How did you not mention the demise of Huawei? Millions of people switched from Huawei to Apple

My biggest reason for sticking to Android is that as a developer, developing on Android is a lot easier and I am able to install any useful apks not on the app store

As an Android user, it bothers me a lot to see how companies choose to go with 'the Apple way' instead of keep doing what had been working for them years prior. I get how they want to achieve the perceived higher status with the pricing of their flagship models or anything, but removing accessories (including charging brick) from the boxes is not the correct way. Also, as much as I enjoy the flexible and customisable nature of Android phones, I want them to put more effort into app supports. I don't even use Instagram that much, but I'd be lying if I say I don't envy how Instagram and many more apps look and feel better in iPhones.

My biggest gripe that I have been having with Android phones lately is that they have been basically copying Apple in all of the wrong ways. I've noticed this as early as the Galaxy S6. In that phone they took out the removable battery and the SD card slot. I remember being very upset about that, and that was all the way back in 2015. The next model, the S7, brought back the SD card slot, but it still didn't have the removable battery. Eventually they removed the SD card slot again in the S21 and haven't brought it back since. That to me is one of the biggest features of Android, and I don't think any of the major flagships this year have it. My current phone is an S20, which is the last Samsung Galaxy to have an SD card slot. It's been 3 years since I got it and I'm hesitant to upgrade to anything because of this. And then of course there's stuff like removing the headphone jack, not including a charger in the box, etc. that Apple started and for some reason Android developers followed. Seems to me like it would be such an easy thing to just not do that stuff and they could easily regain market share.

Agree on the points why Android is losing out. The pricing is one part, of course. Performance really is not that distinguishable anymore, aside from the most serious users. My biggest complaint is with customization: they played Apple's game by following them in taking out expandable storage, removable batteries, charging bricks, etc. Instead of being the one putting pressure on Apple, they followed Apple and tried to be like them. Samsung even had the gall to throw shade at Apple about not removing the charger on their boxes, but they quickly followed suit. The things that made Android the anti-Apple has been slowly stripped off. If they have basically the same stuff as Apple, then people would then considering going the other way instead of Android having them on their hands.

This is missing an importante point: reliability. Support in the lifetime of the device is also relevant today more than ever. Overall good video!

I choose to use Android because it can do way more, but mainly because I hate Apple as a company.

I do like iPhones more, but let me just say that you shaped a lot of information into the direction of Apple. For example when you talked about price: Yes, there are Android phones more expensive than iPhones, but there are also ones, which are -->almost

I feel like there’s another important point that wasn’t touched on: segmentation. Android users can hear about about really cool features coming to Android, just to have to wait a year or more to even get the beta versions of them because each vendor has their own way of doing things

The truth is Apple targeted consumer psyche before they targeted their targeted their competition. While all the Android OEMs spent years just trying to outdo the iPhone (and each other), Apple focused on providing what they already knew their users wanted based on existing products like the Mac and iPod. Their only goal was to make the iPhone it's own device for the Apple consumer, then they worried about the bells and whistles later

I think one point that you've missed out on is that when people were getting just the cheapest phone - like many of the Samsung phones you could have gotten for very silly money - they associate their extremely poor experience with those super cheap phones with the brand. So once a person finds themselves at a place where they want to invest into a good experience they will not be going back to the brand they served them the budget experience.

Android did fell of a cliff. But I'd rather go off-grid, than use apple devices.

Fun Fact: Most of the people in India would prefer Android than iPhone. Because of the price.

"within the US" EXACTLY Americans live in their own bubbles anyway

I am surprised you didn't mention OS and Software support. The complete lack of OS support and updates, especially for people outside of the US is a huge problem for Android. The last Android phone I had was a Samsung, I wanted to get the latest OS so I could run new apps, so I called Samsung support. They told me that well the update existed, I couldn't have it because I was Canadian and only Americans could get the update. So as a Canadian I was not allowed to run the latest Apps... I bought an iPhone the next day and never looked back.

