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[NickYerPesos]

Hey guys.. Quite simple really, Do you prefer Apple iPhone or Android, and why do you have your opinion.

I have been a loyal apple customer for the last 5 years.. with an iphone 3G, 3GS, 4, and 4S. 

I found the iPhone to be high quality apps, but restrictive on the kinds of apps availiable.. (looser rules now though), no emulators though like snes or n64. 

Totally unmodifiable, no change to actual Cases etc, no access to battery, stuck with same amount of space for pictures. 

However the camera and apps were high quality and things like no bloatware means a high quality experience.

However aside from all this, I have sold my iPhone4s and got myself a Samsung Galaxy S4. I love it.

Ok, so there arent exactly the same apps availiable.. (plenty of pachinko and pachislo machines on iphone, but none on android)

but there are loads of emulators, like snes and n64 which i really enjoy playing.

I also Love the Widgets and Live wallpapers.. as this was the main reason I changed, as i can customise my homescreen to look how i want. able to quickly add sound clips as notifications and ringtones.

 

Im Voting Android.. :

basically because, Less restrictions on apps (emulators), Customising homescreen, easy sound clipping for ringtones.. etc etc.

plus i still have my 3rd Gen iPad i won in Vegas so can still play my apple apps

[bullionbars2011]

android all the way!!!

[Daryl]

Apples - they're very good for you... you know!

iOS for me... I hate android with a passion!

[Magz]

Android for me.

 

For the excellent reasons above, and 2 more.

 

Back button - I get wound up when using iDevices as if you click the wrong option there's no immediate, universal back command.

Setttings Button - Why mess about finding the settings option in the app when you can have a 1 button universal option to find them all?

 

iOS has also slipped a long way behind Android in terms of the look and feel, and is now largely on catchup. Even Which? now has the S4 as the "best phone it has ever tested". It'll be interesting to see what Apple do with their new iPhone to see if they can still compete...

[NickYerPesos]

Apples - they're very good for you... you know!

iOS for me... I hate android with a passion!

 

I used to dislike android.. No particular reason.. just because i was loyal to iphone. Is there a reason you hate android..

I also used to be like this with ps3 and xbox.. i was a loyal ps3 fan and hated xbox.. and fought for ps3 against xbox fans.. but then i bought an xbox and i love it more than my ps3.. so now im an xbox fan.. hahaha. Strange how it works out.

[NickYerPesos]

It'll be interesting to see what Apple do with their new iPhone to see if they can still compete...

 

Hahaha.. probably like their last updates.. stick an extra megapixel on the camera, slim it by a 1/100 and an extra compute cycle on the processor.. Then stick an extra £200 on the price. hehehe

Edited by NickYerPesos, 27 June 2013 - 06:08 PM.

[Magz]

If it is, then they're on the road back to Apple circa 2001...

[IHartwell]

Android for me, I am a bit of a google fan boi and hate the way apple work and do things

iPhone was great and polished up for simple users but very restrictive compared to android

Apple are starting to slip away from the phone market

Edit: just realised I posted this from my ipad lol. Would have preferred android tab but wanted 3G and none of the android tabs come with a contact

Edited by IHartwell, 27 June 2013 - 07:06 PM.

[I have finished]

Hi again Nick. I prefer the iPhone for 1 reason, and 1 reason only. It has Voice Over speech for the blind and visually impaired. Android may have this, but I've heard it and it's total crrap! Nothing is as detailed, and the voice is monotone! I love siri, it's easier for people like my good friend Daryl here, and it gets things done easily, plus with the iPhone 4S you also have Dictation. The android apps have to be downloaded, don't know how much they cost, and at least on the iPhone, Macintosh, iPod or shuffle, Voice Over comes as standard! Apple rules!

[Daryl]

Simple Users. You said it M8.

How very dare you call me simple...


Have you all seen what iOS 7 is going to be?

http://www.apple.com/uk/ios/ios7/

Massive upgrade - total change and moving much further on from the Steve Jobs stranglehold over it.

My iPhone 5 is like a knife through butter with its smoothness, as is my iPad 2... my iMac will be getting the new OS X Mavericks in the autumn too, and this is a game changer from the OS X predatory big cat names before it...

http://www.apple.com/uk/osx/preview/

I've heard say that Apple hold too much data on you - well I've heard much worse about Google!!

...Apples have never been more good for you

[Magz]

That iOS 7 looks like...

 

My old S3 ...

[Magz]

Wow - just read that all your site passwords are now going to be stored online in the iCloud!?!

 

I'm no Apple expert, but that seems to imply that if your iCloud is compromised then all your other security access is as well??

[Daryl]

That iOS 7 looks like...
 
My old S3 ...

Yes... but that's Android... uugghhh!!!

Wow - just read that all your site passwords are now going to be stored online in the iCloud!?!
 
I'm no Apple expert, but that seems to imply that if your iCloud is compromised then all your other security access is as well??

...and you're telling me that Google knows most about you online - and look how they compromise

[Magz]

You miss my point - if a 3rd party gets access to your iCloud account they can then access all your security for all your sites and also your credit card details. Excellent for them, not too hot for you though

[Daryl]

I see where you're coming from... but it is the same with Microsoft for Windows 8 now too.

I mean in all honesty, what place online is actually 100% safe and secure and can be guaranteed from compromise?

We all have to use online now, and even the banks have proven vulnerable... there isn't a choice really anymore, and besides;

...they wouldn't get much from me, financially or private - at least someone would know where I lived when I get lost in time to come... lol

[Magz]

FME on Android would be pretty cool!

[Daryl]

Lol Daryl .....

 It is not as narrow minded and openly supports open source development. That is a good thing.  Funny that, quite a bit like FME!!!!

 

...understatement of the decade mate - MFME (the original 'Daddy' and the only reason we are all here after all) - well, it's only just become open source because MAME has found out the at the creator of it used open source software to make it (for sale at the beginning) and encrypted it.