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Well, for that money you can buy multiple Android phones and never ever run a two year old phone anymore.
by levosmetalo 6y ago
Well, for that money you can buy multiple Android phones and never ever run a two year old phone anymore.
- hodder 6y agoFlagship? No. If you want an iphone level phone it basically costs you iphone level dollars whether you want Android or an iphone. Of course you can buy a cheap phone, but for a 1K phone I expect support for more than 3 years or I wont buy it. That is one thing keeping me from switching back to Android. I likely never will with the preloaded crapware and lack of support.
- scarface74 6y agoIf you want iPhone level performance - even that of a $399 SE, you can’t find it an Android at any cost....
- joking 6y agoWould you buy a chevrolet spark every year, Or a camaro and maintain it during 4 years?
- Yetanfou 6y agoI'd buy a Skoda, VW and a Toyota and maintain them for at least 10 years. The Skoda is the Xiaomi Redmi 5, the VW is the Motorola Defy and the Toyota is the Samsung SIII. They vary in age between 2 (Xiaomi), 8 (Samsung) and almost 10 years (Motorola), 2 of them (Xiaomi and Samsung) run the latest version of Android, the Motorola is stuck at Android 4.4 due to a locked bootloader. All of them work fine. Buying the 3 of them costs less than buying a single iPhone. They last longer than any iPhone due to the possibility to update the OS as long as there are developers working on the device. The 8yo Samsung gets weekly OTA updates (which I do not always install...).
- emsy 6y agoSure, our children will thank us for creating a rotting pile of perfectly working devices because the manufacturer can’t be bothered to upgrade the software.
- GeekyBear 6y agoThe original iPhone SE which sold for for $399 is starting it's sixth year of OS and security updates. That's less than $70 per supported year.