I am 34 years old and I have been interested in phones since 1996. Alcatel, Nokia 3330, but then one of the first Symbians in town and among people in general. I had a Nokia 3650 with a 256MB card back in the days when others were messing around with the Siemens C35i and running out of memory for 50 contacts and 25 SMS text messages. After some time, a logical transition to Android awaited me, I only dealt with hiend machines. The Android era peaked with the absolutely flawless and top-of-the-line Galaxy Note devices. First 9, then 10+ and finally 20 Ultra a year ago at this time. Those phones could do EVERYTHING, they were practically able to replace my computer in many ways, and thanks to that phone I easily survived the period when I didn’t have a computer for more than a year. Every direction always leads somewhere, totality to freedom, freedom to totality, it is lawful. And I thought that after years of complete satisfaction, I would try the Apple platform, simply for the reason of trying the other side that so many praise. I also needed a new computer and I haven’t played games in a long time, so I decided to spend the unchristian money on Apple products, instead of a bloated hiend gaming PC with Windows, which I would build myself and then tune. I note that the last new Note 20 Ultra with a 3-year warranty cost me 22,500 crowns after all discounts and bonuses, the previous Note 10+ as a novelty was about 26,500 – that was the highest amount ever spent on a phone. Well, welcome to Apple. Macbook PRO 16″ M1 MAX24/32GB/1TB almost equal to KILO – I am very satisfied with the computer in all aspects and I don’t remember the desktop with the windlem at all – that laptop is unrivaled. However, I encounter a lot of problems with the iPhone 13Pro 512 GB for an incredible 38,000, which simply do not match the price at all. I can confirm that at the beginning I felt exactly as the author describes and that’s why the article amused me and I take it with a grain of salt. Most of those problems will disappear after a few days when the user gets used to it and gets used to it , that the phone and iOS in general can’t do much – but that’s what I wanted. I wanted to try a simple phone with a different system foundation from another manufacturer. Sometimes I miss little things, better control, various gadgets, the system on Samsung can simply do much more, but I got used to it and it’s OK. Sometimes the system pleasantly surprises me with something, I can’t say that it doesn’t. What’s not OK anyway is the complete inability of the phone in the field of multitasking, and by that I don’t mean split screen, which I don’t know much about used, but applications work in the background. For a device for 38 thousand, an absolute disaster. I am able to reload the game 10 times a day, because after ordering lunch via Wolt and writing a message, it was not kept in the operating memory and the system terminated it. Also, the inability to normally send larger files, typically videos, when several will go through first! loadings and then during sending the screen goes blank and the sending is interrupted and you have to start over, I take it as a good joke – I just have to look at my phone and watch the video send and do nothing about it, such a joke. On a Note with Exynos and 12 GB of RAM, I could convert a edited video, where maybe 10 4K videos were loaded and let it play in the background, send files via Whatsapp, and I could play a game and still watch Facebook, edit a few photos with the stylus in the meantime and do what I want with it and I was always sure that the work in the background would be done normally, just like on the computer. IPHONE FOR 38 CAN’T DO THAT and it’s the only objective problem that really bothers me, which makes me think about going back to something functional over time, even if it won’t be so easy due to the connection with the computer. This 38k iPhone is only good until I start needing something above standard after it, something I would expect from a 38k device because my previous phones for much less could do it. That way, it’s just an overpriced thing, corresponding to the capabilities of Android for about eight, nothing much. We’ll see how this develops. I probably wouldn’t give up a Macbook, I’d be happy with an iPhone, that device is quite pathetic. I wouldn’t pay more than 20,000 for what he can do and what he can’t do, only Apple and its sheep make something more out of it and unfortunately they are not right. Compared to the top Androids, the iPhone is a relic that can’t do more than it can. I praise the rest of the things, durability, performance, processing, the camera, but that was also great on the Note. On the contrary, if I take my 38,000 iPhone to the airport, I won’t film airplanes with it, because it doesn’t have a zoom, so the one there is only enough for portraits, so it’s a loser compared to the competition. What I think is great and unmatched is Face ID and the general ability to share everything with other iPhones, and the overall iCloud service, including Mac connectivity, that’s great. The impossibility of directly sending media from other non-apple phones is downright laughable. I had to ask a friend to email me the photo in full quality – LOL – the iPhone can’t receive or send a picture via bluetooth! The interesting thing is that the stability of the applications has definitely been a class better on the Note, sometimes something gets stuck on the iPhone, sometimes I have to kill it manually, that didn’t happen on the Note. All in all – a top Samsung with a stylus, that’s completely different. The utility value of that phone is at a completely incomparable level compared to a limited overpriced iPhone. Sometimes I honestly feel that the phone is in some ways worse than the ancient Nokia 3650 with Symbian… That phone also cost a lot, but it DID EVERYTHING, it could multitask, it worked great with files, it was a small computer in your pocket – it was the SMARTPHONE. I feel more and more about the iPhone that it’s just a dumb phone with some smartphone features. Its capabilities remind me much more of a smart TV than a computer.
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