Apple products UX is so much better than anything currently available on the market, but its slowly eroding due to lack of Steve Jobs.
He had a huge drive to make perfect UX. Newer designers lack this and you can just feel it from how new versions of iOS look like.
And how new iphones design is just small changes or bigger screen. They no longer have that spark like they used to with Jobs.
RIP Steve, visioners are not looked upon kindly.
And it looks like their laptops actually found the path again.
Sometimes Apple products just have these really nice touches. Other times, it infuriates me where the gaps are. I have two garage doors that I've HomeKit enabled and if I tell Siri "close the garage door" I get asked which one, even if only one is open. Even if I say "close both garage doors" or "close all garage doors" I still get prompted.
The UI of Nova Launcher on my S21 is so much more intuitive than Apple. Apple does everything through swipes. Swipes suck for several reasons, one of them being that I must swipe certain positions at certain speeds to get everything done. I miss buttons. Related: After two weeks of owning an iPhone 14, I was complaining about how I can't move my cursor in the URL field. It just kept highlighting words! My friend told me the super-intuitive iOS experience: hold down Spacebar to move your cursor. I'm glad that was covered in the non-existent tutorial.
Then there are the anxiety inducing badges, the fact that settings is an app instead of a system menu, the fact that control center (or whatever the system drop down is) can't have nearly the function of Android's system drop down, the fact that notification center doesn't feel trustworthy or consistent, the fact that notification center shows me notifications from blacklisted apps even in focus mode...
Android's UI just makes so much more fucking sense. And I hate that I am tempted now to go back to my S21 with inferior camera and DAC/bluetooth stack just to have software that makes sense.
I acknowledge this is a rant and not as well put-together as most of my comments, but effing Hell, iOS is a mixed bag.
Apple products do well on the second-hand market because Apple usually doesn’t cannibalize that market by selling low-end devices. By positioning themselves as a premium brand and ensuring that the low end of the market is not served with new products, they ensure that the low end will be served by the second-hand market. PC/Android can’t do this because they don’t control the hardware and there’s always some brand that will sell new low-end devices which compare favorably to any used device.
In the few cases where Apple has deviated from this strategy of not serving the low end, resale values have suffered. The iPhone 8 and iPhone X were released at basically the same time. But the X currently sells for roughy 25% of its original price whereas the 8 sells for closer to 15%. This is due to the introduction of the SE which is basically just a cheaper and better 8.
An iPhone XS (from 2018) has the single-core performance of the most expensive 1000$+ non-Apple phone you can find.
iPhone 11 (from 2019) is still unbeaten.
iPhone 8 and X will still have a much more powerful CPU than most phone models on sale today.
It's one reason why Apple phones still do really well on the secondhand market.
My parents both had Android tablets (Samsung iirc), but they didn't use them for very long, switched to iPads, and used them at the dinner table for years afterwards - just checking news, playing games, that kind of thing.
My dad bought a laptop the other day to play games and watch F1 with - at least the pre-installed shit wasn't too bad. Still had to talk him out of getting both AVG and some other virus scanner though, that would've bogged his system down and make him lose trust, because virus scanners these days are scareware - that is, if they don't pop up every once in a while pretending to be useful, people will get rid of them.