I once was a diehard Android user, but the straw finally broke when the Camera of my one of my phones had a software based focusing issue. I waited months for a fix to finally be released by Samsung, but nothing came. It was just one of many things that piled up over the years, things like small and major bugs to Android loosing its ability to access the deeper folder structure without the need of a 3rd party app and root access. Also, it's really convenient to just plop in an Apple Store and having your phone repaired in hours or days instead of having to send your phone halfway around the globe, waiting for weeks just to be told your phone is beyond repairable when a previously separate charging port board borked your whole phone.

The moment Android phones bring back what customers actually liked them for in the first place is when they'll get more popular. I don't know a person who would say they don't want a SD Card slot if they have one, same for removable batteries. Right now Android phones are the same as iPhones in that regard. Only difference is the OS.

Fun fact this is only valid in the US. Android has gained market share worldwide and even in the USA. Samsung has sold 276mi smartphones in 2022, Apple 243, Xiaomi 220. Nobody outside of the US uses SMS or FaceTime, FaceTime is used almost exclusively in the USA they have 125mi users, this pale in comparison with WhatsApp 2 billion or Telegram 700 million. IOS market share is in decline in all markets I don't know where you got your numbers.

I think one of the biggest factors in apple's favor is consistency. When you buy an iPhone you know exactly what to expect. A more or less stable experience that's simple and familiar. With android, companies are constantly changing and you never know what you're going to get next time. But above all in this category, it's old hardware. I've been consistently using an iPhone 8 as my former primary phone and now my secondary phone for years, but it hasn't stopped getting feature updates until just this year. If I got any old android phone, I'd probably have gotten rid of it years ago.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Apple supposedly going to allow APK installation or something (sideloading I heard) in the near future?

I'll be sticking with Android regardless, but this is all very true. I switched from iPhone to Android in 2019 for customizability and expandable storage, and while it was worth it for the expandable storage alone, Androids now largely aren't much more customizable than iPhones now. From what I've gathered, it's become much easier to install apps not from the app store, and visually the theme options between Android and iOS seem basically on par. Also, some models completely lock down the bootloader, making it impossible to install any kind of custom ROM or app that requires root, making it on par with iPhones in that regard. My current phone is an S20 FE 5G, got it July 2021. Good prices on Androids can be found easily if you browse eBay for relatively recent phones. My phone cost me $300 used as a ~9 month old model, which MSRP'd at $700 iirc. I don't mind the non replaceable battery as much because with AccuBattery it's easy to keep the charge cycles in check and prolong the factory battery's life. I don't mind the lack of headphone jack as much as I thought I would either; Bluetooth headphones can't get tangled up and if I want to use wired, I have the adapter. As long as there continues to be Androids with respectable specs and expandable storage, I'll be sticking with Android. It sucks that all the Androids with removable batteries are nearly unusable except for the most basic of uses (see: Blu View 3, Nokia C100)

Android will continue to have more market share because there are countries that most people can't afford an iPhone. Here in Brazil, for example, the cheapest iPhone cost the same as the last year Samsung high end device (S22 Ultra). That means in some tiers, Android doesn't have competition. Some people don't have the luxury of buying the phone they want, they have to buy the one they can afford.

Does it seem like the audio isnt synched to him speaking? Like it always seems just a bit off?

The increase in Apple users around the world is mainly due to iPhones becoming more affordable in the developing countries. As newer iPhones get released the older ones become cheaper.

in age of social media everything has became about showoff

I believe this narrator is an iPhone fan.i can bet that

You can’t compare specsheets like that Mega pixel count doesn’t tell anything about how good a camera is. The same goes for ram and cpu speed? An amd fx 8100 can goes up to 4,5ghz on all of its „8 cores“ but still loses to an modern i3 with just 4 cores at 3,1ghz boost while sipping 100w less.

Hooked my Galaxy phone to a monitor and turned it into a whole gaming PC. Tried to find neat unique things to do with Apple's stuff but couldn't. I could only use the camera, open an app or make a call and everything worked okay...

