Yes, I’m the one in the group DM that turns the bubbles green, I’m sorry.

But other than that, I don’t hear many other reasons why people actually prefer iPhones over Androids. What other reasons are there?

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    The ecosystem. (For better or worse.)

    I prefer Android but the ability to do things such as use my AirPods on multiple Macs, iPhones, and iPads is very convenient. Ditto for things like Apple TV and HomeKit (though I use Home Assistant to control my HomeKit devices).

    Other things:

    • Hardware has a longer useful life (Android phone manufacturers “commit” to n years of updates, but the timing of releases is slow and usually limited to 3 years, at most.) There are still iPhone 6 devices in the wild running the latest version of iOS.

    • Standardized hardware and consistently updated software results in more and better apps.

    In short: iPhone is an appliance but an Android smartphone is/can be a pocket computer with greater flexibility.

    YMMV

    EDIT: Also, my wife and kids use iPhone. When I used an Android phone, I had them all install signal so we communicate securely. With iPhone, that’s built in.

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      That’s built in to android now with Rcs which uses the exact same encryption as signal.

      And funny enough, apple decided not to support it so now apple users are the ones who force it to revert to MMS.

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        There’s always that one apple guy in the group chats killing the high res photos and videos.

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      Your airpods comment I feel it’s a downside because you’re limited to Apple devices. My Galaxy buds seamlessly work on and automatically switch between my phone, tablets, and Windows PC. And they don’t look like there’s a string hanging out of my ear