How Apple Rules the World
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I'm not sure there's much to wow people with iphone vs android but the iphone experience tends to be quite smooth and hassle free - my 2016 SE still works fine and gets security updates for example. Apple can be a bit control freaky about what you can do on your own device though for better or worse.
One wow experience recently was a friend on android lost his life savings through some malware getting his crypto wallet. You get less of that on iphone due to the apple control freakery.
I think Apple marketing, while grandiloquent, is pretty "honest", in the sense that you really get the product they marketed to you with no or really few caveats. So, their customers are happy and rarely feel betrayed.
But on the other side, Apple is also pretty vocal about what they don’t want their products to be (more open, interoperable, adaptable to any needs …).
So since they are generally straightforward about what they are selling and good at delivering their promises, people are either repelled by the flaws that are generally voluntary and may never change or attracted by the product because it fits their needs knowing it will be as good as in the marketing.
Disclose less and you can fault/blame them less.
They don't disclose much and barely ever compare truthfully.
In terms of disclosure for instance they'll say 10% more battery life, 10% more than what and under what conditions?
Humans are bad at mental comparison, they'll forget we shouldn't be comparing to the 2 year old device that's a fallacy.
I think for the most part it's copium. People don't like to be wrong or conned. Apple disclose little enough information that the consumer can't feel they were duped (e.g. "they didn't say it's 24hr battery life, this must be normal") and little enough that they can justify any shortcoming as inevitable for the technology (e.g. "I can't install an app, hmmm it must be safety or something").
Since people here are predominantly techies, it's hard to be "wowed" by apples products. Airtags aren't magical, they're at best a neat application of their vertical integration, and mass adoption.
But techies are also much more aware of the negatives of choosing Apple, like their walled garden, paying for development, and otherwise being much more expensive than they need to be, I think I saw a post on reddit today about 64gb of ddr4 being sold by Apple for 1200$, it's hard to let that shit go even if their commercials look nice.
With that said, I was a Linux+Android user until 2020, and then switched to MacOS+iOS. I think for me Apple’s marketing didn’t affect it much, but the experiences of friends who made the switch did.
And Java ecosystem is one of the ecosystems I live on, thus Android devices are more appealing than iDevices for hobby stuff, alongside the price points, as I am not paying laptop prices for mobile phones, no way for Apple to wow me otherwise.
For a proper HN comparison we’d need to do an IQ poll.
That quote suffers from the so-called 'selection' bias. The apple phone is more expensive, so it excludes a part of the lower earnings. That sort of negates any presumed point you try to make about anything.