Do you think "There's just as many Android fanboys as there are iPhone fanboys"?

[intervenient]

You're just as blind and ignorant as these "iSheep" if you think Android fanboys aren't as bad as Apple fanboys. They are just as smug, just as apologetic, and just as annoying as any fanboy.

Android fanboys are almost more likely to be on the defensive side. Case in point, check out any number of Android forums, and there are several topics about Apple and how much they perceive them to be horrible, and crappy, and etc etc. Check out MacRumors iPhone forum, and it's just a lot of people excited about their phones and getting new phones.

And if you don't think that Apple invented the modern smartphone, you need to take a step back and get a reality check. There would be no Android without iOS. We'd all be using crappy BlackBerries. And no body wants that.

 

[daveathall]

There are fanboys on both sides. I use both Android and Apple (mainly Apple) I find that Apple fanboys are generally more defensive and less able to praise anything other than Apple. That of course is just MHO.

 

[zbarvian]

From what I can tell, they equal iOS fanboys in number. However, they seem to be more vicious. They make personal attacks about intelligence and blind loyalty.

Though I suppose that's exactly what a mindless Apple sheep would say...

 

[Moccasin]

There are also the Anti-Apple brigade, who are not necessarily Android users. Many people just hate Apple and enjoy baiting those who do like Apple. Then there are those on both sides who use the anonymity of the internet to be vicious and rude to each other and unwilling to accept another point of view - nothing to do with tech, just lack of perspective.

As a recent Apple-convert, I appreciate that there are alternatives. Maybe one day, I will move to another system but right now, iOS suits me fine. I don't need the latest or greatest and I'm not one to get bored with the iPhone design or the iOS look/feel etc.

The tech pages of the Guardian newspaper here in the UK are a prime example - the tech editor is an Apple fan and so Apple articles outnumber those for other OSes or devices. The scorn and bile on there towards Apple fans/users is often quite breathtaking, while the anti-brigade also can't see that by contributing to the comments on Apple articles, they are themselves making such articles more attractive to editors - they generate more page clicks and therefore more advertising revenue.

 

[Calidude]

You're just as blind and ignorant as these "iSheep" if you think Android fanboys aren't as bad as Apple fanboys. They are just as smug, just as apologetic, and just as annoying as any fanboy.

Android fanboys are almost more likely to be on the defensive side. Case in point, check out any number of Android forums, and there are several topics about Apple and how much they perceive them to be horrible, and crappy, and etc etc. Check out MacRumors iPhone forum, and it's just a lot of people excited about their phones and getting new phones.

This isn't about the intensity of fanboyism. This is about the number of fanboys in each camp.

Besides, Android users tend to be more realistic about their products and are always coming up with ways to make it better, even on their own due to the open source nature of Android, while iPhone users tend to say "there's nothing wrong with iPhone and that it doesn't need extra features because that would make it bloated like Android"

And that's not even when discussing widgets. That's just when I say things like calls should be more integrated into the Notification center.

 

[Oletros]

The percentage of stupidity is constant across any group of people

 

[SprSynJn]

Besides, Android users tend to be more realistic about their products and are always coming up with ways to make it better, even on their own due to the open source nature of Android, while iPhone users tend to say "there's nothing wrong with iPhone and that it doesn't need extra features because that would make it bloated like Android"

So those who are satisfied with their purchases are unrealistic now? What kind of logic is that?

 

[Oletros]

So those who are satisfied with their purchases are unrealistic now? What kind of logic is that?

You can be satisfied with your purchase and, at the same time, think things that can make it better

 

[Calidude]

So those who are satisfied with their purchases are unrealistic now? What kind of logic is that?

Just because you are satisfied with your product doesn't mean your product is absolutely flawless. A fanboy is one who acknowledges no flaws in the products of the company he adores.

 

[ReallyBigFeet]

Guys, I believe ReallyBigFeet was being fasicious.

There are signs of intelligence here after all. Thank you for restoring my faith.

 

[SprSynJn]

Just because you are satisfied with your product doesn't mean your product is absolutely flawless. A fanboy is one who acknowledges no flaws in the products of the company he adores.

Seems to me that a "fanboy" is one who continues to tell those who are satisfied with their products and/or the company who provides them that they should not be satisfied. Some of us are fine with what we buy. Of course we look forward to advances, but we don't live our lives by them. We choose not to fret, complain, and make polls about things that are not important. We also don't go about using the word "fanboy" like it's some hipster term either.

 

[Oletros]

Seems to me that a "fanboy" is one who continues to tell those who are satisfied with their products and/or the company who provides them that they should not be satisfied. Some of us are fine with what we buy. Of course we look forward to advances, but we don't live our lives by them. We choose not to fret, complain, and make polls about things that are not important. We also don't go about using the word "fanboy" like it's some hipster term either.

My God, calm down.

