[LG V30 Questions & Answers] ChazzMatt:
Agreed.

I rescued one sister from iPhone. The other is too far gone.

What I hate is the apparent Apple lovers working for the Android team. After pioneering Qi wireless charging in 2012, they dropped it a couple of years later -- apparently since iPhone didn't have it, so Google iPhone acolytes thought it wasn't important. (But LG and Samsung kept it.) Then Google added back Qi wireless because Apple FINALLY added it to iPhone (5 YEARS after Google first had it on Nexus phones). Google should never have dropped it in the first place. They just look like an abject follower instead of the Leader they used to be.

Apple dropped headset jack. Google made fun of them, then did the same the next year.

Apple iPhone has clock on left side -- where Android NOTIFICATIONS go. Starting in Apple Pie, now the Android clock is on the left side where ONLY NOTIFICATIONS should go. (Luckily, LG resisted for V30 Pie.)

I'm surprised Google hasn't lowered Pixel XL 1440p resolution to match Apple's crappy iPhone's.

Argghhh. I hate Apple with such a passion. They are so full of bull. They CLAIMED they dropped the headset jack to have higher dust/water resistance. Their next iPhone had IP67. BUT both LG and Samsung KEPT headset jack and produced flagship phones with IP68! So, apparently Apple's engineers are either incompetent or Apple LIES through their teeth... Actually both statements are probably true.

I still vividly remember the iPhone 4 "antenna-gate" fiasco where they didn't even insulate the external metal antennas... Then Steve Jobs lied about it. Total incompetence. U.S. FTC (or some governing body) made them give everyone a free bumper case for the insulation the metal antennas should have had. Apple wouldn't apologize or admit fault whatsoever. Just tried to deflect and lie. Steve Jobs: "You're holding it wrong!"

During the investigation, Apple also had to admit they were falsely showing more bars in their status bar. Apple first tried to say it was inadvertent mistake, but also said they did it to make people "feel better", that people never want to see just one bar. (No, it's called LYING, so people think iPhone is better than Android.) So they had to push an iOS update to show the REAL, lower signal strength.

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I remember years ago with my sister, she needed critical pictures off her phone and you couldn't just plug it into a PC with USB cable and use it as flash drive, and drag and drop the pictures from something like the DCIM folder with Android. You couldn't simply get them off the iPhone with their USB cable whatsoever. You had to go through their iTunes at the time or whatever. Install that on the PC, upload and download the pictures (or something like that). So aggravating. I finally managed to get her pictures, but would have only taken 5 minutes on Android with direct USB connection vs couple of hours on iPhone.

I remember mentally cursing Apple over and over and over. I rescued an older woman friend of a friend from iPhone about 5 years ago and went through much of the same at that time too. It was just the MOST difficult OS to wrestle with.

Even without root, Android still gives you so much more control over your phone than iOS. That's why I don't understand people who say, "Well, if I can't root this (fill in the blank), I'll just go get an iPhone". :rolleyes:

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OnePlus is the other company I hate, because they openly admit they're trying to emulate Apple. They're arrogant and lie also (just like Apple) -- with their weak excuses for no IP rating or Qi wireless charging. At least OnePlus finally went to 1440p FIVE YEARS after all the top tier OEMs did (2014). Apple still hasn't gone to 1440p -- but they're not claiming to be premium Android OEM with "Never Settle" motto.

I still remember when OnePlus shipped their phone one year without NFC and thought no one would notice. When asked about it (and they didn't mention the omission until then) their excuse was the type of people who bought OnePlus didn't even know what NFC is, so they wouldn't miss it. (I'm paraphrasing, but that's basically what they said.) Very patronizing "We know better than you" -- just like Apple.