My contract on my iPhone 3G is up in 6 weeks, but I decided about a month ago that I will be moving to an Android phone. For the most part, I have been happy with my iPhone over the past 23 months but I will be purchasing the new Android X for several reasons.
1. Said simply, I think Apple has an attitude problem. They have accumulated so many customers that will believe anything that Steve Jobs says (the whole "magical device" thing with the iPad was way over the top for me) that they no longer feel it necessary to earn business and customers.
2. The proprietary nature of everything apple just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, overpriced hardware, only one carrier for the iPhone, it all screams that Apple knows what is best for me and I just need to trust them to make decisions for me.
3. There are places that I travel to in Maine where I get no service available with ATT, yet users on Verizon's network have great coverage in those areas.
4. Lotus is in the process of supporting Android devices with Traveler.
I think there are many people who feel the same as I do here because Android activations are at 165,000 per day and rising. Bottom line is that Apple is it's own worst enemy and Apple's attitude has lost this customer. Read more here.
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Yup ...That's pretty much exactly why we went with droid phones (HTC Incredible in our case - wife & I - and adult son switched as well). We'd had BlackBerrys on AT&T, and could not get reception in part of our house! ...Wife's got a MacBook, but my 3 home machines are Ubuntu. Not at all keen on Jobs nor the proprietary nature of Apple-ness... Actually, I've *never* been keen on the proprietary nature of Apple computers, and that's part of why I never wanted an iPhone. 'Tho I did buy an iPod years back :)
ReplyDeleteI bought my first smart phone couple months ago and went with the Motorola Droid. They had the buy 1 get 1 free deal. Love it for all reasons you state. Couple other reasons were the multitasking, GPS and Camera. All these were better than iPhone. New 2.2 os will have wifi hotspot capability. Very cool. Using device mostly for my music too. Rhapsody, Internet Radio and Pandora have replace much of my purchased music choices. Still use my iTouch once in a while. I believe I made best choice for my situation.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy.