Originally Posted by kawie_guy
Originally Posted by Vern_in_IL
Iphone: great support
Android: Usually the Manufacturer will provide *one* update, and leave you cold... Then when your apps(high security apps like banking) no longer support your Android version, your ecosystem is obsolete.
I got a high end Android tablet from 2013, Sony Xperia Z, and Sony crapped out one OS update with the custom skins.(but it is water proof and I can use it in the shower to play music, etc.) The hardware is still quite good Quad snapdragon, but the software is so stale and obsolete. In hindsight if I knew I would be thrown under the bus, I should have bought a Ipad. It would still get updates to this day.
Now I'm stuck with Jelly Bean, because... mah Sony, yet the hardware is quite capable.
Couldn't disagree more! I have three android tablets from Samsung ranging from 2012 to 2018. They all work flawlessly. I do everything on all of them. I even strap one of them to my atv to run my gps app, and beat the [censored] out of it. I've been trained on Windows, had several Apple products, and I will never go back to either of them. Windows tries to update itself right into corruption, and Apple centers itself around planned obsolescence. I was actually standing right beside a family member when Apple decided his iphone 5 was not good enough anymore to receive calls! It was working one minute, then was turned into a "ipod only" the next. We went straight to the Verizon store and asked them what just happened, and they said it was Apple just making him upgrade. Had to buy a 7s or newer, or he was out a phone. So several hundred bucks later, he had a new phone, and I got to see why Apple sucks, again.
Meanwhile, my mother used an iPhone 4S up until late 2016 when she finally upgraded to a 7S+. Thing never missed a beat, even had it's original battery. Sounds to me like all his needed a simple reinstall, Verizon was having issues, or the genius at Verizon seized an opportunity to sell a new phone.
I've had a Galaxy s2 skyrocket, 3 HTC One's, an iPhone 6, iPhone 6s+, Galaxy s7 edge, Galaxy s8, and now an iPhone 8.
The Skyrocket was mediocre at best, but was also my first ever smartphone. I LOVED the HTC's, but the speakers kept blowing out, which drove me to an iPhone. Loved the 6, but decided I wanted a bigger phone so I got the 6s+ when that came out. Loved that as well. Switched from ATT to T-Mobile, decided I'd go back to android. Got the S7, had it about a year, dropped it in my garage and shattered the screen. That was my bad. Replaced it with the S8, which was, hands down, the biggest piece of absolute crap I've ever bought in my life. Screen burned in within 8 months, dropped it WHILE IN A CASE from <4ft high and the back glass shattered, also causes a small crack on the front at the top. At 8 months I bought the iPhone 8 and I've been happy since.
