Two different philosophies because you view them as different because your double standard
No, wrong.
Two different philosophies because they are different companies and have different views and ideas about their mobile devices.
My "double standard" stems from the fact that I use my own needs and wants to judge smartphones and as such come up with two completely different ideas.
I.E. My family and friends all use iPhones - I have an iMac, iPad mini and AppleTVs, I like iOS and it does eveything I need it to do while making it easy to share with those I want to share with and keeping everything in sync across my entire tech world. Apple adds some new features, my response is:
"Wow those look neat, even though I don't need them great for Apple."
Conversely, a Samsung/Android device is somewhat foreign to me (I own an HTC One). None of my friends or family use it - some use dropbox, some use google services. Generally I need to share through facebook or by text or email to reach them all easily. I've got most of the services I use synced up, but there are hitches every now and then and my movie library isn't synced. I can't (maybe there's an app) natively stream anything from my Android to my AppleTVs. Samsung releases a new phone with tons of new features, my response is:
"Man, all those worthless features on that GS4 only serve to bog it down and eat up half the storage space. No thank you."
My thoughts about each are the same - I'm concerned with the ecosystem, the device, services and features as a package - the whole kit and kaboodle. Apple tends to design and release their phones that way - perhaps with fewer individual features, but generally with the better overall package. Android phones, on the other hand are jam packed with features. If I were to think from a feature-by-feature standpoint, I'd probably pick the Android. But that's not how I think or use my devices, hence the different responses to a similar event.
These are the differing philosophies:
Apple - polish and whole package
Android - features and specs
Now to be fair, Android has move into polish mode and there are some great Android devices out there (I own one as my daily personal smartphone). On the other hand, Apple is now adding features it has lacked due to their desire to polish everything before sending it out.
My friends, we're entering the maturity stage here. Both platforms started out in vastly different places and have been shaped by that start. But now they are somewhat overlapping and while each may add a feature or service the other has had, they still retain that philosophy or identity they started with. This is what makes each platform unique - this is why there are groups which flock to each, this is where the real choice in the smartphone and mobile device industry comes from.
I hope we never get an iOS/Android hybrid. Each should remain true to its beginnings and continue to evolve and improve.
