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07
Feb
Android vs. iOS vs. my dick on a mantelpiece
We went out to eat the other day and had a conversation with a waitress who began asking us questions about our iPhones. I have a Nuu Minikey hardware keyboard attached to mine, so it’s kind of hard to miss. (I’ll probably review that over at Onezumiverse soon.)
Judging from what we heard, it seemed that all she wanted to do with her phone was text, call, and some internet. She didn’t appear to be a power user. While she seemed to have owned a few fancy phones in the past, she didn’t appear to be super knowledgeable about phones.
I found it annoying when she told us that she wanted an iPhone but some of her friends were ragging on her about it being dumb because Android powered phones are “better”.
Come the fuck on, guys. For someone just using the basic features of a phone it doesn’t matter which phone they have – the only thing that matters is if they like it and if they can afford it. Someone who just uses voice, text, and a little bit of data won’t ever care about jailbreaking or rooting or what the phone is like from a dev’s perspective.
I hate this kind of advice. The best people to get advice from are those who actually look at how the end user will be using the phone, not what their own preference is.
I’ve worked professionally on both iOS and Android phones for a major mobile carrier and even on the network. I am vision impaired, so I personally find the iPhone easier to see with my condition. You might like an Android phone because of some other reason or a flip phone that is 10 years old for another reason. Probably (hopefully) you don’t have an eye condition that leaves you legally blind without correction and dependent on shapes and colors to get by. (I still often confuse the Photo and Weather app because they have the same colors, but I manage to keep them straight by where I place them on my home screen.)
I don’t need my iPhone to be a holder for my dick on a mantelpiece. It’s just what works for me. This is what I explained to the waitress, but with less mantelpiece dick and more tact.
Also I explained that I wanted a cookie.
We also call them ‘iFans’ and ‘fAndroids’. What’s great about these people is this: They ‘shame’ or ‘convince’ their friends to get the same devices that they have, right? Then when their friends realize they hate the phone they got, this creates a form of backlash where they tell everyone else they know “I don’t know what all this hype is about, this phone is stupid” while at the same time discrediting the people that convinced them to get it. I know a lot of people who were duped into Android handsets who give this look like, “What do I even need this for?”. Its funny because my best friends fell into the Android trap. And I know them, they aren’t the techie types. When one of them laughed at my WP7 phone and said “You’re still using Windows”, I knew right away he had no clue what he was talking about and was only repeating what some fAndroid told him. More than likely, he’s probably related to said fAndroid. I just smiled and said, “Yeah”.
Buy what you like, like what you buy. I use Windows Phone. Does what I need it to do. If it ends up hurting my feelings, then I’ll just go back to Android. If Android turns out to be a dick to me, then I’ll go get a Blackberry. If Blackberry don’t cut it, then yes, there’s an iPhone. Choices are good, always keep options open.
Yeah, I remember back in the day where different platform had huge issues – made them not user friendly. Like volatile memory and horrible design flaws. I had some bad experiences with many of them – I have owned probably about 30 smartphone handsets. This is for a few reasons :
1. I worked in mobile telecom.
2. At least 8 were the same Palm device that kept breaking/failing DOA out of box. I am not surprised that company went under.
Now, most of the phones are pretty stable- like we were saying it’s just personal preference.