I get the impression that the iOS vs Android thing is the next Emacs vs Vi holy war. For this site anyway...

Aww, did I hurt your little engineer feelings? Was the work sparse enough for you to come argue with a random guy on the internet, and then insist i'm the loser? Are you aware that you would have sounded smarter stating "how much engineering" instead of throwing in "extreme"? Do you really think that even if you had three times my intellegence it would offset all the little twelve year olds running around with iPhones? My point is valid regardless of what intellect you (may) have.

Yes. Even taking that into account. I am serious. Spyware crops up everywhere it can, and despite that it is a problem on Android, there are a bunch of people smart enough to have not had that issue.

Do you have one? Is it any good?

I didn't really (and generally don't). I own an iPad (which is really just a big iPhone sans the phone part anyway). I have to support both iPhones and the plethora of Android devices at work, and it is true that we have less problems with the Android stuff (even taking the ratio of users of each into account). It's just fun to gibe people.

I was all hyped to get an N900, but I just read about too many issues. Pretty sad really, the thing looks like a beast.

A bunch of the apps are published to both platforms, that way the business can sell to two user bases. Also, my phone is mostly a phone, why would I want all that crap on it exaclty?

It doesn't matter, it conveys a point.

Where at all did I state it to be factual? If I didn't assert it as a fact, then it can't very well be "true". The statement was quite clearly said in my bias, and everything anyone believes falls within their own bias. So, yes.

Does knowing it enhance the experience? Of course not. It does show that you may have done some research rather than just buy the one with the shiny apple logo on it.

I have an account older than either type of phone. Did you have a relevant point in there somewhere?

No, I made the case that *I am* an arrogant asshole. You however, seem to prove my point.

Simple test. Ask iPhone users about a component in their phone ("What kind of processor is in that?") See what they say. Now ask an Android user. They won't all know, but more of them seem too.

This is the kind of people with iPhones, you know, the type too stupid to have bought an Android based phone.

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