 

[TheMacBookPro]

Seems to me that a "fanboy" is one who continues to tell those who are satisfied with their products and/or the company who provides them that they should not be satisfied. Some of us are fine with what we buy. Of course we look forward to advances, but we don't live our lives by them. We choose not to fret, complain, and make polls about things that are not important. We also don't go about using the word "fanboy" like it's some hipster term either.

Uhhh... no. There's nothing in this thread that even remotely hints towards that. A fanboy is someone who thinks his toy is perfect, nothing needs to or should be added, and anyone who disagrees with his thinking is completely wrong.

You might actually have phrased that incorrectly: to match your wording, a fanboy is someone who tells those who are NOT satisfied with their products and/or the company who provides them that they SHOULD be satisfied, without providing any explanation as to why they ought to be, apart from the fact that the 'fanboy' dislikes seeing his favorite company or gadget criticized by others.

We're all fine with what we buy/own- otherwise we'd have used our return policies and bought something else. That doesn't necessarily mean that it's perfect.

 

[725032]

My God, calm down.

He doesn't seem that upset to be fair... Did you not like what he said?

It is an open forum after all

 

[Technarchy]

A better question is why Android fanboys love to congregate in Apple watering holes.

You certainly dont see swaths of iPhone and iPad users lingering in android haunts.

 

[jaymzuk]

You're just as blind and ignorant as these "iSheep" if you think Android fanboys aren't as bad as Apple fanboys. They are just as smug, just as apologetic, and just as annoying as any fanboy.

Android fanboys are almost more likely to be on the defensive side. Case in point, check out any number of Android forums, and there are several topics about Apple and how much they perceive them to be horrible, and crappy, and etc etc. Check out MacRumors iPhone forum, and it's just a lot of people excited about their phones and getting new phones.

And if you don't think that Apple invented the modern smartphone, you need to take a step back and get a reality check. There would be no Android without iOS. We'd all be using crappy BlackBerries. And no body wants that.

I think you need to take a step back and read the question.

Fanboys are just as bad as each other, whichever side of the fence you're on. I'm quite happy that most threads in this forum have been pretty well rounded, and not the usual defensive round of anti-Android vitriol that we normally get on here, the above post excepted.


As for the number of fanboys, then yes, I'd say Apple fanboys outnumber Android fanboys, and I can completely understand why.

Apple have created a whole start to finish experience with iPhone, from walking into an Apple store, to leaving with a phone that's already up and running, to the knowledge that in 12 months time there'll be an upgrade, and in 36 months time that planned obsolescence will kick in.

Android doesn't have any of that. They ship an OS to carriers and see where the cards fall. It could be argued that separation between software vendors and manufacturers is healthy, as hardware constraints or decisions do not impact so much on how Google develops new features, but I digress. Each manufacturer has a different flavour of Android, for better or worse, and a less unified user environment is destined to lead to less committed and involved userbase.

A fanboy is a fanboy is a fanboy (Even though I think in many cases techno-bigot would be more apt), and they're all as bad as each other, but Apple purposefully nurtures this in their retail and user experiences.

 

[TheMacBookPro]

A better question is why Android fanboys love to congregate in Apple watering holes.

You certainly dont see swaths of iPhone and iPad users lingering in android haunts.

That's because there are a lot of false claims made by iOS fanboys and some people want to correct them. Maybe there aren't as many false claims made about iOS..?

No doubt some people do, but I've seen a whole lot more iOS users making things up about Android (or just baselessly attacking it for no reason apart from the fact that it's a competitor) than I have the other way around.

Furthermore, there are a number of reasons why an Android user would be on an Apple forum- they might own a Mac. There's no reason for an Apple user to be on an Android forum unless they have some interest in Android.

 

[daveathall]

A better question is why Android fanboys love to congregate in Apple watering holes.

You certainly dont see swaths of iPhone and iPad users lingering in android haunts.

I bought an iPhone and was then sucked in to the Apple world, I started posting here then. I still have most of my Apple products and love using them, the only thing that I have changed is the phone, after having a 3GS, 4 and 4S, IMHO, the iPhone has become stale, my Android phone serves my needs better, that may or may not change, Having a Mac Book Pro, Time Capsule, iPad, Apple TV and two iPod classics as well as paying a subscription to this site would suggest that I should still be able to post here, or would you disagree? If this had just been an iPhone forum I would have stopped posting and reading here, as it is, it is much more than that, so still provides interest and enjoyment for me.

 

[Oletros]

I bought an iPhone and was then sucked in to the Apple world, I started posting here then. I still have most of my Apple products and love using them, the only thing that I have changed is the phone, after having a 3GS, 4 and 4S, IMHO, the iPhone has become stale, my Android phone serves my needs better, that may or may not change, Having a Mac Book Pro, Time Capsule, iPad, Apple TV and two iPod classics as well as paying a subscription to this site would suggest that I should still be able to post here, or would you disagree? If this had just been an iPhone forum I would have stopped posting and reading here, as it is, it is much more than that, so still provides interest and enjoyment for me.

