Droid 2 specs
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Android hands down. Android is an open source OS with virtually unlimited development. iPhone is typical Apple closed development and locked hardware. Apple is the North Korea of the computing world, and the iPhone, while a good device, is locked in chains behind barbed wire.
FWIW:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/23/tech...n=money_latestQuote:
The iPhone is also the gift that keeps on giving: 77% of iPhone owners say they'll buy another iPhone, compared to 20% of Android customers who say they'll buy another Android phone.
Not really the most promising of stats for Google.
Sorry, not so fast. Android development is locked down for obvious reasons. No one outside of Google contributes to new releases. Actual app development on both environments is pretty common, so that's not an issue in either area.
On the other hand, I'm guessing a lot of those people who wouldn't buy an Android phone again probably got earlier versions on substandard devices. If you looked at the stats for people owning a Droid/Milestone, they may be quite different. I'm guessing this will apply to the Incredible, Droid X, Galaxy, and Droid 2 as well.
The biggest problem I have with Android is that carriers feel the need to include craplets. Since these apps of dubious value are installed on the same partition as the operating system, a partition that is write protected, you cannot uninstall them without rooting the phone and likely voiding your warranty. You can spout crap about Apple being North Korea, but they wouldn't allow this kind of ****.