A long time ago, in the 90’s, we produced and sold teaching materials on typography and layout, along with how to use PageMaker. We taught methods and theory at a basic, but very functional level. We had customers all over Sweden, and unfortunately, we had to sell to PC users, even though we could barely stand it, since we were proud Mac users.
When the customers called us for help, the PC users most often had questions about their hardware, which was not our responsibility. Mac users asked questions about the subjects we taught. It was so frustrating to get those phone calls from PC users because we really wanted every one of our customers to have a good experience with our teaching material, but if their hardware didn’t work, what could we do about it?
Yesterday, I noticed that a woman complained about an app on her Android smartphone. I have the iOS version of the same app, and it works fine. She claimed the app had crashed twice and was mad at the app’s developer.
There are more than 3000 different hardware devices that run Android. Compared to what, hm, maybe 10 different hardware that run iOS. That’s why it’s a lot easier to get control over iPad or iPhone apps than Android apps. That’s why iOS apps work better. Simple as that.
If you ask me, buying an Android smartphone is buying more problems. It’s impossible for me to look at it in any other way. Yes, they do get a lot more options – but at what price? If I had the time to play around and chase faults all day long, okay, then it wouldn’t matter, but I don’t have that time; I want my apps to work. Simple as that. Call me crazy, that’s the way I am, and that’s why I keep on buying Apple products and iOS devices.
