A Defense of the IPhone 7

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

Johnw1104 said:

Captain_Yuri said:

I really wish there was a better way to have a discussion in vgc. 

I'll be brief this time around lol

Again, I feel we've both pointed out plenty of areas in which one is superior to the other but Samsung's Galaxy 7 is not superior in "most ways" (just review our list, there was a lot more than merely speed and the OS/Support that favored the iPhone 7). It really boils down to which features you prefer.

As for the camera, I prefer the iPhone 7's precisely because the two things that mean the most to me are portraits and some zoom capabilities which it happens to be very good at. When compared with slightly better contrast/sharper colors and much better low-lighting photos, I'd have to choose the former. Yet again, a matter of preference.

Personally, I don't think an audio jack would qualify this as a "home run". In fact, as much as I like this phone there's two major deficincies that I'm irritated they did nothing about and the Samsung Galaxy 7 does very well: The screen's resolution, which still looks great to me, really should be much improved by now, and while they improved night photos with the camera it still remains the iPhone's biggest weakness, despite endless complaints for a decade running now.

If they'd fixed those I'd be over the moon about the phone, and they're bizarre oversights in my opinion that really wouldn't have cost too much to fix... resolution like  the Galaxy 7's is not nearly as expensive to provide as it used to be, and they need to get on the ball with that one. I honestly wonder if they left those two out simply so they could turn around and offer said obvious upgrades for their mid-gen model in a year or so (I wouldn't put it past Apple).

Otherwise, I'm not arguing that the Samsung would be the better choice for VR given they make their own headset and have superior resolution and a slightly brighter screen. I'm actually curious if VR even factors into people's decisions, as at the very least it probably will in the coming years.

For me, the speed, touch options, great speakers, OS & Support, new long-awaited camera features, switch to an aluminum casing, Apple Pay, iTunes,  web browsing and so forth of the iPhone 7 are preferable over the better screen, audio jack, micro-sd compatible, sharper contrast/colors and low lighting camera, wireless charger, better VR etc of the Galaxy 7. There's a couple features of the Galaxy 7 that I'd love the iPhone 7 to have, but overall I prefer Apple's product.

Well, can you tell me in which places iphone 7 is better apart from those? Cause to me, it is better in Horsepower and Speakers and software updates. But Samsung has better camera according to majority of the people (yet to see a professional person that disagrees honestly), it has wireless charging, better battery, better screen, dedicated headphone jack, microsd card, tied in waterproof and the list goes on.

I understand that it is your preference but thats not exactly an argument. Because by that logic, eveything is a preference and there is no reason for this thread. If in almost all tests, the Galaxy S7 produces better results though the camera, it wins. Now sure, your preference can be the zoom and etc and that is why you prefer the iphone 7 but for most people, the Galaxy S7 will be the better choice if they are deciding which camera is better overall and not in some specific category. Specially since the iphone 7's camera is more prone to mistakes.

The audio jack itself wouldn't qualify it as a home run but the entire package with the audio jack would.

Again, I am not arguing about what you like vs what you should like but I am arguing about what most people think about the phones. Cause no one can change a person's preference so arguing about preferences like that is pointless. I am not disagreeing that you prefer the iphone and its features but what I am saying is Galaxy S7 objectively has more things than iphone 7 does... Thus making it better in a day to day case due to it having more convinent things for the same price. Now if you prefer iphone 7 over S7, more power to you but there is no point in saying iphone is better for me because of this this and that. Cause I am not trying to tell you specifically that Galaxy S7 is better than the iphone for your personal preference but I am trying to tell you that from an objective standpoint, the S7 is better in a day to day basis for most people.