There are plenty of other smartphones, but they don’t work as smoothly as the iPhone.
Used to be a Droid fan, but I am content to lose Flash on my iPhone 5 since it actually runs well, doesn’t lag or lock up, and is reliable.
My previous Android devices were all cheap pieces of junk that were slow despite having all the right specs.
Apple may not offer the moon on their devices, but they take the time to make sure it works.
Samsunk and Motorolled don’t.
I’m curious..what happens to all the old ones? I know there’s a secondary market...does this huge glut drop the price..
This is THE differentiating factor between Droid and iPhone. I develop for both platforms, and while the developer in me LOVES droid, because it is wide open and I can pretty much do almost anything I want to on them... From a user side of things, Apple blows every Droid ever made out of the water and yes that includes the S4.
From a developer side as well, while apple can frustrate me to no end with how they just arbitrarily change things because they control the entire stack, I also know that my code is going to work once its out the door... where Droid will always have some crap cheap phone out there, or even expensive one, where the manufacturer tweaked something that causes apps written 100% in compliance with the OS core to not work on that device.
Apple’s differentiator is simply this, the products work.
Just the opposite, I have had 2 iPhones and switched to a LG Optimus G Pro (Android). Ten times better.