Excellent video! One extra point: Android customers tend to hold onto their phone longer, so new phone sales for Android phones are going to decrease because of the satisfaction factor of previous models. I know numerous people still using Samsung Note 10 and have zero intent of upgrading unless the phone breaks, gets lost, or stolen.

Now, Android worldwide is on a nice number. Great video as always.

Symbian OS was way ahead of its time. I wish it could have stayed in the market now.

How can you make a video that looks this polished and have A/V desync?

Let's keep this quick and simple. Apple has been slowly and steadily gaining features (at a glacial place but still). Android manufacturers have been happy to dump features while raising prices.

Love the videos man, but an you please sync your video with your audio? It's very unsettling seeing you move your lips at a different speed than the audio

What is the keyboard at 11:55?

Lol, I'm a loyal Android user and I've always been since my first phone. As a university student in a more "hip" area, I'm pretty much the only non-Asian dude with an Android phone. That being said, I'm a stubborn wired headphone user and I mostly use my phone for watching videos and normal phone stuff, so I don't feel the need to get an expensive phone of any kind. I manage to survive socially, so I don't think I'll be IOS switching anytime soon.😊

Android will continue to have it's status as the majority OS simply because of price, choice of brands and openness of the os,all of which are especially relevant on the developing markets too. I've always used Android ever since it came out, mostly budget and midrange phones, I've used IPhone 7 and the XR shortly for a different periods of time and they're pretty good phones too, iPhones are really good phones of course, nobody's doubting that, but i still believe majority of the worlds population will continue using Android.

If Google ever made their Pixel Globally available to all countries and improve their hardware to The Pixel just like how they improved their software when they release Android 12, I'm pretty sure the Android Market Share would pretty much improved overtime. Trust the process and it will work. The Android 12 was a huge major OS in the Android history and because of It's new soft looking designs and UI on it. And let's not forget the Material you, as the colors matches your personality. (The fact that Pixel is the only phone to show the True Face of Android OS just like iPhone who shows the True Face of iOS. No Heavy Custom UI and no hundreds and thousands of mega bloatwares and pre-installed useless apps that almost nobody uses.)

Another thing to consider, which phones are available in which markets? In the USA there is a lot less choice compared to other parts of the world.

Finally someone mentioned that androids, in particular Samsung phones, have been the same price as iPhones if not even more expensive for the last few years. And I really don’t understand those saying the iPhone gets more expensive year when the price hasn’t changed since the iPhone X in 2017, 6 years ago..

I think the decline of Android can be chalked up several ways. Here are two that pop out to me. Android used to be very consumer friendly, with features like IR blasters, expandable memory, removeable batteries, and other features. Now, it's almost impossible to find a consumer-friendly phone with flagship specs. The advantage of android dies when its feature-set doesn't empower its users. I don't even trust new system updates to provide me with new features. Just more ways to lock the phone down with each generation. So I no longer update my OS. Also, I feel like a lot of people got a negative first impression of android when they were young because so many phone manufacturers forced all sorts of bloat onto the phone with unnecessary apps, poor design, and so forth. The experience didn't feel smooth or clean, unlike stock android, or iOS. It made the operating system feel gimmicky and cheap.

Unless Apple severely changes how they build, repair and service the Iphone I will NEVER own one. I have had too many people around me have issues with these phones and not be able to have them fixed. The option is always to buy a new one. Then the scummy practice of intentionally debilitating older phones so people feel obligated to upgrade to a newer one is despicable. Add to that the inability to repair the phone yourself, the forced syncing when you don't want it, and 'features' that limit customizability of use. No thank you. Android isn't perfect. But its a hell of a lot better than Apple.

6:50 very much agree. Its so bothersome, sometimes just unnecessary convoluted in pursuit of ease, not to mention the quick-access thingies which are now 2 or 3x the size. It's gotten objectively worse. This constant attempt to change things is also what reduces support. Its a lose lose situation, at least for users

Bro, you got it backwards

I installed Novalauncher about 7 years ago on my Galaxy s6. Migrated the settings to my Galaxy s10+ in 2019 and it is what I am still using. I don't like many things in Androids interface and how they change icons too often but I despise the customizability when it comes to Apple's options 😂

as someone who went from dumb flip/slide phones to crappy mid range android to iPhone to flagship android, I absolutely LOVE the stock android experience on my Pixel, and this is coming from someone who swore to NEVER go back to Android when I had an iPhone and my best friend I talk to everyday has an iPhone but I'm not willing to give up my current smooth and fresh experience to go back to the same boring UI and features as everyone else, just my two cents

3:04 That pivot also motivated by the iPhone and the leaks that precede it of how it’s interface was going to be (all touchscreen)

The problem is that Android phone manufacturers have made their phones like iPhones... removed the headphone jack, removed SD cards, and stopped using replaceable batteries. Oh, and the bloat... I'm still using an S10+ and would love to get something newer, but everything newer doesn't have an SD card or headphone jack, two of my requirements. My phone has 1TB internal, 512GB SD card and gets used often since I'm often in areas with no cell nor wifi for miles.

Great video and definitely make valid points here. I understand that I'm in the minority here but I've never owned an apple product and have zero desire to ever have one.

Let's also consider Huawei was 3rd in market share and is no longer using Android. However, always amazing videos as usual!

I once switched to an iPhone 11 for 1.5 years, I did like the performance and camera's a lot. But there where so many limitations that I ran into. For example, not being able to set an app icon where I want. Or not being able to upload all photos and videos but not screenshots to a third party cloud storage. Happily back to Android on my Pixel 7a now.

but how could you get an ip certificate if you have a removable battery?🤔

Intresting to see what happens if the EU decides to force apple to integrate RCS for their messaging in 2024.

I never bought an Apple product. Right now using Pixel 6 and Im really happy with it. Will switch to newer Pixel in a year or two.

I was having performance issues on my 2.5 years old Iphone 12, instead of getting new phone I replaced the battery, works like a charm now. Maybe I will stick with it for two more years.

is it just me or does the bacground music volume sometimes spike?

As someone who has been independently studying this for a long time, its mostly just the cause of apple's very anti consumer and anti competition practices, and its really disgusting. Mostly just smoke and mirrors, and a lot of lying

I'm definetly staying with android, cause I'm kinda a computer nerd and really enjoy installing off store apps and literally installing different boot loaders and stuff. While iPhones are extremely difficult to hardware mod and the system is more locked down. Some apps I like also don't exist on there

Cybersecurity software developer here. Currently use Windows 90% of the time for what we do. But I tell you what, every year I get more of an itch to swap over to Mac OS. I have switched to an iPhone as of a few years ago. And now that there is Mac support for .Net Core (C# and just the windows languages in general are growing in support it just makes the switch to Mac/Apple easier and easier) Not just with the phone but Apple in general.

I've got a Samsung S20 Ultra at the minute. I've had a couple of iPhones in the past. And they're both great devices. The only thing that's stopping me from getting another iPhone is the way Microsoft OneDrive works on it. On iPhone, you need to keep the OneDrive app open in the background. On Android, I can close the app but it will still continue to do a background sync even when it's closed. It's a minor thing, yes, but I use OneDrive pretty much for everything so it's a pain. Maybe it's changed on iPhone now, I'll check before my next upgrade.

Nothing can make me to leave an OS of freedom.❤

This is honestly the first I've heard about the Apple/Android popularity switch, but then again I'm the type of person that buys a smartphone about twice a decade. I went from an iPhone 6S to a Samsung S20 FE in 2020 after seeing a coworker editing Excel docs easily from his Android phone. God it feels like it was only yesterday...

