Hello. New to this sub and using iPhones in general.

I came from an S22 ultra to 11 pro max (wife’s old phone) to now having a 15 pro max.

I have used Samsungs all my life. And I can say with confidence that I used to thing there’s minimal, if any, difference hardware wise or any other matter. It’s just preference.

Using the 11 pro max was to just test the waters on ios and to be frank the experience was not great compared to the almost flagship S22 ultra.

But man is the 15 pro max something else. I don’t know just what it is but I am in love with a phone after a very long time.

Maybe it’s the novelty factor, maybe it’s what my wife calls “the iPhone charm”, or maybe something else.

Just wanted to ask other people who might have switched if they too feel the same and if yes, how do they describe this feeling.

Thanks.

P.s. I still have my S22 U for sentimental reasons and I’m not bashing any phone, just appreciating.

  • Sylvurphlame@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    One word: optimization

    Apple designs the majority of the hardware. And then they design all of the software with that hardware in mind and the longterm feature and capability goals in turn influence the hardware designs. There are considerable advantages in being able to leverage bespoke design on virtually the entire device down to the last circuit and line of code.

    By contrast, and this is by no means an insult, as the entire PC industry runs just fine in the same setup, Android device makers as a whole use an OS that they didn’t design with off the shelf parts that they also didn’t design. And Android itself needs to maintain a wide net for compatibility purposes, all of this leads to flexibility, because it has to, but also inefficiency.