if you get a higher end Android phone, they 'just work' too. the problem with Android is having it on some of the most lousy quality cheap devices out there, giving people the idea that Android is unstable, crash-prone, or laggy. i was once a victim of that mentality until i bought my first mid-range tablet and more recently a couple of high-end Google Nexus tablets and later a Galaxy S3--which i adore.
when i look around locally, all the hunters and blue collar types have iPhones, usually in camouflage cases. but i am seeing a sudden influx of Android phones lately, mostly with students and those in higher-paying jobs, and most of them being Samsung products like GS3s and GS4s, and a handful of Notes, which seem to fit the profile of older-types who prefer a stylus over touch input, as they seem to use them heavily. Others love the Note for being durable, likening it to the durability of older large 1980s cellular bricks.
Apple is often said to be the kind for those who hate change, as it always looks the same and has since 2007, with nothing but incremental changes such as the addition of Siri and the Android-like notification pull-down (but not the cluttered icons filling the bar like with Android). but i am reading that iOS 7 is going to change a lot, and i'm interested in how it will go down for those who have been used to iOS since the first version.
I myself tend to hate changes suddenly enforced on me, and, with Android i have methods to choose not to conform to them. if iOS ever changed their UI, short of jailbreaking people would hav to get used to it. with Android, there are countless ROMs and hacking to downgrade things such as the Play Store or other apps, and many different UIs to choose from should you not like the default Jelly Bean one, for example.