Android: here's an Open System but we don't give a damn about your Experience. IOS: here's North Korea but in a 7 stars hotel

Something that i often see nobody mentions, maybe they don't care but i do, is lack of service support on iOS which makes the 3rd party apps almost dead when closed, despite any other operating systems (including Mac OS). That was the main reason i switched back to Android after using iphone for a year. I can add to that, independent app storage instead of shared storage again unlike any other OS (including Mac) which makes it hard to manage your storage (the files are often duplicated if used by multiple apps and will need manual cleanup.) As my personal experience, i found most of the iPhone users depend a lot more than me on their desktop OS' while i usually do a lot of their desktop needs using my phone, like applying for jobs, filling up documents, signing contracts, using third party cloud storages, sharing media/files between different apps (very annoying on iphone when it comes to large files), etc. I suppose iphone would be a good choice for those who has limited usage of their phone and are more dependent on their laptops for serious stuff. I do most of their serious stuff on the Android phone. And I'm a happy ipad user only because i don't use it for serious needs. And i believe iOS has a terrible UX and i have facts on it which makes it not suitable for serious stuff. Above that i often switch phones every other year and Apple's longer support is not a big deal for me.

Really the situation here is that Flagship Android phones do not make sense at their crazy prices. You can absolutely still find great Android phones at good prices like $400 from Motorola.

Android phone makers: "Let's copy everything bad that Apple gets away with because it's Apple! What could possibly go wrong?"

Kind of wondering how "market share" is being measured here. Is this the percentage of current users of each OS, or the percentage of units shipped last year? I wonder because everyone I know on iPhone has the phone provided as part of an inflated cellular service plan and can't wait to get the new one as soon as they are eligible. The android users I know (myself included) tend to hang on to phones much longer.

Wish rooting was the way it used to be, how it was done in the click of a button in Developer Options. I'm no expert, but with newer phones in the U.S, you can't even root nowadays due to the snapdragon processors I'm pretty sure. 😭

The fact that i can get a good music player for downloaded music and file manager on android makes it worth it for me.

There can be any number of iPhone users but i would still be on Android forever. The ability to do anything is the best feeling. iPhone lacks so many features that it pains me a lot to even drive an iPhone daily without going insane.

One of the main reason I ditched my pixel 7 for an iPhone 15 pro was because I wasn't receiving notifications here and there & same thing with app calls. And some of my friends also reported they are having the same issue. All though I love the way pixel handles photos & the clean os, I just can't have a phone that causes networking issues. Also 15 is kinda good this year.

Great video! the point that you made where android is taking notes from apple is exactly why i switched from android to apple a few years ago when the iphone x came out. I used to enjoy the creativity of android and how experimental some of the new features felt, to where i didnt mind them being a little less stable, and not having software support for long. But when the iphone x came out, i remember literally all the android manufacturers made their new phones look just like it. The new androids of that time looked like knock off iphone x. They were also starting to remove the headphone jack. so i decided that if i dont get the creativity that i enjoyed from android anymore, i might as well get the stability and consistency

The Huawei to Apple might have something to do with the "plummeting" numbers. I will argue that customization is still pretty high with Android phones, and for the time being, it is relegated to spectrum. Flagship phones have indeed removed headphone jacks and SD storage, while introducing higher specs and different form factors. The low to mid range phones do however maintain the features lost by the flagships. At the end of the day I think it's just a matter of convenience vs variety

On android you can install easily any app. Even different play store like F-Droid. On iphone it is often impossible (correct me if I am wrong). This gives me more more freedom than relaying only on what is allowed by big Tech

My personal theory is that because Android phones are becoming increasingly more like the iPhone, as in becoming more expensive and locked down, they are making it easier for potential customers to choose iPhone over their product. When you have to choose between two sides of the same coin, you're going to choose one that is more established.

I can guess that something do with the UI and design of it. Plus the way android handle permissions and break changes. Plus with the restrict access for url access for mobile dev work station.

