Why Android vs. iOS is a good thing for us, the consumer

How many times have you been stopped by a friend to have them show you a feature on their newer-esque Android phone (Droid X, EVO 4G, etc.) to have it compared to your iPhone 3GS/4? We all know what occurs next: a battle of wits about which operating system is better, which one has more features, which one has a better media player, and the list goes on and on. Conversations like these can last for hours and, on rare occasions, even days. And we've become accustomed to these arguments. We actually, in some cases, yearn for them. Why? Competition.


We, as humans, love being in constant competition with one another from our favorite sports teams to card games and even predictions of weather. It's just our nature. So of course when the operating systems for our phones are in constant competition with each other, we gobble it up like white meat turkey breast on Thanksgiving Day. Which makes the iPhone (iOS) v. Android competition all the more savory. Here we have two companies, which started off on a great journey together, and then branched off to battle each other for the majority piece of that market share pie. How is this good for the good people of cellular land? Again: competition.


As the battle wages on between Google and Apple with their respective mobile operating platforms, we will see mobile technology blossom into something more epic than anything produced on a viable home computing platform within the last 10 years. We are already seeing more integration with the internet and the technologies it has to offer with our mobile phones now than ever before. Phones have become more saturated with endless features (some necessary, some unnecessary) and offer us more power to complete the tasks we need access to while on the go. As iOS 4 offers something, Android will offer the same and, possibly, even improve on it. And vice versa. It's what will keep these two titan mobile operating systems in constant competition and it's what will strengthen the market place for years to come. We are already seeing the pros and cons of each operating system, but as the competition and war wages on, we will see each platform take similar features and bring them to users in varying degrees of user-friendliness. One thing is for certain: as the competition continues forward, us as consumers will benefit with the increasing selection of powerful capabilities offered by each platform.

Hiatus for The Nooge - iPhone 4 review coming soon..

Seems it's been a while since I've posted on my own blog. When you're the only poster for your own blog, people tend to notice when you're gone for a while (as evident in my last post date of June 19th, 2010). Some reassuring news: I have received my iPhone 4 on June 24th, as promised by AT&T. As a side note: the problems and occurrences that have affected a number of users globally have not affected me, at least not on a major scale. My "review unit" (which is actually my day-to-day phone) does suffer from occasional degradation on the proximity sensor - I can actually touch buttons from time to time with my face, if tilted, thus "fooling" the sensor. Stay tuned within the next few days, as I'll be posting my full review and thoughts on Apple's new product.