Andy Ihnatko (long time Mac boy) switches to Android

[gtbarry]

Andy Ihnatko is a known apple fan and long time tech writer for the Chicago Sun Times.

"Here's what changed: Android got great. The OS got great, and the hardware got great. One of the sweet benefits of being a tech columnist is that I get to try out every significant new phone for a month or so. Time after time last year, I'd pack up and send back another flagship Android phone, switch back to my iPhone exclusively, and spend the following few weeks missing a great feature of the Android phone's hardware or OS that I'd come to rely on during my testing.

And so, by the end of the year, the idea of continuing to use an iPhone exclusively, or even as my primary phone, was no longer appealing"

Why I switched from iPhone to Android | Macworld

(P.S. you won't get a virus from macworld.com. It's a real site. Having never heard of it, I looked it up before I clicked.)

 

[SiempreTuna]

Good to see that, despite the author stating he bought an SIII, the 'droid in the images in an N4

Far better phone .. well, cheaper at least.

 

[Mostly Harmless]

One of the things I kept seeing in the comments (which is expected since he is praising Android on an Apple site, let's face it, if someone wrote an article like that and posted it on Android Central we would all get our pitch forks and hunt him down) is how people like how everything is "in-sync". I could probably write a small book on how well Android handles multiple devices. My books, music, bookmarks, webpages, contacts, emails, notes, documents all sync across my phone, tablet, and computer. It works very well.

Choice, choice, choice. It’s not the opposite of Apple’s “Control, control, control.” Instead, it’s a yin-yang sort of relationship. Each concept seems to define what an iPhone and an Android phone are good at, and the kind of consumer each phone is trying to please.

He hits a lot of points of what used to be considered "gimmicks" (large screens, customization, etc...) aren't gimmicks at all but very useful features. With the current hardware out there, Android 4.1 and above (the vanilla version anyway) I believe Android has surpassed iOS in the mobile wars. Overall I think it is a good article that is going to get a lot of people on that site sore.

 

[gtbarry]

Good to see that, despite the author stating he bought an SIII, the 'droid in the images in an N4

Far better phone .. well, cheaper at least.

This happened because "editors are evil" and don't know a thing about what they are reading.