I love my s21 ultra. Though compared to an iPhone, it does feel like we're paying for an inferior product. For example, Genshin Impact at medium settings can barely run at 30fps, with the resolution clearly being lower than native. Whereas on the equivalent iPhone at the time, it was capable of running at native res, 120hz max settings. While I understand optimization per platform plays a big role, it doesn't change the fact that it's still an inferior experience. Imagine how it feels paying $1k for an inferior experience at anything. I used to be all about the talking points with the smoother 120hz display on my androids years before apple finally adopted it, and now I realize consistent 60fps in every application is FAR better than 120fps in the menu, then dying at 15fps in anything that remotely requires graphical computation. With that being said, I don't feel like I would "own" an iPhone. It doesn't give the same freedom of being able to do whatever you want with it like most devices running android and that's unfortunately the reason I won't be switching. Though that apple xr headset is looking real good. Some competition from android is starting to show up for it- but guess what? It will have zero optimization, Genshin will run at 30fps on it in 480p, and it will melt your brain off with whatever the new qualcomm crapdragon is. And because I care about my privacy and the feeling of owning the things I buy, I'll have to go with it over the Apple Vision. It's also clearly just going to be another repeat of the Android and Apple race. The apple Vision product line will have the superior computational power, visuals (4k per eye), higher refresh rate, better battery life, every major existing application being able to run natively on it, etc. Natively like Genshin Impact, photo and video editing software, Camera looking good in third party apps. The android competitor hasn't even released yet but here's the repeat rundown of how it's gonna end up: There will be 2 apps that run above 60fps, that being the menu and your gallery. It will have a 20 minute battery life. Watching a youtube video in 240p will increase the temperature of the cpu to the surface of the sun. It will have 720p per eye, 15 degrees field of view, and the pixels will be the size of your break pedal. This is coming from someone that has always dissed Apple. I'm just frustrated. It's like no company that makes Android devices has ANY desire to improve the industry. Everyone is out doing their own thing. Google deliberately destroying the android open source project. Samsung pretending like they are an Apple competitor in the US market, trying their best to make the worst possible cooling system for their devices. I don't even blame them for giving up. Look at qualcomm, putting in zero effort to optimize the chips for their biggest clients. What type of developers would bother with making a good running app for a Phone running on an OS that hates the hardware, being powered by a chip that's unoptimized for the hardware or OS, running in a form factor that would turn it into a stove? To this point I don't even blame the developers of Snapchat for keeping the camera crap and Genshin Impact for not bothering with performance optimizations. If the makers of the devices don't care then no developer should either. This rant went on for a little longer than I suspected

I chose Android mainly due to the customizability years ago, and due to the fact that I didn't have any other Apple products. Still don't - that, and familiarity, is what's going to keep me on Android.

This might be a random thought, but it also potentially may be that kids who grew up when smartphones were becoming popular usually ended up with an Android because their parents didn't want to buy them an expensive iPhone. Maybe now that those kids might have some money, they are buying the phone they wanted originally when they were younger, even if it might not be the most financially responsible decision.

lol did you use the possession soundtrack from harry potter? It sounds a lot like it

I can still install my favorite launcher on my android which is a killer feature me.

Yeah the smartphone game really has changed a lot since I got my first smartphone (the galaxy s4). Back then the standard price for a flagship was $649, removable batteries and expandable storage were king (on android at least), and each phone was significantly better than the last. You could easily upgrade every year or even half year between brands and see noticeable improvements. Now, you could honestly go a couple years between phones and barely tell them apart. And I also agree that apple has gotten significantly better with the iPhone. It used to be in my mind that android was way better than iPhone, but I don't really feel that way anymore. The new iPhone is just as, if not more capable, than my Samsung phone. Now I don't really like apple as a company and I can't really ever see myself switching from android, but I certainly can understand why a lot of people do.

