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Comment by maskedinvader | Hacker News Reader

sure if the following features are not important to you, 1080p display, removable battery, expandable memory slot, NFC, new touchscreen tech allowing you to use the screen with gloves, optional wireless charging and arguably the most popular mobile operating system

edit: removed ' future updates ' as a differentiating feature since iPhone has the same guarantee

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  | guaranteed updates for the near future

Don't iPhone users get iOS updates? How is 'OS updates' a differentiating feature?

You are correct, I think I got a little carried away :)

  |1080p display

I still fail to understand how can that be important for anyone on a mobile phone

And most importantly, the ability to do whatever the fuck you want with your device without an evil corporation curtailing your freedom, enslaving you and draining you of your money and soul.

Tone down the rhetoric for pity's sake. My freedoms haven't been hindered once by Apple. My privacy has been by both Google and Samsung. Samsung are one of a group of nasty, if not the absolute worst, chaebols in Korea. That you've posted twice does lead me to think that you need to disclose more...

I'd argue that the iPhone has a better camera too. The colour reproduction on the more (IMHO) sensibly sized screen is better and the quality of the overall hardware quality and finish is superior as well. All in all it's horses for courses.

"and arguably the most popular mobile operating system" I know you said arguably and gauging by shear volume, sure. Does that mean the majority are choosing Android over everything else. I'm not so sure. Numerous studies have shown that iOS is used a lot more by those that have the platform versus the majority of cheap commodity handset that merely ship with, if you'll forgive me, an unholy bastardisation of Android installed; normally unsupported and at best 3 or 4 releases behind what is current. Android in it's "pure" form is fantastic. I'm not going to tell you that Android is "crap" because that is an utterly ridiculous position to take, much like the rhetoric levelled the other way. Sorry for that stream-of-conciousnses nonsense...

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