I'm Sorry Android, the iPhone 4 works better than you

posted by Jordan Peterson on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 07:01

Everyone has a different opinion, because everybody is, well.. different. Different people have different priorities and special things that get them excited, or sad.

I have my own opinion, and I'll share why I chose the iPhone 4 over the Samsung Vibrant. Let me also include, that I had the very first model Android G1 from Google. I have a few years of getting to know Android personally.

When Android for the G1 came out, it was simple. The fact that the app store had a thin selection of apps didn't bother me. Through time and all the various updates and fixes, and upgrades, and more updates, the phone became slower, clogged up, and demanded operator intervention for things it was capable of figuring out on its own.

Over time, and after about the 6th Android OS Rom installed on my Samsung Vibrant, I came to the realization, that I spend 75% of the time using Android, and near throwing it or breaking the Vibrant for it's frustrating user interface, buggy apps, and buggy OS.

The oppertunity to switch from T-Mobile to Verizon arose, and after a week of being an iPhone 4 user, I am just as happy as the day I purchased my first MacBook Pro 13. I am absolutely happy in where Apple place priorities in the development of the iPhone 4 product. The iPhone 4 is simple, but coming from a programming background, I recognize that it takes lots of time to make a computer interface "simple, easy, and "taking the direct A to B approach."

The Android platform has opened a can of worms letting 75% of the marketplace developers be building apps for, and apps in, the Android platform.

I don't enjoy "pushing buttons". I don't need a bunch of knobs and sliders to play with anymore. I want simply complicated, not complicatedly simple.

Sorry Android, you change too much, and need oiling and maintenance and somebody to drive you when you were able to.

When Android takes discipline to regulate what development goes into its engine, this is when Android may compete with the personal production rate of the iPhone 4.

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40% of Androids are Returned