But as a guy who has used the iPhone almost exclusively for 10 years… they have absolutely stagnated. They aren’t doing anything new and exciting. I think they hit a wall performance wise, the gains aren’t that great year after year in anything, so they do dumb shit like the foldable one coming out this year
I think many Android users would argue the same about the major Android phone manufacturers. It’s an industry-wide phenomenon, which I think is also part of the reason we are seeing new and smaller companies entering with very different designs and ideas (Clicks, Minimal, iKKO, Mudita, Sidephone, etc) and a renewed interest from the public in features that had previously fell out of favour (small form factors, physical keyboards, etc). Android smartphones haven’t been this interesting for a long time, despite the lack of innovation from the major players and Google continuing to slowly kill its operating system by a thousand cuts.
I think many Android users would argue the same about the major Android phone manufacturers. It’s an industry-wide phenomenon, which I think is also part of the reason we are seeing new and smaller companies entering with very different designs and ideas (Clicks, Minimal, iKKO, Mudita, Sidephone, etc) and a renewed interest from the public in features that had previously fell out of favour (small form factors, physical keyboards, etc). Android smartphones haven’t been this interesting for a long time, despite the lack of innovation from the major players and Google continuing to slowly kill its operating system by a thousand cuts.