fulle
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The iPhones generally release with pretty good hardware. Nothing I would personally buy, and probably not the best for long, but... pretty good.
On the iPhone4 I was annoyed that the high pixel density on the screen was being praised so damn much, considering the average at best display contrast, black quality, etc, which IMHO made the screen just "good" but certainly inferior to screens in about 4 other phones at the time... but regardless, it was still a pretty nice screen, and better than most. I could say the same about many of the other hardware choices on the iPhone4 at release.... that they were above average, or good, but not the best. Overall, I'd say the phone had pretty competitive hardware for a high end smartphone.
Of course its not able to match up well against bleeding edge stuff months later. That's unfair to compare... and of course Apple's going to get edged out on pieces of hardware sourced from Samsung, when compared to Samsung's own phones.
With an iPhone you're basically buying a smartphone with good hardware, with a OS well optimized for that specific hardware, with software that's well optimized for that hardware, on a user interface that has cut out a lot of features with intent to feel smooth, simple, and streamlined. Its a pretty good user experience... it makes a lot of sense that people buy iPhones, actually. They're pretty good...
I personally wouldn't buy one. No hardware keyboard is a dealbreaker for me, before I even consider other annoyances, such as having to use the Appstore, which I feel Apple controls unfairly, DRM, and my general hatered of Apple as a company that's becoming more and more evil.... but, saying "I don't like iPhone's because I don't like where Apple is heading as a company, and view them as a threat against me, taking away my control, rights, and privacy as a user" is different than saying "iOS sucks, and Apple uses bad hardware". The second statement is just... false.
On the iPhone4 I was annoyed that the high pixel density on the screen was being praised so damn much, considering the average at best display contrast, black quality, etc, which IMHO made the screen just "good" but certainly inferior to screens in about 4 other phones at the time... but regardless, it was still a pretty nice screen, and better than most. I could say the same about many of the other hardware choices on the iPhone4 at release.... that they were above average, or good, but not the best. Overall, I'd say the phone had pretty competitive hardware for a high end smartphone.
Of course its not able to match up well against bleeding edge stuff months later. That's unfair to compare... and of course Apple's going to get edged out on pieces of hardware sourced from Samsung, when compared to Samsung's own phones.
With an iPhone you're basically buying a smartphone with good hardware, with a OS well optimized for that specific hardware, with software that's well optimized for that hardware, on a user interface that has cut out a lot of features with intent to feel smooth, simple, and streamlined. Its a pretty good user experience... it makes a lot of sense that people buy iPhones, actually. They're pretty good...
I personally wouldn't buy one. No hardware keyboard is a dealbreaker for me, before I even consider other annoyances, such as having to use the Appstore, which I feel Apple controls unfairly, DRM, and my general hatered of Apple as a company that's becoming more and more evil.... but, saying "I don't like iPhone's because I don't like where Apple is heading as a company, and view them as a threat against me, taking away my control, rights, and privacy as a user" is different than saying "iOS sucks, and Apple uses bad hardware". The second statement is just... false.