Phones If Apple were to close down tomorrow, which smartphone would you buy?

[Jimmy James]

iPhone 8. Smaller. No pwm.

 

[DougFNJ]

I would be gutted.

I would probably go back to Blackberry and get a Key 2.

 

[dumastudetto]

I'd keep using older iPhones forever.
There's nothing from anyone else that can ever better the Apple technology we have now.

 

[Newtons Apple]

I still have my Palm Pilots and they are ready to go!

 

[andylel]

some "ifs" are pointless to ask.

If the earth suddenly stopped spinning what would you do?

Travel to the side facing the sun if it was dark where I was

 

[Shanghaichica]

S10+. If I couldn’t get an iPhone.

 

[cubbie5150]

Intrigued by OnePlus, but I think they're T-Mobile exclusively in the US (disregard if incorrect; T-Mobile service in rural areas I'm mostly around won't work for me).

 

[jfim88]

Galaxy S10 Plus or Oneplus

 

[DNichter]

Not sure, but I would need another option that gave me the best combination of performance, security, privacy, ecosystem, apps and support. Right now, Apple can't really be beat when it comes to those areas, so it wouldn't make sense to shut down. Too many positives for the company.

 

[bruinsrme]

I would probably welcome this and move to removing the need to stare at a piece of glass. If anything a pay as you go flip phone would be my first choice.

 

[lostOzone]

Pixel or S10

 

[shahnamqadeer]

If apple properly shutdown then I use honestly blackberry again.

 

[bigjnyc]

I would probably give the S10+ a shot, but if Android on a samsung is as crappy as it was a few years ago when I tried it, I would move to a pixel 3.

 

[Oohara]

If the iPhone/iOS forums would close tomorrow, in which forum would you post?

 

[Cryates]

All of these phones do the same thing in different ways, so this doesn't really matter much at all.

 

[Ta0jin]

Some android, Sammy, Googs, One +... I'd pick one.

 

[Nerdyaf]

this https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/kyocera-ky-o1l-news/#/2

 

[villein]

I miss the Blackberry a lot, so I would go back to them in a heartbeat if Apple wasn't an option.

 

[Cryates]

All this talk of Blackberry, and they barely exist as a company today ... much less by the time Apple's empire falls.

 

[ondert]

In the meantime, I wish for Microsoft to come up with a Surface Phone capable of running x86 apps while docked to a monitor (like Continuum with x86 support). That would change the things. While Apple's trend for not caring Mac line-up is going on, I would pass totally to a windows setup then.

 

[Shanghaichica]

All this talk of Blackberry, and they barely exist as a company today ... much less by the time Apple's empire falls.

I wouldn’t have another blackberry phone. I had a blackberry pearl back in the day and it was rubbish. Don’t get the hype about blackberry. They aren’t even what they were back then. Now they barley exist.

 

[arkitect]

Pixel 3

 

[ramram55]

apple closed for me a long time ago. currently using a mate20 pro no need to wait for the future for apple to close the future is already here.

In the market for mate 20 pro, is your LG screen or not ?

 

[AustinIllini]

Pixel 3

 

[sracer]

apple closed for me a long time ago. currently using a mate20 pro no need to wait for the future for apple to close the future is already here.

Same here. Apple no longer makes phones that offer what I need. They barely did in the first place, but I was willing to compromise for the sake of the benefits. But like the frog in the pot slowly rising to a boiling temperature, the removal of the headphone jack and obscene pricing were the last straws.

Now I'm back to an Android phone that costs a fraction of the latest iPhones, has a headphone jack, removable battery, and removable storage. The ability to send and receive texts to my laptop/desktop helped to close one feature gap that Apple had over Android.