I'm a Java guy, open source advocate, I love to have "power user" features and I was an android guy since android came out. I recently made a move to iOS (iPhone 6), and I'm not looking back.
It has much less features, it's a walled garden and all, I have to learn a new language (or two) to be able to develop apps for it (And pay $100), but the reason I like it so much is that it simply works.
Not just the software side, my android devices always had more issues, my Galaxy S III spent 3 times being fixed at Samsung for different reasons, so far with the iPhone I had no software or hardware issues.
And when my wife had battery issues with her iPhone 5c, instead of taking it for fixing they just gave her a new one on the spot and apologized for the inconvenience.
Simple, do-one-thing and do it right devices, that simply work.
This is a classic "do more with less", less features, nothing too exciting, but the little they have simply works.
For many years it wasn't possible to install self signed apps on iOS. But on recent iOS versions, you no longer have to pay $100 to install apps on your own personal iOS device, you just need a matching iCloud account to self-sign from Xcode.
It has much less features, it's a walled garden and all, I have to learn a new language (or two) to be able to develop apps for it (And pay $100), but the reason I like it so much is that it simply works.
Not just the software side, my android devices always had more issues, my Galaxy S III spent 3 times being fixed at Samsung for different reasons, so far with the iPhone I had no software or hardware issues.
And when my wife had battery issues with her iPhone 5c, instead of taking it for fixing they just gave her a new one on the spot and apologized for the inconvenience.
Simple, do-one-thing and do it right devices, that simply work.
This is a classic "do more with less", less features, nothing too exciting, but the little they have simply works.