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options and Android users have this flexibility because unlike Apple users who can't be trusted with choices - we select the features, the price and the software sources that fit our requirements.
I realize as a former iPhone user - the concept of freedom of choice can be a terrifying when looking out from the safe warm protected Apple bosom. It's a frightening world and it is much easier to attack what we fear most. If you brought a cave man into the future and he looked out from the safety of his cave - he would see people driving, flying, signs flashing ... this technology would be frightening to him. He would probably run deeper into his cave fearful of technology.
So Android users - please think of the quivering caveman in the dark recesses of his cave, flailing wildly at the frightening light of new technology and have some compassion for these two terrified Apple shills, posting new threads of any negative or biased comments they can find against Android.
If we look at the opening post - it compares two superior products against each other but let's just look at it from the world he lives in:
Row upon row of app buttons of the iPhone against user designed Android pages of differing size widgets and apps tuned to the Android user's preference. I pulled my iPhone from the car where it serves as my tune player recently and I was shocked just how bad the iPhone UI is. My God Android users - have pity on these shills. Their task is hard - the Apple world they know and protect is crumbling around them.