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The story
A poster who says they used an iPhone for 13 years straight reported switching to the Galaxy S26 Ultra, sparking a wave of reactions on the “Anything Goes” live board (5ch).
In the thread, some argued that “Android just looks cheap,” while others said their opinion of iPhone had shifted too, now that the body went aluminum starting with the 17 Pro and started feeling “cheap.” Beyond that, opinions split over finer differences between the two OSes — things like how usable Android’s “back button” is, the poor resale value of high-end Android phones, and differing impressions of “sluggishness” in performance.
What people said
Damn, it's crazy smooth lol
The right-swipe-to-go-back thing was annoying until I got used to it though
That idea went out the window once the iPhone 17 Pro switched to cheap-looking aluminum.
Honestly I like the Pixel Pro better now.
If you just swapped the OS, you wouldn't get the oversized icons and stuff…
The OS covers the icons too, and the design's lame.
Probably impossible because of the battery.
Do you even care about resale? I keep using my old phone as a backup after upgrading, so I've never worried about it.
So that means a used 25 Ultra is a good deal, huh.
Once I realized how much you could do with it and started wanting to tinker, it got fun — glad I switched.
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Do you really need to drop 100,000 yen just to kill time?
You don't really need the privacy display, so I think the S25 Ultra would do just fine.
Once you get used to Android, not having a back button while typing text is unbearable. Makes me wonder how I ever used an iPhone.
Comfort????
Apparently that's an Android (Google) issue. I've never had it error out on me though.
Why does it even have a 'back' button in the first place?
Seriously. On iOS you just intuitively swipe left to right — why does Android even need that thing?
Pretty sure you can hide it in the settings.
Uh, it's actually more expensive than an iPhone though.
A poor person couldn't afford an S26 Ultra anyway.
That's just a junk phone with too little RAM.
That's a budget Android in a price range iPhone doesn't even sell in 🥺
An Android at a comparable price doesn't have that problem 😁
Sounds like you're comparing it to some 4GB-RAM junk phone.
Honestly, worrying about how your phone plays with girls is the least attractive thing you could do.
If you're scared of getting asked 'why not just get an iPhone,' that screams insecurity in general, way before we even get to how girls see you.
Background and Talking Points
Comparing iPhone and Android (especially Galaxy) is a recurring staple topic on 5ch, and this time too opinions split along three lines: design, UI operation, and resale value. The “back button” in particular is a holdover from Android’s original UI philosophy, and even after bottom-of-screen gesture navigation became standard, it still lingers on some devices — which tends to feel jarring to people used to iPhone’s swipe gestures. There’s also a common view that high-end Android models get replaced quickly by new releases and lose value fast on the used market, while iPhones are said to hold their resale price better thanks to strong secondhand demand — that’s the backdrop for the thread’s back-and-forth over “resale.” It’s worth noting that the complaints about “sluggish” performance largely come down to differences in RAM capacity between devices, and are a common misconception — it’s more a quirk of budget models than a problem with Android as a whole. The thread never reached a clear verdict on which is better; it landed closer to “depends how you use it.”
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Anything Goes Live board) thread “[Breaking] Me, 13 Years on iPhone, Buys an Android Phone.”
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