Some people here think that you can't have a mixture of Apple devices and other companies devices.

 

[cynics]

I find in the real world to be where you find the blinded fanatics. Not so much here, for the most part people here have a good idea what both types of phones can and can't do and still prefer the iPhone. I have android devices (Razr, Xoom) but still prefer my 4S as my daily driver.

However people I meet in real life it seems have no concept of anything other what they have and consider it the best and everything else is for people that can't afford an iPhone. I have a friend that only reason he thinks the iPhone is the best is because "it just is". How do you debate with someone like that? Its just insane.

That leads me into something else. It drives me nuts when people think Android is for poor people, sure there are cheap/free handset but are ignorant to the fact the iPhone 3GS and 4 are also cheap/free on contract. Regardless these same people will have a PC because a Mac is too expensive....however no one argues a PC is a poor mans computer even though its WORSE then their phones. At least a MBP has a bit of today's technology in it whereas a 4S is very aniquated, LTE, NFC, bigger screens is stuff you can find in those cheap/free android handsets.

 

[SpyderBite]

I've never seen fanbois argue in the wild with the exception of two GameStop employees debating over WoW vs. EverQuest.

Nobody has ever walked up to me and told me my iPhone sucked. But, I can't swing a cat without somebody telling me that my phone, ISP, favorite breed of dog or vacation location is worse than theirs.

 

[G51989]

A better question is why Android fanboys love to congregate in Apple watering holes.

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Thing is, a lot of Android users like myself. Also own Macs, just because I own Macs doesn't mean I need to buy the iPhone. There is no advantage to me. I went from Windows Mobile, to an iPhone 3GS, to Android, and hey if Apple can wow me with the next phone, I'll go back to the iPhone. I buy what I think is the best.

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You're just as blind and ignorant as these "iSheep" if you think Android fanboys aren't as bad as Apple fanboys. They are just as smug, just as apologetic, and just as annoying as any fanboy.

I think there are tons of Android Fanboys who are pretty bad. But I do think the ' iSheep ' take criticism of Apple products FAR more personally. And I don't know why. I assume its the Steve Jobs effect.

Android fanboys are almost more likely to be on the defensive side. Case in point, check out any number of Android forums, and there are several topics about Apple and how much they perceive them to be horrible, and crappy, and etc etc. Check out MacRumors iPhone forum, and it's just a lot of people excited about their phones and getting new phones.

Some people like to criticize, and your right. Some do take it to far.

And if you don't think that Apple invented the modern smartphone, you need to take a step back and get a reality check. There would be no Android without iOS. We'd all be using crappy BlackBerries. And no body wants that.

What makes a modern smartphone exactly? How were smartphones before the iPhone not smart phones exactly? What make Blackberries, Palms, and WIndows Mobile phones not smartphones?

And what makes Blackberries so horrible? I know tons of people who use and love them. Just because they are not as popular as the iPhone does not make them bad phones by any means. Not everyone wants a big screen, some people want a trackball and keyboard.

And Android has been in development since 2003, and was bought by Google and further developed in 2005.

The iPhone came out in 2007.

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Android doesn't have any of that. They ship an OS to carriers and see where the cards fall. It could be argued that separation between software vendors and manufacturers is healthy, as hardware constraints or decisions do not impact so much on how Google develops new features, but I digress. Each manufacturer has a different flavour of Android, for better or worse, and a less unified user environment is destined to lead to less committed and involved userbase.

Right here. This is what made me switch from my iPhone to Android, while I do like some things about iOS, your stuck with 1 phone. No choice, and its hard to gain new features without jail breaking.

With Android, there are tons of phones to choose from, different OS's to choose from. You can have no keyboard, a keyboard, bigger or smaller screen, you can have a blackberry knockoff style phone ( my personal fave, tho I Love my S3 ), difference price points. Lots more data plans from carriers, removeable batteries and all that.

Apple doesn't do any of that, which works for lots of people. But not for some.

 

[ReallyBigFeet]

A better question is why Android fanboys love to congregate in Apple watering holes.

You certainly dont see swaths of iPhone and iPad users lingering in android haunts.

As someone that frequents both communities, yes, you'll find this exact same thread topic posted hundreds of times from iOS turd stirrers as well. Both sides have their fair share of mouth breathing rabid fans. And, if market stats are correct, Android likely has twice as many.

 

[DeathChill]

The percentage of stupidity is constant across any group of people

A post of yours I can whole-heartedly agree with!

 

[Mac.World]

A better question is why Android fanboys love to congregate in Apple watering holes.

You certainly dont see swaths of iPhone and iPad users lingering in android haunts.

Might have something to do with the fact that we own both Apple and Android products, unlike some people that only own Apple, yet for some idiotic reason feel the need to troll a section of the forum designed specifically for non-iOS users.