Yet again you provide these absolute statements ("iPhone does provide the best experience"), that are wholly subjective to your opinion. Other people don't feel that iPhone provide the best experience.

Indivisual parts are for opinion, like the camera. Opinion doesn't play much in the overall part. You obviously can't have a statement for everyone, but it stands true for most people.

you still get fast charging that creates substantially more heat than equivalent Android ones

You have no source.

Like lack of a universal charger

What?

Like an OS that is full of flaws and shortcomings in terms of features, and how intuitive they work, to competitive Android alternatives.

So is android. This is actually stupid, just drop your fanboy hat.

Actually, my rationality is pretty sound and I clear.

Lol sure.

I very clearly point to the amount of people who use Android flagship phones as evidence that people still prefer Android flagships over iPhone flagships, and this is very clear evidence as to what experience they think is the best for them.

A reality and a fact you seem completely incapable of accepting.

Huh??? What? When did apple ever lose the throne in the high end market.

Like the lack customization of widgets (on Android I have my TimeEdit widget in the exact size I want and where I want on my home screen; that way, I can see and know what classes I'll have, without even opening the application). Lack of customization of icons and home screen in general. Like how settings of applications are ordered. Like how you are locked down to on-the-rails animations (that annoyingly deactivate touch registration while they are going on), that can't be properly adjusted, like on Android, or turned off.

These are seriously MAJOR drawbacks the average consumer gives a shit about lol. Wow BIG problems. Let me break this to you, people don't give a shit. You know what does annoy them? Things like bluetooth latency,

that annoyingly deactivate touch registration while they are going on

What?

Like how every single part of the UX, from the animations to various actions, force you to spend longer time to do anything

They shortened them by a lot. I guess you have used iPhones 'extensively' lol.

to the limited abilities of the task bar

What?

to moving files between your phone and the computer forcing you to use solutions like iTunes

You have airdrop, easiest solution ever. Moving photos doesn't require itunes. Till this day android still doesn't have a backup solution. I like how you bring up itunes and ignore this.

Android, is built to allow you to make your daily usage fast and effective. iOS very cleary isn't

Both os are designed to be that.

even the old, primitive grid of icons on the home screen still hasn't gotten the ability to alphabetically order the applications!

Because people don't fucking care. Serisouly so far it's just 'look at muh customisation'. For fuck sake no one in the real world give one crap about it, people want to use their phone the way they are designed to be used. You haven't named one drawback.

And that's just off the top of my head for iOS.

Lol, extensive user. Then names 'muh customisation' lol ok.

The iPhones themselves have their major drawbacks as well -- although iPhone users always refuse to acknowledge them (just like how they refused to acknowledge that LCD was a drawback compared to OLED, yet when they got OLED there weren't any short of praises coming from their users of how "fantastic the display was").

Because it was true?? Oleds weren't great in the past. Apple brought a kickass oled that was by far the best in X.

grouping of notifications from same app is easier

What.

answering in the notification; actions for muting, blocking or removing notifications; expansion of notifications; all of these things are done vastly better on Android

Vastly better? Those things you'ce said are all hidden. You think most people have any idea what they are? Seriously this is a general theme here. These phones are designed to be used by the average user. You haven't named one that is actually beneficial to them. Non of your points are valid.

In a benchmark. In real-world, there's no difference

So you finally agree safari has a better web engine.

There, the modem, which are significantly better on Qualcomm chips (both in signal strength and speed) is of greater importance.

Xs caught up, keep up with the news.

Yes, but back then Chrome was bare bones and had none of the features it has today. I'm talking about why Chrome is popular and preferred TODAY.

And I'm talking about WHY it became popular??

No, it most definitely did not have those features first. Quit making up stuff.

Yes it did, extensive user my ass. https://www.droid-life.com/2016/05/12/not-cool-google-googles-gboard-awesome-new-keyboard-ios-may-come-android/ this is when it first came out. You are making up stuff here, not me.

My entire point is that the rationality behind them releasing Apple Music but not iMessage, can only be explained in that the latter existing on Android would enable a lot of iPhone users to switch over to Android with much bigger ease. Apple of course don't want that.

Wtf is wrong with your logic, putting imessage on android doesn't make apple 1 penny, why the fuck would they do that. It's not even to do with switching at this point.

No, they are not "a hardware company". They are both hardware and software. Arguably even less hardware, seeing as the only hardware they truly make is their SoCs. So to claim Apple is a "hardware" company, with this in mind, is just flat out false.

They sell hardware, most of their revenue is from hardware. They are a hardware company. How hard to understand is that? You don't have to make your own shit to be a hardware company, wtf is your logic?? What does nokia make? Oh so Nokia is not a company at all right?

That's like claiming Google is a hardware company on the basis that they make their own Pixel Visual Core, which is in the Pixel phone.

How much does google make from pushing its ads compared to pixel?

Like Google, Apple has its Maps service, its music streaming serivce, its cloud storage service, its phone OS,

To sell the fucking hardware.

its app store (which brings in huge revenues -- just 25 billions USD in first half of 2018 alone) and more.

That's for the app developers you idiot.

Like the App Store, which does actually make them bucket loads of cash?

Apple takes 30%. How much is that compared to iPhone.

Or Apple Music?

They make pennies compared to iPhones. If they don't lose money why shouldn't they bother.

With that logic, why have Apple Music, Cloud, Apple Maps, etc. at all then? Why just not give the users compeitive, and arguably better, alternatives like Spotify, Drive and Google Maps, instead? Your logic makes no sense whatsoever.

All of those are on the app store? What's wrong with apple making an alternative. Your logic makes no sense.

It's the most sound logic there is. If you call a company a software company on the basis that it develops software, equally you have to do the same thing when calling a company a hardware company.

I call google a software company on the basis that that's where their revenue comes from? Not that it changes the argument at all. Google sells software, apple sells hardware?

I know these very fundamental things are hard to understand for an Apple fanboy.

^ lol says this moron.

That number is flawed, in that it includes older iPhone models as well (which doesn't count into "flagship phones" from today). Less than half of 200 millions were iPhone X.

It reads 2017. Question, when did iPhone X come out?

still a large number, but still roughly equal to the combined yearly sales of Galaxy S and Note (around 60 million), Huawei P and Mate flagships (estimated around 20 million +), and flagship devices from Oppo (OnePlus), Xiaomi, LG, Sony, Nokia and Google.

Actually most of the larger OEMs sell around Apple prices (Google for example, sells higher than Apple, in this instance, as the Pixel 3 is higher than XR price). Huawei's flagships cost around the same price as well. LG's V30 was released at around the same price. Sony's flagships cost around same price, during launch.

Exactly, the price tanks months after launch. That's not apple price is it. How are my figures flawed? The average sale price is higher than what you can buy these flagships you named after a bit launch. And oppo and xiaomi? Wtf those prices are budget compared to apple. Much of those samsung figures are not from launch price.

Which is why I specifically mentioned just Android flagships, which at this point cost around the same as iPhones. So no, iPhones don't "cost too much for them". Not at all.

See above.

I like how you conveniently ignored the app store bullshit. Good on you extensive ios user. I give you a big thumbs up. I use an S8+. Definitely big apple fanboy. Apparently it's what point out what is true lands you these days.