iPhone loyalty drops to lowest level in years with 1-in-4 switching to Android

[Redaktion]

A new study suggests that iPhone loyalty is at an all-time low. According to BankMyCell, which tracks smartphone upgrades, iPhone users are switching in record numbers and they are largely turning to Samsung for their upgrade when they do.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/iPhone-loyalty-drops-to-lowest-level-in-years-with-1-in-4-switching-to-Android.427859.0.html

[S.Yu]

Yup, release that butt-ugly XI and see more switchers. If only Job's spirit could possess Cook...

[Rick Sheldon]

There will never be another Elvis and there will never be another Steve Jobs. Although Tim Cook is not the problem. The problem is that people want technology but they aren't willing to pay for it. They think that companies should spend countless millions developing, testing , manufacturing and marketing devices and then sell them for whatever the consumers want to pay for it. I personally am a loyal iPhone user since they became available from my carrier starting with the iPhone 4. I have not seen "any" device that could persuade me to jump ship from the USS Apple.

[S.Yu]

There will never be another Elvis and there will never be another Steve Jobs. Although Tim Cook is not the problem. The problem is that people want technology but they aren't willing to pay for it. They think that companies should spend countless millions developing, testing , manufacturing and marketing devices and then sell them for whatever the consumers want to pay for it. I personally am a loyal iPhone user since they became available from my carrier starting with the iPhone 4. I have not seen "any" device that could persuade me to jump ship from the USS Apple.

I don't know where to start...Well first of all I don't think it's alright to make the blanket claim that "people want technology", different people have different needs and Apple's meeting an increasingly niche set of needs, like the butterfly keys, whoever asked for that? FaceID? They really think people want that? I firmly believe that underscreen fingerprint sensors are vastly more popular. And the removal of the headphone jack? Whoever besides corporate greed asked for that?? A differentiator is the OS, but less and less so and there are clear downsides to iOS, Apple still holds the SoC crown but that's about it, for everything else there are cheaper and potentially better alternatives.