What does “better” mean here? My understanding is that the iPhone is easier to use out of the box, whereas Android requires more tinkering and is better suited to power users.
-shrug- Just upgrading from the phone I had in 2003 in the autumn of last years, I didn’t really see any difference in usability between the two. Both had a bunch of icons, everything you clicked worked out of the box. Stick the sim in, charge it up, punch in your email accounts etc into the startup wizard and away you go.
Yeah, that’s close to my understanding: the iPhone is what you get if you want something that Just Works and don’t care too much about price. Android phones are flakier (mine needed a custom ROM before it would give me a GPS fix, and it wasn’t a low-end phone for its era) but cheaper and a lot more varied, hence more likely to have an offering that matches what you’re looking for if you have specific needs or are tight on money. Android’s a slightly more open ecosystem, but that would only be decisive for me if I was planning to do a lot of low-level hacking; higher-level development support is a toss-up from what I’ve seen.
What does “better” mean here? My understanding is that the iPhone is easier to use out of the box, whereas Android requires more tinkering and is better suited to power users.
-shrug- Just upgrading from the phone I had in 2003 in the autumn of last years, I didn’t really see any difference in usability between the two. Both had a bunch of icons, everything you clicked worked out of the box. Stick the sim in, charge it up, punch in your email accounts etc into the startup wizard and away you go.
Yeah, that’s close to my understanding: the iPhone is what you get if you want something that Just Works and don’t care too much about price. Android phones are flakier (mine needed a custom ROM before it would give me a GPS fix, and it wasn’t a low-end phone for its era) but cheaper and a lot more varied, hence more likely to have an offering that matches what you’re looking for if you have specific needs or are tight on money. Android’s a slightly more open ecosystem, but that would only be decisive for me if I was planning to do a lot of low-level hacking; higher-level development support is a toss-up from what I’ve seen.