Android, the Underdog

When the iphone first came out, it was revolutionary. One of the biggest and most influential tech companies in the world combined phone, access to the internet, and a music player all into one device. amazing for it's time, I can't deny. Especially how well the touch screen worked, I remember people being amazed in 2007. Of course all this technology existed years before the iphone was introduced, apple stole the tech and paid the companies the law suits... thats besides the point. Less than a year later, the first android phone was released, by a huge, but suprisingly less known, tech company, HTC. So they launched the first android phone and it sucked. It SUCKED. And iPhone users constantly dismissed android. Viewed android as an operating system for the poor, and for people who somehow resented apple. Fast forward a couple years to when apple stole the notification center from android (aka 2011) and the new social media app instagram had hundreds of thousands of users, all on apple devices, because  instagram was only on the App Store at that time.

Android was powering about half the world's phones at that point, and so instagram decided it'd be a good idea to release an app for android. So, of course, as all major updates of major apps do, Instagram posted a blog post online about how they were releasing an app on android. Now comes the part i hate.

If you can find the original blog post (you probably cant), there will be a comments zone (this is on the instagram website). Sine you had to have an instagram account to comment on the site, of course only iPhone users were able to comment. So anyways, if you scrolled down through the comments, there were ONLY comments like "ew android" or "why would they even do that" or "pfft android is for the poor". There will be the occasional "yay because im switching to android" but only rarely. And people were tweeting about it too. There was some hashtag like #androidDoesntDeserveInstagram or something I forget. I bet you can still find some of those tweets and comments now, if you use the right search tools.

And it isn't just instagram that annoys me. Google search "Android is for the poor" or "Android sucks" or "Switching back to iPhone from android" and you'll find countless reddit, twitter, and facebook posts about how android sucks. There will sometimes be 'proof' about how android is for the poor.

Fast forward to where Apple is stealing all its features for iOS 7 from other operating systems (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrM25jqhXdA world's biggest tech reviewer), and where they are hardly innovating anymore (http://gizmodo.com/iphone-se-review-the-phone-that-proves-apple-is-out-of-1768638745 big tech news site), and that same kind of treatment is going on.

People constantly tease android users about how their phone is old (newer than the SE http://gizmodo.com/iphone-se-review-the-phone-that-proves-apple-is-out-of-1768638745), has no apps (Google play has about 500,000 more than App Store currently), and has bad camera quality (better than iPhone's https://youtu.be/UBuVR8_Mybw?t=3m14s again, world's biggest tech reviewer).

Seriously, why do you think Android powers over 81% of the world's phones, and over 60% of the USA's phones? Not because most of the world is super poor (well, it is a little bit), but because Android phones provide an awesome, usually cheaper than iPhone, user experience.

Look, I get that when you're buying an iPhone, you're paying for the aluminium unibody wastes so much metal every time an iPhone is made. You're paying for the Apple phone support to try to charge you $19 to access their AMAZING customer support. (Everything I said in those last two sentences are 100% true)

I'm just tired of all the crap from iPhone users. When you try to beat up an Android user, first do some research about how the new androids line up to the new iPhones, then come give me crap. Yes, Apple does have the upper hand in ease of use and scamming people into thinking 64GB of storage is worth $100 more than 16GB, but it doesn't have the upper hand in sales, or innovation, anymore.