[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Exel:
I owned an iPhone in the past, this will be a pretty long story, feel free to skip my post. So a few years back, I had the iPod Video 5th Generation. If any of you guys owned that, you might be aware of the firmware files you could 'flash' on them. So you know, I started learning about it and started messing around with this 'iPod Wizard' program. Long story short, I became an iPod Video developer on iPodHacking.com. Then the iPod Touch and iPhone came out.. the forum died, people moved onto this iPhone. I thought, damn.. it must be really good. So I spent my time looking for a decent priced iPhone 3G (Back then, they were still expensive, lol.) Finally got my hand on one. I thought, damn, it's pretty nice, considering the upgrade from just an iPod. Note that the phone i carried alongside my iPod was a Verizon LG Chocolate. So I moved to AT&T, used the phone, it was nice. Had it stock for about a month. Then I started reading about all the progress they've been making unlocking it and Cydia and whatnot. So I was like, hm.. I guess I'll try it. It brought a lot of new features to the table that weren't available before. I thought that was great! I used that phone for about a year and a half, no complains, it lagged but I didn't bother, I kept using it. I unlocked my iPhone and moved over to T-Mobile. (Edge, eh.) Eventually I ran into this 'iPhoDroid' in Cydia. I installed it, and it was pretty much Android on the iPhone. I didn't like it one bit. To be honest, it was mostly because there were no buttons on the iPhone to control ****, lol. Anyway, I uninstalled it, didn't bother messing with it anymore. So one day, I'm hanging out with my friends, and one my friends knocks my phone out my hand accidently, it falls on the side, the volume button thing falls off, I was like.. ****. It got annoying. So a few days later, my brother gets a hold of a soft-bricked Samsung Vibrant. Remember, I had no idea of Android or anything. Didn't bother reading up on phones. I do some research on how to fix it, I end up here, on xda, with the help of some nice members here, I got it up and running, it was the first time I'd ever play with a real Android phone. I never looked back to my iPhone. Because although it has a new sleek design and decent features, the Android experience is just so much greater. I quickly learned about rooting, lag fixes, ROMs, recovery, etc. And here I am.

So, that story was simply to get an idea of my following observations:

1. Many people jumped to the Apple iPhone wagon early on and have never even bothered using Android phones, so they just keep upgrading

2. iPhone gets the job done, the main apps are great and very useful but lack creativity and room to grow, but as my first statement, Apple users don't know this because they've never experienced an in-depth use of Android.

3. Apple does a good job at updating their products, I believe the 4 and 4s are getting iOS 6, right? Apple fans love that Apple supports old products. But doesn't that just make Apple users seem kind of dumb? They're paying $XXX amount of money for an iOS update they can get for free? Sure, there's some improvements, but nothing major. The phone looks the same.

You know how I said Apple's apps and whatnot don't have much room to grow? Android is still kind of fairly new, it's growing, evolving, updating, and it's Open Source, people can contribute, CyanogenMod being one of the big dogs around here, they've done a great job at this. This is what I love about the Android community, we're open, we contribute, we share.