Originally Posted by
DenverBrian
Certainly, Androids with a headphone jack are more practical. Love my LG V60.
Meh.
I complained...then bought a $5 dongle. That dongle just lives on my headphone cord now... like part of the cord itself. Plus many android phones are also dropping the headphone jack.
I'd have to see much more compelling use-cases than that.
To me the one killer feature some Samsungs have that Apple doesn't is the "Dex" feature...where you can plug your phone into a monitor/keyboard/mouse via a USB-dongle and bingo, you've got a usable desktop machine. It ain't great... but I'd love that functionality. My only desktop computer is a work-issued machine. I'd love to have my phone double as a "personal" computer for casual / family data I don't want near my work computer. Of course Samsung's refusal to enable the eSim / Dual Sim option on most US phones makes it a non-starter.
Originally Posted by
DYKWIA
The battery life is a huge disadvantage.
Hence the dongle for old-school headphones. I have both Airpods pro and my old bose wired headphones. The bose I use for international travel because I know I'd lose the airpods in the damn seat somewhere. Battery life on the airpod pros is longer than the battery life on me. I don't think I've ever finished a whole movie on a plane before I wake up 16 hours later in a puddle of my own drool on approach to Mumbai.
I guess the other nice thing is being able to relatively simply install apps that are "banned" from the appstore via side-loading. For example, when there was talk of removing WeChat from the apple app store, we seriously had to think about getting a cheap android phone for my wife who relies on that app to stay in touch with her family.
I also see many Android die-hards talk about "file management." I'm in a very techie field and can tell you I've never felt the need to "manage" the directories and folders on my phone. I feel like whenever I ask users about this, the motivation is they are trying to shoehorn their 1995 way of managing music and photos into the modern world. Even when I had my Pixel.. I never once used anything other than Google Photos, Youtube Music, or Google drive for anything on the phone...all of which I still have on my iPhone.