▲ 199 ▼ Other than blue bubbles, why do you use iPhone? (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago by RealNooshie@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml 351 comments fedilink hide all child comments Yes, I'm the one in the group DM that turns the bubbles green, I'm sorry. But other than that, I don't hear many other reasons why people actually prefer iPhones over Androids. What other reasons are there?
[–] GingeyBook@lemmy.world 15 points 3 years ago (1 child) Only security updates. OS updates are only 3 years permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Darus214@lemm.ee 11 points 3 years ago (2 children) Iphones get a lot more than 3 updates permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] GingeyBook@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yes that is my point. Pixels only get 3 major version updates which is less than the iPhone permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Micromot@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago If you use the stock rom, if you install a custom one you get updates as long as the developers continue working which is quite a pong time for some of the ROMs that exist right now permalink fedilink source parent [–] GeneralBoop@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago However you have to take into consideration what the OS updates do on each device. On iOS, an update also updates all the system apps, meaning Safari, Maps, weather, notes, mail, health, photos, the calculator and so on are hyper dependent on having OS updates for a long time. On Android, all of those system apps are updated via the play store, and a lot of deeper features can be updated via Google Play services similarly to how Nearby share was able to be back ported to any Android device running 6.0 or newer when it came out recently. Full OS updates are still important for Android, but they aren’t nearly as critical to the overall user experience. I use an iPhone, but I’d love them to move all system app updates into the App Store for more frequent updates. The only plus side to the way Apple does it is that everyone gets the update at the same time and you don’t have annoying staged rollouts like you do with Google apps. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Darus214@lemm.ee 11 points 3 years ago (2 children) Iphones get a lot more than 3 updates permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] GingeyBook@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yes that is my point. Pixels only get 3 major version updates which is less than the iPhone permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Micromot@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago If you use the stock rom, if you install a custom one you get updates as long as the developers continue working which is quite a pong time for some of the ROMs that exist right now permalink fedilink source parent [–] GeneralBoop@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago However you have to take into consideration what the OS updates do on each device. On iOS, an update also updates all the system apps, meaning Safari, Maps, weather, notes, mail, health, photos, the calculator and so on are hyper dependent on having OS updates for a long time. On Android, all of those system apps are updated via the play store, and a lot of deeper features can be updated via Google Play services similarly to how Nearby share was able to be back ported to any Android device running 6.0 or newer when it came out recently. Full OS updates are still important for Android, but they aren’t nearly as critical to the overall user experience. I use an iPhone, but I’d love them to move all system app updates into the App Store for more frequent updates. The only plus side to the way Apple does it is that everyone gets the update at the same time and you don’t have annoying staged rollouts like you do with Google apps. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GingeyBook@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yes that is my point. Pixels only get 3 major version updates which is less than the iPhone permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Micromot@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago If you use the stock rom, if you install a custom one you get updates as long as the developers continue working which is quite a pong time for some of the ROMs that exist right now permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Micromot@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago If you use the stock rom, if you install a custom one you get updates as long as the developers continue working which is quite a pong time for some of the ROMs that exist right now permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GeneralBoop@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago However you have to take into consideration what the OS updates do on each device. On iOS, an update also updates all the system apps, meaning Safari, Maps, weather, notes, mail, health, photos, the calculator and so on are hyper dependent on having OS updates for a long time. On Android, all of those system apps are updated via the play store, and a lot of deeper features can be updated via Google Play services similarly to how Nearby share was able to be back ported to any Android device running 6.0 or newer when it came out recently. Full OS updates are still important for Android, but they aren’t nearly as critical to the overall user experience. I use an iPhone, but I’d love them to move all system app updates into the App Store for more frequent updates. The only plus side to the way Apple does it is that everyone gets the update at the same time and you don’t have annoying staged rollouts like you do with Google apps. permalink fedilink source parent