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Keep your Desire, or get iPhone??

Desire/Android or iPhone

  • Desire/Android

    Votes: 211 97.7%

  • iPhone

    Votes: 5 2.3%
  • Total voters
    216
Also dislike iTunes as I find drag-and-drop more intutive. This was one reason for not going for an Apple product. As noted on another thread, the Desire speakars sounds a bit tinny playing music, but with headphones I find it much better, so with a large sdhc card I think the Desire would make a fair replacement for an MP3 player.
 
sudkcoce said:
I don't get the iTunes hatred. In iTunes you don't have to organize the music. It organizes it automatically, especially if music is tagged.
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So does the Desire though. I have all of my music tagged properly and I can drag and drop folders of albums to the memory card, and then the Desire lets me browse by artist, genre etc. It's OK having iTunes as an option if that's what you prefer - and I believe you can sync the Desire with iTunes now too - but making that the only option is poor IMO. It would be like forcing you to use a particular browser to browse the Internet. Some people may love that browser and not mind, but others would rather use an alternative and have a choice.
 
i like having itunes as a fairly hassle free way of organising music and with having an ipod touch before most of my music is there anyway, however what i didnt like was having to always use it to sync and the restrictions of computers etc. i like the look of the iphone 4 and the iOS is pretty intuiative to use, however it is very restrictive. i love the fact that i can change all the icons on my desire, have millions of options for what widgets/icons etc i can have displayed on the screen. yeah the app store is better than the market place but its been out much longer and is slowly starting to alienate all the developers that made it great in the first place. hopefully these devs will jump onto the good ship android and bring angry birds with them (the only reason my itouch hasn't been placed on a well known auction site!)
 
marshalex said:
i like having itunes as a fairly hassle free way of organising music and with having an ipod touch before most of my music is there anyway, however what i didnt like was having to always use it to sync and the restrictions of computers etc. i like the look of the iphone 4 and the iOS is pretty intuiative to use, however it is very restrictive. i love the fact that i can change all the icons on my desire, have millions of options for what widgets/icons etc i can have displayed on the screen. yeah the app store is better than the market place but its been out much longer and is slowly starting to alienate all the developers that made it great in the first place. hopefully these devs will jump onto the good ship android and bring angry birds with them (the only reason my itouch hasn't been placed on a well known auction site!)
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I agree with you. I have several thousand songs on iTunes and sync is simple to my iPod Classic. Drop-and-drag to load tunes onto my Desire feels like such an old and outdated method, and it's a shame there's no similar alternative to iTunes for Android phones. This, in my opinion, is an ommission that would be welcomed by Android users, if such software was available, and would no doubt come without the restrictions that Apple place on their own products..

I know people who hate iTunes simply because it's an Apple product, but the fact is that there's no better way to sync media between a desktop, mobile device and Internet stores.

And Angry Birds for Android is in production according to the game developers, and should be released sometime in September, if I remember correctly :D
 
I'll admit the iPhone has its merits. As a piece of industrial design it's peerless, and to this day no Android device, not even the Galaxy S, can beat it for gaming. That said, I wouldn't want to actually live with one when the Android option makes more sense on so many levels.

First, I cannot stand the iTunes ecosystem. It serves no reasonable purpose for me whatsoever when I can use a leaner, more intuitive and far less restrictive program like MediaMonkey to organise my music perfectly.

Secondly, the iPhone is way too reliant on the mothership PC. An Android user can probably go through the phone's entire life without ever physically hooking it up to a computer, with practically everything, including the very first setup, done over the air. In that sense, phones like the Desire are true mobile substitutes for computers.

And thirdly, among many other reasons, I have a Google account and the seamless, simple integration with an Android phone cannot be overstated.
 
I currently have an iPhone 3gs, but will be getting a Desire as soon as available in my market. Mostly for coverage and cost reasons.
 
The desire does everything the iphone 4 does...plus soo much more...

everyone talks about how great the display on iphone 4 is....and its display is better, but let me tell not by much over the desire.

iphone is the brand most people want,just like they want nike addidas gucci etc.
 
htc desire FTW
- its open
- android is free
- can do what YOU want
- htc is not arrogant
- can hold it however YOU want

schmapple
- costs 15-25% MORE than a comparable phone
- its a locked down environment
- apple is arrogant, just look at the whole antenna fiasco
- screen is too small
- the work their employees to death, literally
 
adam_hilluk said:
Because for some reason people are always referring to the iphone. so i wondered if really they secretly wish they had one instead. Otherwise why try and make your android look like one?
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Maybe they secretly do? Who knows. But I think I can answer your question and it probably answers the bulk of the reason as to why the iPhone is successful.

Some people need help tying their own shoelaces, they are ususally referred to as children! However, in this day and age these "children" are actually the people who crave the unsavoury things we'd all like to have but cant be arsed going after.....Limelight, power and glory. Think politicians, big brother contestants, WAGS, Boris Bloody Johnson :eek: Need I say more?

How would the Fruity one deal with that ascertion?

"Cant tie your shoelaces, we have an app for that!"
"Want to run the country but not sure how to do it, we have an app for that!"

Remember, this is a company who supply a phone and then tell you how you should hold it! A company who then goes on TV and denies there is a problem! A company who then release a TV ad showing every single user on the ad holding the phone in their left hand!

Indoctrination, indoctrination, indoctrination!

Apple have done one thing with the iPhone, iPod, iPad. They have taken childrens V-Tech toys and made them "cool" for adults to play with.

Indoctrinate people to believe that something is the almighty and guess what......when they are that dumb to believe what they are being told WITHOUT question they just follow blindly!

mark@bolwell54 said:
You got to admit that itunes is a very polished, neat way of organising and transfering your music?
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Hmm, but why is it so polished? Why can it easily organise your music and quickly transfer it? These are the questions that peeps like your good self always seem to glance over whilst being blinded by the oober goodness it projects.

Could it be easy to organise because iTunes knows exactly what music you have because of the little bits of malicious code hiding within the software and the track data?

Could it be because it has spied, looked over your shoulder, piggy backed into your friends list, checked, re-checked, had a good ol gander at your credit card details, your credit history, your buying history, cross-referenced with a database server or twenty, and all without you actually knowing any of it was going on?

Yup, ease of use, but at what price......?

Nobody can answer that one yet, apart from maybe those who are currently fighting court battles against the copyright whoremasters........

Nathan Baxter said:
Wired have provided a compelling argument for having an iPhone: Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex | Gadget Lab | Wired.com but I'll stick with my Desire tyvm :)
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Does having sex WITH an iPhone actually count though :rolleyes:
 
What the statistics actually show is that iPhone users have sex with more people, not have more sex generally. Congratulations apple fans, you're more likely than people with Androids to catch an STD, because as evidenced by both this and your choice of phone, you don't think before doing things :p. I hope you're proud of your new statistic. :D
 
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