Why I'm switching from iPhone to Android...
Sunday, January 3, 2010
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I'm like most of you out there... I ran out and got the iPhone ASAP because I wanted the latest and greatest mobile technology out there. Don't get me wrong, the iPhone is sweet and it's still pretty bad ass, but I am switching to Android for some good reasons.
I am a Linux user... Apple hates Linux... So I have to jump through a million hoops to sync my songs, pics, and etc... This makes me sad because Apple could be such a cool company and play nice with Windows, Mac, and Linux.. Why not work with Linux? It's just going to give Apple better market share.. #fail
Apple loves locking and holding features hostage just so they can make more money off of you later when they release a new iPhone. iPhone 3G was released with full video capture capabilities but instead of turning that feature on they decided to hold out and make you pay for it when the 3Gs was released. This created the jail breakers.. Hacker teams started deploying root hacks just so they could enable such features. Apple became angry but if they would just give us what we want then we wouldn't have to take it. #fail
Android is built from an open source perspective, which means if you want to customize your phone, design software for it, or make it work with any operating system then your in luck because Android makes it easy.. #win
Although Android phones are just now catching up to iPhones I predict that by 2011 Android will be the big player on the block. One problem Android faces is that Apple already has a ton of apps in their store, but here is where good old capitalism comes to the rescue for Android. iPhone developers made a lot of apps and now the competition is becoming increasingly difficult, so how does a programmer diversify their product? Make it work on Android too, that's how... So now iPhone developers are building the same programs they have already designed on the iPhone, but in Android, and it's beginning to grow the Android app store with large numbers.
I still have some time on my contract with AT&T so I have a little time to decide witch phone I'm going to get. I'm excited about 2010 because it seems like a huge year for mobile gadgets and a huge year for Android.
Cheers, Dustin
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