“At Creative Strategies, we recently conducted a survey that showed about 30 percent of Android users are thinking of switching to an iPhone,” Tim Bajarin writes for PC Magazine. “Our research suggests there are three main reasons for Android users to seriously consider moving to iPhone.”
“There is still the sense that Android is less secure than iOS,” Bajarin writes. “When we look at switchers, they say Apple appears to have tighter control over its apps and ecosystem than Google does with Android. To them, Apple provides a digital ‘safe harbor’ for their most sensitive information.”
“Switchers also like Apple’s continuity system, which syncs your Apple passwords, settings, pictures, and video across Apple devices,” Bajarin writes. “Another big differentiator is Apple’s customer service and support… As we go into this holiday season, our research suggests Apple will continue to draw strong interest from Android users.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The Great Awakening.
The entire world of Android, replete with its vast “choice,” is hopelessly outmatched and cannot even begin to compete with Apple’s iPhone X.
Carrying around a dog-slow iPhone knockoff from a South Korean dishwasher maker is a violently failed IQ test.
With each passing year, and especially with iPhone X, it becomes increasingly clear – even to the Android settlers – that the competition has no chance of even remotely keeping up against Apple’s unmatched vertically integrated one-two punch of custom software and custom hardware. The Android to iPhone upgrade train just turned onto a long straightaway, engines stoked, primed to barrel away! — MacDailyNews, September 13, 2017
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Probably for the same reason I hate using my Windows PC at work.
I am so grateful that I am not forced to use Windows in my work. When I do have to have it (only to test compatibility or to print to a non-mac printer), it just reinforces my gratitude.
Whenever I have to use a Windows machine the first thing I notice is that there’s an odd lag between when I move the mouse and when the arrow moves. It’s subtle, but it reminds me of how slick Macs are.
Another thing is how “bare bones” Macs are when you get down to it. It still largely functions as an actual “desktop” that’s a blank slate.
Windows shit is all over the place.
“There is still the sense that Android is less secure than iOS,” Bajarin writes.
It is a FACT not a “sense”.
iPhones (Macs) and Android (PCs) generally meet the needs of two different kinds of users. iPhone and Mac users like ease-of-use, simplicity, and something that just works. In contrast, Android and PC users like to be able to customize everything. Android users potentially moving over to iPhones will be disappointed at the inability to customize.
It’s not the need to customize, its the need to be cheap!! LOL
The VAST majority of Windows and Android users have NO clue how to customize their machines. This is not an appreciably factor.
It’s the employers that do the bulk of and important customising not the users. They are the people who run bespoke software, hence the need for an open framework.
I hear this all the time… But what exactly is it that people want to customize so badly?
Good question.
The most visual would probably be the homescreen. Aside from the obvious wallpaper (static, interactive or Live), ordering icons in any grid position, adding widgits to the homescreen and choosing a completely different launcher come to mind. There is also a ‘simple’ mode in Samsung devices that really simplifies (limits) the interface for beginners/elderly that can be toggled in settings.
With Move to iOS available in Android App stores, it makes it so, so easy to switch to iPhone!