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Originally Posted by rollercoaster
Everyone wants an iPhone if they have the money to get it, it has class, it is a status symbol. it is worth the money.
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Um, I do? Sorry, you're wrong about that one. You couldn't pay me enough to get an iPhone. I don't care how pretty it is. I'm an adult and "sparkly" is not enough to distract me from their draconian walled garden. I don't know of any half-way intelligent adult who is impressed by the ownership of sparkly bits of kit. I'm certainly not, nor would I associate with someone who is.
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Next comes android for the geeks, power users, value-for-money, google services users, Android v4.0 is cutting edge. Unfortunately, droids have short lifes, low quality apps and market fragmentation which is its achilles heel.
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None of these things are necessarily true. Android has some really amazing apps, first off - and tons of them are free. Second, battery life depends on the model - the Incredible 2 is pushing 36 hours with regular use, which is well above average for a smartphone.
And finally, I have never understood what's so bad about "fragmentation." Fragmentation is part of what's awesome about open source. You have choices.
And as much as people whine about this for reasons I will never understand, guess what. Honeycomb is a sales disaster. Why? I don't know, but I'm willing to bet that it being the only closed-source Android is a factor. You have no choices, combined with how apparently buggy it is - and of course, no one can fix it because it's closed source. Android users are used to choices. They may or may not understand that open source and fragmentation is what gives them those choices, but it is.
You see this in the general Linux market as well. Despite how I may sound right now, I'm actually not all that geeky. I can use Linux Mint and never have to so much as look at the terminal - it's a great user-friendly OS. Or my uber-geek friends can run Slackware. Freaks.
Fragmentation is good. Fragmentation means there's something out there for ME, and something out there for the geek next door, and something out there for the power user, and something out there for someone with disabilities, and something out there for the soccer mom.
When did it become a bad thing to NOT be forced into some little tiny mold of how you must do things?
Oh, and in case you can't figure it out... Android.
