Why I Still Won’t Switch from iPhone in 2025

Summary

In a 2025 video, Nick Ackerman discusses why he remains loyal to the Apple ecosystem with his iPhone 16 Pro. Key reasons include the seamless integration of Apple products like the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, alongside features such as AirDrop and iMessage. He compares the durability, resale value, and consistency of software updates between iPhones and Android devices, favoring Apple's approach. Despite appreciating Android devices for certain functionalities, the cohesive Apple ecosystem, robust security features, and intuitive built-in apps keep him from switching. Ackerman closes by inviting viewers to share their own tech preferences, emphasizing a personal, friendly dialogue around tech choices in 2025.

Highlights

• Nick highlights the addictive cohesion of the Apple ecosystem 🌐.
• AirDrop and iMessage are pivotal features that keep him loyal 📲.
• Face ID offers a seamless unlocking experience 🔓.
• iPhones tend to age better both in durability and software updates 📈.
• Apple's built-in apps are polished and user-friendly ✨.
• The resale value of Apple products remains significantly high 💸.
• Apple's cautious but strategic adoption of new tech trends 📊.
• Peer influence on communication platforms like iMessage matters 👥.

Key Takeaways

• Nick Ackerman loves Apple's seamless ecosystem 🌐.
• AirDrop and iMessage stand out as key features ✨.
• Face ID and built-in apps enhance the user experience 📱.
• iPhones' durability and resale value remain unmatched 💪.
• Apple's consistent software updates are a big plus 🔄.
• Resale value for Apple products is significantly higher 💵.
• Apple waits for innovation to stabilize before adopting 📈.
• Personal preference and peer influence reinforce staying with Apple 👥.

Overview

In the video, Nick Ackerman dives into the reasons why he continues to stick with the iPhone in 2025, focusing on the cohesive Apple ecosystem. From seamless integration between devices to exclusive features like AirDrop and iMessage, Nick elaborates on why Apple remains a superior choice for him. The design continuity and usability across Apple products deliver a user experience that's hard to replicate with other brands.

Nick acknowledges the advancements of Android devices and their appealing features, especially praising the Galaxy Watch Ultra. However, Apple's consistency in software updates, durability, and higher resale value fortify his preference. He details how Apple's built-in apps, such as the calendar and calculator, provide a seamless and polished user experience, contributing to why he remains entrenched in the Apple ecosystem.

