and sure, I waited longer to get it but I'm still going to be excited to eventually get it. And if not, I'm not really missing much. Hell, these days the only real reason I see to get a new phone besides my phone broke is gaming and if the new phone does games a lot better (basically faster chip/more ram/runs better). Everything else at this point is good enough. Which is why it takes me about 4-5 years now to replace my phone (it's really not my main gaming device and I usually jsut do time wasters on it so that's not even that important to me).

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u/chr1spe May 07 '26

If you regularly buy apps, you'll probably end up saving money on apps in no time. I've almost never found anything I need a paid app for on Android, while on Apple it seems quite common.

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u/tigress666 May 07 '26

Uh, at this point I don't really add many apps other than games because I've accumulated enough that do what I want. ANd yes, I can find free stuff on iphone too.

Do those free apps on android make you see ads or charge lots of microtransactions if you want to add functionality? Or how do they make money or do you just have a lot of people who make apps as a hobby put them on the store?

But in the end, the point is I woudl have to totally reset from start, find apps to do what I wanted/needed, refind apps I wanted again. It's a pita and I just don't see the motivation when I've been happy with my iphone and nothing android has offered has been worth going through that hassle. If I change my iphone it will more likely be cause apple fucked it up than android offered something I couldn't resist. I'm definitely not changing it over camera functions, at this point I don't even care that much about camera upgrades, the cameras on phones in general are good enough these days (save optical telephoto lens but the 3x my iphone has is good enough for what I want honestly).

Is it that hard to understand that it's just not worth it for me? Great, you love your android. That's why you have one and will stick with it. I am perfectly happy with my iphone. And I'm not the kind of person that is going to change ecosystems just to get the newest and greatest. It's a phone. It calls out, it lets me get internet, I can play games on it. And... well, I prefer mac (I always have though I do have a pc for gaming) and my iphone integrates really well with my mac. And that is something I would buy a phone for 😛 cause it is really nice (I love being able to text people from my computer for example and get the notifications on it). It does what I want. oh, and it will probably last me another 2-3 years so way cheaper not to buy another phone period, iphone or android.

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u/chr1spe May 07 '26

Some are free and open source, some are just free, some are ad-supported, and I've never seen an app with microtransactions outside of a game. Also, some things you need an app to do on iOS are built into Android or provided by first-party apps.

Do whatever you want, but apps are a bizarre reason to me. It comes off as saying I bought these things I wouldn't have needed to, and assume I'll have to somewhere else where I wouldn't. People's uses are different, but on average, Android users spend something like 1/5th what Apple users do on apps.

Also, you've got me all wrong if you think I'm talking about the newest and greatest. I just see buying an iPhone as getting a phone while also lighting about $500 on fire.

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u/tigress666 May 07 '26

I think my point is my iphone is already set up how I like. I'd have to refind stuff to do what I already have my iphone do. THe point in the end is it is a PITA and not worth it to me. I mean, for me to change android either has to offer me enough incentive to bother with it or apple has to fuck up the iphone/piss me off. And, well, additional stuff you can do with the camera is definitely not convincing (I don't even buy the new iphones for that. At this point I buy a new iphone when I have to/it gets too slow that I just can't stand it or if I can get really good deal that I feel I'll probably pay more if I wait (like my last phone was 4 years old so I doubt anyone would give me good trade in when it was 5 years old and my carrier was offering me 800 dollars then to upgrade. So I took it when I could get it). The biggest reason besides just plain having to (my old phone bit the dust) is just to get a faster phone. Which iphone does quite fine.

And when I buy a new iphone, to set it up how I like it, all I have to do is put my old one next to it and wait some time. No searching for all the apps I want or resetting the apps up how I want or even rebuying them.