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Januarist2000
August 24th, 2015, 11:43 PM
The biggest debate in current phone technology.

Before I start, I must make it clear that this is isn't a flamewar. We must respect everyone's opinions, and if we disagree, do it in an appropriate manner.

To start off,

I feel Apple has one of the best software for phones compared to Android. There is a lot of features Apple lacks having that Android has that I think would be nice to have on an iPhone. Android hardward knocks Apple out in my opinion. Apple has used the same camera with some improvements while Android has cameras up to at least 16MP.

Overall, I think Apple is Ok, but I'm all for Android. Apple should upgrade some of its stuff before ot convinces me to get an iPhone.

What about you?

phuckphace
August 25th, 2015, 11:51 AM
I actually like iOS more but the hardware is overpriced and Apple doesn't need any more money

Abhorrence
August 25th, 2015, 12:53 PM
I think that Apple is more reliable, in my experience. I had no issues with my iPhone other than battery life. But I prefer Android for the customisation mainly. I just like being able to do nearly anything on my phone without having to jailbreak it.

Desuetude
August 25th, 2015, 01:17 PM
Andriod every time. I refuse to give in to the iPhone, its definitely not worth the money. Everything you do has to go through apple and this just means more money for the company to go and create more useless products that they sell to impressionable tweens for extortionate amounts. The apple watch is the most ludicrous idea they've had, your phone (which is necessary to use the watch accessory) is in your pocket, are we too good for phones that we're now reverting back to watches? It's probably just the laziness of our generation. Well I went on a bit of a tangent but it relates somewhat.

Uniquemind
August 25th, 2015, 01:38 PM
Android has a huge gaping security hole in their firmware, even with all the antiviral installed, it's vulnerable to being taken over.

It was reported on in the news a month or two ago.

The issue was if your android phone so much as receives a certain text message -- even if you don't open it -- the phone is immediately compromised and all information like emails, texts, pictures (including sexts), should be considered publicly leaked.



If you want the latest and greatest information you want to start paying attention to what hacking conventions talk about and release.


http://www.rt.com/usa/310907-giant-security-flaw-android/


http://www.cnet.com/news/android-security-fears-prompt-back-end-fix-from-google/

Gwen
August 25th, 2015, 06:05 PM
Android has a huge gaping security hole in their firmware, even with all the antiviral installed, it's vulnerable to being taken over.

It was reported on in the news a month or two ago.

The issue was if your android phone so much as receives a certain text message -- even if you don't open it -- the phone is immediately compromised and all information like emails, texts, pictures (including sexts), should be considered publicly leaked.



If you want the latest and greatest information you want to start paying attention to what hacking conventions talk about and release.


http://www.rt.com/usa/310907-giant-security-flaw-android/


http://www.cnet.com/news/android-security-fears-prompt-back-end-fix-from-google/

Because iCloud, text messages and customer data stored on iOS have been so much better at keeping people's information secure >_>'

Uniquemind
August 25th, 2015, 07:44 PM
Because iCloud, text messages and customer data stored on iOS have been so much better at keeping people's information secure >_>'

Only if you sext, do you have something to worry about.

But yeah apple's had it's problems, but it has a better infrastructure to issue patches. So far android's taken months upon months and obviously doesn't have any financial incentive to issue patches in the name of customer service.

As a consumer I'm not rewarding that.

If you guys want to then that's fine, but this is my opinion and my piece of advice.

Januarist2000
August 25th, 2015, 08:49 PM
I mean, Apple isn't the best as you said.

I'm pretty sure we all remember the effective POWER message.

I mean, I really think Apple is completely overrated

everlong
August 25th, 2015, 09:41 PM
I prefer Apple. I like their phones, but I hate their computers.

impan1019
August 26th, 2015, 02:46 PM
i love apple tbh

Typhlosion
August 26th, 2015, 05:41 PM
I don't have too much experience with iPhones, but I like to know that I have so much more power of customizability with an Android.

seoulsuho
August 26th, 2015, 05:44 PM
I've had two Androids before my current iPhone. The first Android was a hand-me-down from my mum so I wasn't expecting much from it, and the second was brand new and stopped working within a year. I had to wait another 9 months or so before my mum pulled up the guts to buy me a secondhand iPhone because I'd been nagging for one ever since I'd gotten an iPod Touch, and damn, what a difference. I'm all for iPhones. I don't think I'll be getting an Android again.

