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I love my iPhone, but I realize how much of what I love about it is due to lock-in. Personally, I'm happier to be locked into Apple's ecosystem than in any of
by jfb 15y ago
I love my iPhone, but I realize how much of what I love about it is due to lock-in. Personally, I'm happier to be locked into Apple's ecosystem than in any of the other competing ones, but the switching cost, even setting aside app purchases -- stuff like where my calendar data lives, and who stores the canonical copy of my contacts -- means that I'm basically Apple for life.
Full disclosure: I'm an alumni of Apple, so take the above with the appropriate amount of salt.
- dazzawazza 15y agoYep, being locked in is the price I am willing to pay for a phone that works and integrates across the broad. Clean and simple. I'm not 20 anymore and I don't have time to play with my phone to tease out the perfect setup. It's a tool and it must work (interestingly not as a telephone but as a PDA).
- aerique 15y agoEven with an iPhone you can make your calendar and contacts live on Google's servers. Not that's necessarily an improvement for some. For syncing contacts check the SyncInABlink app (no affiliation).
- jfb 15y agoIf I were willing to let Google sell my info to their advertisers, I'd use an Android phone -- they work unbelievably well when you choose the Google lock-in. I guess the crux of my post was that I'm happier locked in to Apple than Google because I trust Apple more than I trust Google. For a normal, I usually recommend iPhone, because the app selection is better, but the phones qua phones are largely interchangeable these days, IMHO.