[Android General] OOHnirav:
I'd like to try clearing up a few misconceptions as I perceive them from a few of you in this thread when it comes to iPhone users; mainly that they are NOT the stereotypical Apple users from the past.

Most of you (or maybe it's just me) were probably annoyed for years by Apple users flaunting what they can do with their laptops and how pretty their animations are and all that nonsense. Whether or not those types of people had legitimacy to their flamboyant arguments, it was incredibly obnoxious for most of us to hear them ranting and raving when we just wanted to find a laptop or desktop that does what we want to do and just works.

Now, take what I say next with a grain of salt, because I don't know most of you personally and don't mean this as a personal attack, but that's who (many of) you have become. Probably the biggest reason I hadn't switched to Android before now (I plan on my first android being the EVO 4g LTE or the S3 if it's notably better and available) was because most people who suggested it to me were condescending and preachy, and a good amount of this thread (not all of you, again) can serve as evidence of this.

On to the actual arguments, I want to put it out there that I can't be specific about this, since I don't have enough experience on an Android to give a full huge critique. That being said, most iPhone users I've met want a smart phone, but not that smart of a phone.

When they go to a store and look through phones, the first thing they'll see is the display and the scrolling in that order. The retina display screen is beautiful by any standard, although seasoned android users will often claim that it's too small. To someone who hasn't used smart phones and is looking for their first one, 3.5" is not a problem at all.

Moving on, when you scroll with an iPhone or a Windows Phone on the home screen, the whole image sticks to your finger like a magnet. With an iPhone, that even carries over to the browser. To most people who don't know much about processing numbers, RAM, or multi-tasking, do you think any explanation will make up for the simple fact that the Android will appear second rate to them by the pure observation that it can't do something as seemingly simple as scrolling as smoothly as the iPhone does? (NOTE: If you want to argue any of my opinions here, I'd honestly prefer it to be this one, because it's one of the bigger reasons that I had trouble deciding to convert to Android)

From there, people will care about actual usage and games. As far as usage goes, I'd guess it's a wash. With the iPhone, the picture of a phone is to call, the picture of a message box is texting, picture of safari is browser, and picture of envelope is e-mail. For most basic users wanting a "smart phone", that's everything for which they plan to utilize it. I'd pretty much say gaming is a wash, too. Angry Birds, Bejeweled, Temple Run, and Draw Something are the big games right now, I think, and both are available everywhere.

I understand this was drawn out, so let me do a TL;DR Version: To those of you who are saying that you can't wait to throw this video in the face of iPhone users, please understand that there may be some people who are better off with iOS.