I got a Galaxy S2 when it came out and plan to stick with open mobiles operating systems from now on. I mean it's really nice to have a choice in what model you want as I'm a fan of the 4.3+ inch screens and it's just so nice to have so much variety. The problem with the iPhone is you get stuck with one model for two or so years. I mean the iPhone 4s hasn't fixed the major issue for me off it feeling horrible in my hand with the very square metal edges. I cannot live without Flash in a browser, I love on Android being able to view full desktop sites as I would on my PC. I hate having to view mobile sites which are so inferior because Apple wont at least give me the option to install Flash. Yes it drains battery life but that is why you have it on demand and not on all the time. Animated Widgets are another amazing thing because I can have my screen constantly auto updating with the news and weather, things that are important to me. Yet the iPhone remains static and always looks the same, it has no customization and I hate how it is just a mess of Icons all the time. With Android I can stretch the widgets if I wish to look more like Windows Phone 7. I love not being locked into iTunes and formats only Apple approve of, I love FLAC and Android supports it where as Apple do not. Even if they did there is no option for external storage to be able to hold lots of FLAC content. iTunes has to be one of the worst pieces of software I have ever used, the UI is a mess, has limited codecs and it seems so slow and always wants to crash. I just don't get it because I have a beefy Windows PC and it is the only software that reacts like this apart from IE lol. Everyone I know seems to complain about it too, I know it isn't just me. I also hate how hard it i to find good content because the menus just suck and feel so old. I know Android Marketplace sucks too but I'll just go on a torrent websites and get everything I want much easier than using iTunes. Android is so open and so nice to use with such a variety of handsets to choose from, I just cannot see why I would ever buy an iPhone again. I sold my iPhone 4 and got a Galaxy s2 and it is a much better phone. I know the iPhone 4s has a dual core but you know it's underclocked and the phone still has a small screen and doesn't support flash. With Ice Cream Sandwich on the way I cannot wait to see what the future of Android has in store. I just hope it isn't as bad as Google + lol.... One final point is how networks seem to restrict the iPhone (at least in the UK) a lot more than Android handsets. I have unlimited data on Android but the iPhone would be anywhere from 500mb - 2gb. Also tethering was always an extra to pay more for on the iPhone but on Android it is free and I use it so much for all my other Wifi only devices like my Laptop, PC, friends mobiles or when my land line goes down.
Wait, you mean more than 5% of the consumer base for Apple can about any of those things? There's your answer. I attend an university with over 50,000 students. Android phones seriously don't even make up one percent of the phones on campus. iPhone 4? Let's just say you're going to have to go through a lot of people before finding someone who doesn't have one. 75% of the the 50,000 students here at UT Austin having an iPhone 4 would probably be an underestimation. It's the market trend. Apple appeals to people who don't care about tech specs, and honestly, that's probably 99% of the people you'll ever meet. There's a reason why iPods have a near monopoly in the music industry, and it's not because that it's better than every other MP3 device ever invented.
I prefer the square edges of the my iphone4 to the rounder 3gs personally. The 3GS had a nasty habit of slipping out of my hand...
Besides that point of the copying and pasting, I might switch right into the Nexus Prime that's going to be announced next week. If you're familiar with the tech specs, it's a pretty awesome phone
(Bolding mine) Use Google and check your statistics. Android has a much bigger market share than that. I do agree with the statement I bolded in blue. If anecdotal evidence is sufficient for you then I can say that of all the people I know, about 1/4 to 1/3 of them have iPhones.
Market share? That was clearly not what I said. If Androids had a market share under 5%, I'm pretty sure there wouldn't an enormous standard war going on between iPhones and Androids. Also, I didn't say it was out of everyone I knew, just what I observed around campus for adults between 18 and 22, generally. But yes, it's all just anecdotal in this case. Edit: In any case, I think there's more than enough similar discussions going on at every tech site on the internet for this topic to be discussed here. I'm sure the OP already knows the answer to his own question.
I am sure developers will listen and make many more apps for Android now. Hey, supporting a huge range of devices and resolutions and at the same time the apps reach the customers much more "directly", that sounds to good to be true.
I, like so many others don't really want an over-complicated, extremely customizable phone. I don't care about widgets when I have apps to solve every purpose I need catered to. I don't need a bigger screen since I have an iPad for that purpose, and I don't need an Android-based phone since the iOS is much smoother, IMO. I used to hate Apple once upon a time, because it was far more "rigid" than a customizable Windows-based PC. I still wouldn't switch from PC to Mac but, as far as mobile devices are concerned, you can't beat Apple IMO. http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=104817
I don't get all these arguments against the iPhone... The phone should be about the entertainment and not about how much ROM or RAM or whatever is in it... With android the galaxy s2 can hardly use it's features... If it would be iOS running on it then i would say that phone is worth the money, but this way, no. For me the most important things on a phone is the Apps/Games as i use them more than any other features... and in Apps iOS is on the top.. and will be for a long time You can also customize your phone.. you just need to jailbreak.
all I have to say to that is https://market.android.com/?hl=en plenty of games and apps including ones not on IOS like minecraft and kairosoft games which haven't come to the Iphone as yet. So far just today on various tech sites I've read the 4s actually has a worse battery than the 4 (engadget camera test) and that it smashed when dropped from waist height (gizmodo), also has a yellow screen (everywhere). S2 outsold the iPhone in most of the world were it was actually released America has only recently got it. I expect the S3 is on the horizon but I'm very interested in getting myself a Galaxy Note if an S3 isn't announced by then. This doesn't mean I've given up on Apple only I won't update unless they bring out a up iPod with the latest technology. They complain of poor iPod sales when they don't update it of course people aren't going to buy the old one anymore.
Of course it's going to outsell the iPhone 4. The phone was released a year earlier. I pretty much go with everyone else. I get an iPhone for the games, reliability, the touch screen and simplicity.
1. I have four years and hundreds of dollars invested in the iOS platform. I've watched the iPhone go from a barely functional brick into a robust ecosystem over the past four years and I want to see where that continues to lead. 2. The only thing the 4S doesn't have that I want in a phone is a larger screen. It's a minor annoyance compared to the hassle of switching platforms. 3. I used to be a windows user with a PC running about a dozen pieces of third party software at startup for no good reason. System monitor, weather widget, third party app launcher.. It was "customized" to my liking and looking back it looked like shit. I have never once felt the desire to spend time playing with superfluous crap like that since I've switched to the Mac, why would I want to replicate that experience on my phone? Ultimately Apps are more important to me then UI.
I used to be a die-hard PC guy but I made the switch from PC to Mac for audio engineering - I was sick of dealing with all the headaches that come along with using systems like SONAR and Cubase. As soon as I switched to Logic my productivity and workflow skyrocketed. I only game on PC now, and I actually do a lot of retro gaming in OSX. I won't buy another PC again - not when you can install Windows through Boot Camp and it works just as well as anything else. Mac all the way
