iOS or Android?

Brawler said:
Lol you took it as an insult. Of course a tech person can use apple if they want to. I'd love a macbook and even an iPhone as I mentioned earlier.

If I look in my circles, social and work literally all tech minded people run Android and the non technical people prefer Apple. This obviously just an observation. I think its pretty clear that Apple doesn't want you to fiddle too much where as Google is more open which attracts the tech heads.
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;) Yep, haven't had my second cup of coffee to smooth off the edges yet.

I will say this 'tho... Apple stores are very, very different to what they were a couple of years ago and I don't mean the look and feel. Used to be you'd pop in and there might be a couple of people browsing and you'd end up spending a lot longer there just talking Mac... Since the launch of the iPad, the shops are always busy and the help desk actually has queues and it's all iPad. The Mac guys tend to sort their issues out on their own.
 
cerebus said:
Not to nitpick or anything but... iPad Air is quite a bit faster in benchmarks than Note 2014.

Personally I'd rather get an Android phone and an iPad than the other way around. But eh that's just me.
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Yup he is doing it wrong. Apple has the best tablet IMO. not so with phones.
 
greg0205 said:
1977 actually. Or was it a long time a go in a galaxy far, far away? Can't recall which. ;)
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and then in 1991 it was made invalid... and a new quote was born

"This Opel Monza 160i GSi COTY 1991 from the Delta Motor Corporation is now the ultimate power in the universe! I suggest we use it!" - Admiral Motti's son
 
fanie.dry said:
and then in 1991 it was made invalid... and a new quote was born

"This Opel Monza 160i GSi COTY 1991 from the Delta Motor Corporation is now the ultimate power in the universe! I suggest we use it!" - Admiral Motti's son
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Verily, I have missed all the action related to the COTY 1991 Opel Monza on MyBB of late... Off to chastise myself right now. :D
 
This so reminds me of the old mac vs pc debate, except it's now Android vs iOS. IMHO neither is intrinsically better, they are born from the polar opposites of OS philosophies - open vs closed, and each of those has pros and cons.

Since iOS is purpose built for a limited set of hardware and the apps are tightly controlled, the apps tend to be really slick, intuitive and functional while Android is totally open but saddled with ever increasingly fragmented and diverse hardware platforms and more than a few mediocre developers. BUT having said this there is little to distinguish between the top apps on either platform.

Cheap low powered Android devices tend to give Android a bad name - if you've ever tried a sub-$100 Indian/Chinese tablet/phone phone with a slow cpu and crappy touch screen you'd think it was rubbish, but on a top end Samsung the standard is comparable if not better than iOS.

The mac/pc desktop rivalry of the 80s/90s demonstrated that flexibility and price always wins market share which seems to be the case with Android, but mac was always revered for it's quality and maintained a niche in the graphic design industry. IN much the same way, iOS will maintain a niche among those that appreciate the added benefits of tightly coupled os and hardware.

Bottom line - do you want to be bound to the whims of a single company for your apps or devices? If not, Android is the new gold standard, because even though it is Google's baby it's open source, you can pretty much run it on anything, and install anything on it the same way you could run DOS on any generic pc in the old days.
 
An app store that consists over over a million individual apps can hardly be described as 'bound to the whims of a single company'. As for devices, there's widespread homogenisation of the form factors in any case.
 
I work in software development, and part of my teams responsibility is mobile application development for both Android and IOS.

In my opinion, Android is the future (at least in comparison to IOS).

My first smart phone after my Blackberry was my Galaxy S2 (Android). Everyone laughed at me and said "why would you get the S2 and not the IPhone". I said, because Android is going to be better and will take over from IOS. They laughed at me. I said "just wait and see". 2 years later, Android was leading market share. Now they all have Android phones and wont go back.

I think that for a more general non-technical user, IOS is good. It just works. Interface is fast and smooth. My girlfriend loves it.

For everyone else, there's Android!

Also, developers (like myself) don't enjoy being restricted. They like things to be "open" and customizable. They want to do what they want to do. Therefore, they will generally opt to focus on learning Android (Java) development instead of IOS (Objective-C) development. Also, its easier to learn Android development. Java is open. Android SDK is open. You can develop it on a normal Windows or Linux machine. IOS on the other hand is more difficult. You specifically need a Mac. You need to pay Apple a developers license every year. Its not open source. Etc Etc.

All this means that generally companies will have more Java (and therefor Android) development skills available, and less Objective-C (IOS) development skills available. So they will battle to produce good Apple/IOS applications over time. Thus, Android will grow, IOS will decline. I'm experiencing this exact problem within my team. We simply cannot find any IOS developers out there. And no one seems to want to learn and become experts in IOS development, as they dont see it as a good career path. But Java developers (and therefore Android skills) are more readily available.

So, I have been saying for years that Android will take over from IOS. I believe that the above is one of the major contributing factors.
 
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fanie.dry said:
which functionality does it lack?
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The iphone is too stale, too boring for me. Go solid hardware but it is intentionally crippled by Apple. I love Push Bullet, Tasker, SwiftKey ,Emulators, Customizing my phone, 441ppi, dragging a dropping files, hell the other day i had torrents running on my phone. I love changing icon packs once in a while. I can't make my phone the way I like it like on Android.
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Til iOS has these capabilities, not thanks.
 
dleerob said:
I work in software development, and part of my teams responsibility is mobile application development for both Android and IOS.

In my opinion, Android is the future (at least in comparison to IOS).

My first smart phone after my Blackberry was my Galaxy S2 (Android). Everyone laughed at me and said "why would you get the S2 and not the IPhone". I said, because Android is going to be better and will take over from IOS. They laughed at me. I said "just wait and see". 2 years later, Android was leading market share. Now they all have Android phones and wont go back.

I think that for a more general non-technical user, IOS is good. It just works. Interface is fast and smooth. My girlfriend loves it.

For everyone else, there's Android!

Also, developers (like myself) don't enjoy being restricted. They like things to be "open" and customizable. They want to do what they want to do. Therefore, they will generally opt to focus on learning Android (Java) development instead of IOS (Objective-C) development. Also, its easier to learn Android development. Java is open. Android SDK is open. You can develop it on a normal Windows or Linux machine. IOS on the other hand is more difficult. You specifically need a Mac. You need to pay Apple a developers license every year. Its not open source. Etc Etc.

All this means that generally companies will have more Java (and therefor Android) development skills available, and less Objective-C (IOS) development skills available. So they will battle to produce good Apple/IOS applications over time. Thus, Android will grow, IOS will decline. I'm experiencing this exact problem within my team. We simply cannot find any IOS developers out there. And no one seems to want to learn and become experts in IOS development, as they dont see it as a good career path. But Java developers (and therefore Android skills) are more readily available.

So, I have been saying for years that Android will take over from IOS. I believe that the above is one of the major contributing factors.
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What exactly do you mean by "it just works". What would you say "just works" on iOS and doesnt on android. I have found the opposite to be true. Try taking a picture and uploading it straight into any app other than the ones sanctioned by Apple. I submit that it will take you more steps to get to the same result.
Lets not forget this. http://www.gsmarena.com/upcoming_ios_7_update_to_fix_random_reboots-news-7637.php Yes iOS7 is laggy and prone to crashing.
 
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