iOS vs Android

Just received my iPhone 4S over the weekend and have been spending a lot of time with it, hence the lack of posts in this blog. Over the next few months, as I get accustomed to iOS, I’ll be blogging about my observations and thoughts in comparison to Android.

Just some background; I used the HTC Droid Incredible for almost 18 months. Unlike a lot of current iPhone users, I was very satisfied with my Incredible. 

But why did I switch over?

A mixture of reasons: 

a.) Despite the Incredible being less than 2 years old, and having been updated to 2.3; it pales in comparison to latest and greatest Android offerings. That and HTC sense on the Incredible was outdated, not having been updated by HTC (another grip of mine which I will later elaborate on) to the latest version of sense. Why (I believe my Incredible would have been able to handle it), I shall never know …

b.) Curiosity got the better of me and I finally got an iPhone. Simple as that. I would like to try the Windows Mobile platform when it becomes a maturer platform.

c.) Siri. Yeah yea yea, Android has a host of apps like that - but honestly, none of those apps have anything on the natural context technology that is the core of Siri. GVS/vLingo type apps take instructions. Siri understands instructions. That’s the difference.

Hope to place my thoughts soon. It’s been an exciting last 3 days, I’ll tell you that!