recently we released a video detailing my thoughts on the new iphone 10s and
10s max and apple's position as an innovator in general and maybe it's a
video i shouldn't have done because i allowed myself to get emotional rather
than giving equal airtime to positive aspects of the iphone experience that
might not mean as much to me but clearly mean a lot to our community
so with the goal in mind of creating a
second video now to balance out our first we turned to you and asked
what were the main reasons that you bought your iphone why do you love it
and we compiled this list of 10 legitimate ways that iphones still beat
the competition even if i still personally feel that their latest
refresh is incremental expensive and
boring thanks to lastpass for sponsoring this video their password manager now
supports face id on the latest iphones learn more at the end of the video
reason number one is security and privacy and this has become one of
apple's biggest talking points recently and for good reason their long history
as a company might not be perfect but they've taken some very bold steps
in the interest of protecting their customers even refusing to comply with
fbi requests to unlock their customers phones while Android is closing the gap
here in general iphones are more secure than Android devices where iphones
deliver consistent hardware-based security like the secure enclave and the
now infamous usb restricted mode on
Android hardware based security varies
wildly between manufacturers with some handsets even having been accused of
phoning home and providing user information to third parties
as for the software well base Android is
open source which theoretically would give a security advantage over apple
because anyone could go in and examine the code for vulnerabilities
in practice though the Android that ships on almost any device
that you can actually buy has been modified by the manufacturer and those
changes are typically not open source
furthermore the google play store tends to have more malicious apps on it due to
looser submission criteria and even if it didn't Android allows users to
install apps outside of the play store an attack vector that simply doesn't
exist for iphone users and one that is actually currently in the process of
becoming normalized by companies like epic games so they won't have to pay
google a cut of their in-game purchase revenue reason number two is
optimization the smartphone market has matured to the point where chinese
brands that you've never heard of are making phones that legitimately aren't
complete garbage yet apple's deep integration between the hardware and the
os continues to give them a lead in
speed stability and just
feeling smooth now Android fans will complain
apple cheaped out on the specs of their phone but the cold hard truth is that
just because apple's investment wasn't in
more dram chips to solder to their main boards doesn't mean that they
necessarily cheaped out software development costs real money
and it's not an accident that they get more out of 4 gigs of RAM than others
are getting with 10 and one more thing their cpus are at times as much as a
full generation ahead of the competition apple presses this advantage by offering
reason number three industry leading device support apple's
phones and tablets get updates both for features and security more quickly more
consistently and for longer than just
about any other mobile device on the market and contrary to the general
perception that exists that apple acts with planned obsolescence in mind
forcing users to upgrade by slowing down their old devices
the last few updates have actually had a lot of users reporting that their old
phone feels snappier after the update
the fact that iphones are so well optimized and supported by apple for
years after release contributes then to number four longevity you can use your
iphone for four five maybe even six years if you stretch it
it was actually only recently that my ipad 2 finally stopped working with
enough apps that i actually care about that i had to retire it
and the thing about this is that even if you won't use your device for five years
i mean i suspect a lot of the people out there watching this channel swap their
phones a little more frequently than that you could which is part of what helps
customers justify the four digit price tags on these things
that and iphones hold their value better people are still selling iphone 6s for
200. how much would you get today for your
galaxy s5 here's a hint probably less than this broken iphone 6
and they both came out in 2014. now
yes apple did slow down phones with old batteries without telling anyone
but considering that the longevity of the hardware is one of their main
selling points i get why they didn't want to go around
shouting hey your old iphone's battery sucks and
so that's why we had to slow it down a bit from the mountaintops number five
new apps often launch first on iphone
and there are a lot of interesting reasons for this including device penetration in the us the propensity for
iphone users to spend money and just plain old developer preference
but at the end of the day none of those reasons
really matter because when i buy a phone it's ultimately about the experience i'm
going to have and Android users often
have to wait longer whether it's for the companion
app for that kickstarter you backed a hot new social network like tbh which
managed to get big enough to be acquired and then eventually shut down by
facebook before it ever hit Android or even a global phenomenon like fortnite
which only arrived on Android in august despite being available on iOS a full
