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Other than blue bubbles, why do you use iPhone? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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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?

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[–] 17 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Well the claim that Android doesn't receive security updates is plainly false.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Won’t be hard to find two dozen android devices that received 1 or 2 updates and that’s it.

    There are nowadays android devices that receive reliable and guaranteed updates for a number of years, but unless you know what you are looking for it’s luck.

    My iPhone 6 from 2015 still got updates in 2022 when I lost it.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Comparing iPhone to "Android" isn't fair, because people conveniently compare it to the lowest end. Compare the iPhone 14 Pro Max to the S23 Ultra for example, a phone from a respected company at the same price range. And it isn't "luck". Just a quick Google search will give you the high-end Android devices currently.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's not up to Android, that's up the OEM. Android is constantly updated with the latest security patches. These are the companies who independently decide how long their devices receive updates.

    I agree that many OEMs don't offer long enough support for their android devices. Luckily, virtually all android devices are supported by an open source fork of Android thanks to the AOSP (which Apple would never offer) and most android phones are designed to work with alternate bootloaders/OSes without the need to jailbreak. So when an iPhone hits its end of life, it's a brick; when an android hits end of life, it's still perfectly usable.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    I speak my own experience. I owned 3 mid priced android phones over the span of 6 years. The second one got one planned and promised upgrade to the next major android version. This made the phone so slow it was unusable. Each felt not very well built, I didn’t miss them when I abandoned them. None received updates after 2 years.

    I now have my third iPhone. The first lasted 4 years before I wanted a bigger one, it was then used up by my son. I carried around the bigger one for 3 years before I decided it’s too large. Now I own a Mini and that’s the best phone I ever had.

    Each of the iPhones got major upgrades for years, but instead of slowing it down they added features feeling like I got a new phone.

    None of that I experienced in android land. Unless apple makes some major mistakes going forward I don’t see me changing platforms again.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Didn't apple literally get sued for intentionally degrading the quality of their older phones with updates over time?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    They say so, and at some point it was even shown in the battery settings. I can’t remember that it affected me much.

    If I understood it correctly it mostly affected loading times. Yes, it took much longer to load clash Royale than on the other devices. But it ran astonishingly well. Much better than you would expect from a 6yo device.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    What they got sued for was when they detected that the battery was too weak (old, worn-out) to support peak CPU performance, they throttled the CPU. If they hadn't throttled the CPU, then the phone would have just crashed and rebooted. An Android phone with a similarly weak battery will just randomly reboot.

    The lawsuit was that they should have told the user the battery was bad and to just (cheaply) replace the battery, instead of people thinking the phone was old and needing a complete replacement. Which is what they do now.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I agree that there are a lot of bad Android experiences available, but having chosen the devices I've used very carefully over the years, tbh your experience with an iPhone matches my experience with Android.

    I've never had a phone last me less than 4 years, with the exception of I think my razr maxx which had overheating problems and lasted me 2. Since then I've had a Nexus 5, OnePlus 6, and now have a Pixel 6 Pro running Graphene OS. Each has been a great experience.

    My old phones are in the closet, but otherwise perfectly functional. My main reason for upgrading is usually for hardware features (camera/screen quality, etc). But I feel like my eyes are getting older faster than screen tech is getting better, so this might be my last phone 😄.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    I don't see how that point is relevant as that claim was never made.

    The claim was that Android phones usually barely get updates which maps to my experience. Updates more than one or two years after the release of a device is the exception, not the norm.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Which is also not true, most android deviced i have used got updates every 3-5 months with some small security patches between them.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    For the first year or two, that's common. Getting feature updates for anything even approaching >5 years is near unthinkable for Android devices however. You only get that with custom ROMs and even there it's only half of the story as they can't provide security updates for vendor blobs which is kind of a big yikes.

    The iPhone 8 will get cut off the newest feature updates in the upcoming iOS 17; 6 years after launch. Security updates will likely be available for years to come. For comparison, my OnePlus 5 from 2017 (1 year younger) received its last update (any update whatsoever) in 2020 (3 years ago).

    With an Android device, you'd be lucky to get security patches in any regularity at all, much less >3 years after release. That only happens with a couple few vendors who actually care such as Nokia and maybe Google (to a degree).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    For my custom rom i get vendor updates and theres about 1 update per month, open source devs are really

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    The vendor blobs in custom ROMs come from the stock vendor ROM. When the vendor stops publishing their stock ROM, the custom ROM's will also stop coming. In some cases some BLOBs can be taken from similar devices that might be supported a bit longer but I believe this is quite rare.

    The ROM itself still gets updates through the AOSP but vendor BLOBs stay where they are and open source devs can do little to nothing about that.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Couldn't find anything about that online, could you please give me the source of that information?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I homebrew the ROM on my personal phone and I can tell you from first hand experience that you need the vendor dirs extracted from the OEM ROM. You can read up on that on the wiki pages for building any device ROM.

    You can also come to that conclusion the other way around: How else would you (or LOS maintainers) get your hands on proprietary blobs full of secret sauce that vendors sometimes even try to actively block access to?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    Yeah this is a good point. Tbh I wish there was right to repair legislation around this. If you're not going to maintain it, you should be required to open source it, and you're not allowed to brick people's devices as a workaround.

    Nothing is keeping apple from dropping support in the same way, I'm kinda surprised how long they maintain support.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    My second paragraph explains in detail why the first is relevant.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I am not sure which second paragraph you're referencing as your original comment only contains one.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Ah sorry, still getting used to this UI, thought that was in reply to a different level comment.

    Updates more than one or two years after the release of a device is the exception, not the norm.

    Through the AOSP, many android phones are maintained indefinitely by the community. But I agree that proprietary firmware blobs don't get maintained for nearly as long as they should.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Custom ROMs are a thing of course. I use them too. Custom ROMs are, again, the exception rather than the norm however; most people use the stock ROMs and that's what I was referencing.

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