[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Android Vs Apple (Page 1 of 4)
Posted: 5/18/2012 10:28:55 AM EDT
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Since we have done Beans and 9mm vs Meat and 1911
How about Android Vs Apple I have recently started using Android, and I'm quite impressed. |
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Quoted: Used both. Apple is more dependable and professional in my opinion, and email is normal email. However, the phone reception was better on my androids than on my iPhone 4. Never heard anybody refer to the lonely housewife smart phone as "more professional"...  This looks pretty professional:  |
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If Android would get their shit together and stop the fragmentation of the Android OS that happens on every cell provider they would crush Apple.
I was an Admin over on droidforums and the OS is slick, but it get's old tinkering with each device to get it to run stable. |
| I have an Iphone and an android tablet. Iphone wins hands down for normal use. I dont want to hack into the OS so I can turn it into a nuclear triggering device or other useless uber-nerdy application that normal people would never ever need. I find the droid OS non-intuitive at best. |
| Apple iPhone looks like a kids device. I haven't touched my iPod touch since I picked up my new droid phone. No comparison in functionality, the droid wins hands down. My girlfriend only uses her iPhone to make calls and txt, for everything else, she asks to use my phone. It has a bigger screen, it is faster, the connection is better. |
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If Android would get their shit together and stop the fragmentation of the Android OS that happens on every cell provider they would crush Apple. I was an Admin over on droidforums and the OS is slick, but it get's old tinkering with each device to get it to run stable. Every android phone I've had (3 so far) haven't needed any tinkering at all to be stable. I'm on a Galaxy Nexus, and aside from the 5 seconds it took me to root it, I haven't done anything. It's perfectly stable. Windows would fit into the description of "fragmented", since most OEMs tweak and customize the OS for their hardware or product. Yet Windows has the largest market share. If you want something that is exactly the same everywhere you see it, then iOS is for you. 
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I like my Galaxy S and plan to get a Galaxy S III later this year. iPhones are good phones and I will recommend them to people if the topic comes up but I prefer Android based phones. The shit that staunch supporters of both types of phones sling at each other is highlarious.
If you want simplicity with little room for customization of your phone/interface, go iPhone. If you want total control of your phone with the ability to change anything your heart desires (though most are fine without any customization), get an Android based phone. The one huge plus that the iPhone has going for it in my book is that the phone is standardized. When a new generation phone comes out, there is one form factor that all of the accessory manufacturers produce parts for. For Android phones there are a plethora of models and form factors and even when you have the same phone on different carriers, you'll have a situation where each carrier wants to be a special snow flake with a different form factor for the SAME DAMN PHONE.  T-Mobile has more rounded edges for their phone while Spring has flatter edges etc. This greatly limits how many aftermarket cases and other accessories you'll find that are phone specific.
Oh if you're a carnie with small hands then the iPhone is probably better there too. 
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Quoted: Quoted: Oh man this is gonna get ugly... but I vote for android +1 I've had a Droid OS for about 3 years now and when the Iphone 5 comes out this year I'll be switching to it - I like change, love the iCloud feature on my MBP and iPad3  The Apple unified platform works well. Same with those that are adopting WinMO7/8. Works great with the MS Unified platform. Android is platform independent, just relying on google cloud services. I prefer the Google approach. Any system meets all your needs for access.
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Quoted: On a serious note, I think either will work fine for the vast majority of people. I happen to have Android, but I wouldn't be totally against an Iphone either. Do Iphones have turn by turn navigation yet? That may be a deal breaker for me.... Apple is working on a maps app last I heard, but I do not follow that much. |
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ETA- I don't think the COC says anything about apples giving robots blow jobs does it? http://static.happyplace.com/assets/images/2012/05/4fb125495fd1f.jpeg 
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Quoted: IOS is so nice and polished, but man it just seems silly as hell to not have a good navigation program. If the 5 has one I may pick one up, though I've been pretty happy with my Thunderbolt, minus a few minor issues. Quoted: On a serious note, I think either will work fine for the vast majority of people. I happen to have Android, but I wouldn't be totally against an Iphone either. Do Iphones have turn by turn navigation yet? That may be a deal breaker for me.... Apple is working on a maps app last I heard, but I do not follow that much. |
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Quoted: Quoted: IOS is so nice and polished, but man it just seems silly as hell to not have a good navigation program. If the 5 has one I may pick one up, though I've been pretty happy with my Thunderbolt, minus a few minor issues. Quoted: On a serious note, I think either will work fine for the vast majority of people. I happen to have Android, but I wouldn't be totally against an Iphone either. Do Iphones have turn by turn navigation yet? That may be a deal breaker for me.... Apple is working on a maps app last I heard, but I do not follow that much. Tbolt is a good phone. My wife loves hers. Solid. |
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Quoted: I choose Apple and iOS. To me, it is better architecturally and will be the more capable OS as it evolves. I also consider the fact that nearly every product Google is involved with, beyond search, is a POS. Beyond search...gmail...google voice....google chat... |
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They each have their benefits and problems.
