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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • The ecosystem. (For better or worse.)

    I prefer Android but the ability to do things such as use my AirPods on multiple Macs, iPhones, and iPads is very convenient. Ditto for things like Apple TV and HomeKit (though I use Home Assistant to control my HomeKit devices).

    Other things:

    • Hardware has a longer useful life (Android phone manufacturers “commit” to n years of updates, but the timing of releases is slow and usually limited to 3 years, at most.) There are still iPhone 6 devices in the wild running the latest version of iOS.

    • Standardized hardware and consistently updated software results in more and better apps.

    In short: iPhone is an appliance but an Android smartphone is/can be a pocket computer with greater flexibility.

    YMMV

    EDIT: Also, my wife and kids use iPhone. When I used an Android phone, I had them all install signal so we communicate securely. With iPhone, that’s built in.