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[–] thesupergeek 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I would totally agree. Android used to be total crap, back in Froyo, and honeycomb days, but even then it was really cool and provided a whole load more features and options over IOS (which could not even change the homescreen background at this point), and it has grown to become very mature and very stable.

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[–] macleod2486 ago 

And hell the community that surrounds it too. If you don't like stock you can flip to one of the forks of Android that has a completely new set of features and options. If you don't want Google on your device you can have that too. Just the fact that you have options makes it that much cooler.

On the other hand iOS is slowly becoming more and more open. The one flicker of hope that Apple is showing is they're open sourcing Swift. I really do hope they at least open their systems up and stop being so damn money grubbing. Their environment and community would be much better in my own opinion.

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[–] thesupergeek 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I don't think many components of Swift will come to Android TBH. Java (what it is currently running) or C, or Objective C in Mono/Xamarin is fast and easy enough, but Swift is pretty damn different and it has beeen fluctuating quite a bit. But it will be interesting to see.

But yeah, I also wanted to say, if you purchased an iPhone 4 you are pretty much screwed now. IOS7 does not work very well at all on it, and IOS6 is increadbly outdated, and does not even work under the new version of itunes IIRC. Keep in mind the Android alternatives from this time where the Moto G (first gen) and Samsung GS2 and GS3. These are both still very viable phones today, as a matter of fact my friend is currently running a GSII with KitKat and Cydnogen mod.