Today we're going to
discuss differences between iphone and android hopefully with a fresh
perspective here when
you hear somebody talking about this
subject you hear statements like android
is more customizable than ios apple is
more privacy focused android split
screen support is really useful iphone's
continuity features are super useful
android phones have usb-c a variety of
devices always-on displays more
customizable looks cameras with more
megapixels and the ability to side load
apps iphones get updates for half a
decade have better more premium support
generally just work have better resale
value have more accessories to choose
from and generally just benefit from
tighter integration of hardware and
software and the list goes on but in
this video i actually want to either dig
a little deeper or maybe just zoom out a
little further and cover some ground
that's maybe more interesting or in some
ways maybe even more important now
whether you're considering an android
device or an ios device for your next
phone there's always more than one
reason to prefer one over the other so
one thing's for sure there's no reason
to trash somebody else's treasure use
what makes you happy and let other
people do the same so let me start then
by mapping out some of the top level
strengths and weaknesses for each side a
top level strength and weakness on the
iphone side of things is that the iphone
isn't a solitary product it's deeply
interconnected with other complementary
apple products and services in fact i
would go so far as to argue that the
iphone itself isn't the real product
that apple's trying to sell here instead
it's almost like it's more of a feature
of apple's actual product the famed
apple ecosystem a deep ecosystem can
feel like a really great feature to
somebody because the more apple devices
a person buys the more powerful and
useful that ecosystem actually becomes
the flip side though is that the costs
associated with building out the apple
ecosystem makes switching away expensive
maybe for some people prohibitively so
now a top level strength and weakness on
the android side of things is its
reliance on google's surveillance
capitalism machine because at its heart
google is not in fact in the business of
selling phones as much as it's in the
business of selling ads so the more
private information and experiences
google has access to the more
personalized targeted and effective
their operating system apps services and
yes ads can be now a more personalized
experience can feel like a really great
feature to people because the more
company knows about you the more
efficiently they can serve you the flip
side though is that that efficiency
might come at the expense of true
autonomy if your information is
productized and potentially exploited on
this platform can you ever truly be
certain that the products you're buying
and the information you're consuming is
of your own free will so pick your
poison because there really is no such
thing as the perfect phone or the
perfect company so i guess at the end of
the day a lot of your decision is gonna
come down to which company you trust
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with all the camera comparison videos
the battery comparison test the side
side-by-side benchmarking here on
youtube i actually have to say that i
feel like comparing model versus model
and feature versus feature year after
year is actually not quite as important
as people maybe assume obviously when
we're talking about phones features do
matter but the really good features the
ones that aren't just gimmicks are
fairly likely to eventually get copied
by the other side we saw this when
widgets arrived on the iphone's home
screen and we saw this when swipe
controls came to android devices and
honestly there are countless other
examples with new iphones i think you
generally know what to expect year to
year probably a more iterative approach
to improving what's already a highly
polished phone that basically just works
each year i think it's pretty clear that
apple's mostly concerned with competing
against itself and only itself instead
of trying to outdo the latest and
greatest android devices out there even
though oftentimes that is exactly what
ends up happening similarly i think the
majority of android devices are
basically fighting it out amongst
themselves every year mostly just trying
to get a bigger slice of the overall
android pie as a result of that android
manufacturers are incentivized to try to
grab headlines by being not just
iteratively different but radically
different if they can and sometimes this
does lead to breakthroughs like
periscopic zooms but other times it also
leads to gimmicks like glasses-free 3d
screens in either case what you would
consider the core smartphone experience
rarely if ever changes year to year
smartphones text they game they browse
they email they call they take photos
they control smart homes and a new form
factor like a foldable or a more private
browsing experience like apple's private
relay don't really do all that much to
change the fundamental smartphone
experience and like i said the truly
standout features are likely to get
copied by either side within a few
generations now over the next decade or
so a new platform is probably going to
emerge that will eventually replace
smartphones probably some kind of ar or
vr platform in either case instead of
just having tunnel vision and laser
focusing on which new phone has the
coolest new feature every year it might
be good to take things on balance and
also consider what the future looks like
and how happy you're likely to be in
three to five years because when you buy
a new phone you're not just buying a
phone you're actually heading in a
direction so if you buy an iphone the
direction that you're taking is heading
straight into apple's ecosystem and over
the next three to five years you could
really spend a decent amount of money
