Android or iOS?
The mother of mobile battles. Androids cross their apps with iOS in a battle to the last battery line.
They're not just functional, they're entire worldviews. Everything that starts with iOS vs. Android unfolds into discussions about relationships, about politics, about philosophy. Exaggeration? It's the truth. It's not just a clash of operating systems, it's something more. And it's time to take a stand.
See what the ONEMAN editorial team chose.
Android by Christos Hadjiioannou
It's probably a bit silly to vote for an operating system that you've barely worked with instead of one that you've had on your phone for the last 6 years. But who am I kidding? When you buy an iPhone (that is, when you ask how much subsidy you have and then threaten both companies that you'll abandon them as if you're their Diamantidis and they'll be sad if you leave) you don't do it for its operating system. You do it for the appearance, for the brand, so that you too can have the iPhone or iPad and sometimes because you like its apps and features. But when it comes to software, the gap is huge. iOS has some limitations, normal and in accordance with the letter of the law, but mainly it has the property of irritating the user with how airtight its processes are. How locked up within its own software are all the processes. From putting your music on the devices, to passing any data, storing data, sharing data. From a simple PDF to an excel file. On an Android (and in a Windows environment) life is so much simpler, so much more immediate, so much more logical. The answer to this dilemma was written at the gate of an airport on an iOS device with the iPhone 6 ads passing before my eyes. Now you figure it out..
Android by Elias Anastasiadis
I always thought it would be a good idea to get an iPhone, but my goals regarding technology, and especially 'how much of it I can handle', were also always a bit above the Earth. I got my first Android phone just before I turned 30 and I'm still using it. I'm 2000 times happier than the phone I had before, even though the phone I had before wasn't much more hi-tech than a pumice stone or a brazier. After a recent offer from a friend who was giving me his old iPhone as a trade-in to get a new one, I spent a weekend preparing myself psychologically for the change. I felt ready for the step, ready for big things. The last night before the alisverisi, my friend informed me about the limitations that Christos analyzed above and the smiles froze. With the smiles, the alisverisi froze too. I chose to stay in the freedom of Android with the few apps I use. Either way, technology and I remain like the protagonists in the Robe di Kappa logo. Back to back.
Android o Christos Demetis
Because I've never had an iPhone. And mainly because I've developed an almost romantic relationship with my HTC Android. You see, an Android is not like all the others. It has developed its own will, it does whatever it wants, whenever it wants. It opens the apps it likes, asks you to update them and then the apps don't work, it makes them work on an irrelevant night when you're drinking beers in a bar with your bestie and you want to check in on Foursquare and the next time you need it to find a street in a neighborhood of Papagou where you're invited to dinner with a friendly couple, it stubbornly insists and tells you cynically: "no, you're screwed, look for the way yourself, ask the kiosk, I don't load Google Maps for you". A romantic relationship. Normally you would tell me, why don't you throw it away, big guy. Oh no, is that how you break up with your girlfriend? Don't you give it a second and third chance? Don't you give yourself another reprieve even in the most difficult times? In addition to the above, Android because as I said, I'm used to it and it works faster than iOS, although I recognize its superiority. And I'm a man of habit, what can we do? Let alone iOS that brings to mind Kolonaki while Android brings to mind Exarchia. Something like that. Yes, I prefer Exarchia (although I secretly love Kolonaki too). Go ahead and tell this argument to a nerd now and pray that he doesn't get you with the tomatoes.
iOS by Stelios Artemakis
The iPhone, my friend, is a democracy. It has many apps, it has cheap apps, it has free apps and the reason is this. Democracy. If you've gotten past the phase where you play with the technical features and do a master reset and reinstall the programs on the mountain, this is your phone. I went through it many years ago, before smartphones with an Asus P535 and Windows Mobile. To connect to the internet you had to have a degree in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and a master's degree in telecommunications systems. To install programs you had to be a hacker or at least a power user. I've gotten past that phase. Now I just open it. Let me do an update. This is democracy.
