This is something I actually question. Even for those who are the minority on a tech forum and threaten to leave Apple, will they abandon the iPhone/iOS and adjust to the android platform, because they're 'mad' at the throttling? To me, that's a major step away from something into another dimension of android that I don't see others actually doing.
Some use android and iOS, but the majority only use one platform. My question is, how many actually will leave Apple based on this one issue alone or is it something there just threatening because they're upset at the fact of the throttling with Apple? Thats not an easy decision to make.
Outside of the US things are vastly different, so I’ll assume you and I are talking about what’s going on in our USA, where iMessage keeps so many in the Apple fold.
I’m thinking if Google ever gets their stuff in order and commits to a messaging system that is as robust and good as iMessage is and can somehow make it work seamlessly with iMessage and gets serious about Androidwear, lots more average users will switch.
And not because they’re angry at Apple, (which a lot of people are because it’s been all over the news now and heavily sensationalized in click bait headlines so even my kid’s friends are chatting about it).
Aside from THAT, I’m coming across a lot of interest and curiosity in my S8+ this past year, just because people think it’s beautiful. I’m honest about the lag I’ve experienced on it and how I hate the curved edges and I’ve had Apple users shrug that off and name numerous struggles they’ve had with their iPhones and admire the edges despite my warning them the edges are impractical in actual use and ownership. They like the built in filters that come with the camera. They’re surprised and intrigued that it records in stereo audio.
The enthusiasm for Apple is reserved for iMessage and Apple Watches, which are popular where I live. The ecosystem is important to a lot of people, but a lot of people have also made the move away from Apple laptops and even iPads to the cheaper Chromebooks. It’s what our kids are using now in school. The ecosystem might be fracturing a bit for some families.
Apple might have made a mistake holding onto the iPhone 6/6Plus build for so many years, if people can be drawn in so much by the Samsung’s looks, as they seem to be when they admire mine. Then when they finally did introduce something new and exciting, they priced it above a lot of people’s comfort zones and removed Touch ID instead of keeping it on and adding the option of Face ID.
It confuses people that Samsung advertises multiple biometric ways to unlock a phone and Apple not only just offers one biometric method but took away one that was liked and trusted. It confuses some people that Samsung still has a 3.5 mm headphone jack and Apple removed theirs.
When I say “it confuses people” I’m referring to snippets overheard from people phone shopping at the stores and on stray comments to me about my two phones. I can’t posdibl extrapolate from such instances with any accuracy. But if, in hindsight, we see Apple actually does end up hemorrhaging a noticeable amount of business, we can look back on such observations and speculate.
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