Zerg
August 26th, 2015, 05:52 PM
I like both of them really, I currently have an iphone, but did have an android phone in the past and I loved it

Kirina
August 26th, 2015, 07:50 PM
I've had two Androids before my current iPhone. The first Android was a hand-me-down from my mum so I wasn't expecting much from it, and the second was brand new and stopped working within a year. I had to wait another 9 months or so before my mum pulled up the guts to buy me a secondhand iPhone because I'd been nagging for one ever since I'd gotten an iPod Touch, and damn, what a difference. I'm all for iPhones. I don't think I'll be getting an Android again.
Well Android isn't the problem, it's the phone brand. LG, sony, motorola, samsung, HTC etc and most of these brands have several phones in their lineup.
Like motorola got: Nexus, moto E, moto G, moto X. These phones uses the android os and it has to be optimized for the specific phone, so yeah 2 of the hundreds of android phones there is may have been optimized badly. It's hard to know what to get with android, while with Iphone your just dealing with Iphone 4-6.

Melodic
August 26th, 2015, 07:53 PM
I'm an Android Girl.

Android's basically do the same thing an IPhone does, yet IPhone's are more expensive.

Uranus
August 26th, 2015, 08:15 PM
I like how Android works, although I'd be interested in possibly Apple

luq_
August 27th, 2015, 10:04 AM
It's not a fair comparison.
Apple is a company which has written iOS and manufactures iPhones, makes it all work harmoniously and charges ridiculous price for it.
Android is a bit vague, but I'll take that you mean 'vanilla' Android (one that can be found in Nexus phones). It's written by Google, who then hired a company to make a phone, labelled it 'Nexus' and made it all work harmoniously, while leaving all the code minus their apps (AOSP, read below) to the future developers who would like to tinker with it and interested companies.

But, there are two more closely related things:
AOSP stands for Android Open Source Project, that is, vanilla Android without Google apps. Just the OS. It is used by various people to build their own modifications, most popular being CyanogenMod, ParanoidAndroid, LiquidSmooth and so on. You can download it, modify and build however you like (and most modifications, a.k.a ROMs, take advantage of that, by offering additional functionality like tethering, fine-grained permission control and full root access at minimum).
Android phone manufacturers are companies which take AOSP, usually put Google apps and loads of sponsored crapware, install a new look (e. g. the usually slow and ugly TouchWiz), manufacture a phone for that modification and sell it. Samsung being the most widespread one. They are hatred for slow-to-nonexistant updates for every but the current flagship phones (AOSP and popular ROMs are updated regularly FYI), poor build quality for the low-end devices, useless apps which can't be removed without root access taking precious space and sometimes making non-compatible modifications to the original OS (e. g. https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=78377). You can usually use an exploit to gain root access and if you wish install one of the forementioned 'good' modifications, but in rare cases manufacturers or carriers leave the phone locked, not giving you any alternative.

So, if the question is Apple or Samsung, I'm gonna go with Apple, even though I've only owned a Samsung phone for a brief amount of time and an Apple product never (I did use it a couple of times though). However, if the question is iOS or AOSP (or Android, for that matter), AOSP (Android) all the way!

Zachary G
August 27th, 2015, 10:22 AM
Apple is so proprietary with their software that it makes it impossible for them to target a general audience instead of a specific one; whereas android is a bit more open and appeals to a greater demographic of people and therefore offers a lot more.

Januarist2000
August 28th, 2015, 12:28 AM
So, if the question is Apple or Samsung
When I say Android, I was referring to any Android OS people have had connections with or were familiar with a certain OS. For me, I based it off of FireOS...

I'm sorry, I should have been more specific (such as iOS vs. Any Android OS(?))

