Sorry to break it to you guys but i am seriously comtemplating buying an iphone5 next week when they come out. My reasons are:
1 - I need a new phone. My Blackberry is about shot. It is 2G internet only (useless for internet), crap reception, broken buttons, cracked screen, annoying design flaws, Etc.
2 - I have decided on either a Samsung Galaxy s3 or an iphone5. Tough one. But i think i am leaning over to the iphone. Here's why:
I'm sick of everybody dissing Apple for everything. Today i watched on Youtube comparisons between the Galaxy 3 and the iphone 4s and then read the comments below. It's all filled with hate comments against Apple. I can't decide who is worse, the Apple fanbhoys or the haters? I think at the moment there are definitely more haters than lovers of Apple. If you ask me it's getting a little tiresome. Mention Apple then the haters come flying in from all directions with abuse at the mere mention of Apple. I dislike Apple as much as any hater but and i am going to get the iphone just to annoy the haters. They are starting to get on my nerves :rant:
I would take the iPhone 5 too.
Reason? I love operating systems. I love to try several different flavors: BeOS, QNX, MorphOS, AROS, Bootable Amithlon, Linux (even compiling everything from scratch like Gentoo) and even SymbOS on my MSX Turbo-R.
But for my phone?? I just want something that works, something fast, responsive and easy to use. Android is not even close the iOS on that. Even on a marvelous hardware like the S3 lags behind the 4S or even the iPhone4.
As I said before, maybe new Nokia's would offer a similar experience.
*Not to mention that the tight control on official app distribution + few differences on HW models for developers makes the software base way more stable.
And, to sweeten the pie, as Developers make more money on the iOS, software offer is BETTER...