[JazzXP]

This is what pushed me back to Apple after a single Android device. After 18 months, it was running like crap, and when I bought it, it was considered one of the best flagship Android devices available (there was another that was equal, so it was a coin toss between them).

[duxup]

Yeah there's an Android Slowdown Syndrome that I don't know what it is... but Android has it. My wife's old iPhone 8 still runs fine. All my old android phones from that time are a mess.

[spicybright]

I bought the first android phone, the G1, back in the day.

It had a peculiar bug where the entire phone would slowdown if you had too many text messages stored, among other things. A factory reset would fix it though.

A bit disappointing that solution still needs to be a thing.

[ytch]

AFAIK, it is usually caused by shitty eMMC/flash storage.

If it is almost full, the performance is degraded. If it is written a lot of data over time, performance is degraded too.

[mt_]

Maybe because most people compare budget Android phones to the Apple's flagships

[shrew]

I'm unsure this is true. I was certainly disappointed when I went for a Samsung S8 at launch and found it laggy and glitchy 12 months in, and unusable at 18 months. As a short term money saver, I bought a 2016 iPhone SE and was amazed to find it got 2 more years of updates before I finally decided to retire it.

Between lacking support and poor performance over and over in the Android ecosystem, it became a very easy decision to move over to the Apple lock-in unfortunately. Their phones generally stay out of my way and work snappily when I need them to.

It's a real shame to have had this experience, and to watch others around me have similar issues before jumping ship to Apple. I think the competition provided by the big Android vendors is important, but I just can't justify dropping money on a new device every 18 months.

[wingworks]

I've been with Android since the beginning (though Apple everything else). But I'm just tired of needing a new phone every year just to get ok performance. A few weeks back I got a free iPhone 6, and was amazed at its performance. When I compared it to my OnePlus 2 phone from a year later, it's night and day performance wise. My next phone will be an iPhone, no question.

[rtpg]

I had a top of the line samsung, and the _native_ google maps app was slower than a web view google maps on an iphone SE.

I think that there's a lot of stuff about tuning, but the latency story (at least up until 3 or 4 years ago) on Android has been absolutely garbage, no matter what geekbench scores the phones get.

Sony phones and the Google mainline phones seem to work well when I use them though (though ultimately lots of android apps are also just not very good)

[duxup]

I've experienced it up and down the Android line, top of the line Samsung, nexus, pixels and so on.

I have no idea what it is that causes it, but it's a thing.

[fomine3]

iPhone SE series is exceptional. It's always flagship SoC performance for mid price.

[FredPret]

Maybe there’s an AI that insinuates itself onto Android phones as it finds them