PinkFloyd
August 28th, 2015, 12:30 AM
Okay, I like Apple, but being serious here, Android is a lot better in most ways. Apple likes to restrict lots of things that you can do, but Android doesn't. They also ahem a greater selection and the phones are cheaper too.

Uniquemind
August 28th, 2015, 01:44 AM
It's not a fair comparison.
Apple is a company which has written iOS and manufactures iPhones, makes it all work harmoniously and charges ridiculous price for it.
Android is a bit vague, but I'll take that you mean 'vanilla' Android (one that can be found in Nexus phones). It's written by Google, who then hired a company to make a phone, labelled it 'Nexus' and made it all work harmoniously, while leaving all the code minus their apps (AOSP, read below) to the future developers who would like to tinker with it and interested companies.

But, there are two more closely related things:
AOSP stands for Android Open Source Project, that is, vanilla Android without Google apps. Just the OS. It is used by various people to build their own modifications, most popular being CyanogenMod, ParanoidAndroid, LiquidSmooth and so on. You can download it, modify and build however you like (and most modifications, a.k.a ROMs, take advantage of that, by offering additional functionality like tethering, fine-grained permission control and full root access at minimum).
Android phone manufacturers are companies which take AOSP, usually put Google apps and loads of sponsored crapware, install a new look (e. g. the usually slow and ugly TouchWiz), manufacture a phone for that modification and sell it. Samsung being the most widespread one. They are hatred for slow-to-nonexistant updates for every but the current flagship phones (AOSP and popular ROMs are updated regularly FYI), poor build quality for the low-end devices, useless apps which can't be removed without root access taking precious space and sometimes making non-compatible modifications to the original OS (e. g. https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=78377). You can usually use an exploit to gain root access and if you wish install one of the forementioned 'good' modifications, but in rare cases manufacturers or carriers leave the phone locked, not giving you any alternative.

So, if the question is Apple or Samsung, I'm gonna go with Apple, even though I've only owned a Samsung phone for a brief amount of time and an Apple product never (I did use it a couple of times though). However, if the question is iOS or AOSP (or Android, for that matter), AOSP (Android) all the way!


For this reason if I went with Android, I'd go with the Nexus brand.


Wouldn't you agree?

luq_
August 28th, 2015, 07:00 AM
For this reason if I went with Android, I'd go with the Nexus brand.


Wouldn't you agree?

Yeah, Nexus is probably the purest (and the best) out there, along with Moto G or X. I'm currently on Xperia with CyanogenMod 12.1 and it works as a charm too.
Android is such a wide term; if you rate the build quality, I'm almost sure iPhones would win. Also I'm quite certain it's less buggy and faster overall than Android, but you can't blame Google some phone manufacturer decided to put crap hardware into the phone. True, iOS is probably objectively faster as well, because it's designed to run on only a handful of devices (i. e. native code), while Android has to adapt to multiple phones (i. e. it uses VM, Dalvik or ART). They have different goals in mind.
iOS is made to be as simple and beautiful as possible out-of-the-box, not extensible and customizable. Android is made to be open to all and be able to run on many different configurations and also to be simple to customize every single detail. I could build my own phone running my own flavour of Android and pay only for required components (look up Project Ara). After all, it's the matter of what you want out of phone and how much money do you have.

Uniquemind
September 6th, 2015, 04:37 AM
Yeah, Nexus is probably the purest (and the best) out there, along with Moto G or X. I'm currently on Xperia with CyanogenMod 12.1 and it works as a charm too.
Android is such a wide term; if you rate the build quality, I'm almost sure iPhones would win. Also I'm quite certain it's less buggy and faster overall than Android, but you can't blame Google some phone manufacturer decided to put crap hardware into the phone. True, iOS is probably objectively faster as well, because it's designed to run on only a handful of devices (i. e. native code), while Android has to adapt to multiple phones (i. e. it uses VM, Dalvik or ART). They have different goals in mind.
iOS is made to be as simple and beautiful as possible out-of-the-box, not extensible and customizable. Android is made to be open to all and be able to run on many different configurations and also to be simple to customize every single detail. I could build my own phone running my own flavour of Android and pay only for required components (look up Project Ara). After all, it's the matter of what you want out of phone and how much money do you have.


