The "I hate/don't like iOS, android is better cause you can do this...but I don't want to switch to android" is pretty tiring and silly as well. iOS and android are your choices, and if you're unhappy with one why would you continue using it.
So I post a legitimate concern shared by many (based on polls and the numbers shown to have switched over the years), and you take the legitimacy from my post. Wow. No wonder why Apple doesn't progress.
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Seems to me there is a bit about iOS 11 to be "excited" for, starting with; new picture formats, customization in control center, updates in Siri etc, machine learning apis, etc. all of the past wwdcs have had similar themes. Maybe these don't pique your interest, but these updates are interesting to me.
They're interesting, but not earth shattering. Pick up a Pixel or SGS 8 and go into settings and see what's available to do, and you'll see what I mean. When you go back to iOS, it's like huh. I stick with Apple because of the ecosystem, but if I were to break out of the ecosystem on even 1 of my devices, the whole product line would lose it's appeal. That's the one thing Apple has gotten right.
You can defend their boring updates, and their lack of adaptation to consumer trends, but the issues are real. Apple faces a TINY market share in a space they once had a HUGE marketshare. You can blab on about the number one selling phone, but the reality is Apple makes up a tiny piece of the iOS marketshare on earth, and its getting smaller by the day. Why? Because when you give consumers options (be it hardware, or even within the OS on their phone) they will always gravitate toward the product that gives them customization. It baffles me that people would rather take the stance of wanting someone else to decide their choices in life for them rather than be able to make them for themselves. But hey, that's the way politics has gone in this country for the last 10 years, why not phones too?
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With loads of customizations comes instability. Look at wake locks and how hard google has tried to tackle that alone and you start to see why apple does things the way they do. If you want custom go android. I want stable.
Really? I think you're talking to the wrong people. Being able to customize your icon layout on the screen doesn't create instability. I know plenty of people with high-end Android devices and none of their devices are unstable. They offer features like quick charge, wireless charging, edge to edge display, headphone jacks, facial recognition, better screen, and the list goes on. Pixel has some great high-end features as well.
The problem with your argument is it's dated. It's like those who trash PC for being unstable. Windows had some bad releases, and some of the lower end hardware didn't work well in the past with fragmented OS versions. But now if you buy a mid to high end PC with Windows 10, it's a fantastic combination. The same is to be said about Android\hardware. Apple users have been so brainwashed to think that just because Apple was better 10 years ago, that Microsoft and Google and hardware manufacturers have just been sitting on their hands doing nothing. Quite the opposite, it seems that's what they've been doing at Apple. Botched iOS and OS X releases galore the last 5 years. Hardware issues (and things that cause issues) all over the place.
But then again there's a reason why people call us "Apple sheep" because of threads like this where a portion of the Mac fanbase thinks Apple can do no wrong, and uses 10 year old comparisons as to why Apple is better to defend a position without real basis. It's responses where people fail to deliver educated responses and just beat the "stability" drum. Yeah, Android devices aren't just randomly crashing. And tell those affected by the iPhone 6 battery defect that Apple is amazing. And tell those who applied the update last year which killed cellular service on their Verizon phone that Apple is amazing. And blame people for holding their iPhone 4 wrong for their reception issues. Tell that to me who had to buy $300 of bluetooth headphones when I had perfectly good, industry-standard wired headphones that couldn't be used with my $1000 phone. Tell that to those like me who can't plug a 2 month old iPhone into Apple's 8 month old laptop without buying an extra cable. You seem to not remember the issues that Apple has had over the years.
