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It's probably no surprise to most of you that there is some measure of loyalty among iOS and Android users, with a good number of either camp not willing to switch to the other, even if someone paid them to do it. In a new study Apple owners proved the most loyal however, demanding upwards of £325 as compensation for switching to Android, vs £250 when it came to Android smartphone users switching to Apple hardware.
Not everyone was quite so unscrupulous about their mobile desire though. In the study conducted by online casino, LeoVegas, 16 per cent of iOS users said they would swap to Android without a monetary incentive, compared with 26 per cent of Android users. Obviously higher numbers still wanted money to switch though, so why were they so loyal?
Some see it as more of a war… Source: Alex-Andernath/Deviantart
The most cited reason (17 per cent) among younger generations of the 1,000 people asked as part of the survey, was that their messaging applications wouldn't work if they switched. That became a much less worried five per cent in the 25-34 age group and just four per cent for those aged 45 and over.
Although the study concludes that the results suggest Android users are less loyal to their brand and are more likely to switch to Apple than vice versa, it could also be a symptom of Apple's more closed operating system and the way it champions its own services over third parties.
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KitGuru Says: Would someone have to pay you to switch smartphone OS?
Very difficult for me personally. Been with Android since 08 and have not budged since. I’m easy with phones, if someone handed me an iPhone, Windows or Ubuntu phone, I don’t have issues getting around it and such, all interfaces are simple. I think it is more of the 1st party services like Google Play music, books, Play Store and such that are already built into the device which makes me use it more. I know I can get certain apps on other platforms but, doesn’t feel right. Saying that, I’m using Apple Music on my Nexus 6P…
I think the reason android users appear less loyal could be that a majority are tech enthusiasts, they know that for the money the android option is superior.
If apple made a decent specced unit without the walled in user environment etc, then i’m sure there would be plenty of android users who’d throw there hands in the air and give apple a go.
Apple aren’t the only alternative though, and if Tizen or FF or any others rose up and bettered android OS then you’d again probably see a lot of people switch.
I too can use any operating system with ease. However, the reason I choose to stick with Android is that if I do not like the included keyboard I am free to choose another one. If I do not like the web browser i can download a new one. Don’t like the way this gallery displays pictures? That’s okay there are a multitude of other options. Customization is very important to me and it’s something that none of the other operating systems come close to Android on. Custom ROM anyone?
Sent from my ROM of choice this week: DarthStalker on my Note 4 while watching YouTube on the other half of the screen using Touchwiz’s Multiwindow and writing this with the S-pen stylus with 3+ days of battery life if I turn on PowerSaving and 8+ days with Ultra Power Saving…
I don’t think Apple has much to offer me…..
Currently I have an android. I’m not interested in apples twee locked garden. I’d like to try windows phone, but I’m worried it won’t be as customiseable.
Currently I’m running a rooted rom with xposed and tasker to get even close to semblance of usefulness out of my phone, and I refuse to move past kitkat for this reason. Any other OS would have to offer a free form scripting program with event drivers, or at least the functions I use daily that I’ve built with tasker (alarms & automations based on reading the calender & seeing which days I’m working, with different alarm times for different days. Also preset volume lebels, which oddly android doesn’t come with, along with muting notifs while the screen is on.).
Ultimately smartphones are useful, but the OS is blah, I can only imagine apple & windows being worse.
I don’t care about iOS. Apple makes products for a different market than I am in. I have a budget phone, so I’m working with Android. Furthermore, Apple makes sense if everything you have is Apple; Macbook, iPad, and iPhone. If you pay my Macbook, iPad, and most of my iPhone, I’ll be willing to switch.
I can’t tell you how much I dislike, distrust and avoid anything apple related. Everyone comes to me with OS problems. Windows, Android and iOS. I help everyone except apple people. I don’t know the OS because I don’t want to know it. So to answer the question, I’d have to be honest and be dishonest. You could pay me what ever to switch to apple, but then I’d turn around and sell it if I didn’t destroy it with fire first, and then go get another Android. I’m not a Droid or Windows fanboy, I just, for 30 years, don’t like apple.. period.
Apple IOS is not a bad O.S., but I don’t agree with what they charge for their O.S. and the hardware, they also release features on the phones that Android has had for 2 years and fool people into believing it’s a new innovative feature and Apple fans fall for it every time because they don’t use androids and they’re hardware is manufactured by Samsung. They even did a study with Apple users and loaded Android Marshmallow on an I Phone and told them that it was Apple’s new O.S. and the Apple users loved it until they told them it was actually an Android O.S.
Simply they couldn’t, don’t trust Android so and I don’t like the Apple way of doing things. So that leaves few options left to me.
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If I could get Windows Phone O/S on my Sony Xperia it would be amazing.
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I only want a small phone, only some very low end give me that. When it comes to tablets though, I might switch to an iPad for the next one, mainly because Android game compatibility is pretty bad.
Could I not use the money that Apple paid me to then purchase another Android phone? I could sell the iPhone and get a reeeaaally fancy Android phone or, you know, a reasonably spec’d laptop.