It’s more that Apple are trying to convince their buyers that hardware features found on £250 phones are in some way ‘Pro’ and charging more money for it. VRR, USB 3.0 and 5000mah batteries are not.
I still don’t understand your argument. I might, if you provided a specific £250 Android phone that provides equivalent value to the unspecified £1300 iPhone you are comparing it to. Absent this you’re sharing an unsubstantiated opinion which is your right, but don’t expect others to get and perhaps agree with your point without more specificity.
Bingo. Well said. It’s also odd how many Android proponents overlook the fact that Android device low prices are also subsidized by the ad and surveillance ecosystem that they enable. Privacy and security have value and comes at a cost. If someone prefers low-cost Android products and are fine with limited support and questionable security and privacy they should have at it, but I don’t understand the tendency to ignore these factors and besmirch products that are aligned with a different value equation.
It’s not about parity, but features. Of course a £250 CMF isn’t as good as a £1300 phone. But Apple is charging £500 more for features the £250 CMF includes.
I don't care what numbers and acronyms are written on a spec sheet! How does the device work for me? What is it like to use?
I get where you are coming from but believe that comparing phones on features alone is misguided. This is because most of us only need the 20% of functionality that is common with every phone: good voice and data network connectivity, a decent battery, a good display, and a good camera. Anything beyond these basic features (ancillary features) serves as levers of differentiation to drive incremental market share and product profitability. Apart from features there are a variety of non-functional factors that inform our purchases (build quality, UX, service quality, reliability, security, and trust). The standard for each of these decision factors vary from person to person so it's almost impossible to gain consensus on what is necessary and what is superfluous by discussing it one-on-one in forums like this.
Sometimes I tell my opinion about what I preffer about my phone to others, so they at least would know the features that there are available, I think that is a better alternative than bragging about what tech I use
The ReMarkable 2 is a benchmark: 4.7mm thick (.19”) and 403g (.89 lb) make for a notably *cough* more enjoyable in-hand experience than my M4 iPad. Can it get even better? Don’t know. But it’s definitely better than any iPad…
I think about it this way: If I spent £100k on a car and it turned out that it didn’t have electric windows it’s something I could live without, but I’d be annoyed every time I watched somebody with a £5k car just pressing a button.
It just sometimes seems like users give Apple a free pass on stuff, you know like they’re happy to be continually undersold a product.
I do get it, I used to think that way myself.
You know what makes my life more convenient? Having a device I can rely on. Having a device that integrated with my other devices. A device I know will hold value. A device that provides protection for my data. The rest is just icing in the cake.
iPhones nail the basics better than anybody else. But sometimes it’s nice to be sent flowers or told we look pretty, you know.
And that’s Android. Flowers that will wilt in a few days.
It doesn’t. I have it, and barely use it. Every time I do use it, I wish either it was vastly more capable or the iPad was more in line with its size and weight.
Yes the big one is faster refresh displays. Apple has somehow gotten away with this for years, when like you said £200 android phones have had them pretty much as standard. 60 hz displays on £800 phones is just criminal but the Apple apologists just give it a free pass for some reason, and even defend it sometimes.
At 120 hz it does use more energy of course, but you have the option to turn Off/On as one pleases. When On everything is so much smoother especially scrolling, and games can run at higher frame rates etc.
Sure it does. Have you ever been on your iPhone with 60hz screen and the scrolling has been soooooooooo slow? Of course not. The gimmicks keep coming though.
Ok so your saying Promotion 120hz on the iPhone, iPad and Macbook Pro models is a gimmick?
I can't make out any difference when it's on or off on my 14" MacBook Pro, so I don't see what the fuss is about.