Apple sucks because you have to do everything Apple's way, and that's through iTunes. Which sucks balls. I hate the hoops Apple makes you jump through to do simple shit on the phone like add a ringtone or turn a picture into the phone's background. It's fucking maddening that you can't view media content that isn't in Apple Blessed through the default applications. Meanwhile Android don't give a shit, it will happily play .mkv files you download onto the thing just as you would a USB drive and you're good to go. Not with an iPhone! You have to plug the motherfucker into iTunes...and into the one machine it's managed by through iTunes, because nobody ever connects to more than one, right? Motherfuckers...and then you have to suck the files you want to use in the third party app you were forced to by so you didn't have to convert all your .mkv rips into a fucking iTunes compatible format into the specific app. You have to do this because the goddamn thing tries to do all your thinking for you and by trying to make it simple, they make it complicated as fuck if you don't jump through their fucking hoops. ...and the nice shit it's supposed to do to make life simple with their fucking "genius" software? Doesn't work on a bunch of your media files anyway. The droid phone, at least my old Motorola Droid, was not the high maintenance bitch the iPhone is in terms of getting my media onto the phone in a useful format. Or changing ringtones. Or changing backgrounds. Or customizing where icons go. Or being able to fucking delete the factory bullshit bloat off the goddamn phone, because I don't give a fuck about NewsStand, goddamit. The Android phones, at least all the ones I've used, come with excellent GPS from Google by default that will happily do turn-by-turn directions. The iPhone? Fuck you, that's what they come with. You want voice turn by turn instructions on the phone? Download a paid app. Or use Waze, which I still haven't figured out how to use properly. There's no fucking excuse for that. None. There's also no excuse for not having an LED or something on the fucking iPhone to flash and let you know "Hey, motherfucker, you missed a call or got an email on the important email account." since I may not be in the room with the goddamn thing at all possible moments. I loved my Droid phone for the most part. The on board camera on my Droid sucked donkey balls. It was awful on the occasions where I tried to use it. Plus the video was all fucked up and it wasn't smart enough to compensate the recording of video for how I oriented the phone. Aside from that, the only real complaint I ever had was the nature of Android itself. They release an updated OS, but that doesn't mean it's fully compatible with your phone. You have to wait on the manufacturer to put out a package for your phone, or you download the zip yourself and try and install it on the phone. Now I'm sure that's just fine for some folks, but my life is in my phone. I've got precisely zero tolerance for the possibility of bricking my phone by attempting to load an OS build on it. The on screen keyboard sucked on the Droid. Upgraded ones available for purchase sucked somewhat less, but still kind of sucked. iPhone dominates in the OSK category. It's also nice that the iPhone integrates nicely into my car stereo head unit so I can control what it plays with voice commands and easily play podcasts and whatnot. Being able to hook my phone up and play audio books I just bought is pretty nice. So as tools for accomplishing tasks, they both have drawbacks. I found myself less annoyed by the Droid based phone than I have been with the iPhone 4S...but by the same token, I use my 4S more heavily for web stuff than I ever did with my Droid and for the times when I'm not battling with the iPhone to figure out how Apple insists you do shit I actually like it. I own an iPad now, too. So maybe I'm just a fucking idiot. |
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I initially switched to a Mac because I thought that Windows was very counter-intutitive and user-unfriendly. Now, my computer, my tablet, and my phone, are all Apple products. I know the way that Apple does stuff, which makes their products very easy to use... for me. YMMV. Not to mention, all the stuff that Android users talk about (My phone can do this, my phone can do that...) is stuff I don't use, do, or need. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Apple is working on a maps app last I heard, but I do not follow that much. Over the past several years Apple has acquired some high end mapping technologies. From what I saw, they may very well redefine the market. What, like with pull down notifications for iOS 5? Please.