The biggest drawback based on some videos about cell phones is battery life.

Nexus 6 I think does hit a point where it can't last 4 hours.

Ratman1234
September 6th, 2015, 06:40 AM
There is tons of customisation you can do with android whilst u cant do anything with apple. And I have also found android a lot more reliable as several times I have lots all of my pictures and files whilst updating on apple devices whilst I have no problem with android

Babs
September 6th, 2015, 02:31 PM
I've had both, and I love both.
There's a lot more freedom with Android, but Apple is generally a lot nicer, although it's fussier. Tough choice.

HahaWaitWhat
September 8th, 2015, 01:14 AM
I've owned both android phones and iPhones. Both have their pros and cons:

iPhones have their great quality and the face that even though they have 'low-end' specs on paper, they still manage to hold their own pretty well against phones with things like quad core cpus and 3gb of memory.

Android phones on the other hand come in all shapes, sizes, and prices. Most android flagship phones have very high end specs, that on paper, blow away Apples current iPhone.

However, I've never had first hand experience with a brand new flagship phone running android. I've only ever owned lower end android devices, as well as a brand new iPhone. But from my experience with the iPhone 4s and 6, I'm pretty happy with using an iPhone as a daily device.

bfldworker
September 10th, 2015, 01:08 AM
I am Android hands down! Don't get me wrong. I give Apple credit for creating the slate style Smartphone. However I am a advocate for open source. I like the customizability of Android, the ability of side loading of apps and the fact you can jump from one version of to an other and back without having to jump through hoops.

Now with that openness comes dangers, more malware and exploits and this is where iOS excells, Apples walled garden approach to installing apps have for the most part made iOS a safe OS. And for someone that wants it to just work iOS is perfect. From iOS 1.0 to 9 there hasn't been a major change in the layout and that makes it perfect for non technical people. And that gives Apple a edge. With AOSP devices there is no one standard for launchers. With the Motorola and Nexus devices you get the pure vanilla Google experience, LG you have the Optumus Launcher, HTC gives you sense, Samsung has touchwiz and none of them are the same. With appe it has stayed constant.

Daniella98
September 10th, 2015, 01:36 AM
I have android and Im satisfied.

Xawarus
September 10th, 2015, 11:24 AM
I have iOS on my iPod Touch and Android on my cell phone. I'd always prefer Android over iOS, because there are so much more possibilities with Android if you know how to use them (What I do).

Januarist2000
September 15th, 2015, 12:38 AM
I'm a bit more ambiguous to this now. I love the smootness in software Apple provides, and when you jailbreak it, it's just as good, if not better than Android. I just don't like the risks taken when jailbreaking and things that could happen.

Person123the
September 28th, 2015, 02:26 PM
I like Apple and the features it has for all the phones, and the services, but the prices are usually more expensive, but I think it's worth it sometimes, since Apple and what it offers is greater than Android in my opinion.

Rickmckay111
September 28th, 2015, 02:44 PM
apple - I love iMessage and iTunes: D

Hardcatch
September 29th, 2015, 01:58 AM
I'm all Samsung to the end. Tablet 10.1, Note, Samsung 6 Edge and even my Samsung TV....what can I say....!!

roadwarrior
October 27th, 2015, 09:14 PM
apple is best.. I still use my iphone 4s for more than 3 years and still counting..

northy
November 11th, 2015, 05:56 PM
Android because its open source and you have a wider choice of phones. Also generally it is cheaper than apple.

pascaldesla
November 11th, 2015, 06:31 PM
Did you used both Iphone and Android? Which one? Samsun?

pascaldesla
November 11th, 2015, 06:32 PM
The Samsung note is very good.... samsung condoms too lol

Uniquemind
November 11th, 2015, 08:36 PM
The Samsung note is very good.... samsung condoms too lol

Lol you're not kidding Samsung condoms exist for the phones!

Still I wouldn't want the radiation emitted from the phone anywhere near my reproductive system..could cause cancer or/and infertility.

Jinglebottom
November 12th, 2015, 10:46 AM
Apple. Samsung phones are nothing but a pain in the arse with their constant freezing and crashing.

Januarist2000
November 17th, 2015, 12:27 AM
Funny coming from one of the Android Fanboys, I now own an iPhone 6s. I broke my Fire Phone, and I saw the huge update in specs for the iPhone and their software is really more reliable than androids that I've used before

Hessy_323
November 28th, 2015, 03:31 AM
Both so great in different way! Ugh I say I'm neutral

Uniquemind
December 6th, 2015, 06:47 PM
Funny coming from one of the Android Fanboys, I now own an iPhone 6s. I broke my Fire Phone, and I saw the huge update in specs for the iPhone and their software is really more reliable than androids that I've used before

Yeah? How is the 6s and 6s Plus now from a software smoothness perspective?

Also it seems apple phones seem more power efficient than android phones.

When I had my my android or see friends with androids now, it always seemed that the power drained 4-8% in sleep mode, whereas in iphones, you only lost 1-3% in long term sleep mode.

yeehaw
December 12th, 2015, 08:04 AM
I dislike iPhones so much, so I guess it's Android by default. I don't mind Apple's computers, though.

Atlantis
December 13th, 2015, 09:10 AM
Android all the way!! (but I love my macbook so much!)

ZACK0
December 17th, 2015, 05:53 AM
Ok, so where do I begin, well basically I think that they are really quite different devices. One in which you have to pay for everything and restricted from doing anything because apple doesn't like you to tamper with its devices. However after a basic jailbreak i think apple beats android by a mile mainly through factors like the sheer fact you can get any app for free in the app store. Although on android you can get apps from Google play on your phone for free from the phones own browser and there is much more freedom in the way you can do things it seems like apple was made for people who don't mind paying lots of money for shitty apps while on the other hand android lets you have all the shitty expensive apps like minecraft PE for free by searching "minecraft PE APK" into its browser so in summary i much prefer android to apple thanks for reading.

BigTex355
December 22nd, 2015, 03:23 PM
I have to go with Android. i have tried using Apple iDevices many times, but every time I have returned it sold it quick because I disliked it. Android is very open and you can customize any way you want, and I love the variety you can choose from. I feel that Apple use to have better reliability, but I feel that that is no longer true. My past two phones (Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Galaxy S6) have been awesome and I've never had a single problem (I would like to try a OnePlus or LG though). Although I don't like Apple iDevices, I do enjoy the Mac's. They are very good for just browsing around the internet, typing documents, or just watching movies/videos. Otherwise for my heavy duty work, I will use my custom built Windows computer instead of my Mac Mini.

bfldworker
December 31st, 2015, 12:16 AM
I very much prefer Android. It is open source for the most part. The manufacturers don't care if you root the device or unlock the bootloader. Apple is against it (for good reason). I like doing whatever I want to my Android device, with Apple you have to deal with not updating until a jail break is available.

Although with Microsoft integrating their products I have been looking at Windows Phone 10 based devices.

Infidelitas
January 2nd, 2016, 04:32 AM
I like both; I like Apple's hardware and Android's software.

Splat
January 4th, 2016, 07:57 PM
I have only ever owned android devices (not including an iPod shuffle, but 2GB isn't much storage anyway).

Phones:
Well I think the most well known thing about apple is the smashing ability. You can't even drop it on carpet without it creating cracks throughout the screen. Whereas androids (especially samsungs) I have found to have survived many careless drops without a scratch.
However, there is some pretty neat stuff on apples which have only just been introduced to latest androids, eg fingerprint, panorama etc. I've also found that many app developers aim towards ios first mainly because of the huge amount of apple users.
I currently have a Note 3 which is amazing due to the SPen (which I use for doing art work) and the camera and size. I've always been a fan of the Notes and the Note and 5 software is very cool.

