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Originally Posted by Temporary_User
What is this apple ecosystem everyone keeps mentioning?
My setup is an iPhone, iPad, and Macbook Pro. What conveniences am I getting by keeping this setup instead of getting the Nexus?
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Well for instance I use iMessage-- messages pop up on my phone, my iPad and my mac. I use iCloud to share photos of my daughter with family members, I can immediately add photos to the photo stream from whichever device I'm using. I subscribe to iTunes in the cloud so that all of my music is available to all of my devices wherever I am, etc. That's the ecosystem I'm referring to. I've also invested many dollars over time to purchasing apps with will work on all of my iOS devices.
I guess the thing I'm asking myself is whether or not Apple products are still worth the premium. From what I am reading, this Nexus 5 is a very comparable phone as far as specs go to the iPhone 5S-- is paying twice as much for a similar product worth it? I don't know. I'm trying to convince myself that I don't have to be locked into the services that apple gives me. I loved my experience with the Nexus 4 last year, but in the end the fact that I'm all apple with everything else won me back.
Is the Nexus 5 going to help me break free from that? By the responses so far it sounds like a no. I'm just not sure where to draw that line. $400 vs $800 is making me seriously consider it.