All you have to do is read through this thread and you’ll see that would never, ever happen in a gazillion years. ;)

After reading some posts in this thread, apparently some people do. :eek:

You sure are an optimist. Keep on hoping. :)

I’m right there LOLing with you. :D:D:D

For some, the absence of iMessage and FaceTime capability on Android devices means the Android devices lack important functionality.

For some, that just saves us from having to interact with the Apple masses, which makes it a feature :).

Certainly, Androids with a headphone jack are more practical. Love my LG V60.

Honestly everyone made a huge deal about this when it happened but once I got my AirPods I never really thought about it again. For me the much bigger loss was the loss of TouchID, I still prefer that to FaceID in every situation I can think of.

We don't often agree on things, but on this post I agree with you on all counts.

Regards

My Samsung doesn’t have a headphone Jack and it isn’t really a big deal. More androids will move to usb c headphones as a cost reduction.

To you. Not to me. <shrugs>

Honestly my AirPods Pro are significantly better than any wired 3.5mm headphones I’ve ever used. YMMV as always.

The battery life is a huge disadvantage.

I actually use the Powerbeats Pro and the battery life is pretty good, certainly much better than my wife's AirPods.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/M...5b682ee4e2545a

Very happy with them and don't miss wired much at all.

Regards

Form a club with the iPhone 6S users bridging the iOS and Android worlds <shrugs>

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.

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.

File management was one of the main reasons when I switched from an iPhone 3G to android, 13/14 years ago? Data was still expansive back then and I don't think there were many streaming music services. Now no one I know has actual music files on their phones. I have not used my "file management" in years. I really see no difference between iPhone and Android other than my investment on the Play store. I do have a lot of purchased apps as I get free Google Opinion credit so I kept buying premium apps. So for that, if the price and function are similar, I will probably go with Android.

That's exactly how I feel. I'm pretty platform agnostic, especially since all my "stuff" exists mostly on dual-platform Google apps. Frankly but for the screen layouts, I really can't tell a difference between my old Pixel and my IPhone anymore, to the point where if I didn't have my reading glasses on, and you handed me one with the screen unlocked, I might not know which one I was using. That said because I'm a total nerd and switch back and forth often, I have an equal investment in both ecosystems, with Apple having a slight edge because literally everyone else in my family is on Apple.