iPhone vs. Android

Rebuttals:My opponent made a claim back in round 2 I must now address again: "The Galaxy S5, Samsung's' latest flagship smartphone, comes with a standard 16 GB of storage. Half of this is taken up right out of the box, "This claim is false. My first three sources are all of pages from all major wireless smartphone carriers. None of them have my opponent's claim in them. Even amongst the lowest ratings for the phone, there is no report of such a problem. This is declaritive to me that my opponent is giving the audience biased and false information about the subject. I am afraid after doing more research into the customer support issue of this debate I have made even more discoveries about my opponent's original argument that is false: "An Android user would have to contact Google, whereas if there hardware failed, they would have to contact Samsung, LG, HTC, Motorola, or whichever company produced their phone to get it worked out."More often than not, whenever a person has a problem with the phone, they go to their wireless carriers to solve such problems. Thus, even the burden of customer support is not applicable to the Android or the iPhone. "1. Although app storage is diverse, when you have duplicates it's obviously just a waste of space."I am unsure of which issue my opponent claims about the product. I am gonna assume it is about the fact that occasionaly your service provider will have apps that basically do the same function. I will also address this issue at the same time, because they both have the same solution. I will state any additional quotes from my opponent below that are simply not true about the process. "2. To uninstall these stock apps on Android is, as you said, possible but requires rooting, which is not the easiest thing in the world and the average user wouldn't take the time to do it, and so would be stuck with the bloatware."If you have multiple apps on your phone that you do not wish to be there, but you cannot remove them, your service provider will do one of two things:a) Tell you why the app is neccessary on the phone orb)Uninstall it for you"Whether or not security is a priority during the building of an OS doesn't matter. Eventually it will be. If it isn't considered users will be at risk. Yes, it's true any smartphone users' data is at risk, but wouldn't the least risky option, which appears to be Apple's products, be the better choice if you're going to do it anyway?"This is an interesting claim. It does not support his argument in any way, shape, or form, and I will explain why. Even among computers, Apple machines are among the safest. Yet, Windows machines are the most commonly bought among this market. Why? Because even Windows is still the better OS. This is the same situation with the Android OS. There is a reason that both of those OS are better than the Apple OS's. They are more flexible to the user's control. You can set them up almost anyway you like. They can even be more secure than an iPhone. That is why when you make an OS, you do not focus on security. The whole purpose of the operating system is to be the interface in which you can control your apps and hardware. In terms of which one (iOS or Android OS) is more capable of doing this, the one that is most superior is the Android. "Security may not be a priority, but that only makes the situation worse."No, actually. It makes the situation better, as I have just demonstrated. " They can use that money to hire more people that can watch over certain aspects of the company. There is no reason Android should not have better support. If they're going to make so many products, they have to be able to back them up."As I originally stated above, that is normally not the responsibility of Google. In terms of maintenance, the only thing left that Google is really supposed to maintain is the OS's capability to work with the apps on its market. This is something that was a problem for Apple. From personal experience, the iPhone 4 is not capable to install and run apps on the market, forcing most of its users to upgrade in order for their apps to work. With Google, however, I had a Droid Razr for almost 3 years before recently upgrading. I never had such an issue. Sources:[1] http://www.verizonwireless.com...[2] http://www.t-mobile.com...[3] http://www.att.com...Thank you for debating with me. It was my pleasure to have debated this topic.