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Marketing, and the fact that phones are now super boring, everything is web based, there's no more cool apps, everything is just a frontend for some web service, or a damn webview.
The historical feature gap between Androids and iPhones is mostly gone, and since the tech doesn't matter anymore, marketing can go a long way.
The article is also very us centric, in places where cost matters more, the iPhone is seen as a status symbol, just like every other thing that costs a lot for no reason.
I dont really like android. Symbian and even windows phones performed better on inferior hardware. Their weird lifecycle seems to me wasteful and blurs the line between what's running or not. It only became stable once hardware got way better. It's a shame that every other option failed. because the only thing worse than android is an apple controlled environment.
rofls, tell me you don't use android without saying you don't use android. this is a flaming shitburger of a hot take.
You can’t honestly say the windows phones out performed androids come now
at the time, they honestly did.
Scary stuff 😂
They felt smoother, maybe that's what they meant, but for all the good that did, I started hating Microsoft even more because of how they treated the users, instead of giving updates requiring you to get a new phone for a new OS
They did, I still have a Lumia 950 as a backup phone, and it runs smooth as butter.
They absolutely ran better. No hiccups, super smooth experience. Even the Huawei P30 I use doesn't attain that level of smoothness