| kowenicki said: Android? I look down my nose at Android. It's a messy free for all. It's ok if you want a cheap crappy phone but if you can afford a quality handset then I don't know why you would go android. I really don't. What are all these amazing things that android users have that I, and millions of others, seemingly manage without? |
choice.
Can you pick and choose default applications based on a specific action like opening a photo, web page, music, etc? Or are you forced into what Apple says is the default app.
Can you choose an entirely different layout for your screens that fits your personality or how and what apps you use? Nope. Just configuration of icons.
Can you choose a design with a physical keyboard?
This is just a small item and maybe some or all of these don't matter to YOU, but I garauntee you they matter to a lot more. Kinda why Android has the marketshare it does.
choice always wins. It won for MS in computers, it won for Google in phones, it will win for Google or MS in tablets eventually as well.
People lamblast about this and that and speed and no plastic and so on... but fail to realize each person is different in their usage. I can understand wanting to keep it simplistic.. see my home screens in this thread. But at the same time, I don't understand why you'd force yourself into a corner and remove all possibility of having a choice.
Don't like Android stock keyboard? so what. hit up the Play store and get a different one... even one that is identical to iOS.
Don't like the default launcher Sammy/Moto/HTC/LG/Sony uses... so what... hit up the play store and download a different one.
However, if you don't like something Apple does, then you're only choice is to leave iOS and your content in iTunes. Well, not your music as that can be moved to Google Music if you want.
Are their issues with so much choice? Yes, fragmentation is really the biggest and only thing really. But, that's why there is a Nexus option if you don't want to deal with late upgrades. Again CHOICE is the difference.
Sad part is while MS seems interesting in their mobile approach... they also seem to be walking away from that choice that made Windows beat Mac in the first place. Idk, we'll have to see if in the end they eventually catch up. I actually like their Metro interface... but its still very limiting in content on one screen.