investing there but yeah you can get an
apple watch and a mac and unlock your
mac with your apple watch and you can
start an email on your ipad and finish
it on your iphone you can send an
intercom voice message using your air
pods that broadcast to the homepod minis
around your house and you can scan items
from your iphone directly to apple notes
on your mac you can get applecare for
premium support you can use imessage you
can set reminders on siri on your apple
watch that go off when you get out of
your carplay-enabled car your iphone is
going to last you for more years if you
wanted to because you'll get updates for
longer and then you'll be able to sell
it for a decent amount because apple
products retain their value longer and
you can do it all while feeling more
secure and private mostly maybe yes the
apple ecosystem is great unless or until
apple does something that you don't like
like what if someday apple decided to
not scan for illegal images but to scan
for people who might belong to a certain
religious group or any other group
because i would hate to see tools that
were developed with a good purpose at
heart turned into weapons of intolerance
now if you choose to buy an android
device you're buying into a future with
more device options and with more
opportunities for customization that's
right you're going to be able to change
your launcher to put app icons wherever
you want you can root your phone and
install custom firmware you can bypass
google's app store and side load apps
you can use a phone without a notch that
has expandable storage and includes a
headphone jack or you can buy a phone
for even less than 400
you can split your screen to read an
article and watch a twitch stream at the
same time you can use one usbc charger
to charge your laptop your switch and
your android phone you can get that
always on lock screen of your dreams you
can ask more complicated questions of
google assistant and expect smarter
answers you can get a phone with a
stylus and yes you can easily theme your
devices yep all the options and
customizations are great until or unless
well let's just say i shudder to think
about everything that google not to
mention facebook while we're at it knows
not just about android users but
honestly about the entire population
does google know you better than you
know yourself do advertisers in the
words of a retired harvard business
school professor surveillance capitalism
is the unilateral claiming of private
human experience as free raw material
for translation into behavioral data
these data are then computed and
packaged as prediction products and sold
into behavioral futures markets she
wrote a book a while back and it caused
a big stir because she goes on to say
that these smart and personalized
devices and experiences that so many
people enjoy
might actually in some way even be
putting democracy at risk wow it's like
you might think you're really informed
but maybe you're only as informed as x y
or z has allowed you to be and you
wouldn't know the difference here's the
way i see it when you buy an iphone
you're buying a puzzle piece and it's a
real nice puzzle piece all on its own
but you're not gonna realize the full
picture until you assemble the rest of
the puzzle i.e until you buy other apple
products which all become so much better
together likewise when you buy an
android phone you're still buying a
puzzle piece but it's just the overall
puzzle that these pieces fit into is
just much much smaller google's puzzle
ecosystem is growing samsung's puzzle
slash ecosystem is growing but neither
one comes anywhere close to matching the
actual grandeur the gravity of apple's
massive puzzle slash ecosystem and
smaller android manufacturers for the
most part really are just selling
individual puzzle pieces mostly so
decisions decisions for me personally i
can just say i have chosen to go down
the iphone and apple route at least for
the time being it served me really well
in the past and i do feel like i
produced high quality work using apple's
products some people like one linus
sebastian might think of iphones as
incremental expensive and boring but to
me iphones are reliable premium and
ready to go right out of the box i find
that for me personally i wouldn't be
spending a whole lot of time customizing
the grid layout of my home screen or
trying to overclock or under clock my
phone for gaming or battery performance
if you're looking to get into the apple
ecosystem you can do so for as little as
399 with the iphone se and you could
even install all your favorite google
apps if you really wanted to and even
create a shortcut to use google
assistant in place of siri you can
essentially turn your iphone into a kind
of an android in a way while still being
able to take advantage of all the
benefits of being in the apple ecosystem
now if you're looking to switch over to
android you really can't pull all your
apple apps over with you the only apple
app that's really available over on the
android side is apple music but there
are all kinds of phones at all kinds of
price points with all sorts of form
factors with all sorts of manufacturer
takes on what the best version of
android might look like and you get to
choose from all of those now you do have
people out there saying things like
android phones are categorically cheap
or complicated but honestly those are
just stereotypes there are plenty of
expensive android devices out there made
out of really nice and premium materials
and i found that the android experience
can be as complicated or as
straightforward as you make it alright
well that's it for this video i hope
that you found this video to be
different than you expected and
different from other videos on the
subject that you've seen both in content
and tone i really tried hard to make
this useful so hopefully you feel more
empowered as you go to pick out your
next phone.
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