iPhone or Android?

[daysx]

Since the dawn of time, people have been asking this important question. Which is better, iPhone or Android?


Personally I would say iPhone - which one would you pick

[Andrewlang]

No idea which is better particularly as Tech isn't really my thing...I don't like Apple in general though. I'm sure the products are just...peachy, but as a company they feel evil to me and if not getting an iPhone brings them down then I'd be delighted.

I have a OnePlus android phone. Had a Oneplus 3 for about 7 years that I dropped last month and knackered otherwise I'd still have it. Android does what I need it to do so I'm happy even if it's not neccersarily the 'best'.

Andrew

[Denton]

Both have their plus points and negatives

iPhones are limited but pretty standardised and user friendly, the cameras are also pretty good on the whole.

However i've been an android man for many years the reasons are as follows:
- Fully Customisable
- Download non approved apps (for streaming purposes)
- You get features that don't appear on Apple for a few years
- My iPhone kept breaking and Apple support is shocking.

I would say iPhones are for your less technical types and Android for the technical types. But each to their own really

[abbeycambridge]

iPhone all day long. Goes well with my iPad

[Sandypants]

Apple are evil. Google are also evil, but at least I can get around their chokepoints.

[artvandelay]

Apr 4, 2023 18:26:56 GMT Sandypants said:

Apple are evil. Google are also evil, but at least I can get around their chokepoints.

I read a quote from someone recently, and I really wish I could remember who, that said, and I paraphrase, that for a happy life we need to find a level of hypocrisy that we can live with. Which is why I can deal with the exploitation needed for my android and not with that used to make an iPhone.

[Bendigeidfran]

I've dabbled in both, likewise with phones. I lean more towards Android simply because of choice and ease of use. I find Apple products to be such a pain in the arse because they're so closed off. Easy if everything you own is Apple, but otherwise just seemed unnecessarily complicated. Maybe they're better in recent years but I'm not inclined to want to find out.

[kentishu]

I also have a OnePlus, in my case the OnePlus 6. Very concerned that this Chinese company will soon turn me into a Communist.

Oh f**k, it's already happened!

Kentish

[imp566]

Never had an i-Phone, so wouldn't know. Android does what I need it to do, so no concerns for me.

[Actually Valid Username]

Apr 5, 2023 19:48:06 GMT kentishu said:

I also have a OnePlus, in my case the OnePlus 6. Very concerned that this Chinese company will soon turn me into a Communist.

Oh f**k, it's already happened!

Kentish

I can only reccomend Oneplus 100%. I drop mine, get it wet, charge it too often, all the bad things for your phone.

Not slowed down, not broken just kept going for way longer than any iPhone/samsung I've had before

[kentishu]

Apr 6, 2023 16:52:07 GMT Actually Valid Username said:

Apr 5, 2023 19:48:06 GMT kentishu said:

I also have a OnePlus, in my case the OnePlus 6. Very concerned that this Chinese company will soon turn me into a Communist.

Oh f**k, it's already happened!

Kentish

I can only reccomend Oneplus 100%. I drop mine, get it wet, charge it too often, all the bad things for your phone.

Not slowed down, not broken just kept going for way longer than any iPhone/samsung I've had before

Yes, well more seriously I concur. I've had mine for around 5 years and it's only foible is that it now refuses to load Facebook, taking me to the Womad website instead, which I feel should be an inbuilt feature of all mobile phones.

[paulb]

I have a Google Pixel and it has been excellent. No regrets in moving away from an iPhone. The camera is pretty good. It holds it's own against the majority of the other android phones on the market.

[champair79]

I love my iPad but can’t bring myself to whore my entire digital life to Apple by getting an iPhone (and any of their ‘accessories’). I’ve had android phones for years and they work fine.

[duffpaddy]

Android for me.
Had work supplied iPhone for years. Hated it and just diverted it to my Android.

[foolhandy]

I've been Android for always. Like Motorolas as they're free of Samsung-style bloat but not completely Google, like the Pixels. I like my phone to be set up how I like my phone set up, I can do that with Android. Also, it has the shake for flashlight built in with Motorolas. Lovely.

Was given a recent iPhone to see if I wanted it as my stepson was upgrading. Lasted a week before the need for my whole life to be Apple for anything to be convenient, and the insistence that Apple engineers know better than me about how I want to use my phone, made me want to smash the thing into a million pieces. Absolutely infuriating. I love a workaround, but the lengths I had to go to to try and get an adblocked browser that synced with my Windows desktop, for example, was ridiculous. And that settings thing where you have to come out of the app and into settings then find the app in the settings list and make a quick change then go back to the app...what's that about?! If you're used to it and know no other way then fine, but why is it so hard to have a hamburger icon top left of every app like in Android? It felt like Apple came up with a way a phone should work in 2007 and *that is the way it shall always be because just because*. I suspect that if Jobs was still around iPhone software would be quite a bit different to how it is now.

A Sunday morning waffle. Apologies! Android for me then, with the caveat that I almost exclusively use it with non-Google apps...