lol...cause the I7 is something to compete with. I'm not bashing Apple, I just don't care for the fact it's not open source and I haven't looked at specs in some time, but has anything major actually changed with it?
Only reason they skipped "6" is to keep in line with the S7 variance.
You mean besides the fact that every piece of hardware in the iPhone is better than the Samsung or basically every other android device? Apple soc chip blows the competition out of the water. Apples phone is just as good if not better than every android phone on the market. The only one to "compete" is the Google pixel which *bug surprise* is dollar for dollar the exact same price without the 256gb option.
People can bash on Apple "iOS" all the want but there phones are the best hardware on the market 90 percent of the time
Not being open source doesn't mean jackshit when all its ever used for is to make the os compatible with a phone in the first place and add bloatware beyond belief(seriously). Its also the reason why android is ridiculously fragmented when it comes to updates since it would take every phone manufacturer to update it manually which leads to lots of lazy devs not picking up the task of actually supporting their phone.
The only reason open source is good for the android community is to root and cfw and 90% of the time rooting is just used to remove the bloatware and most people call it a day. Not to mention how complicated it can get with 3-4 iterations of the same phone. You Can achieve the same "openness" thru jail breaking which is always one click and much simpler. I'll always be an iPhone fan until android releases something of equal quality for less. Right now the only truly equal quality phone (pixel) is selling for the same price dollar for dollar...and its uglier to I'll just stick with the iPhone.
Like why would someone who can't code for their life care if it was open source? What are these android cfw doing that an iPhone that's jailbroken can't?its always bugged me that most people don't know diddly squat about phones, cpu, architecture, screen resolution, etc.. Yet they talk about androids like all the phones put together vs iPhone. 1 android has the best camera, the other the best screen, another the best battery life, another runs on x86 and yet they are all talked about as if it was the same phone vs the iPhone. The iPhone is truly the best single phone on the market and it's sad to see so many people brainwashed by android to truly and HONESTLY believe that the iPhone doesn't give you everything your android phone does and more. Too many people truly believe iPhone and iOS are shit and Apple is evil. Yet Google is a God who doesn't make mistakes, and that android can give you SOO MUCH MORE FOR LESS MONEYYY, APPLE ONKY CHARGES WHAT THEY CHARGE BECAUSE THEYRE GREEDY. yet when GOOGLE makes a flagship phone that actually competes with the iPhone it is the exact same price.
Tldr: iPhones are great and there are just as many android sheep and brainwashed android loyalists as there are retarded iPhone fanboys
Ps: don't even get me started on Java