1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,360 Show them what you did. I bought an iPhone 17 Pro Max. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:10,000 >> Yeah, and the worst part is the reason. For what? So Zoomer streamers wouldn't 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:15,240 make fun of you when you go to exchange contact information? >> That is not the only reason. It was the 4 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:19,440 biggest one. And [music] the worst part is he pulled the trigger on this thing 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:23,120 just 2 weeks before Google announced that Pixel phones will be supporting 6 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:27,240 AirDrop making it more convenient than ever to socialize cross-platform. Adding 7 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:33,000 insult to injury, just weeks later the Samsung tri-fold 8 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:36,025 that he waited 4 years for finally dropped. Dude, the look on your face was 9 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:41,960 Yeah. >> [laughter] >> That one. But as crazy as it sounds, I actually 10 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:45,720 don't regret my decision. [music] I know many of you out there may not love 11 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:51,200 Apple's business practices and to be fair, yeah, neither do I. But I find 12 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:55,800 myself really appreciating some of the quality of life features and I wanted to 13 00:00:53,240 --> 00:01:00,960 give you guys my personal perspective on why the social aspects of the iPhone go 14 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:03,240 a lot deeper than bubble colors and why 15 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:07,320 it's going to be really hard for Android to win me back again even if I did buy 16 00:01:05,320 --> 00:01:11,000 this like 1 month before my dream Android device was announced. Man, I 17 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:15,080 really did buy this at the worst time, didn't I? Yeah. But it's the best time 18 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,945 to segue Not quite. Oh. You could have done it in 19 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:24,440 August. >> [laughter] >> Oh. That would have been slightly worse. >> That's true. 20 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:26,200 But it's the best time to segue 21 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:29,880 to our sponsor. Acuity Scheduling. It's a flexible 22 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:33,840 scheduling software that offers calendar management, booking tools, client 23 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:38,720 communication, secure payments, custom branding and much more. Save 20% today 24 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:41,840 with our link below. No story is complete without the who, what, where, 25 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:46,400 when and why though. Let's talk about all of that just not in that order. See 26 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:50,440 you later. The TLDR is that I was looking for something fresher. My 27 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:53,080 OnePlus 11 was fine, but I really did miss being on something cutting edge 28 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:57,840 whether it was because of a better camera or even some fun gimmick like my 29 00:01:55,520 --> 00:02:02,280 Fold 4 had. But the biggest thing that actually pushed me to iPhone was the 30 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:05,240 social experience. Last October, I got to go down to TwitchCon for the first 31 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:09,759 time. And as dumb as this is going to sound to many of you, my Android device 32 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:14,160 actually held back my networking efforts multiple times. 33 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:17,440 Oh, hey. I'd spark up a conversation. We'd talk about a collaborative effort 34 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:21,440 in the future. We'd hold out our phones to AirDrop, and I had to be the awkward, 35 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,280 "Hey, can you just actually type your number into my phone?" 36 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:29,240 Thanks. Well, no one refused to give me their number. I could immediately tell 37 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:33,440 though that I was kind of coming across as a bit of a burden. 38 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:37,959 Thanks. I did find some techy workarounds. I actually set my wallpaper 39 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:41,640 to my Discord QR code, but sometimes people had issues with that, too. QR 40 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:45,280 codes are a little less ubiquitous in North America. And let's face it, us 41 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:49,920 Zoomers aren't exactly known right now for being super tech-savvy. Of course, 42 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:55,160 that wasn't enough to convince me to join the herd. It was all of the other 43 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:59,600 boxes that Apple also ticked. This generation of iPhone, even Linus 44 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:04,440 admitted, is an incredibly complete package, pretty much top to bottom. So, 45 00:03:02,519 --> 00:03:08,560 after that trip, I did it. I went out and bought this phone. And I was 46 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:13,920 actually so excited that I also picked up a Base 17 as a birthday present for 47 00:03:11,239 --> 00:03:17,959 my wife to replace her aging 12 mini. Then I got home, grabbed some dinner, 48 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:25,800 and some hard-to-swallow pills. Cuz it took me, I kid you not, over 48 hours to 49 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:27,600 finally get this device fully set up. 50 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:32,440 And this is where the what comes in. Because I was constantly asking, "What 51 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:36,760 the is Apple doing?" Just like Linus, I struggled to get the Move to 52 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:40,880 iOS app to do anything. And it wasn't for a lack of trying. One time, my 53 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:45,400 Android overheated, and it shut down. Other times, it took so long that both 54 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:49,880 phones died mid-transfer. And then there was the time that it got stuck at the 55 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:53,480 1-minute remaining mark for several hours. When I complained about this on 56 00:03:51,519 --> 00:03:57,800 Twitter, I had several people saying I was either fabricating this story for 57 00:03:54,960 --> 00:04:02,800 clicks or this was a skill issue. Well, excuse me. All I did was follow 58 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:07,120 the app instructions and at the time, I had no intention on this being a video. 