I do worry about the AI, they say free until the end of 2025.
Probably won’t get used a lot but it is annoying they would put in something for free at first and then demand a subscription 12 months later.
It would depend on what the competition does I imagine.
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Ask: what would Crocodile Dundee do??? I imagine, he would not get an iPhone, true!
As for the topic: had to use an iPhone for work. Hated it.
Privately, I always got the best Samsungs available at the time, but since the high end Samsungs don’t support SD cards anymore, I now have an Samsung A55 + 1TB SD card (for music).
I think you can’t go wrong with any good Samsung … for many women I know, size is important (eg SMALLER … for phones ^^)
Ask: Who could possibly care less what Crocodile Dundee would do?
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Not the Australians, Mike. He is like Chuck Norris for Americans … but way cooler of course 
Man, if you think Americans could give a flying f*¢# what Chuck Norris would do, you’ve got several more thinks coming.
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I have a buddy that develops for iOS and he tells me about his struggles with Swift too
Kotlin is the official language now but they the recently made major changes in Material design 3 in jetpack compose to match system design in Android 12 and greater so the way you do a lot of things related to UI is completely different and even stuff that’s the same has a different name now.
I last did some java development in Eclipse IDE about 4 years ago and i’ve been trying to learn kotlin and jetpack compose and any resources older than a year year are worse than useless 
I’m getting tired of learning different languages that I don’t use often enough to become proficient only to have them change to something new 
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That was great in the 80s and 90s. The best language was C … and it did not change much.
Only when JAVA arrived, this orgy of changes started, where new releases would break old code!
I am so happy, that I am not a developer anymore
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I’m aware that Apple should be intuitive, but it never clicked for me either. I once had an iPhone for work and I wanted to send an email with an attachement. I was searching and searching for the attachement button, but for the life of me, I couldn’t find it. So I called my brother-in-law, who is an IOS person, and he told me I had to touch somewhere in the email to get a popup and there I could find the way to attach something.
… ??
I’m sorry, but that is not intuitive for someone who is used to Android. As long as I have seen sending emails (which is about 25 years now), there always has been an attachement button somewhere in the programs I have used. So I guess it’s a matter of being personally programmed by experience.
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i know this is not something you will likely be interested in, but if you are looking for a new phone specifically for a good camera, i’d suggest buying a camera instead. i have used a few small cameras and taking photos with my sony a6000 is vastly superior to using my iPhone in almost every way (except that it’s another thing to carry.)
yes pretty much all modern phone cameras are excellent but there is just a big difference in terms of experience and mindset when i pull out an actual camera to take photos.
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It all comes down to what one is used to.
I have used every type of film still camera for professional work: view camera, Hasselblad, 35mm.
Digital cameras have made photography much more convenient in many ways.
I have also used my iPhones for professional work. The speed and lens variety they provide allow for capturing great images.
Any camera is just a tool. Any can create great results.
For years, when my career was still somewhat on the tech side of I.T., I went through a phase where I churned through one of almost every smartphone known to man.
I mean, I had an HTC Touch (Windows Mobile), a Palm Centro (Palm OS), a T-Mobile G1 (Android), a Palm Pre (webOS), several different Samsung Galaxy models, several different Windows Phones (Nokia Lumia 810/920/1020, HTC 8x), and oh so many iPhones (original, 3G, 4, 5, 7 Plus, X, 12 Pro Max), all in the span of about 18 months. It used to drive my ex-GF crazy, because I was constantly swapping phones, and she’s been an iPhone user from day one, and suddenly my texts would be green and she wouldn’t be able to share Apple music with me, stuff like that.
Ultimately, I settled on iPhone, and I’ve been a dedicated iPhone user since I got my 7 Plus. For me, I got tired of effing around with phones, and from my experience the iPhone does “just work”. They’re reliable and easy and ubiquitous.
You know, for whatever that’s worth.
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I just upgraded from an S10 Active to an S24. It does all the smart phone things my S10 did.
But now I don’t get “rejection notices” when I try to “download apps” because my phone is “too old” or “not supported”.
All of this talk about programming languages reminds me of a past I can do without and creates the desire to punch myself in the face in effort to permanently erase those memories.
Oh, and another thing, F@ck you COBOL.
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Hahaha! Never had the “pleasure” … but I made similar statements when I had to learn LISP
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Both have a very good camera, with the Samsung maybe a little bit better, but I think it hardly matters.
Reviews also say the Samsung can handle low light very well, though I have to say the photos I have seen didn’t impress me that much. The images look like they are painted on closer inspection. But just don’t expect to get high resolution out of it, if you just want to look at the pictures on the screen, it will be fine.
I think both of them are a fine choice.
Myself, I am still waiting for MS to bring Windows Phone back 
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Hey, Microsoft paid US$ 8 billion to acquire Nokia ten years ago as part of its strategy to exit the phone market. I don’t think they are coming back in.
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I have an iPhone twelve for work and a pixel 6a that’s mine. I’m not in the apple ecosystem otherwise. For my use case I think the pixel is better mainly because the keyboard is better. The only time I get pissed off at either one is trying to edit a word or autocorrect getting pushy on the iPhone.
I wouldn’t buy an android other than a pixel because of the update delays problem.
I think the way Apple handles iMessage/text messaging is anticompetitive, consumer hostile bullshit and they should catch more heat for that.
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Chuck who? I know Chuck Ibis,
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We have had good digital cameras, but the phone just got used more for convenience.
With all the respect, that’s the product of your past experience. If you have never used a handheld device before and you are handed an iPad or iPhone for the first time it’s a natural gesture. You want to add something to the end of that you typed you just tap the it gives you option.
First time I used the Samsung tablet I couldn’t go back took me a while to accidentally touch some where to see the 3 symbols at the bottom of the page. In the way it’s kinda nice that you can go back with button albeit, virtual.
There’s a famous story about Steve Job in Africa. He handed the prototype iPad to some kids who’s never seen gadgets like this before within seconds the kids started interacting the iPad swiping up and down left and right. That’s intuitive UI.