well... and after deeper thinking, these are few things that keep me personally on iphone: Find my friends - very useful, using to find where wife/children are (no need for calls, messages, etc), fast reliable camera (with children, shutter lag is something i do not want to experience), best in class video recording (again - children), apple pay, passwords in icloud (could be replaced by som e 3rd party - not best solution, but doable), facetime (have not met service with comparable video quality yet), imessage.. and probably because of this will never try to switch... but must say, samsung offerings are always best regarding price, like righ now, they will pay me almost selling price for my iphone mini if i decide to switch, awesome
apple would give me barely half the price
oh, and I forgot faceID, it is so awesome and noone is able to deliver sthing as good as faceID is
Lol yes when your children are young Apple is the top choice for the reasons you mentioned. It's shocking to think about, since when I first started posting here, my house was filled with noisy kids, but I'm now only a couple of years away from empty nesting!
The house is filled with noisy teenagers but not for very long, I guess. I'm getting fewer and fewer texts from everyone. My social life dropped significantly during the pandemic and then we adults realized a lot of our social life revolved around our kids being friends. But the kids themselves are growing and branching out and organizing their own get togethers. So there's less need for us adults to meet up.
If the pandemic hadn't happened we still had enough momentum to personally carry us through. But with the pandemic we are fading out of each other's lives. We were all so tied to each other via the Apple ecosystem of tech and services.
I was also heavily tied to tech during the last 15 years of taking care of my parents and in-laws as they battled many varied health problems and general issues of aging. That has been a hard road.
I don't begrudge any of them, but I needed two phones on me because I would be on the phone to doctors or emergency services on one phone and talking to family on the other phone, letting them know what was going on.
The last few years where we vacationed with my in-laws were the hardest. I was basically functioning as a traveling nurse the entire vacations. As hard as that was, though, it was worth it being able to extend their ability to enjoy the beach by a few more years than they otherwise would have had. It really is not the same vacationing without them.
My mother-in-law passed away first. My dad passed away almost exactly a year ago. Those were the two more independent ones so now their surviving spouses are in Assisted Living. My mom still keeps me hopping at her beck and call but at least now I don't need two phones on me at all times to manage her care! She's in a really nice facility so anything I have to do for her is a little extra to spoil her a little bit and give her that feeling she's my queen. 😆. She likes that.
It's funny that she never paid any attention to technology before. But now she notices my Apple Watch and my phones. She's actually IQ-wise much smarter than me, so she's gotten adept at figuring out how my stuff works just by watching me pull up information and photos for her. She's got the early stages of dementia so it's kind of shocking to me what she's still capable of with tech and I feel bad now that nobody ever showed her how to use it before. Unfortunately her arthritis in her hands is so bad I can't really get her to text me even if she could be taught how to do it.
She's also extremely hard of hearing and refuses hearing aids, so I don't want to be trying FaceTime with her. Phone calls are so excruciating I actually prefer just to jump in my car and visit her so she can mis hear me in person. 🙄
Oh sorry, I have digressed quite a bit! But I definitely am entering a new phase of my life and I think now my horizons on my technology choices are opening up more, even as I demand less from tech. Interesting how that's working out.
But yeah, for a younger family, Apple definitely is the most appealing choice in my opinion. Ugh, but the more expensive one, as well.
