The Importance of Privacy and Why iOS Makes More Sense
Yes, that might be a little bit overblown, but I do think this is a legitimate selling point for using iOS and Apple products in general. If I had to give you a single pitch on why iOS might make more sense for you, compared to Android, it will be in the long-term software support. Now, Android has certainly gotten better, but generally speaking, an Android phone may only get you around two years or so of updates, and that might not even be major updates. Those might be security updates after you get one major release.
On the other hand, you're pretty much looking at somewhere between five and six years of software support if you look at the last few years of iPhones. Look at the iPhone 6S, this is a flagship phone that came out in 2015, and is still getting updates here in 2020, and very likely may continue to get updates through the next year, year and a half or so. There's simply no other Android phone that can come close, regardless of the price. Even if you look at something like the Google Pixel line, the original Pixel 1 is already stopped getting updates as of December of 2019, and that's the best case scenario where it actually got more updates than Google originally promised.
If you're considering this safe, practical choice of buying an iPhone this time around, well, at that $400 price point, the iPhone SE 2020 seems like the obvious choice, right? Well maybe, but there are a couple of other things you may consider. For example, at around that same $400 price point, you can buy a used or refurbished iPhone XR. The XR is a great phone, it was my daily for pretty much all of last year, and for good reason. Not only does it have the modern swipey Face ID design, swipey, I'm gonna say this is a swipey, swipey design, but you also have a great camera, very solid battery life.
But the downside is that if you do pick up a used phone, as always, you have to consider that that battery is probably going to be not at 100% health. Wherever, when you look at the SE, it actually has a slightly newer processor, which means it will get updates for longer and you have that security knowing that it has not been abused by Little Timmy with his 20-hour Fortnite gaming sessions. You can also just buy a brand new iPhone 11, which, at $700, is almost double the price of the SE, but for your extra $300, you're getting a better camera as well as an ultra wide, you're getting a bigger display with your swipey interface, as well as your Face ID, and you are also getting what should be least somewhat better battery life.
The iPhone 11 does a pretty good job, whereas the SE of course is fine, but when you look at almost doubled price tag, a lot of those benefits I would argue probably aren't worth it for most people. If you look at something like the iPhone 11 Pro, stop there. There's no reason to spend $1,000-plus on an iPhone 11 Pro right now, when not only could you get a lot of other phones that are, I would argue just as good if not better, but also, there's certainly going to be a major update later this year, which will bring higher refresh rate and 5G, and all that stuff. Don't spend $1,000 on an iPhone right now. Just don't do that.
So is it time to switch to iOS? If you are looking for something in the mid-range, then the iPhone SE 2020 is a no-brainer. It really is a game-changer, and if you don't really care about Android versus iOS, it's an incredibly compelling value. However, if however you were looking for something a little bit more exciting, a little bit more expensive, you want a brand new flagship, then there are many reasons why I personally think that Android is the move right now.
Definitely be sure to let me know, and of course, huge shout out to Rise of Kingdoms for sponsoring this video. Don't forget to go download them at the link in the description. Until next time, I'm going to remember how to use the home button. Is that an awkward way to end the frame? That's a little bit weird, isn't it?
WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- You may have seen a video I did recentlyon why I'm switching to Android.Well, yes, that mightbe the right decisionfor me personally, there aretwo sides to every argument,and the iPhone SE 2020is one hell of a side.In case you've been living under a rock,the iPhone SE takes thesame tried and true formulafrom the original SEwhich, of course, came outover four years ago, and simplytakes all of the most recentinternals and puts it into amuch more affordable packagebecause at 399, there's nodoubt that this is probablythe best value iPhonethat has ever been made.Also, that's very red.At $399, you're not sacrificinga lot beyond, I guess,the fact that it still comeswith the tiny five watt chargerin the box.So you still get water resistance,something that is prettyrare on phones at this price.You get wireless charging,and probably most importantly,you get the same Apple A13chip as in the full iPhone 11and the 11 Pro range, whichmeans that this $399 phoneis probably the most powerful phonethat you can get regardless of price.One small recommendationthough, while you canpick up the base modelwith 64 gigs of storage,for only $50 more, you canupgrade that to 128 gigs,and I would definitely recommend that.It's certainly usable to spendtime with a 64-gig phone,but considering it's not thatmuch more, you're gonna geta lot more longevity, especiallyconsidering that this phoneshould be getting updatesfor years to come.Apple delivered this witha very simple strategy,the parts bin.So the design here is verysimilar to 2018's iPhone 8,which is an upgradedversion of the iPhone 7,which you could buy afterthe iPhone 6 came out.Of course, that being theS model of the iPhone 6,so this design, I guess, isfive years old at this point,which to be fair, if itain't broke, don't fix it,and if you're broke, buy an iPhone SE.I'll admit, I'm not amassive fan of this design.While, yes, it is betterthan that original iPhone 6,I like the glass back,and they've done a couple of minor tweaks,but generally speaking,it lacks the specialnessof that original SE, which hadthat awesome chamfereddesign, that really tiny size.I was about to say it'snot an outdated design,but when you look at the front,you look at the giantsize of the bezels here,it does look a little bit dated.Well yes, it is time for meto set up Apple Pay and Siriin the settings.A lot of components have been liftedstraight off of the iPhone8, including Touch ID,which makes sense consideringthat it is much moremask friendly than FaceID, and, of course,the screen itself, while itis only a 4.7-inch display,and yeah, it's lowresolution, blah, blah, blah,the thing is, this isstill a very bright coloraccurate IPS panel, and ithas held up remarkably wellconsidering that it's, well,a few years old at this point,but you know what doesn't feellike a five-year-old design?The sponsor of today'svideo, Rise of Kingdoms.Rise of Kingdoms is a free toplay real-time strategy game.You can choose one of 11 civilizations,and build your army, and have them be ledby historical commanders.One of the things that I appreciated aboutRise of Kingdoms is justhow much there is to do.After you focus on building your city,you can go fight barbarians,and it all takes placeon a seamless RTS map.The battles happen in realtime, and there's so much detailin the game between the individual cities,as well as everything you wantto do to customize your army,and even stuff like daynight cycles, and weather.There's always something to experience.There's also a specialevent going on right nowcalled the Osiris League,where you can earn even morein game rewards.Governors can join alliancesof up to 170 playersand band together to form vast empires.Now, I've only been playingthe game for a few days.What I found is that there'sa ton of depth there.There's a lot that you can experience.There's a lot that you cando without having to leavethe confines of your own home.If this sounds fun, youwant to give it a tryand help support the channel,definitely be sure tocheck out Rise of Kingdomsat the link in the description.Of course, huge shout outto them for sponsoringour iPhone SE video.The most impressive part of the SEis absolutely the Apple A13 inside.Let me be super clear.This is the most powerfulphone you can buy, period.I don't care what pricepoint you're playing in.So it is pretty muchidentical to what you geton the iPhone 11 and the 11 Pro,even though it is downto three gigs of RAMcompared to four, buttrust me, you won't notice,and when you put this thingside by side with a Pixel 3a,it is not even close.You also have Wi-Fi 6,as well as Bluetooth 5from the bigger iPhones.It has support for NFC,as well as Apple Pay.The SE camera is ahybrid of the iPhone 8 lensand