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It's almost like all of the things that the anti-Apple bandwagon complains about are the things that everybody else likes about Apple. Simplicity. Design. Device interconnectivity. Social features that only work with other iPhones.
Call these things "gimmicks," all you want. It's not a gimmick if it works.
Just cause something works doesn’t mean it’s perfect. Remember blackberry
“But I need to have full customization and openess!!!!! ALWAYS!!!”
Being able to adjust your device to your own preferences is pretty great.
This is worded a little ambiguously, but are you saying the lack of interoperability is itself a selling point? I mean I like iMessage but I'm not using it because it doesn't work with other phones. If anything I'm using it in spite of that issue.
People want to take pictures, text, call, and browse medias. Like that’s probably 95% of people. No one wants to switch platforms, and deal with porting over countless stuff, just to have 10% better geekscore or something other non realistic reason. It’s basically that Apple has won, and even as tech nerd myself, I’d rather give my money to a hardware company versus an advertising company. That’s really the bottom line.
Sure I miss google assistant, I miss having swiftype. I miss the ease of data transfer like music and movies to my phone.
But I like the rock solid quality of iPhones and the consistent user experience.
Apple has not won. It is winning in the US.
Android devices are still hugely popular in the EU, UK, Korea, China, India, Australia/NZ etc. I wish reddit would get that the US isn't the world.
Social features that only work with other iPhones.
Apple does this, they only allow you to communicate with other cult members.