Posted 25 October 2012 - 06:02 PM
And that's a perfectly valid position. I have never asserted that the iPhone is an objectively superior product. It does seem to get slightly more "best" ratings, but those are subjective, too, even when they come from so-called "experts."
As a general rule, I am not a fan of customization. I look at it this way: You could go out and spend $40,000 on a BMW; alternatively, you could spend $25,000 on a Honda Civic Si, then trick it out with $15,000 worth of go-fast parts. In the end both cars would have similar performance, but one would be much more customized, and require much more investment of time and mental energy from its owner. Some people like that; I do not. I'd rather just have the thing off the rack that does what I want it to do, and forget about it. When it comes to appliances, I'm just not looking to be that interactive (I see this as an aspect of the same personality quirk that makes me so indifferent to video games). I don't care that the iPhone will only allow you to use iTunes for music, for instance. It literally makes no difference to me. (How do you listen to music on a Galaxy, anyway?). And since we live in an iTunes world, it also happens to be convenient. I mean, why have multiple systems when one will do?
That said, there are some things about the iPhone that I would change. I would like the ability to delete standard Apps that I never use, like Stocks and Game Center, for example. But I just stick them in a folder and forget about them, so it's not that big a deal. And having known several people who switched to Android, I know that there are plenty of niggling little annoyances with that system as well. At least one friend has been counting down the days until he can go back to the iPhone, so much has he hated his Android experience.
It's all subjective.
