It's why we have these Apple forums, as you can't go into the mobiles forum and talk about iPhones without being crushed under a wave of silly talk. Whenever a new product comes out there's always an influx of posters from 'down there' ready to put their derping caps on and lay some tasty bait down. They'll all scurry back once the thing's out and the owners thread starts filling up.
You're not wrong, it's a shame really. Most people in the mobiles forum are intelligent individuals yet some of them have seemingly sworn an allegiance to Google and have to go out of their way to slate the iPhone, and they don't realise how silly it makes them look.
It's easy to identify this sort of poster within this thread for example, their posts usually go as follows:
- Something relatively generic about how bad the iPhone is, perhaps a brisk comment about how awful it is due to one small feature they want that it doesn't have
- Something about how Apple are now going to 'die' and lose all their market share and how disappointed everyone is - when in reality they may be slightly underwhelmed, but will still probably get one anyway
- Something about how it will only be purchased by die hard fanboys who are too blind to realise Android is better - this comment alone is a insanely ironic - nobody can claim something is inferior as a 'fact' when they are so different
- A focus on mentioning the crazy Apple fanboys who 'live' in this section of the forum, when actually - thus far - I haven't really seen any people of this description
It genuinely astounds me that people are too stupid to realise that it comes down to personal preference, at the end of the day. iOS does not work in the same way as Android, anyone who thinks that just because you can customise Android, it can be the same, is wrong to say the least.
On a forum such as this, populated mostly by stereotypical 'nerdy' types, Android is inevitably going to be more popular, however it actually isn't, I'd wager more people probably have an iPhone than an Android phone, if you polled the entire forum (on high end devices only, at least).
Unfortunately, some of the Android groups have become extremely vocal in their almost fanatic defence of their OS of choice; like a bleeding insecurity. If it's so good, why don't you just ignore Apple? I honestly don't get it. There are Apple users who do this as well, or at least their were, perhaps they've all jumped ship to Android... perhaps it's the people and not the products/companies after all. You don't buy a Mercedes Benz S Class and spend all of your time on a Vauxhall forum telling everyone their Corsa is worse, why would you.
There was even one utter fool in the mobile section iPhone 5 thread calling me a fanboy, when I was just discussing the phone (amongst a sea of people saying how awful it is), then he continued his near fanatical plugging of Android, and the usual nonsense that accompanies it.
I'm sure I can't be the only person who is a bit tired of it? It's all very bizarre, to say the least.