four months earlier bringing us to at least one important app that is never
coming to Android imessage imessage is
objectively way better than sms there's group chats read receipts stickers and
it works over wi-fi so you can use it across your devices even without your
sim installed all great stuff and yes you could use whatsapp or facebook
messenger or wechat or just about any chat app that you want for that
animoji's notwithstanding but the fact is that imessage like facetime is a
default that everyone with an iphone has
and that gives it tremendous power i've actually heard Android users complain
about missing out on events with their friends because the invite only happens
to go out to the imessage group chat and as a techie
how difficult it is to convince iOS users to install third-party chat apps
might make my brain hurt a little bit but here again the reason imessage is
important doesn't matter it's all about the user experience and people prefer it
because why would you want to switch when it works so well with your other
apple devices you can reply to messages from your macbook and secure code
autofill super cool it'll just grab that two-factor sms from your phone and plop
it down directly in your browser because that's right number seven is the
ecosystem your photos messages and browsing history are synced between your
iphone and macbook you've got universal copy paste you can send files with
airdrop instead of trying to figure out if your friend's phone has nfc at all
and if it does where exactly the stupid antennas align and even i was blown away
by how legitimately pretty damn magical the pairing process
is for the airpods which are an accessory and accessories are reason
number eight that segue wasn't that bad right the thing about having a large
number of people out there using the same device is that there's money to be
made making everything from cases to
gimbals to even personal massager okay
not not all of the iphone accessories make a ton of sense but the point is
when it comes to accessories iphones do give you more choice number nine
is the hardware mute button believe it or not this is one of the few features
that has stuck around since the very first iphone and curiously hasn't been
copied on mass by other phone manufacturers oneplus who does include a
similar three position switch on their phones is actually kind of the odd one
out there with and the weird thing is that it's not even because they can't
find a place to put another button they just want it to like summon bixby or
whatever the especially funny thing here is that while most people assume that
apple has the mute switch uh patented or something we actually couldn't find any
evidence for that so hit us up in the comments if you know something that we
don't know here bringing us finally to number 10
setup now both iOS and Android through your apple id and your google account
respectively allow you to transfer your apps and photos from your old device to
your new one but when it comes to the smoothness of the experience only some
Android migrations manage to retain system settings and app icon placements
like when you go from a samsung to a samsung apple
does all this stuff by default and for enterprise zero touch deployments with
apple take the cake again apple's business manager helps companies
automate device deployment delegate administrative privileges and purchase
apps in bulk so that it's easy to manage user licenses now that last one might
not be a big deal for you the individual employee but
this is about reasons to own an iphone and so it could be a big reason that you
are stuck with an iphone for work even if you'd prefer something else so the
final component of this video then is just me wanting to set the record
straight once and for all i don't hate apple's devices
and i don't specifically hate the iphone
i have been frustrated with some of the decisions that they've made recently
notably the inclusion of a display notch and the removal of the headphone jack
particularly because the rest of the industry is such a bunch of mindless
copycats so whenever apple goes and does
something that i disagree with i can pretty much count on everyone else doing
the same thing within a product cycle or two i also wasn't excited for the iphone
10s and the 10s max in general and i guess that's where i really ran into
trouble i i think i let myself get too involved emotionally and while i do
stand behind the vast majority of what i said and i even left out some big
frustrations that i realized as i was sitting here about to shoot this video
including like of course face id doesn't work though
missed opportunity how is this not a fingerprint sensor touch id is awesome i
love to touch it people are like alanis you're such an apple hater i buy heaped
praise on touch id how does this not have an always on display this is the
good video right sorry this is the video but what's good missing the aesim
capabilities of the iphone 10s was one
glaring omission that i really feel bad about and so i just want people to
understand that my criticisms came from a place of love maybe not love for apple
in general or the iphone in particular but of tech i'm rooting for apple i want
to see them continue to do great things and i really hope that the iphone
xs 2 knocks my socks off and makes phones
exciting again because i think that's one thing that the fandroids out there
and the sheeple can agree on phones have gotten a bit boring lately
and we really need something to come in and shake up the market so thanks again
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