It's about CHOICE and CONTROL.
With ANDROID, you have a TON of choices in design and can choose from many different styles and with these phones, are much more open to configuration by the user.
When you buy an apple product, they control what you can get and what you can do. Of course, lair will claim that you can 'jailbreak' the phone, but then that really isn't the way that apple wanted you to use it, now is it?
When you buy an app for the iphone, it has to be bought through apple, talk about control. The app must also be approved by apple. Just imagine if you had to pay Microsoft for every program on your PC. Aren't you glad Microsoft didn't adopt that policy 25 years ago.
HTC has been developing handheld devices for longer than anyone, as they were makers of the Compaq iPaq ~ 15 years ago. This was a very popular item and noticed who COPIED who in the naming convention?
While apple had a 143% year over year growth in iphone sales, Samsung's Android smartphone growth rate was 500%. By the way, apple does not make the internal components of their phones.
In my personal experience, everyone I have attempted to work with (developing trading software) using an apple product, has been a disaster. They moved to apple apparently because they could not USE A COMPUTER.
It's obvious that giving the mac the ability to run Windows was by design, as they knew someone might want to use it for something productive. Several times, I installed WINDOWS on a mac because mac didn't have software choices that were similar or capable of completing certain tasks.
According to a Nielsen survey, Android-based phones now own 39 percent of the U.S. market compared to Appleâs 28 percent.
As for the ipad, the funniest thing about this device is that when I see one, it's usually being used as a baby-sitter. The parents give it to the kids to keep them busy.
As one reader on another forum indicated:
"Yes Android is very quickly gaining on iOS, and for a good reason. It does what the end users want, the way they want it, when they want it. When people are learning to ride a bike, there comes a time when it is time to take the training wheels off and show the world that you can do it on your own. iPhone users need to grow up and show Apple that they are capable of thinking for themselves, and don't need to be coddled like a young child."