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Apple 🍏, or Android 🤖?

What’s your brand of choice.

  • Apple 🍏

    Votes: 11 57.9%

  • Android 🤖

    Votes: 8 42.1%
  • Total voters
    19
I carry an iPhone, and have since 2008 with the iPhone 3G. As a software developer and later engineering manager, I work with apps for both Android and iOS. So I have Android phones and tablets for testing apps on during development, as well as iOS phones and a couple of iPads. From a time and cost perspective, I can tell you that it has always cost me more to develop apps for Android than it has for iOS. It's a matter of the tools, and how many variations of screen sizes and resolution you have to do layouts for. The native tools from Apple just make it easier for the most part.

I considered a switch to Android at one point for my phone, but continue to carry an Apple product in my pocket for several reasons:

1. Security

Dealing with the Apple App Store versus the Google Play and other Android stores - Apple has a tight process of vetting the apps, and an actual human gets involved in reviewing the app at Apple - I have to provide them with login credentials if appropriate, instructions on how to use the app, and they scan it for viruses and such. It can take a week or more for a new app to make it into the Apple App Store, and days for even minor updates. Sometimes that is annoying, but contrast that to Google Play, where anything I submit shows up within minutes.

2. Consistency

Every Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod I've ever used has the same user interface, even if the screens vary. With Android, if I pick up Samsung, Google, whatever - aside from the Google Nexus devices, they all put their own spin on Android, which drives me nuts. I do all my development with "pure" Android devices like the Google Nexus.

3. Integration

By this, I mean with my computer and tablet device. With iCloud on the Apple devices, all of my contacts, messages, calendars, photos, are just magically available on my phone/watch/tablet/computer(s). Its a lot better than I've seen with my Windows systems, Linux development machines, Android devices, etc.

Just my 2 cents. I use all OS'es and devices - I have to. Just my personal systems tend to be Apple.
 
Android.

I used to love my Blackberry. Then they went kaput, so I had to pick. I went Apple at the time because it was the only platform my pro sound equipment would work with (I run concerts from an iPad - the huge mixing console is a thing of the past). But Apple kept pissing me off with forced "updates", constant "you have to log into your iTunes account" messages, and rapidly decaying battery life (forced obsolescence?). Also not a fan of the sheer cost of their (non-open-source) hardware.

So, when my iPhone died (again)...I switched to Android and have been thrilled ever since. Many more customisable options, many more free apps, much better battery life, no annoying login prompts all the time, and much cheaper hardware. And, now my sound system will interface with Android as well as Apple, so when the next iPad croaks (as it is, I can barely make it through a show without having to switch to a spare because of a dead battery) I'll be getting an Android tablet as well.

For 10% the cost of an iPad.
 
Annihilator said:
Only thing I am ticked off about with Apple, in the 13.5 update, they snuck in a COVID-19 tracker, works off Bluetooth, default setting is disabled, goes by location services, but is it really off? I don’t like the ideal of being tracked without giving permission. Don’t know if Android device’s have that also.

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Android pushed that out too.
 
ScottJ said:
Android (Samsung Galaxy S6 Active). Have had it for quite awhile now, and hope it lasts for quite awhile longer. I like the camera, and it tracks my route when kayaking, distance paddled, calories burned. It also has the ability to measure heartrate and SpO2 level by placing a finger on the sensor on the back of phone. Not an actual calibrated medical instrument, but it serves the purpose I use it for. It used to measure your stress level.....but I think I stressed it out and broke it. Actually, they discontinued (in an update I think) that function.
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Apple will do that as well.
 
I have both android and Apple products for different uses. I prefer the Apple products due to their apps are better vetted and out of the box, it is more secure. I work in the I.T. world and see a lot of pros and cons of both. No doubt the Android is more customizable but that is part of the security issues they have and it all being open-sourced, there has been more malware found in the Android run devices. I really hate hearing people talk about they have an Apple because it just works. I have seen more than my fair share of failures in the Apple world as well. Apple has things fairly well locked down out of the box when you send a message to another Apple device it is encrypted if you have a blue wrapper on it. It is kind of funny when I hear people will not use Google because of the monitoring they have but then I find out they are using an Android device.
 
I have had them all at one point or another. I would have to go with a Samsung based droid option now. Galaxy S10+. Cameras are great, wifi direct, never run out of memory to name a few.
 
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