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Why do YOU use iPhone? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by bluebastards@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch
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I’m curious - why do you pick iPhone compared to other smartphone brands? (Google Pixel, Samsung, OnePlus, etc.)

(I’m also going to be asking in other phone subs, hope this survey goes well)

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[–] colin_staples@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

When I got my first iPhone (3G, 2008) the only other realistically viable options here in the U.K. were:

  • The very first HTC Android phone, and the platform was so new that nobody knew how that would go or what apps would be available
  • BlackBerry Storm, a terrible device with a truly awful "clicky" touchscreen and no WiFi. According to Wikipedia "In a 2015 book, Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry, the authors argued that the Storm was the single biggest disaster in smartphone history."
  • A variety of "smartphones" that had plastic keyboards, like the 4 that Jobs used as examples in the original iPhone Keynote as why you don't want a hardware keyboard.

So yeah, I chose iPhone.