Android by Dimitris Koupritziotis
I haven't used an Android phone for quite some time. I got my first iPhone three years ago and I stayed with it. I fell in love with it, it won me over, I didn't look around, I only had eyes for it. I proudly showed it off to my friends, we went out together, went on trips, for drinks and everything was fine. We were happy together. We were the perfect couple. He would tell me every now and then "I'm getting an upgrade" and I felt like we were meeting for the first time. We were renewing our relationship. But we've been going through a crisis for a year now. That was when he promised me an upgrade and he was never the same again. He wouldn't open apps and take initiatives that he didn't do before. One time we broke up and that was the beginning of the end. I met the Android that a friend of mine had brought with him and I felt a spark. I was fascinated by it. It was fast, smart, convenient. I had settled with iOS and had forgotten what the right operating system was like. I had forgotten what it was like to try something different. What it was like to be able to change it according to your tastes. To be flexible with what you want and not strict. Now I'm trying to get a divorce and it's hard, but Android managed to win me over because it just lets you believe you're single while you're in a relationship with him. And that's how I want to feel with my mobile operating system.
iOS Stefanos Triantafyllos
There are the guys who claim that Android is better because… (I really don’t know why, I stop listening to their arguments after “Android is better”), but what can we do about them? Here we have to deal on a daily basis with people who don’t eat feta cheese, but we show some compassion, some humanity, some superiority. However, we can say a lot about the subject. The right question would be whether in general the price of iPhones is proportional to the difference in technology and quality. This is indeed a matter for discussion, but let’s be serious: the iPhone is what it is for some specific reasons. Of course – there is also the big one, of course, which is pronounced with a pompous and excruciatingly slow rhythm, accompanied by a corresponding hand movement – after all, there are few things worse than having a software update “fail” on you, or having to synchronize everything that is worth synchronizing. The ultimate torture. Solving a Rubik’s Cube seems easier. I rarely get moments of minor annoyance from pressing the wrong button on my iPhone, for example, making a mistake and calling someone on Facetime… Don't let that happen to you. Usually the disconnection happens after I've cracked the screen from the press, I've closed it, I've locked it in the closet or I've put it under the couch cushions and jumped on top of it.
Not to mention the terms & conditions.
Android by Thodoris Dimitropoulos
I have never had and will never buy an iPhone, for the simplest of reasons: Android has suited me perfectly. Its logic as an operating system is what I have always wanted communication to be like at this moment. Everything connected, everything together, easily switching devices and wherever I sit, wherever I am, having exactly the same data with me as if I were carrying it in my pocket. I don't care if iOS has started moving in this direction. Well done, because that's how 'things should be'. But I just don't care. It's a dysfunctional piece of crap (Relatively unrelated: What a beautiful moment of liberation that was when I unloaded the iTunes truck from my computer!) that puts its brand above my convenience. To have iOS I have to have specific things, while Android comes and snaps onto everything I already use and operate. iOS is shinier and more beautiful and has some cool features, so bravo to it, it does a good job (recently, even music, which I strongly disagree with), but I don't want an operating system with opinions, I want an operating system that is ugly and serves me for as long as its bytes last.
iOS by Manos Michalos
I don't want to miss this Eternal Dilemma, so I'm writing from a meeting, while questions and answers are popping up around me about a project. Busy as I am, I'll say that I have an iPad and in recent years Android phones with a big, BIG BIG screen. But I've reconsidered and I'm stating this while wearing pants. I'm going back to the iPhone in 1 month. I wanted to say it because ass-kicking should be done in public. I'll leave that to you because the meeting is continuing and they're asking me something. Not whether I'll get the basic or the plus. No more very large screens because they break more and you're being talked to by someone who hasn't been able to swipe to answer the phone for 5 days.
ETERNAL DILEMMA ENDED… ANDROID WITH 62.5%
We're very much for equal opportunities here. The iPhone may have changed the rules of the game, but we prefer the more practical solution.
Source: oneman.gr
