Convince me

Why move to an iPhone?

#1 Security.

The iPhone is a closed environment. The only source for apps, without jailbreaking the phone, which is NOT recommended, is the app store. Though it's not completely unheard of for a rogue or malicious app to make its way to the app store, it is extremely rare.

#2 Security.

Apple's rules for app developers, and the OS ensure that apps are sandboxed and can not access information outside of their own spheres without your consent. Sandboxing also prevents them from affecting other apps or the OS in ways that would cause problems or breach the security of the system as a who and your data.

#3 Security.

iOS is based on the same UNIX kernel as macOS. Androids run Linux, which is a poor approximation of UNIX at best. UNIX has been around for decades, and has grown steadily more powerful and secure.

#4 Consistency

It's true that iOS does not lend itself to customization in the way than Android does. However, this ensures that when you pick up an iOS device, it will behave the way you expect it to and everything will be where it belongs. I can't tell you how frustrating it is for me as a 30 year veteran of the IT world to pick up an Android phone with some stupid skin pushed on it by the manufacturer just to set themselves apart from all the other droids out there an not be able to do something as simple as find the friggin settings to join it to our WiFi network.

#5 Security

The plethora of security breaches for Android, and the fact that the vast majority of Android users not only do not but can not update to the current version of the OS is a huge problem. I work in healthcare. We absolutely WILL NOT permit an Android user to connect to our Exchange environment. There is too much risk due to the vulnerabilities that still exist on the majority of Android devices and we refuse to put the effort into determining which versions might be safe this week and figuring out what version of the OS all of the people who might want to connect are running.

Friends don't let friends own Windoze.

I'm a 100% Apple user because of security and simplicity. Although the Mac OS can be broken into, it's not an easy task (compared to Windoze) so the hackers don't bother, especially since the market share is low. The iPhone is virtually impossible to break into provided you don't jailbreak it. Simplicity - bear in mind that Apple invented the icon display and mouse control for computers.

Apple products generally cost more but they also last longer. I'm typing this on a 12-year old iMac that I use regularly for Photoshop. I've actually never owned a Windoze computer. My first computer was an Apple-II. After the famous Super Bowl commercial, I upgraded to a Mac that had a whopping 128K of RAM. I have not yet had the need to get any repairs done!

I’ve been using Macs since the original (bought March 1984), iPhones since the iPhone 4 And iPads since the iPad 2.

So it’s been, overall, over 33 years... not one piece of equipment has ever failed, required repair or any sort of technical assistance. And people say Apple is expensive???