The video wraps up with Nick inviting viewers to share their thoughts and experiences with staying or switching from Apple products. While maintaining a balanced view, he underscores the powerful influence of social factors like peer communication through iMessage and FaceTime, which further cement his loyalty to Apple. Nick also hints at future innovations like Apple foldables, showing his enthusiasm for what's next.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction Introduction: The chapter introduces the iPhone 16 Pro and discusses the narrator's reasons for not switching from the iPhone in 2025. The narrator, Nick, aims to help listeners master technology and begins by presenting the first reason for sticking with the iPhone.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Apple Ecosystem Advantage The Apple ecosystem is described as highly addictive due to the seamless integration of its products such as the iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, and Apple Watch. The integration is considered superior to other ecosystems, making it difficult for users to switch away from it in 2025. The chapter highlights how the Apple Watch Ultra is a favored accessory when used with the iPhone, although the reasons for this are not fully specified in the transcript provided.
• 01:00 - 01:30: Apple Watch Ultra The chapter discusses the Apple Watch Ultra, highlighting its integration and compatibility with Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It compares the Apple Watch Ultra with the Galaxy Watch Ultra, praising the latter as an impressive device from Samsung, though noting the superiority of the Apple ecosystem's cohesiveness and usability. The chapter emphasizes the seamless interaction and uniform user interface experience across Apple's products.
• 02:00 - 02:30: AirDrop Superiority The chapter discusses the ecosystem of Apple products and how they work seamlessly together, creating a superior user experience compared to the more fragmented experience one might have with Android and Windows products. The speaker appreciates Android phones and Windows laptops individually but highlights the superior integration and cohesion of Apple's products such as the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The chapter also mentions that AirDrop, Apple's file-sharing feature, doesn't have a real rival in terms of convenience and functionality.
• 03:00 - 03:30: iMessage and Group Chats The chapter discusses the convenience and popularity of using AirDrop for sharing files between devices. It mentions that AirDrop was one of the first features to facilitate easy file sharing, making it a commonly known and used function among users. The narrative suggests that while file sharing technologies exist on other platforms, AirDrop is perceived as offering a superior experience by many users, despite being a subjective opinion. The chapter seems to rank AirDrop as a highly valued feature, positioning it at number two in terms of preference.
• 04:00 - 04:30: Face ID Seamlessness The author discusses the reasons for not switching from Apple to another platform, emphasizing the seamless experience offered by Face ID. They highlight the integration benefits of staying within the Apple ecosystem, particularly in relation to iMessage and its superior group chat features. Face ID is listed as a key reason for staying with Apple, praised for its ease of use.
• 05:00 - 05:30: iPhone Durability and Aging The chapter discusses the seamless experience of using Face ID on both iPhone and iPad, highlighting how easily users can switch between the devices. It also touches on the topic of iPhone's durability and aging, stating that iPhones generally age better than Android phones, although acknowledges that some top Android competitors also offer similar durability.
• 06:00 - 06:30: Software Updates Consistency This chapter discusses the differences in software update consistency between Android and iPhone. It highlights that while Android phones may receive updates over a longer period, these updates are not as consistent as those on iPhones. iPhones tend to receive updates simultaneously across devices, providing similar features across the board, although there are some criticisms of Apple's features such as the Apple intelligence on newer models. Overall, iPhones maintain better consistency in software updates compared to Android phones.
• 07:30 - 08:00: Built-in Apple Apps This chapter discusses the advantages of software updates for Apple devices, emphasizing that updates are released simultaneously across all devices, unlike competitors like Samsung. The chapter highlights the challenges Samsung faced with their recent update to 1 UI7, where they had to pause the update due to bugs, making Apple's handling of updates more favorable.
• 08:30 - 09:00: Resale Value In this chapter titled 'Resale Value,' the discussion focuses on the advantages of Apple's iPhone, particularly in terms of software updates and built-in apps. The speaker expresses a preference for Apple's devices due to their high-quality native applications, like the Apple calendar and calculator, which offer advanced features. Comparisons are made with Samsung and Google apps, acknowledging their competitiveness, but the iPhone's integration and app capabilities are highlighted as superior.
• 10:00 - 10:30: Apple's Market Strategy The chapter titled 'Apple's Market Strategy' explores the advantages of Apple's built-in apps and their polished nature, highlighting apps like iMovie. It discusses how these apps contribute to the user experience and serve as a reason for users to remain loyal to the Apple platform. Additionally, it addresses Apple's superior resale value, noting that Apple products tend to sell quickly and retain value over time. This resale value is cited as another factor in Apple's successful market strategy, making it a preferred choice for many consumers.
• 11:00 - 12:00: User Engagement and Conclusion This chapter discusses user engagement in the context of selling and buying smartphones, with particular focus on the resale and trade-in experience of iPhones versus Samsung Galaxy phones. The speaker shares a personal anecdote about how quickly iPhones can sell and notes the high resale value they maintain. However, it is pointed out that trade-in values can vary, sometimes favoring Samsung over iPhones. Overall, the chapter touches on the competitive nature of smartphone trade-ins and resales, and concludes with an implicit understanding of how market values fluctuate between different brands.