Tablets and PC's:
As a music student, I need to use computers to get my ideas and course work down on things like Sibelius and Musescore.
Apple has the program 'GarageBand' which is pretty good starting off looping and adding textures but with other programs like Musescore and Sibelius, it's fairly similar. The only thing that annoys me with the PCs is the recent update from after the summer break. Since it updated, the computers run extremely slow especially when trying to save work.
The tablet situation is pretty similar to the phones. I also find very frustrating with apple (and yes, I know many androids are made like this too) that you can't take the back off and change the battery yourself. I mean, who in their right mind designs something like that?!

In my opinion I find apples to be quite basic compared to androids and I've Nick named them 'iSheeps' due to the fact most people get them "because they're apple" 😂

But hey, I'm not complaining - everyone has the right to their own opinion :)

thatgothgirluknow
January 4th, 2016, 08:48 PM
can't stand apple im all android lol this coming from the person sitting at an imac way too many restrictions not enough choices and you only get to buy things from them for the most part

Microcosm
January 4th, 2016, 09:03 PM
It depends on what the person uses their phone for. I prefer Android because I like to be flexible with what I can do on my phone. If a person just wants to play games, text, call, and browse social media, the iPhone is perfect for that purpose.

Tesserax
January 5th, 2016, 08:23 AM
Me and my family tried and used both, and we've now settled on Apple. In our experience, Android was much less user friendly than apple, and though they boasted better specs, which they do have, we saw no difference in the screen (despite them claiming to have far superior technology at the time), the audio was actually worse, and the phones themselves were too big. Yes they had bigger and better batteries, but that made the phone bigger and much harder/more uncomfortable to hold, and I find myself not running out of batteries too often anyway. On top of that, my mum's Samsung just died, so we concluded that Android parts may be better tech, but are probably made of worse materials.

In conclusion: Android is only practically slightly better, while being extremely better only in theory, while Apple is far more ergonomic and that's why we prefer it.

Edit: I think a good way to put it is that Android builds mini-computers, while Apple builds a phone. The specs that Android put on their phones are not necessary for an object that is simply meant to be a phone, and I think they should probably turn their business to making computers instead, they may actually dominate the market there where better specs are actually noticed.

paul955
January 11th, 2016, 09:20 PM
Apple offers a smoother user experience. Android offers more customizability at the expensive of a smoother device. Most people I know that have made the switch tell me the same thing.

phuckphace
January 11th, 2016, 09:44 PM
>Apple is too expensive
>Android is too buggy
>Windows Phone has no apps

in conclusion everything is shit, QED

bfldworker
January 18th, 2016, 11:54 PM
I have pretty much used all mobile operating systems.

Each have their strong points and weak points. iphones were designed to "Just Work". The apps take a walled garden approach, meaning that unless your phone is jail broken then you can only install apps through the app store, which is smart because it precludes the possibility of malware being installed. iOS uses a very simple GUI, which is attractive to the non tech savvy group.

Android IMHO is the best choice for the tech savvy groups because you can fine tune the OS to your liking. You can root the phone, flash a custom OS (Cyanogenmod, CarbonOS, AOKP, Pacman, Slimbean, etc, etc), you can overclock the SoC (System on a Chip, it has the CPU, GPU and Radios on one chip), you can sideload apps (download and install aoolications without using a app store)and use 3rd party app store (Amazon, GetJar, F-Droid and much, much more). I have used several Android devices as a Beowulf cluster (for the hell of it).

Windows Phone isn't bad at all, very simple interface. Windows 10 Mobile is a great option if you have Windows 10 on your computers, you can sync your files and stream from your home computer with ease. BlackBerry use to be the poster child of secure, ubiquitous and best choice for people who worked for corporations and needed secure communications, email access and web access.

My choice is Android, I am however thinking about going with Windows phone the next time my parents upgrade, or until I find a Windows 10 ROM for my phone.

bfldworker
January 25th, 2016, 10:47 PM
I like both; I like Apple's hardware and Android's software.

