[nxc18]

I don’t get how you can look at Apple’s mobile offerings, which have been years ahead of all the Android competition, and come to the conclusion that Apple customers don’t care about performance.

I’d say Apple’s customers are far more sensitive to performance than Google’s given what Android users have been willing to put up with (e.g. flagship SoCs that are years behind what’s in last year’s iPhones). If you factor in broader aspects of performance (e.g. Face ID, fingerprint unlock speed) it’s clear that the _only_ thing most Android users care about is cost. I’m not saying this to diss them, I just think the Android manufacturers owe it to their users to actually produce competitive hardware and software.

P.S. if you factor in longevity, Apple products are usually cheaper, too.

[oblio]

It's not about features or performance for most of the population, who are light users. Most users of anything are not power users and modern smartphones are good enough for casual usage, since 2016 or so. Even mid range Android phones.

In the US iPhones are entrenched because of network effects (iMessage or whatever it's called) plus the Apple ecosystem. In the rest of the world where this is less the case, iPhones are a status symbol. Not even expensive Android phones have the halo iPhones have, especially in poorer countries.

Yes, people will enjoy the extra performance or extended software support, but that's not why they will buy them. I doubt 99% of regular users even know about those aspects.

[aylmao]

> Unlike Apple customers, the rest of the population is sensitive to performance and cost. If Google can't compete people move on.

Maybe they meant both independently. As an example:

- A friend of mine just upgraded out of his iPhone 6. Until recently performance and storage seemingly just weren't that important to them.

- Another friend of mine will just buy iPhones, no matter the cost.

Both of these friends stick with Apple because they like and care about other things about the ecosystem more so than performance or cost (independently), whereas OP was perhaps implying that Android users tend to care more about "performance to cost ratio" since they could as well just buy a different phone from another maker and get the same Android experience. This of course, in the context sticking with one phone maker or another.

[jdhn]

As someone who upgraded this year from the 6 to the SE 2, I held out not only because I like the ecosystem, but also because I'm not shelling out almost one grand for a phone. The SE hit the sweet spot, so I ordered one the first day it came out.

[aylmao]

I wish I had waited and gotten an SE 2, especially because Touch ID is way more convenient than Face ID nowadays that one's often wearing a face mask haha