I had two Android phones and both had reliability issues. One was a Samsung and the other an LG. Features would just quit like the camera just died for no reason. I only used it occasionally, but it was annoying.
My SO has been an Apple fan from the introduction of the Mac in the 80s, but I never liked MacOS. So many people say it's intuitive, but I find it to be the least intuitive computer OS I've ever tried using, and I've been exposed to a wide variety of them over the years. I was resistant to get an iPhone, but she already had one. I bought a used one on Ebay and it has been more reliable than any phone I had as the first owner.
iOS wasn't too bad to get used to, but it gets an F- when it comes to Windows interoperability. Setting up the Androids the way I wanted was simple, just plug it into the computer and it shows up like a thumb drive. Drop the files I want like ringtones, wallpaper, etc. into the right folder and you're done. It took me about 1/2 hour to get every customized the way I wanted.
The first day with the iPhone it took me 8 hours to do the same thing! Everything had to go through iTunes which is a horrible program. Whoever designed that thing should be shot. It's one of the least intuitive things I've ever experienced in nearly 30 years developing software, and I've seen some pretty horrible software designs.
Apparently my SO has fewer problems getting her iPhone to communicate through her iMac. She does SMS on there, which is impossible with an iPhone and Windows (though was possible with my last Android phone).
If there was something that had the reliability of the iPhone with the interoperability of Android and Windows, I'd probably switch tomorrow.
For now I'm fine with the iPhone I have. It's a 5 something, I don't even remember which suffix. When I don't need to get anything off of it, it's reliable, which is the most important thing for me.
I do think Apple has lost it's muse. My SO and I have had a sort of running argument about whether Apple has jumped the shark without Jobs or not, but while Tim Cook is a good steady hand on the helm, he doesn't have a lot of vision. I know Jobs spent a lot of time with Cook in his last days passing on all his ideas, but for Jobs creating a new product was an interactive process. He had the grand vision, but he needed to be in the middle of it as it evolved to tweak it this way and that and make it what it became. Tim Cook has a lot of those nuggets of ideas, but he doesn't have the vision to bring the product all the way from concept to reality like Jobs did.
When Jobs was at the helm, Apple was coming out with something wiz bang every couple of years. The only all new product they've released since Jobs died was the iWatch and that was almost done when he died. The Apple car project is an open secret in Silicon Valley, but it goes through fits and starts because they need someone with the audacity to dream big and the leadership to get everyone marching in the same direction at what may look like a looney goal to most of the world.
There are only a handful of people in the world who have that particular genius. One of them already has a car company. Most of the rest are dabbling in aerospace, automotive tech, or both right now.
Apple has more cash than anyone to throw at a car project and maybe they can make it through just spending, but Apple could produce a car that flops in the marketplace. That what happens when you have the money to make something, but not the vision to make it great.
I could be wrong and the iCar might be in the top ten selling cars in the world in 10 years. Who knows, stranger things have happened.
