Iphone vs Android

I'm going to tell you seven very clear reasons why the iPhone 13 is here with better cameras, better video, better battery life, better displays, and pretty much better everything:

Why you might wanna switch or switch back from Android to iPhone, and three equally specific reasons. Why you just might wanna stay with the Pixel or Samsung or OnePlus that bring you. 

In a sizzling second from Apple Silicon, I'll explain exactly why you might want to switch, but before, here are a few factors that might tempt you to stay.

Since Apple is still the only firm producing iPhones, your options are entirely limited if you disagree with what Apple is doing.

But with Android, it's not a problem if you don't like what OnePlus done with the 9. If you're tired of black slabs, you can get flips and even folds from Samsung, or you can copy what Google did with the Pixel 6.

If lightning isn't your thing, USBC is an option. Point being there's just an endless variety of hardware options out there.

And yes, some experiments that Apple is simply not gonna even try and match, either never, or just not anytime soon. Same for software and customization.

Sure, with the iPhone, you can change your wallpaper, your widgets, even use shortcuts to swap up your icons if you're willing to put in the work, but you're still locked to that classic iPhone launcher and grid with nothing like a proper theme kit in sight, but with Android, Android isn't your dad, your mom, your parent.

Android just isn't the boss of you, no matter how much the Google Play APIs increasingly try to make you clean your room. You can customize, you can theme, you can make the material you, which is legit terrific looking, but you can also make your system font Comic Sans, if that's exactly the type of monster you wanna be.

And while some people just want their phones to work for them, if you're willing to put in the work for your phone, the more time and effort you put in, just the weirder and wilder You may customise the Android interface. 

There are two types of apps on Android that you just can't even get on the iPhone.

The first is real game streaming services like Google's own Stadia or Microsoft's Gamepass, and that means you can stream the latest games as easily as you stream the latest TV shows and movies from Netflix or Disney+, Apple, however, not so much.

They're bizarrely stuck in the past on this point, and every app is stuck in the store, so fingers crossed that changes in soon, But just now, there is simply no joy.

The second type of app that you can get an Android that you just can't get on the iPhone is, yeah, antiviruses, but Android also lets you sideload, which means you can install apps from the web instead of the Google Play Store.

You'll get all sorts of warnings about safety and security, because it is a huge risk, and there's tons of malware out there, hence antivirus apps, But you can do you, without a doubt.

Now, switching to the iPhone has a number of other significant advantages as well. You can get really, really good, really, really, small iPhones. There's the iPhone 13 Mini, which takes everything that was great about the one-handed iPhone 12 Mini, and adds a way better camera and way longer battery life. 

It has gone from a day-timer to an all-dayer, all-nighter maybe, packing every single feature from the full-size 13 into a body small enough to fit into your change pocket or clutch, which is something that's just not easy to find from any other vendor anymore, and if you just don't wanna pay that much for that small a phone, there's also the iPhone SE 2, which has an iPhone 8 design complete with home button and touch ID, but with iPhone 11 internal, so it's still plenty small and plenty fast, not compared to the latest iPhone, sure, but still compared to a lot of the latest Androids.

Because of the way they're engineered, like from the beginning of time engineered, iPhones just tend to run smoother for longer and better than Android phones, even with far fewer resources, because iOS and iOS apps run natively on the iPhone, not through an interpreter like Android and apps for Android.

The code uses active release instead of garbage collection, and every bit of it was written specifically exactly for the device it runs on. 

There's no overhead meant to cover every quirk of every possible different device from every possible different vendor. Apple also still makes the highest performance processors, calibrates everything about the display and imaging pipeline at the factory, custom designs every power management and audio system, and the list just goes on and on and on.

And the results are, if you just look at the specs and see four to six gigabytes of RAM or a physically smaller battery, or 120 Hertz refresh rate, or a non pixel bend, non-periscope camera, you still get the highest quality best experience using an iPhone.

They load and scroll and last and shoot way better than a similarly or even much higher spaced Android device, and if you're on Android outside of China, with very, very few exceptions, you're on Google, and that's totally fine for a lot of people, great, even, for many people, Google makes it so that you can pick up almost any Android device, log in with your account, and be up and running just lickety split.

With an iPhone, you can use your Apple ID, which you might already have from iTunes back in the day or an iPad now or whatever, and be up and running every bit as quickly, but if you love you some Google and want to continue using all of their services, that is perfectly acceptable.

