I am very technical guy and I few years ago decided to pass on iPhone from the following reasons: iPhone had build in battery instead of replaceable one No external SD card In order to write and maybe sell program you have to pay a fee about $100/year So I selected an Android. This year my wife decided to join smartphone community and her friends advised her to buy an iPhone – I didn’t oppose. This week I tried put on her iPhone an audiobook – in Android it takes about 1 minute – just rip a CD and copy mp3 file to a folder – and you can listen. In iPhone it is a difficult and long story. First I have install iTune on my Win10 PC. Then I found iPhone mp3 files are songs, arranged in some mysterious way – you cannot listen it from the beginning to the end – you have to convert mp3 format to iPhone format of audiobook which is m4b. To do it you have to convert it to m4a than rename to mp4. The audio book has about 120 files – I am giving up – if she wants to listen to audiobooks - her next phone is Android.
I like the iPhone, I don't really use it for music. Its the only Apple product I use and I don't see myself ever switching from it.
If you like it - keep it. I use my Android smartphone to check email, browse internet, facebook, music and audiobooks. My wife is using iPhone and wanted the audiobook I am listen to (Harari - Sapiens - excellent book). After a lot of troubles I converted mp3 files to iPhone format. The book has 120 files (each one is a chapter) - so now I have 120 iPhone books - ridiculous. Now I am searching how to merge this 120 iPhone audiobooks into a one big file.
If you choose to use Apple products it is a good idea to accept and embrace the FACT that a large percentage of applications and competitor products will be incompatible as intended. If you are Okay with using 10% of technology then it is a fine product.
Replaceable batteries are sadly going the way of the dodo. I bought my LG G5 specifically because it was the ONLY phone in that tier that still have removable batteries. Sadly it sounds like the G6 might also be getting rid of that feature as well. I know numerous people that after a year or two see significant loss of capacity in their phone batteries.
It depends on what criteria people find important. I won't be tied to iTunes, I prefer open source. Even on my PC, I use Open Office, Thunderbird, Firefox etc.. and not Microsoft. I had Nokia's since mobile phones came out. I had to switch because Microsoft put their crap system on. After realising no one wanted it, I now own a Nokia 8 that runs on Android. It cost me £289 to buy, battery lasts quite a few days and it's the best phone I've had for many a year. My sim costs £7 per month. If I won an iPhone, I would immediately put it on eBay. I've never owned an Apple product in my life. Over rated costly junk in my opinion.
Iphones, like most Apple products, are mostly hipster junk. You're paying for the name and to be in their exclusive club called "anybody".
I think I-Phones are great, but not for me, Why ? Too expensive for me. And I only keep a phone around a year, and the phones I get do what I need them to do. I have a stylus phone that allows me to actually sign documents.
