Android or iOS: Which do you like better?

[Loigan]

Which of the two popular platforms do you prefer and why?

[Onalie]

Honestly after having an Iphone3gs for over a year and now having a droid, I liked the iOS but I will never give up my android OS now lol just something about the ease of use that I find better about it. Maybe its the phone itself(processor etc) not sure, but I will never go back to a phone with an iOS

[Gesslar]

I wish I could vote, I've never used a droid. I just use my iPhone 4.

[Onalie]

I wish I could vote, I've never used a droid. I just use my iPhone 4.

you should find someone to let you play with one, or visit a cell store and look at em, they really are nice. Every single one of my friends who had either the 3gs or the 4, left them behind for an android based phone. Even my son, who was in love with the iphone, bounced off the walls today at the news he will have a droid like mine next week. There is just something about the smoothness or the systems and user friendly, I mean when a 7/8 year old can figure out all the ins and outs of it, you know it is a user friendly phone

[Jidoe]

Actually, kids are good about adapting to new technologies. It's when the 50-60 year older figure it out easily, you know it's user friendly.

[Calan]

Android, because I boycott Apple products in general.

[Qenton]

My two year old can navigate the Droid and Iphone with ease. He's figured out his mother's password to get on the phone. Kids are sponges. I agree. Find a 60 year old. Ask them to navigate the phones. Then you'll find out which one is more resilient. Because the old person will throw it on the ground after about 10 seconds of trying to figure it out.

[Onalie]

My two year old can navigate the Droid and Iphone with ease. He's figured out his mother's password to get on the phone. Kids are sponges. I agree. Find a 60 year old. Ask them to navigate the phones. Then you'll find out which one is more resilient. Because the old person will throw it on the ground after about 10 seconds of trying to figure it out.

hehe ok how about a 56 year old? My dad god bless him, tries to be a geek(needless to say I get the tech calls going "help me!") I have gotten zero calls since he got an adroid based cell, as opposed to at least 3-4 a month when he had the 3GS and 4

[Bael]

I'm not sure there's anything that really makes one of them stand out above the other. They're six of one, a half dozen of another. Any company worth their salt generally immediately turns around and makes their apps for both OS's, regardless of which they originally designed it for. Each has one real advantage though:

Apple: Unity of Hardware - Each iphone is created equally. An app that runs on one iphone 4 will run on EVERY iphone 4. This cannot be said about AndroidOS. Netflix is a great example of a company that's had horrendous stumbling blocks trying to get their software to work/run on Android. The sheer number of different phones that use Android and the different hardware and tech used in said phones is a hinderance. Because what a Droid2 by Motorola can run is a shitload different than what a Transform by Samsung can run which is a shitload different from what a EVO by HTC can run. Yeah, you probably don't have to worry if you're shelling out $300+ for the brand new top-of-the-line generation of Android phones... but if you're going back a generation or two to save money? Be careful.

Android: Flexibility of Software - If you don't like how something in AndroidOS works? There's an app for that! Seriously, you can customize and pretty much find a fix for any little gripe or option or application you could possibly think of for Android, because they keep it all open for people to modify. Apple takes its usual stance of people being stupid so you kind of just have to deal with what they give you... unless you jailbreak your phone and there are risks associated with that (bricking anyone?).

So I guess what really makes them stand out is the service from the carrier you choose... AT&T can go fuck itself with a giant rusty chainsaw. They keep finding more and more ways to fuck over their customers and make more money off of you. Verizon, meh, still don't have my interest yet. When they have a fully unlocked iPhone, that I can use on any carrier, I'd debate on getting one again (so long as they don't go full-on retard and make the iPhone 5 3D... like rumors are indicating is a possibility). I actually find myself using apps less and less lately, so what I want in an android phone is something smaller with better battery life... apparently the Android arms race isn't even considering that though... stupid fuckers.

I was going to just give you guys a couple cents, but I guess you get a whole cup full of change. Woo.

[Halyanne]

I have no experience with iphone. Hubby and I do love our android though.