<story><title>Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years</title><url>https://stockapps.com/blog/android-loses-8-of-its-global-os-market-share-in-five-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>Long time Google fanboy here, and I&amp;#x27;m honestly a hair&amp;#x27;s breadth away from buying an iphone 13.&lt;p&gt;I have had nexus&amp;#x2F;pixels phones since the gnex. I have evangelized android to for almost as long. I did ground work for google by pushing people into google&amp;#x27;s services. I have a day 1 pixel 6 pro. I pay for cloud storage and yt premium.&lt;p&gt;But to me google is just falling apart. I feel like they have lost their technology drive in order to pursue ideological ones. Their tech has become all half-assed with poor&amp;#x2F;no support. I cannot trust anything they make to be supported in the future anymore. RCS is still a disaster, my one friend on Fi with a pixel 5a still cannot get it working and Google&amp;#x2F;Fi has pretty said &amp;quot;We don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I do not like Apple, but after almost 20 years a Google fanboy, I&amp;#x27;m starting to like Google even less. So much so that I&amp;#x27;ll have to eat lots of shame from the many iphone people who questioned my android love for years.&lt;p&gt;*If anyone can convince me otherwise, please do*. I feel like the best thing that could happen is disposing of Sundar and getting someone who can refocus google on being a tech company devoted to making the best tech products.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>I’m not surprised. I used Android devoutly, had a Galaxy S4, then an S8 when that started showing its age. I upgraded to an iPhone 12 when AT&amp;amp;T ran the promotion to get a free one.&lt;p&gt;I wanted to keep liking Android. The amount of time I spent arguing vehemently that Android was superior made the switch hard, but several factors came into play for me:
- Extremely slow and fragmented upgrade of OS. This resulted in substantially older features and security patches.
- Privacy. iMessage’s encryption (though I stand by that it is gimmicky to only offer for iPhones, and I despise that) has a serious network effect. Apple is also far more transparent in what data they use, how they use it, etc.
- Ironically, price. At the time, the iPhone was cheaper than the equivalent Android phone.&lt;p&gt;The big downside is slower upgrades to the latest hardware features. Specifically, I am envious of the people who have 120 FPS phones, they’re beautiful. There is also a loss of customization, but truthfully I thought I’d miss it much more than I did. The fact that the iPhone “just works” is worth it to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adoxyz</author><text>I switched from Google to Apple after being in the Google ecosystem since the early days of Android. I had pretty much every single Nexus, Pixel, and a variety of Samsung devices. But Google&amp;#x27;s lack of support, half-assed one-foot in one-foot out, and lack of support made me switch to Apple about 3 years ago and I&amp;#x27;ve never been happier.&lt;p&gt;Apple&amp;#x27;s ecosystem, while it doesn&amp;#x27;t offer as much, is a much superior and polished experience. iMessage works great, integration with Apple Watch is top notch, and the whole ecosystem is very fine-tuned. There are still a bunch of things to complain about, for sure, but overall comparing the two is a night and day difference.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve slowly started phasing out all my Google products.. and not by choice either. Had Google Nest and Nest Secure for over 3 years until Google decided to just cancel Nest Secure all-together. Google Home devices are increasingly being less and less effective. Google just can&amp;#x27;t seem to commit to anything longer than 2-3 years and I&amp;#x27;m sick of it. I&amp;#x27;d much rather deal with getting features much later but thoroughly thought out, then half-assed and cancelled in 2 years. I will say the one thing I do miss is native Google Assistant, Siri is complete ass in comparison.</text></comment>
<story><title>Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years</title><url>https://stockapps.com/blog/android-loses-8-of-its-global-os-market-share-in-five-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>Long time Google fanboy here, and I&amp;#x27;m honestly a hair&amp;#x27;s breadth away from buying an iphone 13.&lt;p&gt;I have had nexus&amp;#x2F;pixels phones since the gnex. I have evangelized android to for almost as long. I did ground work for google by pushing people into google&amp;#x27;s services. I have a day 1 pixel 6 pro. I pay for cloud storage and yt premium.&lt;p&gt;But to me google is just falling apart. I feel like they have lost their technology drive in order to pursue ideological ones. Their tech has become all half-assed with poor&amp;#x2F;no support. I cannot trust anything they make to be supported in the future anymore. RCS is still a disaster, my one friend on Fi with a pixel 5a still cannot get it working and Google&amp;#x2F;Fi has pretty said &amp;quot;We don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I do not like Apple, but after almost 20 years a Google fanboy, I&amp;#x27;m starting to like Google even less. So much so that I&amp;#x27;ll have to eat lots of shame from the many iphone people who questioned my android love for years.&lt;p&gt;*If anyone can convince me otherwise, please do*. I feel like the best thing that could happen is disposing of Sundar and getting someone who can refocus google on being a tech company devoted to making the best tech products.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>I’m not surprised. I used Android devoutly, had a Galaxy S4, then an S8 when that started showing its age. I upgraded to an iPhone 12 when AT&amp;amp;T ran the promotion to get a free one.&lt;p&gt;I wanted to keep liking Android. The amount of time I spent arguing vehemently that Android was superior made the switch hard, but several factors came into play for me:
- Extremely slow and fragmented upgrade of OS. This resulted in substantially older features and security patches.
- Privacy. iMessage’s encryption (though I stand by that it is gimmicky to only offer for iPhones, and I despise that) has a serious network effect. Apple is also far more transparent in what data they use, how they use it, etc.
- Ironically, price. At the time, the iPhone was cheaper than the equivalent Android phone.&lt;p&gt;The big downside is slower upgrades to the latest hardware features. Specifically, I am envious of the people who have 120 FPS phones, they’re beautiful. There is also a loss of customization, but truthfully I thought I’d miss it much more than I did. The fact that the iPhone “just works” is worth it to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x0x0</author><text>The security upgrades situation on Google is intolerable.&lt;p&gt;I finally have a phone (3axl) that didn&amp;#x27;t die in a couple years from accidents &amp;#x2F; abuse &amp;#x2F; going to the gym in my pocket, and Google is eol-ing it because they&amp;#x27;ve cut off security upgrades.&lt;p&gt;My next phone will be an iphone.</text></comment>