Ars Technica reviews editor Ron Amadeo, laughs at the breathess specifications that Apple included with the iPhone 6. His graphic that’s become a hit compares the iPhone 6 to 2012’s Nexus 4, a two year old phone. The Nexus 4 also had a 4.7-inch display with a very similar resolution to the iPhone 6’s. It also had NFC payments without the closed world of Apples pay app. Then too, the Android world has a lot of customization, especially keyboard apps that Apple still bans.
Other Apple innovations? All the same, when Apple starts touting next year’s iPhone 6s for its “magical” 1080p display, Android smartphones with 2K displays will cast na shadow over the fanboys’ glee. have a good chuckle at that as well.
The list goes on. Samsung also offers fingerprint scanner system, and the ability to buy an iPhone with 128GB of storage is easily trumped by all Android phones ability to take memory cards. The there are other parts of Jobs heritage: lack of interchangeable batteries tie the fanboys to a short day of phone whereas, as an android user, I can just flip in my spare batter that I carry in my wallet.
And then there is lack of a stylus on the new iPhone plus competitor for my Samsung Note 3. I wonder, did Mr. Jobs have really small fingers?