He who is Snit said on Thu, 23 Nov 2017 12:29:01 -0700:
>> Historically, Android phones have always had twice as good a
>> price-to-performance ratio - which proves - to me - that Apple iPhone users
>> don't care one bit about price to performance quality.
>
> They likely focus more on usability and less on speed, though generally
> iPhones are faster than Android phones (though this is an exception... and
> good to see).
I agree that the iOS user must care about *different* things than the
Android user, because it's clear iOS users *love* their devices, even
though they're sub optimal to Android is many ways (e.g., device
functionality).
We have a separate concurrent thread on WHY iOS users so very much *love*
their devices - which I have to admit openly - if people are willing to
stand in line to buy a mobile device - they gotta love it for some reason
known only to them (and to Apple Marketing).
Apple Marketing is, I will always say, among the best in the world.
They know who to make their users *feel* safe (look at anything Lewis says,
for example about why he loves iOS compared to Android).
>> They care about something else - but it's not price to performance since we
>> can almost always find a phone with better performance than any iPhone at
>> about half the price.
>
> Usability and the apps.
We have the other thread where app functionalty *never* came up as a reason
to love iOS over Android. There just isn't any app functionality on iOS
that isn't already on Android and there is *plenty* app functionality on
Android that isn't on iOS (e.g., load any launcher - which gives the user
tons of power - depending on the launcher).
So it's not the apps.
But it might be usability *within the walled garden* that makes users love
iOS so much. I have female relatives who *love* that iOS "just works" for
them inside the walled garden.
These users wouldn't know a decibel from a megabit per second, but they
don't care because they just give up when they stray outside the walled
garden.
In summary - it' can't be app functionality that makes people love iOS but
it might be usability within the walled garden (which we all agree is
fantastic).
>> The hardware is about the same - but the Apple hardware costs twice as much
>> as comparable Android hardware, yet again.
>
> This is far from true as a general statement... as you have been shown.
You are wrong. I only speak facts.
Time and again you'll see that this is the general case:
1. Apple has no special sauce with respect to hardware
2. Apple has *tons* of competition with respect to hardware
3. The result is Apple hardware is about the same as high-end Android
hardware, year over year.
Logically and practically, there's nothing that Apple has in terms of
hardware that everyone else doesn't have. So in the end, the hardware will
always be 'about the same'.
That's just logic.
The difference is the *pricing* of that hardware, where Apple users *love*
their devices so much that they're willing to pay huge premiums for things
that more pragmatic people just can't suffer.
While nospam *loves* to cherry pick the *worst* price-to-performance
comparisons, the record will show that every time I've looked and published
my results, I can almost always find comparable Android hardware for half
the cost of similar Apple hardware.
Everything depends on pricing and marketing though - because nobody has an
edge in hardware in the long run. For the longest time, Google phones were
iOS killers, in terms of price-to-performance, for example - but - recently
- Google changed their marketing strategy so we have to look to others for
the best price-to-performance ratio on Android.
In the end, the price-to-performance on Android will always be about twice
as good as the price-to-performance of Apple devices - but we can't choose
the *worst* case as nospam does ... it takes intelligence to find the best.
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Apple aficianados love iOS so much they're willing to pay twice the cost.