The hardware in iDevices aren't better or worse then a Android based phone of equal specs.

They both use SoC's derived from ARM designs, they both comparable touch screens (albeit the touchscreens on iDevices are thinner then a Android device), they both use the same type of ram and NAND storage.

With Apple there isn't much choice. You are stuck with a OS that is released by Apple and can only upgrade to what Apple says your hardware can work with. There are no custom roms, there is no expandable storage, there is no skinning (Themes), you MUST go through Apples app store (this isn't a bad thing, it limits the risk of getting infected with malware) you MUST use a charger that will only work with Apple devices.

The only perk that iDevices have is that the User Interface has a exceedingly low learning curve, if you are use the original iPhone with the original version of iOS you can use the latest iPhone with the latest version of iOS with out any issues.

With Android you can have a custom ROM (meaning that even if the device manufacturer doesn't release the next version of Android, chances are there is someone making one for your device), you can have expandable storage (on most devices), you can change themes of the User Interface, you can root it and unlock the bootloader (and some manufacturers encourage it), it is cheaper to repair if you break something, you have full control over your phones software and hard ware.

Cognizant
February 1st, 2016, 03:26 AM
I'd say the iPhone market is like the Toyota Prius of Smartphones. It was the one that started it all, and everyone loves to hate on it. But there's no denying it's good at what it does, in my opinion.

I'm quite happy with my iPhone 6S. I've used iOS since I got my first iPod Touch in 2007, and even if I go out and buy an Android phone, I still end up reverting back to iPhone after a short few weeks or months. I like the simplicity of the OS. I'm not a techie. I primarily just use my phone to take pictures, text, listen to music, go on Facebook/IG/Grindr/etc, use Waze to navigate to school, and for work purposes. And the layout is efficient and sensible for those uses.

It's just a cult following I guess, just like how Prius owners continue to buy Priuses even though they're not the most sporty or up-gradable cars (have u seen the repair costs for hybrid system parts my lord). But the Prius is good at being efficient and satisfactory, which keeps the cult alive. And likewise, unless Apple radically changes their interface for the worse, I'll probably continue to buy iPhones.

Moriya
February 2nd, 2016, 04:45 AM
Apple. Simply because of it's interface. However, I like the phone designs for Android, preferably the Galaxy 6 Edge

West Coast Sheriff
February 4th, 2016, 08:51 AM
I like apple probably because I'm the more familiar with it. In terms of technology, I think android had won the competition. By far. There are so many more things you can do on android from what I've heard. I'm not a tech genius so I'd struggle doing those. Basically it comes to preference. If everyone bought the most advanced product, everyone would own androids. Everyone just had there preference of what they like or what feels right, or their parents chose for them. As far as preference, I prefer Apple. I find it very comfortable to use as opposed to confusing android devices my friends have. Apple suites me better but everyone is different. However, in terms of technology, Android is more sophisticated.

Merk
February 4th, 2016, 09:02 AM
It all comes down to weather you like Unix or Linux... android is Linux, IOS is Unix... Unix was first Linux was later.

Cristina15
March 18th, 2016, 05:16 PM
apple for sure...i don't have any dubt!

Sanchez16620
March 19th, 2016, 10:48 AM
Android wins because of variety and software

robyfine
March 28th, 2016, 04:00 PM
Each of them has its pros and cons. Personally, I prefer Android, it really meets my requirements to the fullest extent. I've read so much interesting stuff on this issue by the link (http://freepps.top/blog/) . Everyone just has to decide what satisfies him/her best.

jdhud024
April 13th, 2016, 02:03 AM
Android FTW. My LG G3 is amazing, and pretty damn near indestructible.

I like the G3 for the design, as I always end up putting CyanogenMod on whatever phone I get anyway.

Sidenote: LG phones seem pretty custom ROM-friendly as it was a breeze to install TWRP and run any ROM I want to with no problems (on my G3 at least). My Galaxy S4 I have has a locked boot loader thanks to Samsung and Verizon, so that is another reason I Love LG phones.