http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/10/17/jd-power-ranks-app...
For context, if our family of three were to buy only Nexus 5's and switch to T-Mobile's $30-per-month, unlimited-everything plan, we would save almost $100 per month over our current situation.
Contracts are an atrocity, and the Nexus program is the best way to circumvent them while still using superior hardware.
- Desktop devices tend to last much longer before being completely replaced (unless you're a gamer). Even if you change your desktop machine, you often keep your keyboard/mouse, external NTFS drives, etc.
- There are more platform-specific apps that can tie you to a certain OS, either because of the app itself mat not be available (Games?), because you'd have to buy it again (Photoshop?), or because of the investment in workflow (MS Office?) or data (iPhoto?) that you have already made for it.
Once a mobile platform reaches a reasonable level of availability of popular apps, it's essentially viable for anyone to switch to. Unless you are addicted to Hay Day or rely a lot on Paper, or something like that, it's easy to move to a new platform. That's why it's also crucial that aspiring platforms make it totally easy to port stuff, and here's a place where Microsoft has made a huge mess with all their awesome but somewhat restricted tools, and constantly moving goalposts and platform strategy (C#? .NET? Silverlight? XNA? WPF? WinRT? HTML5? C++? Native or Managed or /CLR or...? I don't even know anymore).
All that said, OSX and Macs are much more popular now than say 5 years ago, so there is some ship jumping. The cloud really is eroding people's attachment to they desktops, and that's the reason Chromebooks and even Linux have even a chance at reaching the mass market.
>Among buyers who switched brands, Apple took three times as many from Samsung (33%) as Samsung took from Apple (11%)
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/08/19/apple-samsung-survey-...
It's similar to the stats that looked at selling price that always favoured smartphone only corporations (Apple, HTC, RIM) and hid Samsung's progress.
"Samsung smartphones beat last three iPhones in user satisfaction"
http://m.computerworld.com/s/article/9241257/Samsung_smartph...
I do like Apple's hardware and it's build quality. I have a Nexus 4 for testing and it's nice, but its lack of LTE meant it wasn't going to be a daily use device for me.
The idea of a well-build non-customized Android device with LTE and NFC (so I can use a YubiKey with it) is very appealing.
Recently began work on a mobile project where we deal with a few recent Android phones and tablets. I already bought myself a Nexus 7 and it's fucking awesome. I can't wait to drop the iPhone and get the Nexus 5.
Both have their merits but in the end it's the screens size to me. Make the iPhone thinner, give it a killer screen, and I'll go back but until then, Android.
Kinda off topic, but what's the email client situation on Android? I don't use Gmail and the last time I used Android (ICS I guess), mail clients were from stone age.
No. There are no decent email clients on Android?