There are many good reasons to own an iPhone: your social life might revolve around iMessage, you might value Apple’s emphasis on privacy, or perhaps you appreciate the quality of Apple’s displays and software experience. But the one thing that once exemplified Apple’s lead over the Android chasing pack, the iPhone’s camera, is no longer top of the list of reasons to want an iPhone. The iPhone camera has fallen behind, and it’s now something users tend to accept rather than anticipate.
A fun little game you can play: whenever an article mentions the importance of iMessage, you can safely assume the article is intended for an American audience. Outside of America, nobody cares about iMessage – it’s just another junk app
Don’t forget Canada, which is not the same as America. Teenage girls in Canada love iMessage too.
Are you projecting your insecurities or something? Apple or iMessage is not gender or age specific. #facepalm
Or: “America” is really quite a bit bigger than US; and only in few of its countries is iMessage popular.
Anyway, as for the news, but let’s not forget that early iPhones had very mediocre cameras – better ones (and typically from Sony or such… so they were who really led / not an “Android chasing pack”) were a “bump” along the way.
PS. Nokia 9 PureView cameras look cool… 🙂 ( https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-9-pureview/ …and at least it doesn’t have that stupid notch, seemingly adopted by some more recent Nokia phones 🙁 )
Does Apple also have emphasis on privacy only in America? Maybe that is why I could never see it.
The success of iMessage (in markets iOS is enjoying a high-enough market share) is telling about the realities of the market: There are many chat apps out there. In Android, this leads to “fragmentation” among users. Instead, in some countries iMessage (through its integration with the default SMS app in iOS) has acquired enough mass to be unique in the sense it serves as the default for all chat communication in the country. Google made a bad business decision by not forcing a default chat app in the SMS application of Android devices, despite that behaviour being more “open” to competitors.
Well obviously not “all” – even in those few countries iPhones are owned by ~half.
Didn’t Google try it with Hangouts?
This has to be one of the dumbest reasons to buy a phone. If you care that much about taking a picture, Buy A REAL CAMERA, and put the money you saved from not wasting your money on the overpriced cellphone into the various hardware and options for the camera instead.
…as if for example portability/always-availability/always-with-you of mobile phone wasn’t a nice bonus. Plus, apparently people nowadays react less to being photographed by mobile phone, are less scared/tense/camera-shy, and it’s easier to dissapear with a phone in a crowd, as claims the winner (a pro photographer/media academic, also using DSLRs), from my country, of latest edition of serious Mobile Photography Awards, for photos taken by… mobiles.