> It's because Apple uses a lock-in strategy, where once on an Apple platform it is painful to get off. Most of the smart Apple iPhone users I know actually use Google apps and Google's infrastructure and other third-party tools on their iPhones, so if they want to move to an Android phone they can move almost seamlessly.<p>...what? Sentence 1, "once on Apple it's painful to get off." The <i>very next sentence</i>, the author says that most iPhone people he knows could move to Android almost seamlessly. That doesn't sound like it's that painful to get off.<p>Look, if you're going to contradict yourself, <i>fine</i>, just... put a few sentences in between first.