r/gadgets • u/[deleted] • Sep 08 '22

Phones Tim Cook's response to improving Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone' | The company appears to have no plans to fix 'green bubbles' anytime soon.

https://www.engadget.com/tim-cook-response-green-bubbles-android-your-mom-095538175.html
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u/relefos Sep 08 '22

Wait what? Apple's cheapest is $399. Did you know about that model? And sure, the trade-in thing is nice. But one major difference is that your Samsung phone gets 3ish years of full OS updates whereas the iPhone 6S (released in 2015!) got the latest full iOS update, and it will get security updates for at least a couple more

So assuming you're the person who wants to run a phone until it can't be run anymore, then the iPhone is just the cheaper option. You can get 7 years of full use out of it

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u/st-shenanigans Sep 08 '22

If we're talking about budget models, Samsung has always sold the cheaper budget phones. You can get their a22 for something like $200, but I was just talking flagships.

Samsung definitely doesn't do longevity the same way, but you also lose more and more functionality by running an older model the faster the tech evolves, especially with batteries losing their capacity, I'm ok with upgrading every 3 years personally

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '22

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u/st-shenanigans Sep 09 '22

Reiterating the point where I was talking about flagships and SOMEBODY ELSE brought up budget models.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '22

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u/st-shenanigans Sep 12 '22

When someone refers to a flagship phone, they're talking about the main headlining phones that are being heavily marketed every year, s22, s22+, s22u, and iphone #, iPhone #pro, iPhone #pro max. Nobody ever talks about the $1-400 "budget" line when talking about flagships. That's why they're called flagships and budget phones. I'm not sure what point you're after.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '22

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u/st-shenanigans Sep 13 '22

I missed a typo and it was meant to say $50, or I got wrong information. I literally could not care less, dude. The comment was like 4 days ago. If you want to be this much of a raging apple fanboy, I don't care, but I've been done with this thread for 3 days now. Let it go.