[General Questions and Answers] masebk:
Ha! And I'm a noob here

This is my first post being that I just officially joined xda after I made the switch from Crapple to Android.

I used to be an iphone fan boy. This was many moons ago.

I understand why people like the iPhone; it's pretty much for people who don't know how to use computers and want everything spoon fed to them (no offense.)

I've been using iPhones since 3G-->4 and I'll tell you if you want to stay on top of the game as far as tweaks and ACTUAL usability of what the hardware is supposed to let u do (bluetooth file exchange, REAL usb storage, etc); stay away from iPhone. It's funny how I'm using a Samsung Infuse that came out some time ago and it's being compared to the 4s!!! Anybody see anything wrong with that?

True you're comparing a jailbroken iphone to a stock android (and you have to because stock to stock iphone loses quickly); but you forget to mention that these jailbreaks are not completely stable. Let me clarify:

I downloaded the honeycomb tablet theme on my infuse (sweeeeet by the way); the closes thing that I had to a nice looking theme on the iphone was Glass Orb. But in order for that to work seamlessly I had to download a tweak for 5 icon dock, download the theme, already have had to have winterboard (which is a memory hog btw), then kind of enjoy the theme after downloading 3-5 different packages which makes my phone kind of slow. THEN, not every app icon IS supported in different themes; so you end up with an ugly homepage that looks salvaged. Only the popular apps have integrated icons. This is minor though.

My main complaint with apple is their restrictiveness! They don't want you to be able to file share, they don't want you to do ANYTHING that threatens their control ($). In order for you to to have the ability to do what your phone has the power to do, you have to add a million tweaks on your iphone which makes your phone considerably slower (i was a tweak freak on my iphone.) Quick story, my friend who has a Nokia N8 bluetoothed me an album in a matter of minutes. That album was placed automatically into my music player and allowed me to organize the name/album/song. Try doing that with ipod app. You need itunes. Which brings me to another piece of crap.

Type "itunes error" on google and see how many suggestions pop up. Using iTunes is equivalent to having an anal probe with sand paper. What if you're away from your computer for long periods of time? You can't add music. Jailbreaking is great, but becoming harder and harder as the years pass. How long have we been waiting for 4.3.5-->5.0 untethered jailbreak??? I have two iphone 4's replaced by apple sitting on my shelf. The only jailbreak that's available is tethered jailbreak. Am I supposed to walk around with my usb cable WHEN (not if) I need to respring my phone?? And when you're running a jailbroken iphone and are a tweaker you NEED to respring your phone for EVERY little tweak. Do I jailbreak 50 times? I was really surprised when after installing and applying so many themes on my Infuse that I didn't have to restart the phone once.

Apple iDevices are cool. They're a status symbol. But when you cut all the crap out of the equation you're left with a phone that was created not to function to its maximum capability. Do you know how easy it is to unlock and keep the unlock for my samsung (not to mention free)? My HTC Sensation, I paid $15 to unlock it and now it's what apple calls "factory unlocked" minus the outrageous price. Do you know how many apple followers would pay $50-$100 to have their unlocking problems eliminated? My guess is most of them.

The ios is so bland. I don't know what I did before using widgets. Whenever I go back into using my iphone I feel like it's too "square." They don't let you control your own god given homescreens the way you want to (unless of course you download gridlock, pano, and another million other tweaks... how many individual tweaks are we up to now? I forget.) But, the average user doesn't care about this because they are all followers and know little to nothing about computers.

One more thing I think is revolutionary that EVERYBODY who has an iphone comments when they see me type is SWYPE. I love it, it makes sense, I can't type any other way now.

Did you guys see the face unlock feature on ICS???? Genius!

AND, last but not least, but how did the iFlock community like that the "new and improved" 4S was revealed to be a 3G phone? HA! That even made me upset and at that time I already dumped ios. (Doesn't simple mobile have 4g?) Way to innovate guys.

Peace