iPhone 3GS or Android Phone

Cerro

Yes but my point was that Apple does not have a monopoly on "ease of use". Androids are also easy to use and work out of the box in much the same way.

I was pointing out the costs to the OP. Apple don't keep everything proprietary for your security. They do it so they can charge whatever they want for apps and extras because they face no competition. I have lost count of the amount of people who have said "I want to switch from Apple but it's so difficult, everything's different and things don't work. " They don't work because Apple goes out of its way to ensure it is as difficult as possible to switch and the rival product gets the blame.

My own general money saving rule (besides the technical reasons): If Apple are selling it, it's probably vastly overpriced and under spec'd.

BlueFox

dulcificum wrote: »

Exactly. My friends with iPhones have more trouble than those with Android.

And I know I definitely do because it's impossible to do anything you want to on an iPhone.

I have to disagree with you there, you can do pretty much anything most people would want to do with a smartphone on an iPhone - ie, browse the internet, email, text messaging, make calls, take photos, check the weather, use calendar etc etc.

In fact the only thing you can't do is watch flash based video but this is less of a problem than it used to be as website owners are making video in different formats to combat this.

Everyone has their own opinion on this subject & there is no right or wrong, just whatever suits you best. If you don't like Apple or the iPhone then don't get one.

What I don't get is why so many people have to slag off anything with the Apple logo on - is it jealousy?

foxtrot_mike

Cerro wrote: »

I have lost count of the amount of people who have said "I want to switch from Apple but it's so difficult, everything's different and things don't work. " They don't work because Apple goes out of its way to ensure it is as difficult as possible to switch and the rival product gets the blame.

I dont understand this, I have changed my phone model alot, Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, HTC and I have an array of chargers, covers memory cards for each phone as ive not bothered to throw them away.

How is Apple any different?

delain

foxtrot_mike wrote: »

I dont understand this, I have changed my phone model alot, Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, HTC and I have an array of chargers, covers memory cards for each phone as ive not bothered to throw them away.

How is Apple any different?

You should chuck the chargers if they are a few years old, or ebay them for people with the older phone because Samsung, Nokia and SE I know for sure have all changed their chargers in the last few years

foxtrot_mike

delain wrote: »

You should chuck the chargers if they are a few years old, or ebay them for people with the older phone because Samsung, Nokia and SE I know for sure have all changed their chargers in the last few years

Thats the other problem, they keep changing them, I have 3 Nokias each with different charging plugs, Apple probably will too.

Cerro

Most companies have agreed to use usb as their standard phone connector... Apple obviously haven't. So older chargers won't fit but most new phones use some form of usb. I've only used two types of memory card over the years - Pro Duo (Sony) and MicroSD (everything else) and I can say having hot swappable memory is much better than not having any in the first place.
@Foxtrot_Mike - The only feeling I have towards Apple customers is pity.

BlueFox

Cerro wrote: »

@Foxtrot_Mike - The only feeling I have towards Apple customers is pity.

Are you sure the word you are looking for is not jealousy?

Just out of interest, why do you pity Apple customers?

dulcificum

There's no point having a smartphone if it's crippled by a closed system.

Idiophreak

Cerro wrote: »

OK - I have to stop you there. "It just works" is pure Apple marketing. If you say it enough people will believe it, but it's no kind of explaination at all. If I gave my HTC Desire HD to a child they'd be able to use it too, so "it just works" then?

I'm kinda bored of debating this on these boards, but what the hell.

"Just works" isn't just marketing speak, it's a measure of ease of use, intuitive interfacing and slick display.

A child being able to use it isn't enough.

Your child would become frustrated by the ridiculously poor battery life on the Desire HD. They'd have to disable most of the features and all of the nice UI tweaks to enable them to call you when they were going to be late home.

They'd get annoyed that their "superior" handset has horrific bugs around facebook integration and would get fed up of being unable to reply to messages that are sent to them.

They'd be envious of iPhone users who's Camera Roll loaded instantly, scrolled flawlessly, who could skip back and fourth between photos instantly - they'd look at their HTC sitting and caching and jerking back and forth and think "wow, this is just rubbish".

Then, in all probability, your child would ask you to take back your HTC Desire HD and provide them with a phone that "just works" in the same way all their friends' iPhones do...

(I have to say, however, that the idea the iPhone "just works out of the box" is a mick take - you can't even turn it on until you plug it in to iTunes - that's a serious issue)

only_mee

dulcificum wrote: »

There's no point having a smartphone if it's crippled by a closed system.

Soon alter that!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=665