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but the walled garden and the Appstore lockdown [...] are coming at the expense of functionality I guess this comment says that the user experience is going do

• prox 4y ago
  Not my experience. Maybe for specific stuff for HN type users, but in general the functionality (aka options) in recent years have gone up, not down. Most apps are very high quality compared to Android especially (and yes I use both ecosystems) There is a reason it is a cash cow. People like buying it.
  • peoplefromibiza 4y ago
    Sorry if this sound dismissal, but Ferraris are a cash cow too. People like to buy them. Research shows that there are 80+ apps installed on the average smartphone. But with that said, people aren't using all of those apps. The average person uses 9 mobile apps per day and 30 apps per month. Most of them are games, the apps people can't live without are ~15 and are made by largest brands of social media platforms and e-commerce They have the resources to make the same high quality apps on every platform. In my view Apple users will keep using Apple by the force of habit, Apple users will perceive lower quality in Android ecosystem, because there's more choice. Also, on Android there are a lot of open source apps that are uglier but work exactly as intended, no ads, no phone home etc If you go to a Bang & Olufsen shop and then to RadioShack the perception is of a lower quality, which is probably true, but who needs bang & olufsen headphones to listen to a 64kbs podcast while driving to work?