Reply With QuoteThey each do different things better. Rather than having to make a choice, I have both.
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Radiation is good
found it, lmao!
Mobile phone addict
They each do different things better. Rather than having to make a choice, I have both.
"I didn't get fat by accident. This was a personal choice. " - Kevin Gillespie
I've got more phones than fingers
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That brings up the question of the VM ability to Swap Phones within your account. With the huge number of subscribers using Android devices on VM, will Sprint/VM allow iPhone subscribers to swap devices if they are on the discounted priced iPhone plans???Originally Posted by mch
Operating without a contract makes you far more valuable.
I've got more phones than fingers
Downloaded it, lmao!
found it, lmao!
I have a blue tooth
This illustrates your ignorance.
Sprint pays Apple that money for the phone.
Apple is the only winner, just check it's stock price & financials.
You price your products based on what the market will allow and for whatever reason Apple can get more. That goes for phones, tablets, desk top computers and laptops.
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My screen is bigger than yours
I own an OV and Te new iPad, and my opinion is that they both have polar opposites of one an others problem.
Android:
Open
Tougher to learn
Many phones
"Few" Developers
iOS:
Closed
Easier to learn
One phone
Many Developers
etc., etc....
Just get the job done, and you got me as a customer.
Phone Expert
Android has the same developers as iOS. Android has too much of a market share for the Instagrams of the world to ignore it. I will also never understand the statement that iOS is easier to learn than Android, because one has a back button, and the other doesn't.
Radiation is good
Yea I never understood what learning curve people were trying to describe. Both operating systems work the same as far as usability. iOS lacks a home screen but any fool can open the app window and from that point its ABC. There is nothing to learn.
Android does not have the same developers. I even know of developers (game co.) that left android due to the tech support nightmare the multi system OS entails. There are many exclusive top shelf games that are iOS only. I can only hope the draw of better tech and screen resolutions android is pulling out these days will help fuel the need for the best looking games to be on android.
Mobile phone addict
This is an important point. I have used quite a few Android phones, and there is a lot of "this app works on this phone but not that phones." I have noticed this is particularly true with voip apps. iOS hardware is so constrained, and one doesn't have to worry about carrier/manufacturer customizations that developers can simply test on all hardware.
The manufacturers and carriers just love to screw up Android phones. Yes, custom roms are a solution, but they don't exist for all phones. Bloatware is added and features are removed/altered at whim. Software updates to fix serious security or functionality issues may or may not come.
All that said, I use both. Each operating system is better for some things. In addition, the fact that I can get an Android phone with a keyboard is still a huge factor for me.
Phone Collector
For whatever reason?.?? how about aluminum unibody, magsafe connector, iPhone steel frame..... Apple uses premium ingredients, while Android manufctureres use plastic.....materials cost more, ence the higher price....nt everythng is software
Phone Expert
You know that doesn't mean anything, right? These phones do not cost as much as their sell price. It's true with all electronics and I don't know about you, but the android phones I've owned have not been plastic hunks of junk. If you want to be a fan of a small screened phone that lacks the power of almost android phone, then that's your choice.
That aside, the open source nature of Android may be hard on some producers but they are going to have to deal. Android's market share is only going to grow. The more the grows, the more people have have to leave the walled garden, and come join us over in Android land.
I've climbed a cellphone tower
If only Android OS had better support for realtime audio processing and better music production apps like NanoStudio, Animoog or WavePad, which is open source. Oh well, maybe someday.
Q: Would you patronize a streetwalker?
A: No, I would treat her as an equal.
Mobile phone addict
Calling Android "open source" while technically true, doesn't really meet much of the spirit of open source. In particular, the software on my particular Android phone is not really open source. If I own X model of phone, I can't generally download all of the source code, modify it, build it. The development is all really centered on google, not on a community. The manufacturers' and carriers' modifications are usually not open source. One has to go to considerable effort/hackery to modify the phone software at all. Android is certainly more open than iOS or WP7, but that isn't saying much.
I say this as someone who is a fan of open source software and makes his living off open source software.
I've climbed a cellphone tower
Agreed. And even iOS has it's open source development:
open.iphonedev.com
Radiation is good
My friend is a huge Apple fan. He's had every iphone, every ipad, both Apple TVs, and every time I mention Android, he goes on a tirade that Android stole everything from iOS and how everything Apple creates is original and innovative.
So then I say "you mean like how Apple stole the slide-down notification center from Android? Or iMessage from BBM?" Then he shuts up.
Sure it's just one little thing, but my point was: every company takes ideas from other companies.
Did McDonalds sue Burger King when BK made hamburgers out of meat? Nope.
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