Bro didn’t even talk about how huawei that was the 3rd third biggest brand and they just created their own OS🤧

Cause the other problem is say overcharge on the devices and then there are fees for storage and that’s just insane

This has been happening for years here in Sweden 🇸🇪. Here around 90% of business users and a clear majority of gen z are iPhone users. I would say that we even have a higher percentage of iPhone users than the US by now. And it’s not slowing down. I work in it and communications and have been for the last 24 years. Ever since the iPhone 3G launched in 2008 it’s been dominating the market here. Sweden is a highly technological country being the birth place of Minecraft, Skype, Spotify and Exchange Active Sync, the leading mobile email protocol for businesses for decades, Ericsson 5G networks are also from Sweden. The trend was clear out of the gate and even less well off people splurged for an iPhone. Here android users are seen as tech geeeks. Written in my 9th version of iPhone. Yes. I skipped the 3gs, the 7 and the X and 11. Going to skip the 15 too since the one I got still is great. If this is any indicator as to the future of android in the rest of the world, time will tell. But Apple opening production in India isn’t helping

iDrones nowadays are the people who are willing to pay the Apple™ Tax. Although it sucks that a lot of android phones are also losing features that set them apart. SD card support and #BringBackTheHeadphoneJack

I still dont get it how can someone go to choose "experience" over price to performance. Have people stopped being analytical?

Yeah also another reason why I think apple is overtaking Android more in USA than rest of the world is because USA doesn't have Xiaomi and other Chinese brands, since those brands are afraid to enter US market because they don't want the same thing that happened to Huawei to happen to them. but since Xiaomi and other Chinese brands are active in the rest of the world, these brands still offer much of the original reasons why Android became popular, such as Xiomi's Poco line of Phones having Affordability, Customizability, Headphone Jack a charger brick that is actually 35W+ and etc..

One word- convenience. As someone who works in marketing the number one aspect to take into account is how much effort people have to put into something to get what they need. Apple has mastered this, with its seamless connection with its other devices, and a simple interface. I recently switched from android to the iPhone 14 pro and for me the difference is like night and day.

I've been on both teams, When I was younger you could call me an Apple fanboy, I had a shrine and everything. My first Android was the Note 3, I've switched back and forth but currently, I'm on a Samsung, however a lot of the time I prefer to stay with Android there are two major things that are preventing me from switching back. Which is the clear all notifications and the separate wipe-up screen for all apps. I much prefer this way so it's nice and clean on the home screen. Until Apple brings these two features to iPhone idk when I'll switch back. Also, I'm a dev and it's a lot easier to get applications that can utilize the functionality of the phone ex heat mapping for wireless or checking the channels. For iPhone you need an external device.

Another thing is simiplicity beats complexity for consumers. iPhone always focuses on the "just work mentality" also plays a good role on that. I believe I'm one of them after switching both between iPhone and Android. Windows and Mac for a while.

As someone who uses both (work and personal) never switching completely iPhone. Too many minor frustrations and too rigid

Even for emulation, there’s the altstore for that on iphone. You just need a separate mac or windows with itunes to get it set up.

As someone who uses both platforms on a daily basis, reliability and belielive that no work of mine will be held back by my operating system, its the ability to not care about how to send someone a video on whatsapp, many critical features which are exclusive to android is what holds me on android. Android has that polish that iOS lacks. I very much like the face of the shopkeeper when I tap to pay with my android which iPhone can't do. I love the face of my iphone friends when i send the video to my friend and put my phone in my pocket where they have to wait in the whatsapp till its done. iPhone constantly buzzes keeps disturbing me. While on android I can decide that amazon will send me order related notificaations and rest will be bllocked by my android operating system. I hope iPhone becomes a mature os like android one day.

most android users in the world just didn't have the money to buy iphone as they need it for a year of food and shelter

I am seriously considering the pinephone pro. I mostly use my desktop anyway.

Steve Jobs is so hypocritical in calling Android a stolen product.. oh please!

Hope that brands like Nothing and Google can defy this! The Google Pixel has done really well in recent sales as well! So I guess time will tell! Overall very detailed and thanks for the vid! :)

I think you forgot to mention something. iPhones have been providing the same user experience, UI and functionality for a very long time through many generations of phones which for me translates to consistency. They've built it in a way that doesn't need to change from year to year because it just works. Same for the overall design of iPhones. Many complain they look the same, but why would they need to change it? It's the simplest design that also just works well.. it's minimalistic and easily recognizable.

If you decide you don't wanna talk to someone cuz of a green bubble you probably only have 1 brain cell that's in critical condition.