[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] doncaruana:
So, as we were mulling an upgrade from my wife's Epic4g to either an iPhone 5 or a GS3, we asked our friends for input. I already have a GS3 and have been doing a little research on the iPhone (the people at the Sprint store actually just told my wife that I was knowledgeable and I should be able to help her make the right decision and walked away from us, since I knew more about both phones than they did).

GS3 people: "Well I like the bigger screen and the battery life seems to be better than on the i5." (other various points plus and minus)

Apple people: "I love my iPhone"

Me: Why?

Apple people: "It's awesome! And it's easy"

Me: What's awesome about it?

AP: It's Apple!

Me: Can you be more specific?

AP: Well, I have an iPad too!

Me: Okay....do you ever transfer work from the iPhone to the iPad?

AP: No. But they have the same apps! I can use the same account on everything and have all the same apps!

Me: But I can do that on Android too.

AP: I have Apple TV! I can do stuff with that!

Me: But I can already select music, movies, and/or pictures and send them to my stereo receiver or my TV from my GS3.

AP: Since our family all uses the same account, we can share a calendar!

Me: You can do that on Android with Google Calendar and still share them. As a matter of fact, you can have SEPARATE accounts on Google calendar and still share them. For that matter, you can even use Google calendar on your apple products. Google goes everywhere, iCloud is just for Apple - kinda more limiting.

AP: Well, when I put a contact number in or make a change to my iCloud account, I do it one place and it's on my iPad and everywhere.

Me: Again, this is all already there using gmail. And, again, you could use gmail for your apple stuff too. When I upgrade, I don't need anyone to move contacts - that's all taken care of.

AP: Oh. But I have all these cool accessories!

Me: You mean the ones that don't work anymore because of the lightning port?

AP: But there's an adapter!

Me; It's $30 and makes everything stick up all weird, right?

AP: Well, it's not really that bad and you don't notice it very much

Me: Okaay. What about the phone itself?

AP: It's faster than my iPhone 4!

Me: Uh huh. And so's the GS3.

AP: I can make folders!

Me: Same here

AP: But it's Apple!

So, in the end, all of the "awesomeness" of Apple boiled down to pretty much stuff that's already there for android, but the iFans grew up in JobsWorld and know nothing of how to make anything work other than what they get spoon-fed, I guess.

I have my own issues with Android...I wish to HELL that Google would put a little more Apple-like clamps on what the hardware vendors do before they roll out updates (my N7 is smooth as silk, but my wife's TF700 is probably going to go bye bye very, very soon). Android is not built for the perpetual noobs that make up the iFan base, and that's kind of unfortunate. I was showing my wife Nova launcher (on both my phone and N7) and it just smokes Apple by so much it's sick. For that matter, it smokes Touchwiz and the other stock launchers, IMHO. But I think most people don't look just that little beyond what they see in the cellular store and the gaggle of moron's that make those places up, so they don't realize the power of the android base and what you truly can get done.

Last fall, my wife was DYING for i-something, particularly an iPhone. I made her wait. She listened to everyone, looked at her own experience and decided to roll up to the GS3 instead of the iPhone. Within a few minutes of getting home, she had her contacts, text messages, and call logs all from the old phone on the new one. Having what she calls her own personal "Geek Squad" helped a lot to navigate through the repeated conversations like above. Plus, she's no dummy herself!

Note to the mods: Just realized maybe I should have out this in off-topic. Feel free to move it if that's more appropriate