sensor and the iPhone 11 processor.What this means is it actuallyis a fairly decent step up,and it does get reallyclose to the iPhone 11.When you look at a lot ofthese stills side by side,the dynamic range especiallyis very impressive.The only place that you reallydo notice a deficiency hereis in the sharpness of the image.If you're looking at it onInstagram, you're totally fine,but as soon as you start to pixel peep,you notice that is a littlebit on the softer side.Somewhere else the SE falls a bit shortis in the Night Sight mode, or rather,the lack of because whileyes, the low light photosare fine on the iPhone,they're much much betteron something like the Pixel 3a.When you put it togetheras a whole though,it is a solid package, andit does have portrait modefor both the rear cameraas well as the front.Now, as with all of thesethings, it always missesthe side of my glasses, but beyond that,it does do a respectable job.Where, I think, the iPhoneSE really shines is in video.So this is 4K video, completely untouched,straight off of theiPhone SE, and while yes,it might not be quite asstable as something likewhat you get on the iPhone11, it's really impressiveto see this level ofvideo quality on a phoneat this price, right?I mean, generallyspeaking, iPhones have beenahead of the game on video for a while,and this really cementsthat even at a 399 budget.While on paper, the 1,800milliamp hour batteryisn't particularly impressive,because of the efficientdisplay, processorand iOS, battery life actuallyisn't too bad on the SE.Still not quite where I would like it.It does feel a little bitof a generation behind,but it is certainly enoughto make it through a day.So as someone who's beenstruggling with the decisionbetween iOS and Android,there have been a lot of major advantagesthat I've seen on both sides,which makes it a very complicated decisionbecause at its very root,both Android and iOSare very, very good these days.So for example, with Android,one of the main advantages is,of course, the customization not onlyin the operating system, which, of course,gives you a much deeper level of control,but also, in the amount ofhardware that you can pick up.Now, yes, the iPhone lineis probably the broadestthat it's ever been, betweenthe SE on the low end,you have the iPhone 11,the Pro, the Pro Max,but even that pales in comparisonto the hundreds oflegitimately very impressiveAndroid options out there.If you want folding phones,as I mentioned my previousvideo, if you care about 5Gand high refresh rate, allthat stuff is availableon the Android side of the fence.When it comes to appsupport, at least for me,95% of the apps thatI use on a daily basisare available not only on Android and iOS,but are very similar quality.There aren't major differences.Of course, what are phonesthese days beyond a camera,and just a portal towhatever app you want to use.Now, there are certainly some exceptions.Instagram would be a good one,which I do think issignificantly better on iOSand of course, there are some advantageson the Android side of the camp.For example, if you wantto play some retro gamesvia an emulator, goodluck trying to do thaton iPhone unless you want todo some weird side loading.When you talk about the Apple ecosystem,there is a negative connotation there,and I will certainly admit,I have perpetuated thatwith, I mean, even my last video.Now, yes, it is very annoyingonce you get into the Apple ecosystem,and everyone has you on iMessage,and your grandma calls you on FaceTime,and you're charging with your Apple Card,and you have your AppleWatch, and your AirPods,and your Mac and your iPad.I mean, there's so many thingsthat make it very difficultonce you have that iPhone to get out,but by that same token,there are some advantages,of course, too, if you havea couple of Apple devicesin your life, right?Having an iMessage popup on your Mac is great,or being able to take a callon your iPad or vice versa.All this stuff is nice to see,but you don't have to go all in.One thing I will say though,if you are coming from Android,all the Google apps work great on iOSwith almost no exceptions,but if you're goingfrom iPhone to Android,well, you can listen to Apple Music,and probably another app.I can't think of one, though.Something I will give Appleprops for is the level of focusthey put on not only security,but also privacy in iOS.Not only does Apple havean excellent track recordof continuously supporting devices,something I'll talkabout a little bit later,but on top of that, theyalso put a lot of emphasison privacy, and we've donean entire video on this,so you can definitely find out moreabout my personal thoughts, but TL;DW,I definitely think Apple does a better jobthan pretty much anyoneelse in the industryfor protecting