59 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:11,560 So, why would I fake this for my own personal device? I did get some helpful 60 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:15,240 comments saying, "It's just broken on certain flavors of Android." And 61 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:19,760 honestly, if that's the case, I get it. The fragmentation of the 62 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:24,240 Android ecosystem is one of the greatest weaknesses, which I'm going to get into 63 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:28,360 a little bit later. But, Apple should be the one telling me. If I open the app 64 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:32,600 and it knows that it might not work, Apple should pop up a little warning. 65 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:37,360 Eventually, I had to give up and set everything up manually, which took about 66 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:41,800 4 hours. But, it was kind of a blessing in disguise because during that time, I 67 00:04:39,919 --> 00:04:45,880 started to understand where people are coming from when they speak so highly 68 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:50,400 about the iPhone. For starters, it's really easy on the eyes. And whether you 69 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:54,120 like it or not, the smooth transitions and the fun little animations that come 70 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:58,880 with liquid glass really do make the device feel luxurious, even if it can 71 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:03,120 make things take a little bit longer. The display is also incredible, 72 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:08,160 especially with how dim it can get for some bedtime doom scrolling. And the 73 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:11,080 battery has lasted me multiple days 74 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:14,200 multiple times. But, it charges so fast that I basically don't really think 75 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:17,919 about my battery during the work week when I can charge it in my car. Also, 76 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:22,360 despite what I have been told for years about Apple, the customization seems on 77 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:26,320 par or even better than some Android devices that I've used, which doesn't 78 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:31,600 mean it can do everything that Android can though. A big one is it can't side 79 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:35,960 load. I often hear people talk about how terrible it is that you can't do this on 80 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:40,160 Apple devices. But, then I realized I have never side loaded on Android. 81 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:44,919 I just haven't needed to. And while there are tons of great reasons to side 82 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:48,440 load something, not being able to has never held me back. And it probably 83 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:52,480 won't hold me back in the future. And I found the same thing was true for most 84 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:56,280 of the techy people in my life. So, I concede that it is a selling point for 85 00:05:54,480 --> 00:06:01,040 Android, but I don't buy the narrative that not having it is a limitation of 86 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:05,280 Apple. The second big one is the keyboard. To put it simply, Apple has 87 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:08,800 the worst default keyboard I have ever used on a mobile phone. The amount of 88 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:13,800 wasted space that could have been used to have larger keys or more functions on 89 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:17,720 the top layer drives me nuts, and my Canadian homie Justin Bieber nailed this 90 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:24,960 one. The fact that they put the dictation key in the exact same spot as 91 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:30,120 the send button in a text message is downright unacceptable. I know it's such 92 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:34,520 a minor thing, but the amount of times that I have hit it by accident tells me 93 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:39,240 for certain that if anyone at Apple actually uses this keyboard, they must 94 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:42,520 know that this is a problem. And I know that I could probably download a 95 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:47,080 third-party keyboard to get some of the functionality I'm missing, but I never 96 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:50,800 felt like I needed to replace Gboard, so I think this is a fair criticism. 97 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:55,520 Another thing that drives me nuts is having three separate actions for 98 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:59,440 swiping down. The middle pulls down apps and search, top left handles 99 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:03,000 notifications, and top right brings down the control center. Really, you couldn't 100 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:06,640 have just like moved one of these to a swipe up function. And even more 101 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:11,200 annoyingly, if I swipe down the control center, I either have to swipe back up 102 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:15,560 in the top right, which is not ergonomic, or tap. And I'm sure I'm 103 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:20,160 going to start a firestorm here, but it's the one place in iOS where tap is 104 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:25,040 the gesture to go back instead of the other million back gestures that they 105 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:30,919 have. It's so confusing. On a brighter note, though, the camera is incredible. 106 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:33,360 This right here is why these phones 107 00:07:30,919 --> 00:07:36,720 dominate and will continue to dominate the social media addicted teen 108 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:40,120 demographic. It's just easily the best camera I've ever used on a mobile 109 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:44,800 device, no question. There are things I don't like. The default camera app feels 110 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:48,800 too bare and not customizable and the camera button feels useless and I press 111 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:52,560 it on accident more times than I'd like to admit, but the third-party camera 112 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:56,680 apps unlock layers of compatibility for this thing that is just hard to compete 113 00:07:54,720 --> 00:08:01,320 with. A huge part as to why the camera can be so much better on an iPhone is 114 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:05,720 simply down to how iOS interacts with the hardware and the very nature of 115 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:09,080 Android makes this kind of hard to replicate. Android is incredibly 116 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:14,200 versatile and works across thousands of devices. Maybe even tens of thousands of 117 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:18,480 different devices. But that means developers of each flavor need to work 118 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:22,000 on bridging the gap between the various physical camera integrations and 119 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:26,520 Android. This can lead to extra