interesting message posted on Silicon Investor ... Message 31775788
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some of my favorite parts :
<<<<< Nothing will be said about iPhone’s painfully slow modem speeds compared to Samsung S9 and Note 9 phones, Alphabet/Google’s upcoming Pixel 3, and even LG, Motorola, and HTC phones sporting Qualcomm’s Gigabit speed modems. We’ll have to see if Intel’s new XMM 7560 modem will indeed turn up in the new iPhones, as has been rumored, and if so, how well it will stack up against Qualcomm’s. Those are still two pretty big question marks. >>>>>
<<<<< Meanwhile, Premium Android phones, most of which run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 mobile platform, have been running circles around iPhone lately. Sporting modems with blistering speeds, advanced AI features, scores of handy UI innovations, silky-smooth Bluetooth and wireless connectivity, best-in-class cameras, and noticeably superior battery life, to name only a handful of areas in which iPhone seems to have fallen behind other flagship phones, it is difficult not to notice just how much better Android phones have gotten in the last few years. And a little bird tells me that android watches are about to get a lot better too, so the Apple Watch may also find itself vastly outperformed before too long. None of these things bode well for Apple. >>>>>
<<<<< A friend of mine, a lifelong Apple fan, just switched from iPhone to the Note 9 two weeks ago, and he could not believe how much better, faster, cooler his Note 9 was compared to iPhone. He resisted the switch for years. “I’m an Apple guy,” he used to say. That may still be the case when it comes to laptops, but he’s a Samsung guy when it comes to smartphones now. It’s been over a week, and he’s still excited to show me all the things his Note 9 can do that his iPhone couldn’t. And he isn’t alone. He is just the latest of about two dozen people I know who have recently made the switch from iPhone to Android. (Most went to Samsung, and a handful went with the Pixel.) I don’t think they’re ever going back to iPhone. It would take an extraordinary event to make them give up all of the features and performance characteristics of premium android phones now that they have experienced them. As anecdotal as these examples may be, I don’t think they are isolated, and Apple should be worried. Very worried. I don’t know anyone who has made the switch in the opposite direction and came out the other side brimming with excitement and awe. >>>>>
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