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mcfedr

It's just incomparable.

Sms - android choose 100 apps that can deal with SMS, iOS - one app, no one else can touch SMS

Phone - same

Wallet - any app can be a payment wallet, my own bank, privat24 has this functionality - iOS, only Apple can use NFC

Photos - only iCloud can sync them

The list goes on

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But you can still buy an Android phone, iOS is only around 65% in the US (way less in the rest of the world btw). Compare with Google with the Chrome platform (> 90%) and Search engine (> 90%). Try being a web dev without Chrome or a web business without Google, way harder than having an Android phone (like the rest of the world do btw). Apple abusing its power is one thing, but Google has a way bigger monopoly.

But what about ism isn't a solution, the problems above still exist, they exist for 65% of Americans, who thought they were buying a general purpose phone, but actually are buying a device for running apple software.

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