Gadgetory

okay I got to get my gear on for this one not sure what's gonna get winged at me for this bit of sacrilege it's top five reasons Android is better than iPhone as laid out by the team at Caen it's Android Atlas weekly podcast yeah I know that sounds like we're comparing an OS to a product line but you get it we're going to compare the universes here os devices apps and carriers between the two hottest smartphone platforms in the world here we go number 5 Android is open source the folks behind it don't care if you hack the phone you paid for and they don't play games trying to outfox the way you did it instead they have lives and the Android Marketplace that's pretty much the Jezebel of apps welcoming one and all with wide open listings add in the alternate Android marketplaces and it all adds up to AB democracy now yes that does mean you can get some lousy buggy scamming apps but you and developers are treated like a bunch of grown-ups in the Android world not like you're going to a day care number for real multitasking yes iOS does multitasking now but not to the true degree Android does apps there are free to do their thing like programs on a personal computer and yes as with a computer it means you can run into some conflicts but see note one above about day care number three Adobe's Flash Android phones support it Apple's don't and won't it means your Android phone can hit the web all of it with a browser not a custom app for each website you want to run well on your phone website apps aren't always cool innovation sometimes they're just baggage and with Android you don't have to use them number two handsets lots of them there's something like 80 Android phones and Counting Apple has two really one and a half simplicity's worked well for them but then again there's that choice thing Android has choice of features through all those handsets features you want features you don't choice of a real keyboard or just a pretend one on the screen choice of a device with removable battery memory expansion slot you get the idea as we see everyone adopting smartphones can one or one and a half devices really fit all before we check out the number one reason Android makes iPhone look like the phone for sheeple let's look at why we're even talking about this Androids on fire in the US market it outsold iPhone in q3 of 2010 to grab 44% of smartphone shipments against Apple's 26% that comparison unthinkable a year ago globally Android shipments are up thirteen hundred percent in a year to 20 million worldwide Apple still dominates on the number of apps available but where do you think that trend lines gonna be going and finally the number one reason Android is better than iPhone really is carriers that pesky choice thing again Android phones are on a bunch of carriers iPhone is and always has been just on AT&T and even if you're one of the six people who've never heard the constant complaints about ATT's network you still might not want to move to it maybe you just like your carrier well they've probably got a good Android phone waiting for it so if you're now thinking Apple might be more 1984 than not you'll want to check out scene that's Android Atlas weekly podcast hosted by just a neck house and a variety of other experts he plucks from around C net every week just head to cnet-dot-com-slash-loaded 'no stop v dot cnet.com i'm brian coulis thanks for watching