iOS or Android

[dionx]

iOS.

Apple will support your hardware with new OS releases until the hardware is too old to handle it, usually at least 2 years.

With Android, the hardware being released might not have the latest OS version. And your chance of support to a newer OS might be dependent on the hardware manufacturer. Look at Sony's X10 Experia - it won't support the latest OS (I forgot if it's froyo or gingerbread).

I use both PCs and Macs, and obviously the Android is comparable to a PC. When it comes to desktop stuff, I enjoy PCs w/ Windows 7. For everything mobile, I tend to prefer Macbook Pros and iPhones.

 

[simonizor]

Android all the way. The two OSes are very similar. The main things that set them apart are the way that they handle apps and the way that you can customize them.

With Apple's iOS, all applications have to go through Apple's strict approval process. Android doesn't require any approval; the applications just have to meet a few requirements and they can be published. Android also doesn't reject applications that "replicate phone functions" as Apple would. This means that if you aren't happy with the way that something works on your phone, you can change it. Example: if you don't like the stock media player, there are quite a few different ones to pick from.

Customization is pretty much non existent on a non jailbroken iPhone. There are a few things you can do like change your background, sounds, etc, but if you really want to be able to customize the way things look, you have to jailbreak it to open access to third party applications. The sad thing is that the OS is far more capable than Apple allows it to be.

On an Android phone, you can customize nearly every aspect of the phone without having to root it (sort of the equivalent of jailbreaking). You can change the way that pretty much everything looks including the dock, the screens themselves, the actual interface, the icons, and anything else that you can think of.

Also, one of the things that really sets Android ahead of iOS for me is the widgets. Widgets are pretty similar to the one's you'd see in Windows Vista + 7, but much better and more useful. There is a huge amount of widgets to choose from. There are widgets that are the size of regular icons and toggle things such as wifi, bluetooth, etc. There are also widgets that act as a way to interact with an application without having to open it. You can use widgets to control your media player, so you can play/pause, skip, etc without having to ever open the app. There are also widgets for Facebook, etc that allow you to view everyone's posts and make your own without opening the app.

The widgets, in my opinion, are a huge factor in making Android much more useful than it's competition. I can scroll through my screens and do all of the things that I need without opening an app.

 

[ew915]

iOS + JB = gaming heaven

 

[Monster_Munch]

Android for me. I'm pretty good at java so I can write my own stuff for it fairly easily. To develop on iOS you need a mac and you have to pay apple about $99 a year for the license.

 

[edro]

My only problem with iOS is actually with the App Store and how they require I entire my password twice and accept their terms and conditions EVERYTIME I was to download or update apps.

Also, they just recently made me change my password because it wasn't "safe" enough.

Seriously, how many times do you change your terms and conditions?

Other than that, iOS rocks. (iPhone 3G owner, looking to get Verizon iPhone because ATT sucks)

 

[MrX8503]

My only problem with iOS is actually with the App Store and how they require I entire my password twice and accept their terms and conditions EVERYTIME I was to download or update apps.

Is it everytime or often? Because those are two different things. Apple updates their terms semi often, but I don't remember having to accept terms everytime I install an app.