Why I Still Won’t Switch from iPhone in 2025 Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 So, this is the iPhone 16 Pro, and in this episode, I'm going to share with you why I still will not switch from iPhone here in [Music] 2025. So, what is up guys? Nick here helping you to master your technology. And in this episode, we're going to talk about why I'm still not switching for my phone in 2025. Now the very first reason is the
• 00:30 - 01:00 ecosystem is too addictive. So we have the iPhone, the iPad, the Mac, the AirPods, the Apple Watch. All those things kind of cohesively come together very seamlessly and it works better than pretty much all the other ecosystems I've tried out there. And so for that reason alone, it's hard to switch off the iPhone ecosystem here in 2025. So, one of the things I like to use a lot with the iPhone is the Apple Watch Ultra. And the reason for this is
• 01:00 - 01:30 because the Apple Watch Ultra is just such a great overall companion to that device. And I've tried the Galaxy Watch Ultra, which is also freaking amazing. This is one of the best watches Samsung's made. Even though some people would say it looks just like an Apple Watch, the actual usability is very good, but the way the Apple Watch and everything works with iPhone just it's just a little bit better. like everything, especially the Mac, the iPad, the iPhone, they all kind of have like similar looking icons, similar
• 01:30 - 02:00 looking feel. It's not like on Android when I go from Windows to Android to Windows to, you know, it just it just feels more fragmented over there. So, I definitely still love Android phones by themselves and Windows laptops by themselves, like the Surface. I like the Surface laptop, but I like using my Galaxy phone. But an iPhone using the iPad, the iPhone, and the Mac, everything works very well together. So that makes it a little bit of a better experience. So the next one is AirDrop doesn't have like any real rival. We do
• 02:00 - 02:30 have the quick share on Samsung and stuff like that, but basically everyone knows how to airdrop between different devices. So if you have AirDrop on here, people know to go to the other device and just airdrop. And a lot of people know others that will airdrop to each other. So, I just find that the AirDrop experience is just better. So, that's going to go in at number two. Now, better is obviously subjective, but I think as a whole, most people know AirDrop was like the first to do that feature very well. So, I don't find it to be a major issue. So, that's a second
• 02:30 - 03:00 reason why I'm not switching. Now, you can see that I have six iMes right here, and I'm going to have to reply to those soon. But, at the same time, but at the same time, those are coming from people that are, you know, just into the Apple ecosystem. and they have iO devices, Apple devices. So, messaging them on Android would have been fine, but it's just going to not be in the same group chat because the iMessage group chat was a little bit better for stuff like that. So, at number four is Face ID. Face ID is just so seamless to use. When you go
• 03:00 - 03:30 ahead and unlock, it's just a really seamless experience. And that's going to go in at number four. I find that Face ID tends to work very well, especially when you are using it on iPad as well. So, kind of switching between the iPad and the iPhone feels like a very seamless experience. The next one is that iPhones just age better than Android phones in that they tend to have a little bit better durability in some respects. I'm not going to say all of them because some of the top competitors do have similar durability, but from for
• 03:30 - 04:00 a lot of other Android phones, these do have really good durability. Also, they age better in resale value. In addition to that, they age better in software because while Android phones do tend to update software a very long time now, sometimes longer than iPhone. The thing is is that those software updates aren't as consistent as what we find on the iPhone. So like they all come in at the same time on the iPhone and they all tend to give you similar features, although they really drop the ball with Apple intelligence on phones like the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max. Now the next
• 04:00 - 04:30 one is software updates. software updates um are definitely really really going to be worth it here because like I just mentioned they come in at the exact same time no matter which device you are using. So that's really a good thing because with the recent update to the 1 UI7 I find on the competitor Samsung Galaxy, they really dropped the ball on that. They even had to pause the update because there was an issue with bugs. So, I do find that the iPhone is the
• 04:30 - 05:00 better one when it comes to software updates without having the weight. I would actually use the Apple's built-in apps. So, this is another reason why I find the iPhone a little bit better than some. I do think Samsung competes very well with their own built-in apps and the Google apps are also available for those devices as well. Um, but the iPhone apps that are built in are actually pretty darn good uh to use like the Apple calendar, the Apple calculator with those new history and those those magic features where you can kind of
• 05:00 - 05:30 like write and they kind of like automatically give you the calculation. So, the built-in camera features, a lot of the built-in Apple apps are just really nice. They're nice and polished, including things like iMovie and stuff of that sort. So, I do quite like the built-in Apple apps, and it's one of the reasons why I don't feel like I want to switch fully off of this platform. And another one is that Apple's resale value is wildly better. Like it's I talked about it earlier, but it's a lot better. Like most people buy this really fast. You go to sell it, it's like boom, they
• 05:30 - 06:00 buy it. Like I've sold iPhones before and I posted and literally like 2 hours later I hear a chuchching on my phone, reminding me that they just bought the iPhone. So that was a while ago. I haven't sold an iPhone in a while. But still, they sell very fast and they have a high resale value and trade in value. Although I found that when I'm trying to get a Samsung Galaxy, they do lowball some of those trade-ins on the iPhone devices. Well, yeah, they definitely give you more for Galaxy phones on there. Um, but definitely even when Android wins in certain areas, for a lot
• 06:00 - 06:30 of people, it's just not enough. And the reason why I think comes down to ecosystem. I think it comes down to iMessage and FaceTime. And for 2025, Apple knows this. This is why they can still put out phones that haven't really hardware changed massively for this long and they still tend to do well. Um, this one is really good on battery and I do find that this year they know that it's been way too long. So, we're going to see some nice changes and I think iOS 19 is going to be preparing us for Apple foldables finally. So, yes, from the hardware perspective, Apple tends to
• 06:30 - 07:00 wait on the Android makers to do it first, see if it sticks, and then they do it. Um, but they tend to do it when they're ready to do it, not when everybody says to do it. Um, but for those reasons I mentioned in this video, it's why I still use iPhone and don't really plan to switch off of it anytime soon. What do you guys think? Do you have an iPhone? Are you staying with iPhone? Do you think I'm totally off base here? And don't get it wrong, just cuz I talk like this, you say, "Oh, Nick's an Apple fan, but it's all he uses." No, I actually use S25 Ultra. I use other Android phones. I have a SIM
• 07:00 - 07:30 dedicated to my Android devices, but I also use iPhone. And for main communications, the people I speak with, they all use iPhone. So, they don't really like texting me on the Android phone. But I don't care what they like texting. I still use them because I like Android. Uh, but this is why I'm not going to go away from iPhone. So, just so you know. And, um, I made this video to help you out to understand some of the pros of this product right here. But, I want to hear your thoughts about it. Are have you left this experience? It's so fun to know like people's
• 07:30 - 08:00 stories like did you leave? Why did you leave? Did you leave and then you came back or are you plan on never coming? It's fun to talk about this even now in 2025 and with the upcoming 17 series. It's going to be even more fun as the year goes on. So let us know down below in the comments. Thumbs up if you enjoyed it and I'll catch you on the next episode. Nick here. Be sure to be well and peace. [Music]