Why is better to buy the iPhone instead of Android. own experience

It so happens that all of my work is based on the ecosystem of Apple products - it's Macbook Pro Retina, and iPhone 5s, iPad Air, Apple TV and other glands. At the same time, I always look at Android, as an alternative to the existing farm in my apple piece of iron. At the moment, I am very active game with SONY Xperia Z1 and HTC One (m8). And yes, I'm sure that at the moment Apple has left very little reason to remain a monopoly in my ecosystem. On the reasons below, but it should be said that attention should be paid so far only high-end smart phones of any manufacturer on Android. Everything else is just stuff yet. So the question of price, I will not consider - the top-end Android costs the same as the iPhone or iPad.

Yes, Apple - just magicians as iron, but also high-end smart phones is very rarely plastic skripelkoy.

Battery

Jokes about fast discharge Android battery, I believe the same legacy as anecdotes on anekdot.ru site. Do not tell jokes about Russian and American in polite company as well as not have to joke about Android battery. I take the SONY Z1 necessarily in their mission for several reasons, one of which - the smartphone battery lives all day. iPhone, especially with the new iOS 7 coasting, half empty at noon, dead at 2-3 o'clock in the afternoon. This is not normal, and it's not just annoying - it makes our company the money because a number of meetings have been disrupted just because I have not got to the phone number or address. "Sonya" lives up to late at night, HTC - a couple of days with no problems at all! Today iPhone 5s - just a mockery of the lifetime.

impermeability

I drowned my first phone, iPhone 3G, fell out of his breast pocket, when I tried to hand water the Sea of ​​Marmara to the first life lesson windsurfing. The day was a success, but the phone does not come to life. My wife drowned iPhone 4 in a tropical downpour Thailand, as just has not found a place for a couple of minutes to hide. Another iPhone 4 drowned in sweat during a workout on a very long about. Samui. How many more do I need to drown phones to Apple realized that you can get in 1 mm thickness, but stop sinking?

Unfortunately, the favorite HTC One m8 I also do not know how, but SONY Z1 - not just a repellent spray and sweat, but also makes an excellent underwater photos.

I need it, believe me. Here are just washed "Sonya" water and soap, made a genocide bacteria.

NFC

Technology is not the greatest usefulness, but it can actually be useful. For example, you can see the balance of the travel of the Moscow metro.

Attach a travel Bridge. Metro to the smartphone with NFC and running Yandex. Cards and see the balance on the card #ru_lhpic.twitter.com/o85SqHNXHv

- Thank Baranskii (@baranskyi) April 22, 2014

Also, with the help of the NFC, the phone connects to the external lens SONY (soon make the review) with one touch!

Physical buttons? Come on, Apple!

Why do we need a physical Home button? Why can not she just be on the body, a light or some other label, with tactile designation to search blindly? Again, this button is almost all broken. I probably five times. Why do I make them permanent fix? I do not understand. SONY and HTC have virtual buttons, and I never do not stop. The HTC generally realized awakening double-tapom on the screen is off, the phone wakes up! Why not have this iPhone? Dont clear.

Its charge?

New charging connector from Apple with a nice marketing name (well, as always) very good - it is strong, he is stuck either side and generally handsome. But charging is necessary for me gadgets, namely: 3G / Wifi-modem, bluetooth-headset, cross-hours adidas micoach smart runCalled smarts occurs via a single cable - micro USB. Yes, probably, the reason dunce doing it that did not make it as cool as that of Apple, but... separate cable, different from all... This is awkward, I suppose.

It's all the more interesting. I'm madly in love visual uniformity and perfect for the iPhone. The iPhone I like that no Yandex and Mail.ru is not climbs to its widgets, programs and ideas. I like to clean the system and standard software, if it is on the level! Google Maps better Yandex. Cards for many reasons (pedestrian navigation, transportation not only in Russia, modern design of iOS 7), Mail better mailer Mail.ru, Google is looking for better Yandex for me, and I want to on my new phone was not Yandex, nor the other 'local' color. Coming back after a week with Android to iOS 7, I feel a real aesthetic pleasure. But there is so much any iOS annoying me stuff that I just can not again jump into the arms of Android. I'm afraid that one day I just will not go back, darling Apple. Here are just a few reasons.

Data transfer between applications

It is convenient to refer article in Pocket are not sending the letter somewhere, but directly. I want to highlight a piece of text and send it only in Evernote. I want to install the camera outside help, and right out of her transfer fotochki in Instagram, bypassing the foreign application crutches. It is evident that it understands and Apple's latest mobile OS releases, but do all of the mind something to them does not allow. Religion?

phone analyst

Photos taken iOS camera should in no transmitted via iCloud (for which I am still crying) on ​​my PC running the iPhoto, I promised this friend Steve and friend Tim. But no. They should, but not transmitted. Even SONY bathing under the tap I sfotkal on the iPhone 5s, but on a computer that's already 30 minutes later no pictures no. I sent them in Gmail himself and inserted into the article. And I tried to share the currently posting to iCloud on private box - no letter no. Sometimes I do not understand what's going on in the mind of iPhone. To submit or not, brother? What's stopping you do it fast? Do not say it just works. It is not true. Google+, which is iOS, which is Android, just works - launched and pictures in a cloud. And when they fly to, Android shows progress, and report - Photos are ready, boss. With him I will not lose a second time! I'm not saying that you have to be pushy jerk as Windows, which just can not shut up, and all the time something tells. But you can not be so introvertiveness as iPhone. It just does not work.

