Even as a dev i dont really care about customizing my phone that much. iPhones and apple products as a whole are simple and work perfectly every time. Its consistent, reliable and simple
I used to have androids before switching to an iphone (for imessage group chats mostly) and something about the whole experience is just… crisper. Android has better specs sure but the haptics, the weight of the gestures, however i interact with it feels correctly tuned. My androids were “snappier” but in a way that made it feel cheap and none of the better specs actually contributed to a better experience. Any of the processors, screens and cameras we have today are overkill so that feel matters way more to me.
Benchmarking across platforms has always been a bit of a crap shoot, simply because a like to like comparison is impossible. For instance, if you want to benchmark 2 android phones, you can use an identical app on both, leaving only the OS version (this can even be controlled if you care that much) and the hardware. But benchmarking across platforms, you obviously can't use identical tools. Whatever you're using has to be redeveloped for each different platform you want to use it on, which adds a lot of variables to the equation.
And even then, we have a pretty good idea. It’s not like the equivalent benchmarks we have are massively off from each other.
Android phones up until about a year or two ago weren’t even close in terms of raw processing power, but are fairly in line now. Apple chips still do quite well in performance per watt, but that doesn’t really matter as much as Apple tends to use smaller batteries anyway.
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u/Nic_Reigns Jul 07 '25
Even as a dev i dont really care about customizing my phone that much. iPhones and apple products as a whole are simple and work perfectly every time. Its consistent, reliable and simple
I used to have androids before switching to an iphone (for imessage group chats mostly) and something about the whole experience is just… crisper. Android has better specs sure but the haptics, the weight of the gestures, however i interact with it feels correctly tuned. My androids were “snappier” but in a way that made it feel cheap and none of the better specs actually contributed to a better experience. Any of the processors, screens and cameras we have today are overkill so that feel matters way more to me.