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Re:Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors by sytelus on Thursday January 03, 2019 @03:09AM (#18813610)
My main complaint for Android is that they are obsessed with copying Apple so they are always one generation behind. If Apple removed headphone jack, next year you can expect most Android phone to do same. Same goes for all good and bad features Apple introduces like notch, Touch ID, FaceId, slow-mo, memory capacity, AI selfies etc etc. Other way around also happens but much less often and is typically fragmented in niche devices instead of one all rounder. So buying Android always felt like buying last year’s iPhone. But last year’s iPhone usually cost same as this year’s Android. So what’s the point?
Re:Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors by ThatPlayer on Thursday January 03, 2019 @03:47AM (#18813736)
Not everyone copies Apple. Samsung and LG still have headphone jacks. If anything they had fingerprint sensors before Apple. Notches are the in-between bezels and full screen phones. LG experimented with fake notches on the V10 and V20, branded as a second screen rather than a notch.
Re:Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors by sytelus on Thursday January 03, 2019 @04:20PM (#18819398)
This is exactly the issue. In Android world innovations are fragmented and there is no one package that has all of these combined. If you want Samsung features then you lose out on LG features.