A four-year iPhone user spends 29 days on Android

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Wish he went into more detail about why he rooted the phone (ie. what apps/functions)
 

MaximusZA

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Great article! and I am happy to see the comments didn't collapse into a fanboy war.
 

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Wish he went into more detail about why he rooted the phone (ie. what apps/functions)

Here is why...

Since I came from the jailbroken iOS world, I was used to at least some freedom of customization, but I've noticed a lot of iOS android-style customizations like live wallpapers, attempts at widgets, Springboard animations, Winterboard/Summerboard themes, custom keyboards, etc. will make iOS much more unstable and are often times more gimmicky than functional.

Stock iOS is generally more stable than stock Android (in my limited experience), but a heavily-modified jailbroken iOS is (in much much more extensive experience) generally less stable (and at times much laggier) than stock - or even rooted - Android. After all was said and done, the only real major tweaks I had left on my iPhone 4 were Intelliscreen X and Sprintomize, and those alone slowed down my phone to a noticeable level. Not only that, but my phone would fairly consistently re-spring. In the end, each tweak I added to iOS felt like another gamble. Overall for stability and performance I'd say:

Stock iOS > Stock ICS > Rooted ICS > Jailbroken iOS.

Like he did with iOS, his freedom of customization... not specific app / funtions then.
 

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Good article- well worth reading.

Interestingly I also think that the Apple Tablet is better than the Android Tablets
 

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Agree with everyone.
This was a good read and I like that he points out what did and didn't work for him -the fact that he stresses that it's his opinion.
Thanks for posting.
 

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Loving the last comment about blackberry.

Very well written and balanced article.
 

TJ99

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Bah, both those fancy, "modern" OS's are crap. There's a Nokia coming out with a zillion megapixel camera. I mean OMG, Android hardware can't compare to that. Who cares if it only has one CPU core, less memory, Bluetooth 2, only wireless G, a quarter the display resolution and one or two other minor things? I mean it has a HIGH RES CAMERA FFS! That destroys anything else instantly. Ancient, creaky operating systems > Modern, streamlined stuff. Everyone knows this ololololol. Also Android can't multitask olololol

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Actually, it's a pretty interesting read, I agree with pretty much everything. Way more rational than I've read from any Apple user so far. Bonus points for not mentioning "design language" or "user experience", but minus one for heavy use of "ecosystem."
 

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To all the android zealots, may I remind he wrote this :
I briefly flirted with WP7, which I think is great in its own ways

You should all be writing off this article as a crock now, yes ?
 

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Actually, it's a pretty interesting read, I agree with pretty much everything. Way more rational than I've read from any Apple user so far. Bonus points for not mentioning "design language" or "user experience", but minus one for heavy use of "ecosystem."

Out of curiosity, what's wrong with talking about those things? That stuff is important! I realise that Apple bloggers frequently misuse the term "bad user experience" to mean "an interface I'm not familiar with", but that doesn't change the fact good UI/UX is extremely important for the success of a platform. I'm glad that Google has got Matias Duarte on board and is paying more attention to that stuff. It makes Android better.
 

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Out of curiosity, what's wrong with talking about those things? That stuff is important! I realise that Apple bloggers frequently misuse the term "bad user experience" to mean "an interface I'm not familiar with", but that doesn't change the fact good UI/UX is extremely important for the success of a platform. I'm glad that Google has got Matias Duarte on board and is paying more attention to that stuff. It makes Android better.

There's nothing wrong with talking about the concepts, and yes of course the interface is very important. It's just the inventing of pretentious buzzwords (where none are needed) that's the problem. That's what the Apple crowd tends to do and eventually many of the people always throwing the terms around clearly don't even know what they mean. They're just using words to sound informed when they really aren't.
 
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Park@82

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Thanks for posting, IIRC we have a guy on Mybb that also moved from iPhone to the OneX (insurance claim). I wonder what his views are.
 

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lol, only thing I found ironic was calling google play a stupid name (while reviewing on an Ipad).

good article though :)
 

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Of all my time working with these types user defined phones, this is the first glimpse I get of what previous users are saying about Apple products. And yet so many folk are flocking to Apple as their main providers. One then questions their way of thinking, but not in a bad way, as everybody has their own needs and wants... Before I got my S2, I also thought long and hard about which platform to go to after having a CrapBerry, and Android seemed the more "open" platform. And now, more than half a year later, I'm looking forward to my next Android, possibly the Note 2, as iOS seems way too restricted in what you can do with the phones...

Having read that article with great interest, one line out of the blog stood out like a sore thumb to me, and brings home my exact view point on this whole battle:
I've learned that iOS is what Apple wants it to be and Android is, for better or worse, what you make of it.

I basically had to sit back and absorb that line, as it says things about both platforms that I think not even the platforms themselves will be able to describe. And I feel WP7 is going down the same way as iOS, and pity on them, as I can see Android taking the market, slowly but surely, and the big manufacturers are seeing the potential and are making devices that people want, and not what one company wants everybody to have....
 

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Of all my time working with these types user defined phones, this is the first glimpse I get of what previous users are saying about Apple products. And yet so many folk are flocking to Apple as their main providers. One then questions their way of thinking, but not in a bad way, as everybody has their own needs and wants... Before I got my S2, I also thought long and hard about which platform to go to after having a CrapBerry, and Android seemed the more "open" platform. And now, more than half a year later, I'm looking forward to my next Android, possibly the Note 2, as iOS seems way too restricted in what you can do with the phones...

Having read that article with great interest, one line out of the blog stood out like a sore thumb to me, and brings home my exact view point on this whole battle:


I basically had to sit back and absorb that line, as it says things about both platforms that I think not even the platforms themselves will be able to describe. And I feel WP7 is going down the same way as iOS, and pity on them, as I can see Android taking the market, slowly but surely, and the big manufacturers are seeing the potential and are making devices that people want, and not what one company wants everybody to have....

Which interestingly is a fundamental design philosophy - read the Jobs book and you'll get where Apple is coming from with that decision - it's not right or wrong, it just 'is' - some wants to tinker, most just wants to use...

I suspect vast majority just wants to 'use' hence creation of 'Sense UI', etc for Android devices as well.

Long may the rivalry continue - we'll end up the winners - in fact I'm hoping that WM7 is a success as well - nothing like competition to keep the players honest, on their toes and hungry!
 

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Lol, I kept reading "A four-year old iPhone user".

:D

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