Android sucks. It feels like a budget, second-rate product. It’s not polished. It’s for nerds who like to customize everything. You open the web browser and it just seems janky. That’s my experience.

95% of the teenagers I see wear the same model of Nike shoes

I live in Japan and work for a Japanese company.

My personal phone is an iphone.

My work phone is an iphone.

I don’t know anyone with an android phone, anyone.

I also don’t know anyone who uses imessage. Japanese use LINE and foreigners use LINE and WhatsApp.

Kids need to be reminded that being a hacker is super fucking cool, and you aren’t doing cool hackery shit on iOS.

I’m an iPhone user. But I’m also an old school hacker guy. I really want kids to learn more about this stuff.

Computing and the internet being a little bit difficult used to be a feature, not a bug. You had to learn a baseline to get involved. It wasn’t accessible, but it was effective. We need more of that.

I’m really tired of helping a Gen Z person troubleshoot a problem on their PC and them struggling to understand what a path is or how to navigate a Windows filesystem to find what they need. You know? We’re failing these kids and young adults. We’re failing them so badly. We need to make this stuff cool again.

Recently I got an iPhone 15 pro max. I lasted 2 days and returned it. The hardware is cool but the software is still an unusable trash

I think it still comes down to user experience. A phone’s OS is not supposed to get in the way of you using it. It’s been a while since I’ve had an android phone, but for instance I remember when an app crashed it would give a dump of the technical details. People don’t want to see what’s going on under the hood. They either want it to just work, or to completely exit and then try again. Android is still a “tinkerer’s phone.” Even I, a computer programmer, want a phone that lets me do what I want to do, with a phone that is designed around a refined, intuitive, high-quality OS.

I worked 3 years as a representative for an android brand. I was always top 3 in my team regarding results and sales. Even if I could convince people to buy android, I could never convince myself. Also 8 in 10 people in my team used iPhones. It’s not just younger people. While the iPhone is not perfect, it’s simply better, more polished and more reliable. Get a new case and screen protector for your 3 year old iPhone and it still feel new, while your 3 year old android is ready to be recycled by then.

What am I doing in Apple subreddit?

Anyone in the US who owns an android and is in high school/college does not have social skills and is usually a weirdo

iPhones/Androids are a tool, tools are not meant to be “cool”. Tools are meant to be useful, and you use the tool that fits your use case. If Apples/Google/etc tools do not fit the use case, then that is a problem that Apple/Google/etc needs to address.

Can an iphone use adblockers for youtube?

Android is primarily an advertising platform for Google it’s almost as if everything else comes second, maybe because it does.

There’s one thing that Google also needs that Apple is dominating, and that is physical stores.

I love Apple Stores. You go inside, play around, get your phone fixed, and learn more about the stuff you have or want to own. It’s exclusively Apple, and they’re found inside malls, remote locations, and are tourist attractions. You have workers there who are deep in the product knowledge and can make recommendations based on your needs.

As a teenager, my buddies and I loved this. It was a place that we would always have to stop by when we went to the mall to window shop.

You want to buy the Google Pixel? You have to go to the carrier store, that’s unless you have any of the main carriers. If you want to buy unlocked then your only real choice is online or Best Buy. The problem to that is that those both have different phone options so it’s no longer comparisons between the products GOOGLE sell, it’s comparisons between Samsung, OnePlus, Apple, etc.

Samsung also has some stores, but it’s dull in comparison to Apple, unless you’re in let’s say South Korea.

You guys can blame Snapchat and Instagram for this. Using the android version of these apps is a terrible experience. The camera quality is noticeably worse because the apps just screenshot the viewfinder instead of working directly with the hardware(something iPhones don’t have an issue with). I can go through my stories and 9/10 I can clearly see who uses an android unless they upload their pics externally first. For teenagers this is a big deal.

Not my problem