overhead, poor image processing, and 120 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:31,680 maybe most importantly, an extremely inconsistent look and feel across the 121 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:36,440 ecosystem. You can say Apple phones have good cameras, but you can't say with 122 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:40,520 certainty that Android phones have good cameras and I think that's a big 123 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:45,720 problem, especially when we go a layer deeper and look at how third-party apps 124 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:48,880 use the camera. A perfect example is this one. Compare these two Twitch 125 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:53,000 streams that I did when I was down in San Diego. On the left, you can see 126 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:58,080 Tubbo's POV where he is using his front-facing camera on his iPhone. It's 127 00:08:55,960 --> 00:09:03,480 pretty clean, right? And on the right, you can see my rear-facing camera, which 128 00:09:00,839 --> 00:09:07,440 in theory is a much better sensor than any selfie cam. 129 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:12,520 It's okay, especially for a couple year old device. 130 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:15,240 But my footage is the full quality file 131 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:21,800 that I downloaded off my phone and Tubbo's is after Twitch compression and 132 00:09:18,839 --> 00:09:27,760 uploading it to YouTube. Somehow his still looks better even after passing 133 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:29,640 through multiple dog encoding steps and 134 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:33,520 this leads me to the biggest reason that I bought an iPhone. It's the social 135 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:37,400 experiences. You can say what you want about Apple's walled garden, but when 136 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:41,680 people have been fully converted to it, it truly feels like magic. Whether it's 137 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:45,720 the tapping to add people as contacts, seamless transition from AirPods to 138 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:50,480 speakerphone, sharing locations with friends in iMessage, going from phone 139 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:55,000 call to FaceTime in one button press without having to start a new call. And 140 00:09:52,560 --> 00:10:00,120 of course, AirDrop. Stop, stop, stop right there. I know you are going to 141 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:01,760 fire up your fancy, resizable, superior 142 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:05,640 ducking keyboard and type, "But Android has Quick Share." Wait, wait, wait, 143 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:09,840 wait. The difference is how Apple treats AirDrop versus how Android handles Quick 144 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:13,360 Share. Quick Share is an afterthought, whereas Apple makes it a central part of 145 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:18,120 their platform. And this kind of awareness matters. Even decade-long 146 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:22,880 Android users will often struggle if I ask them to Quick Share a file with me. 147 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:27,200 Almost all Apple people I know can immediately find AirDrop. Another key 148 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:32,480 element of Apple's superior social experience is the apps. Brand new apps 149 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:36,360 will often launch exclusively on iPhone. And even for well-established apps, 150 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:40,240 iPhone users will often get new updates and features before the Android plebs. I 151 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:45,120 found this to be especially true for content creator-focused features. Linus 152 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:49,960 famously spent years calling out YouTube for supporting stories on iPhone, but 153 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:54,120 not on many Android devices. And Instagram has a feature called Trial 154 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:58,839 Reels, which allows you to post Reels to non-followers to get performance data 155 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:03,720 before you share it with your followers. That's been out for a year, but on my 156 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:07,480 OnePlus and even some Samsung devices still don't support that feature. I 157 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:10,727 could go on, and I could probably even go on for a whole separate video with 158 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:16,520 examples like that, but >> [music] >> I think what I've covered so far points 159 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:18,680 to one big question. Who is this device 160 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:22,520 for? And in my view, it's for two people. The first is the person who just 161 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:26,280 wants a phone. They don't care about side loading. They don't care that Apple 162 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,160 has them in a chokehold. They might even like it. I won't judge. 163 00:11:27,757 --> 00:11:33,080 >> [laughter] >> We're all into some weird stuff. But when you look at it from that 164 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:37,520 perspective, it makes sense why Apple's keynotes focus on things like the 165 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:41,880 camera, the body, the colors, or even liquid glass, and leave only 30 seconds 166 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:46,400 to talk about real tech that matters, like how fast the USB-C port 167 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:50,960 can transfer data. The second is for people like me, a content creator. And 168 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:54,560 before you get mad, I'm not saying that content creators can't get their work 169 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:58,320 done on other devices. It's just that between the apps getting new features 170 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:02,520 first, sharing video files easily with AirDrop, tapping contacts quick meetup, 171 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:07,840 the iPhone prioritizes the features that people like me need it for. So then, 172 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:11,800 when am I going to be switching back to an Android? 173 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:15,440 To be honest, I don't think I ever will be. If anything, I'm actually kind of 174 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:19,520 upset that I put off on getting an iPhone for so long. The only thing that 175 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:23,600 might win me back is the Samsung tri-fold, which I finally got hands-on 176 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:27,200 with recently. And if Linus doesn't end up keeping it, maybe he'll let me do a 177 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:30,480 30-day review of it, and I'll tell you guys my thoughts. That might win me 178 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:34,520 back. 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