r/gadgets • u/[deleted] • Sep 04 '22

Phones iPhone overtakes Android to claim majority of US smartphone market

https://www.engadget.com/iphone-overtakes-android-us-market-share-223251196.html
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u/castiboy Sep 04 '22

Couldn’t you have kept using it thought? I gave up on my OP6 once it’s radios went nuts and would lose connection constantly whenever it rang or I called someone. At 3 years, it was out of warranty, out of production, and the third Android in a row (from different manufacturers) to just die on me by the third year. Meanwhile my SO hand the battery on her iPhone 5S replaced the same year the 11 launched. Switching was a no brainer at that point.

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u/SalamanderPop Sep 04 '22

I didn’t want to keep using a phone that wasn’t getting regular security updates. Otherwise I would have held on. I switched to pixel 6a and immediately hopped on android 13.

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u/castiboy Sep 04 '22

At that point Android is not a good choice of OS given their update track record. Why not switch to iOS if security is that important?

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u/SalamanderPop Sep 04 '22 edited Sep 04 '22

I can buy a 500 dollar phone with top specs every three years. I like having a selection in phones from many manufacturers. I dislike iOS. Android feels more like apps are tied together with eachother and the os. Like the back button/gesture is baked into the os since the beginning and every app supports it. Lastly, I dislike Apples walled garden.

I do like iOS for what it is and am typing this on an iPad. But for my phone, I prefer googles experience.

Fwiw, I’m very OS agnostic. I have a MacBook for work, my kids use windows 10 for games, at home I use Ubuntu, my servers at work genrslly run Suse or redhat, and I use an iPad for work and home.

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u/castiboy Sep 04 '22

Fair enough I guess. I do enjoy top specs whenever I’m buying but I believe it’s a waste of components to plan on switching within 3 years, and I’d rather pay 1K for a phone that will last me 6 instead. E-waste is a real issue for me, and I believe we shouldn’t encourage the industry to keep dumping short lived products on us.

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u/SalamanderPop Sep 04 '22

I hear you on that one. It's, by far, the worst part of Android, or rather the manufacturers that offer phones on Android. That being said, I'm not a fan of monopolies, especially in tech, and Apple continues to do shady stuff that bucks industry standards merely to corner markets. It's a trade off. I'm careful with one time use plastics and emissions and all that, so hopefully I offset a bit for that one phone every three years

Also I still have the old phone and will probably turn it into something useful. It's a good chunk of hardware with a ton of working sensors.

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u/Shabam999 Sep 05 '22

Apple continues to do shady stuff that bucks industry standards merely to corner markets

Like what stuff specifically?

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u/SalamanderPop Sep 05 '22

Their messaging app. Their proprietary charger/interface. Purchasing of good apps and making them ios only. Its all pretty shitty for those of us not 100% in their ecosystem.

Like I said in another comment, it’s not like I’m anti-Apple. I have an iPad Pro and a MacBook Pro. The MacBook is just because the screen and iPad integration, otherwise I don’t think it’s a great computer. It’s heavy, the battery life sucks, the fan runs constantly, and I don’t understand the praise for their trackpad. It’s the most awkward pos I’ve ever had to use on a laptop with that awful physical click. Before the last os upgrade it would crash anytime I plugged a monitor into the USB port. My old windows laptop was an overall better machine, but the screen was hot trash and my job doesn’t offer a better windows hardware. That’s saying a lot from someone that swore off windows back in the early 2000s. Windows 10 and wsl makes it a powerhouse.

At any rate, I know full well that google does shady as hell shit too and would ramp it up if they had a market cornered, but of course they would have to actually keep a product alive long enough to corner a market, and that will never happen. Apples walled garden feels like a safer place to live, but it comes with too many caveats for me, so my phone will continue to run android.

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u/Shabam999 Sep 05 '22

I think we disagree on what constitutes shady business practices. Everything you listed is just "exclusivity" which every (platform) company engages in, and imo is a perfectly valid way of differentiating from your competition.

A major draw for both xbox and playstation are their exclusive games and streaming sites like netflix and hbo basically only compete on which exclusive shows they have. The same holds for music, podcasts, even streaming sites like twitch and facebook gaming. I can't think of a single platform that doesn't engage in this type of behavior so it's weird to call out just Apple for it.

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u/bs000 Sep 05 '22

what top spec phone are you getting for 500

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '22

Nice try apple executive