{"id":5187,"date":"2011-05-21T11:32:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T19:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=5187"},"modified":"2011-05-21T11:34:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T19:34:22","slug":"most-common-reasons-people-use-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/most-common-reasons-people-use-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Most common reasons people use Android"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> .. According to Robert Scoble at least, so not exactly a scientific poll..<\/p>\n

  • My employer bought me this and didn’t give me choice<\/strong> to get an iPhone (most common answer, actually, when I meet normal people outside of the tech industry).<\/li>\n
  • They like the hackability of the phone<\/strong>. I then usually ask what their favorite language is and invariably they answer “Java.” iOS forces ObjectiveC and you need to play tricks to make an iOS device hackable.<\/li>\n
  • They like a phone they can customize<\/strong>. Loic loves showing me Seesmic on Android, for instance, because it can have shortcuts into specific parts of the app.<\/li>\n
  • They hate Apple<\/strong> (almost always followed by a modifier, like “I hate their smug attitude” or “I hate their closed approach” or “I can’t stand paying more for similar technology” or “I am into what a product does, not how it looks.”<\/li>\n
  • They wanted functionality iPhone doesn’t offer<\/strong> (physical keyboard, custom keyboard like “Swype.” A specialized app like WalkBase. Or something like that).<\/li>\n
  • They wanted 4G and iPhone doesn’t offer that yet<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  • Google’s apps are the only ones that matter to them<\/strong> and they are superior on Android than on iOS.<\/li>\n
  • They wanted to use a carrier that iPhone isn’t on yet<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  • All they wanted is a phone and they don’t care about apps<\/strong> or other features and Android was cheaper.<\/li>\n
  • They wanted an OS feature that iOS didn’t offer<\/strong> (multitasking, for instance).<\/li>\n
  • They work at Google or a company that picked Android<\/strong> (like Motorola) so wanted to support the mother ship.<\/li>\n
  • They are an app developer and were forcing themselves to learn Android<\/strong> so they could build apps for it.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    .. According to Robert Scoble at least, so not exactly a scientific poll.. My employer bought me this and didn’t give me choice to get an iPhone (most common answer, actually, when I meet normal people outside of the tech industry). They like the hackability of the phone. I then usually ask what their favorite… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andriod","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-1lF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5187"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5195,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions\/5195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}