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I choose Apple and iOS. To me, it is better architecturally and will be the more capable OS as it evolves. I also consider the fact that nearly every product Google is involved with, beyond search, is a POS. What's funny is that I started on an iPhone when they first came out. A damn multimedia phone with a camera on it, and it couldn't send or received MMS messages! Don't get me wrong, at the time it was still an awesome device. I then upgraded to a 3G and sold my original phone to a guy in Russia for more than I paid for it. After the 3G, I switched to Android... and it's been fun to see Apple add functions along the way that Android has done from the beginning. When I got my Android phone, getting ringtones from songs was still difficult on iPhone. You could make one through iTunes, but you had to pay for it. One of the first things I found that Android could do (in addition to just dragging and dropping MP3 files to it) was make ringtones right on the phone with an app! There are still a few things that iPhone doesn't do yet. The hardware is perfectly capable of it, but Apple hasn't deemed it ready. One thing I love about my Galaxy Nexus (and my Android phones before it) is the openness allows me to do what I want with it. If I don't like the stock SMS application, I can get one of several from the Market and replace it. Same with the music app, the browser and pretty much every other basic function of the phone. I also love an app called Tasker, that allows me to set up situations that will automatically execute changes to settings and other actions. It makes a smartphone into a SMART phone. |
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Quoted: ETA- I don't think the COC says anything about apples giving robots blow jobs does it? http://static.happyplace.com/assets/images/2012/05/4fb125495fd1f.jpeg isn't that one of the fake stores? |
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Quoted: Quoted: ETA- I don't think the COC says anything about apples giving robots blow jobs does it? http://static.happyplace.com/assets/images/2012/05/4fb125495fd1f.jpeg isn't that one of the fake stores? I would hope that's not a real retailer |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: ETA- I don't think the COC says anything about apples giving robots blow jobs does it? http://static.happyplace.com/assets/images/2012/05/4fb125495fd1f.jpeg isn't that one of the fake stores? I would hope that's not a real retailer Fully Google approved outlet. Logo and all. |
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ETA- I don't think the COC says anything about apples giving robots blow jobs does it? http://static.happyplace.com/assets/images/2012/05/4fb125495fd1f.jpeg It's been two minutes, and I can't stop laughing.
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One thing I love about my Galaxy Nexus (and my Android phones before it) is the openness allows me to do what I want with it. If I don't like the stock SMS application, I can get one of several from the Market and replace it. Same with the music app, the browser and pretty much every other basic function of the phone. I also love an app called Tasker, that allows me to set up situations that will automatically execute changes to settings and other actions. It makes a smartphone into a SMART phone.[/div] This is where Android shines over Apple: Freedom. You can accomplish damn near anything on a Droid phone. It may not always be easy, but it can be done probably 1/2 a dozen different ways. Meanwhile if you attempt anything outside Apple's Think Different** method (which is, ironically enough, as locked down as you can possibly be), it's about as pleasant as a colonoscopy. Even at that...for the majority of things most people do the freedom is more academic than practical day to day need. EDIT - and yes, I too laugh at the ignorant dumbasses who think Apple is about peace and love. They're as cutthroat as Somali pirates. |
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I initially switched to a Mac because I thought that Windows was very counter-intutitive and user-unfriendly. Now, my computer, my tablet, and my phone, are all Apple products. I know the way that Apple does stuff, which makes their products very easy to use... for me. YMMV. Not to mention, all the stuff that Android users talk about (My phone can do this, my phone can do that...) is stuff I don't use, do, or need. Yup. A lot of talk about "business" use, but post after post in every thread about games, ringtones, and music. |
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I initially switched to a Mac because I thought that Windows was very counter-intutitive and user-unfriendly. Now, my computer, my tablet, and my phone, are all Apple products. I know the way that Apple does stuff, which makes their products very easy to use... for me. YMMV. Not to mention, all the stuff that Android users talk about (My phone can do this, my phone can do that...) is stuff I don't use, do, or need. Yup. A lot of talk about "business" use, but post after post in every thread about games, ringtones, and music. iPhones and iPads are heavily, if not quite universally, used in every business environment I see. In fact, a bunch of places are looking at revamping systems because people want to be able to access critical data systems from their iPad. |
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Quoted: When I got my Android phone, getting ringtones from songs was still difficult on iPhone. You could make one through iTunes, but you had to pay for it. One of the first things I found that Android could do (in addition to just dragging and dropping MP3 files to it) was make ringtones right on the phone with an app! There are still a few things that iPhone doesn't do yet. The hardware is perfectly capable of it, but Apple hasn't deemed it ready. Interesting. I've used iTunes since my iPhone 3 to make FREE ringtones. Never had to pay to make them. And I've had a FREE application since then on the phone that also makes ring tones. |