The iPhone X from an Android user’s perspective

It’s been almost a year since the Google Pixel made me put down my iPhone and

transformed me from a Google apps user on Apple hardware to a pure Google acolyte. In the grand tug of war between mobile religions, I’m now pulled in the direction of Android, and I can’t express much regret about it. But Apple has just made official its biggest redesign and rethink of the iPhone ever, and so I was definitely curious about the iPhone X and the future it paints for the Apple ecosystem. As it turns out, though, the iPhone X really isn’t a phone designed to draw me back in; it’s more customer service to existing iPhone users than an appeal to new ones. The Android user hat isn’t the only one I wear, but here are my main iPhone X takeaways from the perspective of someone deeply immersed in the Android realm: A radical iPhone redesign is a good thing for everyone, no matter what it looks like or who buys it. I think this is an important point that’s all too often disregarded: any sufficiently ambitious company should dread the stagnation of its competitors, which is liable to lead to complacency and a slowdown in progress. When the United States put people on the moon in the 1960s, those efforts were spurred by the threat of the Soviet Union making it there first. Having a strong rival is essential to keeping up the pace of innovation. Google and its myriad Android hardware partners have always had that in Apple’s iPhone, and this major redesign will give them a fresh and different antagonist to measure up against.                                                                                                                           https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/16/16318582/iphone-x-android-user-perspective