On making the switch to iPhone

if you took a group of android users and gave them an iphone instead, a majority of them would be happy

— Jonathan S. Geller (@boygenius) January 22, 2012

I saw this tweet this morning and thought….duh, yup been there done that…

if you took a group of iphone users and gave them an android phone instead, a majority of them would be pissed as shit.

— Jonathan S. Geller (@boygenius) January 22, 2012

Then I saw this tweet and thought, ok, I could not possibly agree with these statements any more.

From personal experience, in which I had an Android device first and then an iPhone 4, as well as from professional experience, working with end users who have personal Android devices and are given a corporate iPhone, I can tell you that getting an iPhone after using an Android is like i like being able to breathe again. Even for those of us that are technical, what you don’t realize until you have it in your hands, is having a device that does not require constant “tinkering” is awesome.

When iPhone first came out I was a strong Blackberry supporter. It did what I needed it to do and nothing more. Sure, I looked at my wife’s first iPhone 3G with envy that I couldn’t easily browse the internet and get the apps she was downloading, and that I would like my music and email and internet on the same device, but hey, I had a physical keyboard.

Then good Android devices started being released and I made the switch to Android. This was the next logical step for me, a self-proclaimed gadget enthusiast. At the time, I was opposed to Apple’s closed environment and if I was going to use a smart phone, I would own one that would allow me to utilize the device in any way I wanted to, which ended up translating into changing the look and feel of the phone every week or so. This, though, got cumbersome, but I did not realize that at the time.

Last September I started using my first iPhone, only because I had to support them for my end users and we were making the decision to switch from Blackberry to iPhones. After a couple days of using it, I realized that I no longer wanted a phone that i could (had to) “mess with”. I have since started using an iPhone 4s and couldn’t be happier with my device.

Sure there are things that I miss about the Android operating system, but I no longer read about the newest Android device and want it. In fact, as Jonathan eluded to in his second tweet, I would be “pissed off” if I had to use an Android as my primary device now.