Download any or all of the plethora of iOS apps that Google provides from Gmail to YouTube, Maps to Chrome, and log into any of them with your same Google ID, and Google will very helpfully just try to log you into everything else using that ID. 

Because iPhone users still provide so many, so valuable eyeballs, so much money for Google, that Google makes sure they're all over the iPhone, and for anything you may have on your Android phone that's not on Google, You may shift just all of that content over by using Apple's switch to iOS app, which is available in the Google Play Store. And Google on the iPhone works really, really, really well.

So well that you can legitimately make an argument that the iPhone plus Google apps is simply one of the best Google experience phones on the market. Best hardware, best services. Best combos since peanut butter and chocolate. Even better than some, maybe many, Android phones, but, ginormous but, if you don't like Google and you're outside China, using Android is tough.

Google has their hooks deep in the OS, even further down than the Google play APIs, which let modern Android phones be modern Android phones.

So even if you go out of your way to avoid Google services, Android is essentially the mother, the father, the parent of all Google services, and that means you can make the iPhone into a really top flight Google phone if you want to, but you can also make it only partially a Google phone, avoid using any of their apps by using apps that do not require login in or by not using a Google phone at all.

Absolutely you can stick to Apple's apps if you want. Use a mix of indie apps, or even go all in with Microsoft Edge or Outlook, because yes, you can make the iPhone into a pretty great Windows phone, too. The point is you get to choose. 

If the Google services just aren't worth the intrusions into your privacy, you can go completely without them and not miss a beat.

Same with Facebook. If you want to, you can absolutely deck out your iPhone with all the Facebook, I mean, Meta apps that you want to. The big blue one, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Oculus, and they all work great on the iPhone, better, even, than any other phone. That's the reason you so often see celebrities with Android endorsements, even other media teams at other Android makers accidentally posting their Android ads from the iPhone.

Same with TikTok. It's why you see iPhones in the hands of so many of the biggest creators on the biggest platforms. But like with Google apps, you also have the option of just saying no, hell no, to Facebook apps, even apps using the Facebook SDK, using any invasive SDK now, especially with app tracking transparency. You can stop them, literally, in their tracks, their tracking tracks. 

You can also choose to back up online with the speed, simplicity, and ease of Apple's iCloud If you want to, but you can also go all "Battlestar Galactica", all "Matrix" hardline, and if you prefer, just connect your Mac or PC using a regular USB port.

Ever notice that the one app where Google's openness ends, and hard, is the Pixel camera app? Google won't allow the Pixel camera software to be downloaded on iPhones or other Android phones, much like Apple won't allow iMessage on Android, and honestly, I don't blame them at all.

Companies tend to keep closed what makes them money, and open up what makes their competitors money. It's why AdSense is closed and Safari is open, and the Pixel camera is absolutely terrific. It routinely outshoots the monstrous glass that Samsung and Huawei keep bolting on their phones like alien face huggers, but Apple's also doing something really special with their cameras, as well, with hardware like in-body image stabilization or IBIS, to ProRAW, to color matching, not just between cameras, but through the entire imaging pipeline, from capture to display, and photography that's built into the Silicon so a lot of it runs in real time, like a real camera, in the live view, instead of being shunted off to a post-process, and it launches fast and saves every frame so you never miss a shot, Apple continues to have the greatest video in the industry, supporting ProRes and Dolby Vision HDR in 4K60.

Likewise, the depth and quality of photo and video apps on the iPhone is simply unmatched. Maybe unmatchable, given us just easier to make apps for hardware as consistent as the iPhones. And sure, everyone talks about the value and power of Apple's ecosystem, but it's for a reason.

When you buy an iPhone, you also get all the free apps Apple makes for it. Free as in free, not free as in your data, including the iWork Suite, Garage Band, iMovie, and more, plus all the free training and courses they offer, not just at Apple stores, but increasingly online, as well, and through Education.

And, of course, airdrop, which lets you send files back and forth so quickly and easily, you literally start feeling lost without it, and with the Apple Silicon Max now, you have laptops that are as fast as some workstations with all day battery life, totally, completely, and always in sync with your iPhone.

Plus, you don't just get security updates, but full on software updates in every country, on every carrier, all the time, at the same time, for years, four to five years now, which is something really only Google is even starting to try and match.