i have been an Android user through and through. Don’t want to give an enny to the giant oligopoly spearhead if i can help it…
Anyways, my colleague had bought an iPhone 6 an year after it was released. I remember to this day vividly, we were in the elevator, we were talking about it. He took it out, I held his iPhone 6 in my hand, and it was the most surreal experience I have had with technology up until that point.
It just felt Unbelievable, Unreal, to see a phone so lightweight, so thin, so compact, and not be a toy/downscaled dummy unit. Even the curved sides, which were aesthetically unappealing at first in photos, just clicked when I actually held the phone in my own hand.
It’s been almost a decade, and still I feel like I have never seen a smartphone that had such a perfect in hand feeling.
Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t buy it because Android just had too much going for it and for my preference and use case, iOS never was going to be a consideration. But for a fleeting moment, I really envied my colleague for having one of the best feeling smartphones at the time.
Apple is great when it comes to design and aesthetics. Jobs was known for being great at conveying a feeling in his presentations, and their products were always aimed at a “it just works, don’t worry about how” crowd. It’s no wonder they were copied left and right (slide to unlock, round corners etc., as ridiculous as some of those patents are).
That said, I feel like Android and iOS have come ever closer to equality. Google is locking down their walled garden, both app stores have basically become useless - apps are just custom browsers to webpages now and games suuuuck - with the exception that Apple’s walled garden enables compilation and therefore better battery efficiency, which in turn makes phones lighter.
As someone who just updated from an iPhone SE2020, the same body as the iPhone 6, I waited for the iPhone Air, no other iPhone had interest because of weight. This is the new standard.
People keep forgetting how stupid heavy carrying so much battery all the time.
iPhone Air charges from 25% -> 80% in 30min or less.
i have been an Android user through and through. Don’t want to give an enny to the giant oligopoly spearhead if i can help it…
Anyways, my colleague had bought an iPhone 6 an year after it was released. I remember to this day vividly, we were in the elevator, we were talking about it. He took it out, I held his iPhone 6 in my hand, and it was the most surreal experience I have had with technology up until that point.
It just felt Unbelievable, Unreal, to see a phone so lightweight, so thin, so compact, and not be a toy/downscaled dummy unit. Even the curved sides, which were aesthetically unappealing at first in photos, just clicked when I actually held the phone in my own hand.
It’s been almost a decade, and still I feel like I have never seen a smartphone that had such a perfect in hand feeling.
Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t buy it because Android just had too much going for it and for my preference and use case, iOS never was going to be a consideration. But for a fleeting moment, I really envied my colleague for having one of the best feeling smartphones at the time.
Until you put a protective case on it and it feels just like every other phone in a case.
Apple is great when it comes to design and aesthetics. Jobs was known for being great at conveying a feeling in his presentations, and their products were always aimed at a “it just works, don’t worry about how” crowd. It’s no wonder they were copied left and right (slide to unlock, round corners etc., as ridiculous as some of those patents are).
That said, I feel like Android and iOS have come ever closer to equality. Google is locking down their walled garden, both app stores have basically become useless - apps are just custom browsers to webpages now and games suuuuck - with the exception that Apple’s walled garden enables compilation and therefore better battery efficiency, which in turn makes phones lighter.
As someone who just updated from an iPhone SE2020, the same body as the iPhone 6, I waited for the iPhone Air, no other iPhone had interest because of weight. This is the new standard.
People keep forgetting how stupid heavy carrying so much battery all the time.
iPhone Air charges from 25% -> 80% in 30min or less.
Camera is excellent and beyond my expectations.