iPhone or Android?

[innerSpaceman]

One of the best pieces of advice I ever had about using Apple portable products (in this case, it was an iPod, but holds true for the iPhone) is choose the i-something because most other people have one - and if you ever have a question about anything, you can ask almost anyone!


The Android has gained tremendous ground, but I still believe you can toss a coin in the air and there's a 94% chance it will hit someone with an iPhone on the way down.


I love, love, love my iPhone and find my boyfriend's Droid a bit confusing. For whatever that's worth.

[Snowflake]

Thanks Steve and Greg!

Now, what about reasonable data usage? The discounted rate option has 300 Mb. Is this a reasonable amount?

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

The Android has gained tremendous ground, but I still believe you can toss a coin in the air and there's a 94% chance it will hit someone with an iPhone on the way down.

Not quite. Android has more than half of the US smartphone market share as of last month. 51% to Apple's 31% (they've both been growing lately at the expense of RIM).

The issue is that whatever iPhone user your coin hits they will essentially have the exact same iPhone as any other it might have hit (with some generally minor version variations) whereas almost every Android user will be on something with significant differences from people on other handsets and service providers.