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Is it possible? I know I'm not the only one out there to have owned both an iPhone and Android based phone at one point, but fanboi-ism seems to take over all of these discussions no matter what side you're on. I'm not an Apple fanboi by any means... I use Windows, Linux, and OSX for my home computer needs and the phone is no different for me. It's about what provides me with the most usefulness for my particular needs and wants, and the same goes for the phone. And so the same points need to be made... What serves my purposes most for a smart phone.... And having owned 2 android phones and 2 iphones at this point, I find myself leaning towards the iphone, and here's why:
1) The iPhone apps are more well developed. Whether we're talking about facebook or pandora, the iPhone apps are just more reliable, less buggy, and more feature filled than their android counterparts.
2) # of apps doesn't matter. Quality of apps does. Every article I see comparing iphone to android apps talks just about the number of apps... sure, the android market is catching up, but with what? Apps that are essentially advertisements leading to a web page. Apps that crash your phone, apps that hog memory, and apps that are generally inferior to their iPhone versions. There are one or two apps it seems that are on par with iPhone quality apps, but I would say Google's "openness" has created a market for them that just ponders to nothing but a bunch of apps that shouldn't be considered anything more than spam
3) "Openness"... this is a dirty word in the Apple world. Apple only lets certain apps join the rankings in the apps store. We all know that, right? But Google also operates by their own ToS, and have themselves rejected this or that app, or left it up to the carrier providers to deny access to certain applications. Can we really think of Google as more "open" when they themselves deny access to certain applications... the only advantage to their openness at this point seems to be to allow spam applications on the market
4) GPS; I never had a problem with GPS on my iPhone. In a building, underground, outside, no matter where I was it always knew my exact location. I posted about this recently, and the response to me was "GPS is inherently inaccurate you can't expect reliable GPS if there is cloud cover"... I had to laugh a little bit because this was obviously a fanboi who never used the iPhone and doesn't know what it means to have reliable GPS, which isn't surprising if you've only ever used an android phone. No matter how many "fixes" they come out with, no matter how many apps there are that are supposed to fix it, and no matter of times can I wave my phone around in circles will android ever come close to the reliability of iPhone GPS.
5) Music: Oh gosh, this was my first complaint when getting an android. The music quality was horrible, and the volume was too low. There was another post recently about this (I'm sure there are many), and the response was "wow you expect good music quality from a phone?". I had to laugh at this. Yes, I do expect good music quality from my smart phone which is supposed to double as a music player, and the iPhone delivered. The android? Any of you who have never experienced music on the iPhone are missing out. I downloaded the volume boost app for my Thunderbold recently... it only sounded louder and distorted.
I will say I switched to android recently because of the Thunderbolt. Due to my having left my 3G behind for the sake of the original Droid I lost my grandfather clause when they switched to a 2GB limit, and I kept going over it. so when the Thunderbolt came out with the unlimited 4g data plan I thought I'd give Android another try... but aside from the Verizon provided data plan, I am yet to find a single reason why Android is better than iPhone, and if the iPhone 5? comes out with 4g on verizon I will quickly switch (though I've heard we shouldn't expect this on Verizon's network anyways).
Anyways this is my experience, having tried my assortment of both iPhone and Android phones. I realize this came off as one-sided, since I am at this point preferring iPhone, but if you could perhaps list valid reasons in a non apple vs google manner than... I would be pleasantly surprised.
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I prefer android since you can customize stuff more.
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Um? Have you been posting this exact post for years? The thunderbolt was launched in 2011, and was never even a frontrunner in droid phones. The iPhone 6 is out, and this post is from before the 5 was released.
Although I do find it funny that you were comparing the top phone apple offered at the time to a droid phone that was near the lower, cheaper end of android products when it was released.
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Most of your points are arbitrary.
1 & 2) App Development Quality/Quantity
An excuse could be that iPhone have existed longer, and had more time for the developer tools to improve, and more time for more apps to exist. Anyone who codes knows how big of a difference a good IDE is.
But also normal people can tell when an app isnt going to be useful thanks to this magical feature called user reviews.
3) Store Moderation
You must be downloading random apps. I have never had any of the problems you listed here.
4) GPS
I don't think I need to talk about this one. Really feels likelike a trollbait. GPS isn't affected by cloud cover, that isn't how it works.
5) Music
This one really made me laugh. Doesn't feel like an honest discussion when you really have to pull stuff out of your just to have 5-ish points to discuss.
If you want a real comparison look up hardware differences and software limitations, don't look for human error like "not enough apps" or "this torrent I got is not of the best quality".