Things to consider when buying a smartphone - Android or iOS
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1.Are You Already Locked Into Android or iOS?
If you use a smartphone, chances are it is either an iPhone of some sort or an Android phone.
Google and Apple’s respective operating systems (the software on your phone) account for 90%+ of all phones used in the smartphone space – and these guys like to keep you in their ecosystem.
If you’ve been using either platform for X amount of years, you may have purchased music, films and TV shows and, in most cases, these cannot be accessed if you move platforms.
Therefore, if you’ve been a die-hard Apple user for five years and have teraflops of music in Apple Music and hundreds of movies in iTunes, you’re probably better off staying put, as you simply won't be able to get all of your content on anything other than an iPhone.
If you’re a floating voter – i.e. someone who uses both platforms, as I do, and aren't tied down to one way of doing things – then you’re able to flipflop between iOS and Android and go where the innovation or value is.
Arguably, this is the best way to be as sometimes Apple has the best phone (iPhone 6 era) and sometimes it doesn’t (iPhone 7 era).
