“Reddit user ‘Joniak’ is a self-described Android fanboy who recently decided to ditch his Android phone and try out Apple’s iPhone 5s. And as it turns out, he may never go back,” Zach Epstein reports for BGR. “Joniak put together an informative post on Reddit explaining what it was like to make the switch, and he also listed the biggest pros and cons after a week of using the iPhone. His post is an interesting and level-headed one that is definitely worth reading.”
“He explains that he had been an Android user for years, having bounced between the Droid X, Galaxy S3, Nexus 5 and the ultimately the HTC One (M7). But then he decided to give the iPhone 5s a try and he ended up loving it,” Epstein reports. “Among the most important advantages he lists for the iPhone over Android are iCloud, Siri and Touch ID. He also says that iOS apps are ‘better built’ than their Android counterparts, which hugely important and is a sentiment we have expressed a number of times here on BGR.”
“There are still some things he misses about his Android phones though,,” Epstein reports, “and included among them are the larger screen on his M7 and the fact that third-party apps can’t really replace Apple’s pre-installed apps as they can on Android.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The only “Android fanboys” either work for Google/Samsung/Etc. and/or have never really used an Apple iPhone.
The larger iPhones, due within months, will cause patent-infringing fragmandroid handset peddlers much well-deserved pain.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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Great post and level headed. Wait till Continuity, Handoff with Proximity Awareness is available. It’s gonna give Google/Samsung/Microsoft hemorrhoids.! 😛
I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy… Then again, maybe Google/Amazon/Microsoft deserve it… Get some butpons ready!
“butpons” LOL
“third-party apps can’t really replace Apple’s pre-installed apps”
this is something that need to change soon. For just about every Apple app there a better alternative in the App Store. The fact you cant set them as default is just annoying
Typical MDN take. Ditched on large phones and now in love with the firm factor.
A level headed pro-iPhone article on BGR. I don’t need to visit the site to imagine the sheer immensity of froth that was formed by the commenters as a result!
Honestly, it really is amazing how hard the androids and Apple fans go at it against one another over there. It’s quite comical.
What ever happened to Apple’s old pal Andy and his switch to Droid? Haven’t heard a peep after he milked the website for hits.
“What ever happened to Apple’s old pal Andy and his switch to Droid? Haven’t heard a peep after he milked the website for hits.”
Great question. Slipped into even more obscurity I hope. Andy Ihnatko was invited by (the ever pompous) Chris Breen at Macworld to write that article as some sort of personal choice journey – problem was that he wrote it like a review, on points that were arguable. And readers did. Most everyone saw through it to be a cheap shot to get attention. I no longer read either of these two former techwriters.
I gave up on MacWorld’s website when they started merging with their sister rag PC World, and after 16 years I let my MacWorld magazine subscription run out and did not renew. Most of those clowns are loyal only to themselves and their careers; screw ’em.
“Most of those clowns are loyal only to themselves and their careers; screw ‘em”
+100
Andy Ihnatko is coming around: in this June 3 column, he explains how the revelations at WWDC excited him as much as they did developers (or more, if the diaper story is for real). Apple is beckoning Andy back into the fold.
Good for him, but that ridiculous ‘I switched to Android page click seeking review’, masquerading as a personal opinion, was just too much for me to give a flying leap for whatever he writes or ‘reviews’.
I read your link. Ihnatko wrote “To my genuine surprise, my switch to Android became an actual tech news story for a week….If Apple comes out with a larger-screen iPhone this fall, I’ll be hard-pressed to come up with a single damn reason to keep using Android.”
What a bunch of horse manure. THAT is why he wrote it. And now Ihnatko thinks he will make tech news for a week by coming back to iPhone.” The sheer gall of the man…
Now if only ‘contributors’ like Botty and Morri actually contributed such relatively objective posts as this admitted fandroid then we might actually listen to them. However that is a forlorn hope most like and rants about the colours and flatness of icons will as usual be the upper limit of their intellect.
More clickbait from Epstein and BGR.
I’m going to assume this is a really bad joke, because I cannot even imagine someone being this stupid. The only people who will actually enjoy bigger iPhone screens are the idiots who have the current generation iPhones. No Android user will wake up and switch to Apple because they decided to join the bigger screen club (Wow, you deserve a sticker, Apple!) If anything, Apple will lose more users this coming year because of the Chinese Android phones that are retailing for at least 1/2 the price of a current iPhone 5. I honestly hope you are not being serious with this article and I hope it is a joke because I do not want to lose faith in society yet again. (P.S. I had an iPhone and completely hated it, so I switched to Android and have not yet had a complaint. No, I do not work for Google/Samsung/Etc. No, I am not braindead, like you Apple dickriders.)
The problem is that most brain dead iPhone users say they “tried” android and hated it, and then you ask them which android phone and they reply “I had the HTC g1”
– Said Macworlds 2014 lowest common denominator winner, a.k.a: fragma-droid free-tard.
Scam-a-bum can’t patent screen size can’t they? No where to hide this year. No innovation to pretend to trump others with other than, well, you said it best:
“Chinese Android phones that are retailing for at least 1/2 the price”
Stay losing with your 7-Bit processor having, lame ecosystem, no virus protection, no real music service, no native coding software having phablet.
“I cannot even imagine someone being this stupid”
I can, they’re called: Scam-a-bum users.
Nonsense. HTC handles beautifully but no replaceable battery makes it similarly annoying to iphone. Have used both platforms. Both have interest. I think long game Google will win. Because google controls the information. And that’s where the battle is. I think apple and iPhone is the Betamax of our generation. Beautiful. Better. And destined to dinosaur status by its inability fast enough to avoid the snobbery island that it currently inhabits. It’s got away with it until recently by the sheer design brilliance of its devices. But in the same way as you “google” rather than apple – knowledge is the prize. And it seems to me that when Google get its monetisation strategy right – there’s all the time and money in the world to make cool well designed hardware to access it’s services In….
“And it seems to me that when Google get its monetisation strategy right ”
The saddest part about your incoherent drivel is that you’re thick headed enough to never realize you have BEEN a part of the Googy data-mining for low budget, crap products social experiment all along. When someone puts together something that’s not a DERIVATIVE of an iPhone and not a DERIVATIVE of iOS that:
Doesn’t include bloatware
Updates it’s software regularly for every device when issued
Doesn’t come with it’s own mangy virus village
Doesn’t use lame iOS inspired custom skins”
Has full support and exclusive loyalty of talented app developers worldwide
Please describe this mythical creature because it doesn’t exist.
I always love the Betamax argument. You know what happened to Betamax? Sony drove it to the professional marketplace where it eventually became d-beta. They OWN the broadcast market . Where’s VHS now? There are millions of beta and dbeta machines still in use. Know your argument .
TouchID? He sounds very confused.
You’re late.