And another example. iOS 7 eats battery as scum. And then there are articles such as "The Facebook app is guilty!", "Guilty background refresh program, disable it, the user!". And you know why they appear? Because there is no way of knowing what a thing actually eats your battery. On Android, this can be simple and easy to see. Even the iPhone is now quite difficult to hide this info from the user.

notice

Here we must apply mate, but I can not - he came up with these rules :) alert that you pull down on the screen in iOS 7, just terrible. They are not configured, they show widgets and fields for some Americans a spherical vacuum. They almost no one uses it, I asked around. On Android, they allow you to control your music, regardless of whether you have a standard player or VKontakte. You see them, run Do you have a modem mode or not, shows DND mode, and more. All this is true I need, all the time, and I do not want to go to settings to change the status of your phone. I do not need to know or share YNDX GOOGL, because I have none. I want to see their business in Any. DO, and not a motley Tasks, which in iOS 7 is ridiculous.

Default Programs

Why can not I put a Google Chrome my default? A mailer Gmail? They're better than that which comes by default in iOS. I like the camera VSCO. Tasks - Any. DO. Quick messages - Telegram. VoIP - Skype and Viber, not cripple FaceTime. Or do better, Apple's, or let the one who is better. On Android, you can put anything by default, and it's convenient. For example, I do only calls via Skype, a phone application I have not used at all. Operator - for the Internet pipe for me, but weep for messages and calls me to other companies.

iCloud only for iOS and OS X

For an idea of ​​how crippled iCloud, written above. And admit that you stands on a Mac or Dropbox, or Google Drive, or some hack from domestic of IT-giants. Why is this happening, if there iCloud from Apple? Because - crippled. Then give them to change to another default solution. No, iOS does not allow. I'm not talking about the fact that nothing but iOS and OS X, you can not get out of iCloud contact data, calendar and tasks. This is not normal, I think. Like it or not, but still my data.

Siri today is ridiculous

For me, Siri is only good note time cooking spaghetti «Set timer to 10 minutes» and for the alarm in the morning «Set alarm to 7pm». Russian does not understand. Any help we can. Ask your friend's Android and look that creates Google Now. There understand Russian. He picks up your mail, get a flight, reserve at Airbnb and Booking.com, building routes, guessing when to get out, not to miss the plane, he takes all the currency, selects interesting close to new city adapts translator and more more. Now projects a day, based on the calendar of events and addresses in it. I just plan on 4-5 in Moscow meetings, prescribe contacts and addresses, and phone leads me through the complicated logistics city as caring experienced assistant. Head is occupied only by the fact that it is important for me. Rest just happens. And what makes Siri? It tells how the Giants beat the Green Goblin? Replies to SMS Russian tlko in English? Siri voice recognize even worse Yandex (1, 2)!

Or take and look at the DunyaWhich can replace the Google Now and work at all as a living person and communicate with you only a voice!

Automation

If I still had 10% battery, then, obviously, I was not so important background iOS updates. Why do they not themselves disabled? Built-in battery saving mode in Android I bought on trips with giblets. If 20% of the battery, all notification disabled. If 10%, then the internet is only available when the phone is switched on. In standby mode, it does not do anything! More important to me to be on the telephone and have access to the data when it is very necessary to me, and not be aware of likes or letters. And it's all customizable. Android hangs by 10% in Stamina mode, many, many hours, and the iPhone is already dead in his pocket. And no, this is not configurable! They are very thin ...

And so with the automation of the whole. On iOS, nothing is automated in Android - automates all.

Output

On this, perhaps, I finish these comparisons. It seems to me that Apple is increasingly doubtful minimalism covers simple and almost all of the obvious fact - its products are lagging behind more and more of the market. It is impossible to cover minimalism brake iCloud. We can not say that for the stability not give access to the contacts in the cloud, not-iOS devices - Apple gadgets themselves are able to bring considerable nix in the address book simply by multiplying by 5 all your contacts. A limit of 1000 photos in Photo Stream - it's just nonsense. About the quality of Apple's software, I said, but I repeat: Instacast better Podcasts, Chrome better Safari, Mailbox better Mail, Telegram better iMessage, Viber better FaceTime, 1Password better built store passwords, Pocket better-reader texts in Safari, Dropbox better iCloud, why have cut YouTube and yielded nothing best?

A lot of why, and, increasingly, we want to respond to the new and the new release of Android and, God forgive me, Windows Phone.

What do you think about the current state of iOS and Apple's ecosystem? You do not think about Android?