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by sensanaty 869 days ago
> It costs about the same as flagship Androids ...

The large majority of people out there aren't purchasing flagship Samsung phones though, most people just buy mid-range/budget phones.

> ... and many not tech-savvy people prefer it because of its ease of use.

Perhaps if you're using versions of Android from 10+ years ago this is true, but nowadays iOS and Android are pretty much on-par from a usability POV. If anything as a life-long Android user forced into an iPhone for work, I find the stupid gesture shit on iOS waaaaaay more obnoxious than anything else on Android, but that's just a case of getting used to it and the annoyance goes away slightly after a while (though it's still there for me).

I mean seriously, I imagine the large majority of people's use of phones is them clicking on whatever the default browser is, assuming whatever they're doing on their phones isn't in one of the native apps they can install with like 3 clicks. Occasionally they'll open the Camera. I don't even see how you could make these flows any simpler than they already are other than a direct-to-thought type of interface.

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Good points. My perspective is skewed towards high-end phones, and I haven't used Android in a couple years.