It ’s not even better , it ’s just popular . You only want one because you see everyone else has one . These are some of the more common reasonableness mass avoid the iPhone . It ’s a perfectly lifelike reflex — it just also chance to be a dumb one .
It ’s easy to forget that the technical school we use is so communal , communicatory . It ’s the understanding that the first thing I ask anyone deciding if they should corrupt a PS4 or an Xbox One ( after “ Are you sure you need a novel cabinet ? ” , which holds just as true for a phone ) is , What are your friends getting ? Because that matters , just like it count if your friend had a Game Gear or a Game Boy . What platform you ’re on determines whether you could play with , or even interact with your admirer . ( I was the changeling with the Game Gear ; no one play with me . ) And much like you ca n’t link up your friends ’ Battlefield teams if you ’ve get an Xbox One and they ’re all on PS4 , dissimilar platforms make it hard to connect in a lot of small but noticeable ways .
Nothing flap down on the brake in a conversation quicker than having to excuse which emoji you just sent , because it ’s showing up as a box seat , or picture out if an app is on Android ( probably , but often not ) or Windows Phone ( hahahahahaha ) . I ’d live , I ’ve been using those two operating systems for the past three years now . And in cogitate about getting an iPhone this yr , all those little benefit — having the same game ecosystem as friends or hoi polloi I ’m dating , or even just iMessages occasionally popping up on my desktop chat , instead of having to dig SMS out of a phone or web browser — started seeming like nice things to have . It ’s not that Game Center or iMessage are technologically better than the option . But they ’re a hell of a deal more commodious .
Which is all a devious way of saying “ installed base matter , ” but it ’s also more personal than that . More users on an OS will wreak developers and depicted object and faster access to more stuff you want , sure . But that does n’t on the nose count if your whole family and all your friends just conk out Samsung , and you ’re seat there with an iPhone , with no one to iMessage . So context matters too , and it can alter in a precipitation . Just a few age ago , “ everyone has one ” was a serious reason to be on BBM .
That ’s why Apple , Google , and the rest are going to such crazy lengths to keep the client they have . And so we get a bunch of chopine - specific apps and services , the FaceTimes and the iMessages , the Photo Streams and the AirDrops . seem , chances are you ’re not sound to use AirDrop all that much . Just the same as you ’re not operate to use Samsung ’s S Beam or Bump after Google assimilates it into Android . But every now and then , you ’ll need to send a file , remember that AirDrop even exists , and be glad for it , and for having the same telephone set as whomever you ’re trading with . Hell , peradventure you ’ll even observe uses for the truly unpointed crap ; a friend of mine and her roomy enjoyment chance My protagonist to evidence when the apartment is empty for , uhm , extracurricular activities . And the shared Photo Stream lineament in iOS 7 probably wo n’t be wide used , but it ’s a wonderful little idea for groups of booster or family .
The point is , these are all , generally , mostly useless feature . They ’re useless when Apple does them , just like when Samsung does them . They ’re filler and dope at a keynote , and not much more . But leave a caboodle of dumb , unnecessary toys in a way with you and your friends or class , and you ’ll eventually find a use for them . And perchance those “ dumb ” toys are the only ones some of your friends or relatives are willing to use — and just by the jurisprudence of averages , more of those sorts of folks , the one you ca n’t talk into using WhatsApp or Oovoo , are more likely to be locked into Apple .
( Yes , preening with a new iPhone — the new iPhone — is still an embarrassment . But it ’s a muted sorting of attention these days . You ’re not the swot - recluse explaining how her strange and immeasurable mystery story headphone employment . [ Just test explaining a Lumia 1020 ’s oversampling at Thanksgiving . ] It ’s a skilful and comfortable sort of , “ Oh , is that the novel iPhone ? ” and “ Yeah , it ’s enceinte , desire to check it out ? ” and maybe “ Oh , hm , that seems about right . Your Uncle Rich was thinking about getting one of those . ” )
These are all sensible and defensible reasons to reconcile into the herd and marque an iPhone holster and Apple logo onto your font for the foreseeable future . Or , look on your social circles , to wedge with Android or a Samsung variant or even Windows Phone . Cell phone user should move in herd to make the most of their environments . I ’m sure Windows Phone ’s Rooms would be perfectly pleasant if I could ever get someone , even other reviewers , to join one with me .
Now , all these reason go out the window if Apple slip on too many banana skin and all of a sudden does n’t have a competitive horse in the race . There ’s value to typeset up workshop wherever your friend are , but not if you ’re all left living in squalor . If there were , Rent would be a romanticist clowning .
Does any of this mean you should go out and buy an iPhone specifically because your champion did ? God no . Do and corrupt whatever the hell on earth you want . candidly , Android ’s probably a better bet if you do n’t care about any of this . But if you do deal about being able to take vantage of everything a phone and its ecosystem has to offer , do n’t rent yourself get shamed into thinking that there ’s something wrong with doing what your friend do . That ’s literally what friends are for .
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