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Funny that you pick on the hardware. I'd use an Apple phone if it could run Android, the hardware is the only positive thing I say about Apple stuff. My girlfriend has an iPhone 14 Pro Max and camera/microphone are good and and the lidar stuff is pretty cool.

The software is completely and utterly unusable for me. It reminds me of when I used to help my grandparents with technology, except now I am the grandparent. Nothing works like I'd expect and I just find it frustrating.

There are Android phones in a similar price range and I'm not really tempted to buy any of them. I would buy an iPhone running Android though.

I'd buy a iPhone in a heartbeat if I could run "Galaxy" as a VM on it, saving data to the cloud, blah, blah.

Which I guess is an option by this afternoon at least.

"seriously subpar hardware" Apple's ARM chips are years ahead in competition

I think the GP meant RAM.

Why do you think that?

Curious about the "seriously subpar hardware" claim. What are you referring to specifically?

Yeah, I don’t get it, I used to be an android user since the first Galaxy S up until the Galaxy S7, I’m really sensitive to slow devices, so as soon as my androids got a little slow (usually after a big update) I switched to the new shiny one. Then I got tired of buying flashy and expensive phones that lasted 2.5 years so I give the iPhone X a try. It’s 2023 and I still use the same phone I still get updates and what’s more important to me those updates haven’t slowed my phone a bit. It still feels the same. I’m not coming back as long as Apple keeps my old phones fast.

My iPhone 4S and iPad 2 were destroyed in performance after update from iOS6 to iOS7 (and helpfully without possibility of downgrade, thanks Apple), plus a lot of apps were deprecated in that update due to some API changes or whatever. That's just adding more data points to the legend of "perfect updates on the iPhones".

My Samsung phone is 3 years old, it got 3 major updates over these years, and last update was 29/03/2023, a little more than a month ago. It also didn't slow a bit over time.

People making a cult out of some common industry standards are tiring really. Sure, Apple lead the way with those standards (and destroyed some when it was profitable for them too), but that happened ages ago. You might as well remember some Android phones from 10 years ago and compare them to iPhone 14.

I don't think a three-year support period is the argument you are making it out to be.

As a side-note, you've used your comment to remember some Apple devices from 13 years ago and compared them to an Android device bought in 2020.

My solution is to never use the vendor ROM. I only get phones with LineageOS support, and then I unlock the bootloader and flash LineageOS ASAP. Stays fast and gets updated longer than the official way. Even the Galaxy S3 still gets pretty good community support.

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