your personal privacy.Yes, if you look at apoll of random people,they might think that Google or Facebookare more trustworthy, which I findto be quite wrong, but generally speaking,when you look at just how muchthey've invested in thingssuch as differential privacy,and when you look at thegeneral business model of Applemakes money when they sell you a phone,and Google makes moneywhen they sell you an adusing the data theyacquire using their phones,it kind of becomes fairly straightforward,in my opinion that while weall spend a lot of time online,but especially these dayswith all of us so investedin our digital lives, I thinkit really matters personally,that I have a device thatactually is looking outfor my privacy.Yes, that might be a little bit overblown.Yes, I might be thatweirdo on the internettelling you about why privacy matters,but I do think this is alegitimate selling pointfor using iOS and Appleproducts in general.If I had to give you a single pitchon why iOS might make more sense for you,compared to Android, it will bein the long-term software support.Now, Android has certainly gotten better,but generally speaking, an Android phonemay only get you aroundtwo years or so of updates,and that might not even be major updates.Those might be securityupdates after you getone major release.On the iOS side, you're pretty much,if you look at the lastfew years of phones,looking at somewherebetween five and six yearsof software support.I mean, look at the iPhone 6S.This is a flagship phonethat came out in 2015,and is still getting updates here in 2020,and very likely maycontinue to get updatesthrough the next year,year and a half or so.There's simply no other Android phonethat can come close,regardless of the price.Even if you look at somethinglike the Google Pixel line,the original Pixel 1 isalready stopped getting updatesas of December of 2019, andthat's the best case scenariowhere it actually got more updatesthan Google originally promised.Okay, so say you're consideringthis safe, practical choiceof buying an iPhone this time around?Well, at that $400 pricepoint, the iPhone SE 2020seems like the obvious choice, right?Well maybe, but there area couple of other thingsyou may consider.So for example, at aroundthat same $400 price point,you can buy a used orrefurbished iPhone XR.Now the XR is a great phone.It was my daily for prettymuch all of last year,and for good reason.Not only does it have themodern swipey Face ID design,swipey, I'm gonna say thisis a swipey, swipey designs.Yeah, it has to swipey design,but you also have a greatcamera, very solid battery life,but the downside is is that ifyou do pick up a used phone,as always, you have toconsider that that batteryis probably going tobe not at 100% health,whereas, when you look atthe SE, it actually hasa slightly newer processor,which means it will get updatesfor longer and you havethat security knowing thatit has not been abused by Little Timmywith his 20-hour Fortnite gaming sessions.You can also just buya brand new iPhone 11,which, at $700, is almostdouble the price of the SE,but for your extra $300,you're getting a better cameraas well as an ultra wide,you're getting a bigger displaywith your swipey interface,as well as your Face ID,and you are also getting what should beat least somewhat better battery life.The iPhone 11 does a pretty good job,whereas the SE, of course, is fine,but when you look at thealmost doubled price tag,a lot of those benefits, I would argue,probably aren't worth it for most people.If you look at somethinglike the iPhone 11 Pro, stop.There is no reason to spend$1,000-plus on an iPhone 11 Proright now, when not only couldyou get a lot of other phonesthat are, I would argue,just as good, if not better,but also, there's certainlygoing to be a major updatelater this year, which willbring higher refresh rate,and 5G, and all that stuff.Don't spend $1,000 on an iPhone right now.Just don't do that.So is it time to switch to iOS?If you are looking forsomething in the mid-range,then, iPhone SE 2020 is a no-brainer.It really is a game-changer,and if you don't really careabout Android versus iOS,it is an incredibly compelling value.If however, you were looking for somethinga little bit more exciting,a little bit more expensive,you want a brand new flagship,then, there are many, manyreasons why I personally thinkAndroid is the move right now.So I am very curious,is the iPhone SE enoughto tempt you away from Android?Definitely be sure to letme know, and of course,huge shout out to Rise of Kingdomsfor sponsoring this video.Don't forget to go download themat the link in the description.Until next time, I'm going to goremember how to use the home button.Is than an awkward way to end the frame?That's a little bit weird, isn't it?
