Comment by endisneigh
2 years ago
The Pixel 8 pro has superior battery life and camera to the iPhone 15. And that’s to say nothing of OnePlus or Samsung.
2 years ago
The Pixel 8 pro has superior battery life and camera to the iPhone 15. And that’s to say nothing of OnePlus or Samsung.
Real battery life, or marketing spec sheet battery life?
One of the things that impressed me about Apple when I started using their products was that advertised battery life was usually within 10% of what I’d actually get. I was used to those being lies to the tune of 30-50% from other vendors (phone and laptop alike)
iPhone SE battery life is shockingly poor versus the last 3 previous Androids I had which would last 2 days of light use.
It's probably my number one gripe with the SE. It runs flat when I need it. One time 4 hours walk because couldn't call a taxi (_luckily_ I hitched ride with a dodgy drug dealer instead - battery life matters!). Or staying overnight and not charging so needing to carefully manage power for day. Not everyone has a spare charger for iPhone.
Apple prioritise phone size/weight instead of battery life.
If I could buy a bigger internal battery (maybe needs to replace back of phone too), I would. Carrying a power bank is too bulky. I lose backpacks, and dislike the other alternatives.
So in a free market you'd expect them to outcompete the iPhone, no? How do you explain the iPhone being dominant despite being inferior?
Edit: in case of confusion, I'm asking this rhetorically in reply to someone who argues there is no monopoly...
Besides the fact that consumers aren't as rational as your question seems to imply, some of the reasons for the iPhone's dominance are the same reasons Apple are getting sued.
Because a phone is not just a battery and a camera?
The Apple ecosystem is part of what you're buying with an iPhone. As a consumer, I really like that I can buy a MacBook, an iPhone, and AirPods, and have them all work seamlessly together because they were designed to do so. I'm even willing to pay extra for each product to ensure that they work together in concert, as well as a subscription for a service (iCloud) that glues them all together.
Marketing - android devices were notoriously janky in their beginning.
The vast majority of Android devices still are.
You can buy an "Android" phone, use it until EOL (no OS updates), get a new "Android" phone and it's a 100% different experience UI-wise and even the buttons are in different places.
Tinkerers love it, normal users just want a phone that works the same as the previous one.
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and how’s the data privacy?
Fine, and if you want better, just install GrapheneOS.
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I'll take all of that in exchange for open software and better performance. I'm so fucking tired of the "thinness wars".
So will I. That does not diminish the point of my previous comment. I'd still like to be able to run a quality, open, OS on Apple's hardware though.
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If you travel or even move around a bit during the workday, laptop weight becomes a consideration fairly quickly.