{"id":6307,"date":"2010-08-24T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=6307"},"modified":"2010-08-26T00:01:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T05:01:13","slug":"15-reasons-you-should-buy-an-iphone-instead-of-an-android-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/15-reasons-you-should-buy-an-iphone-instead-of-an-android-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"15 reasons you should buy an iPhone instead of an Android phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 332px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/the_juggler\/4912981297\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"iP4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4098\/4912981297_e31036b9c0.jpg\" alt=\"iP4\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a> <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ip4 | Photo by The Juggler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A week ago, I flashed my G1 with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/techno\/how-im-running-a-g1-on-att-with-android-2-2\/\">Cyanogenmod 6-RC2 Operating System<\/a> for the 4th time in just a couple weeks.<\/p>\n<p>It was starting to get a little annoying. <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, I finally decided to do a complete wipe and flash (essentially formatting the phone and reinstalling the OS from scratch) and I haven&#8217;t had any real issues since then.<\/p>\n<p>However, I did tell Laurie (who&#8217;s a proud iPhone owner) that having to flash the phone several times made me know for sure that there were only a few people I&#8217;d recommend rooting and flashing their Android phone to.<\/p>\n<p>So rather than recommending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/techno\/how-im-running-a-g1-on-att-with-android-2-2\/\">the process<\/a> to you again &#8212; I thought I&#8217;d offer a change of pace &#8212; 15 reasons why you should buy an iPhone <em>INSTEAD<\/em> of an Android phone.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You prefer a stable operating system and don&#8217;t want to be tempted to install the latest release client to gain a few new features.<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t want to be stuck re-flashing your phone once a week if the said release client is still unstable.<\/li>\n<li>You prefer auto-syncing your photos, music and movies with iTunes instead of transferring individual files and using your phone as a USB drive.<\/li>\n<li>You really like <a href=\"http:\/\/newtoyinc.com\/wp\/\">Words With Friends<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>All the &#8220;cool&#8221; kids have one.<\/li>\n<li>You prefer your apps to be vetted by corporate types.<\/li>\n<li>Facetime looks <em>really<\/em> cool!<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re heard iPhone 4 comes with the cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mjlusi_h_XA\">After Dark Flying Toaster<\/a> screensaver app.<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s Google Voice?<\/li>\n<li>You never use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/flash\">Flash<\/a> &#8212; and never plan to.<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t mind being limited to one set of hardware features on just one cellular network.<\/li>\n<li>The antenna problem on iPhone 4 is a great excuse to &#8220;accidentally&#8221; hang up on annoying calls.<\/li>\n<li>You like the attention you get from the cute blonde who works at the Apple Store Genius Bar.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingbeautifulpodcast.com\/podcast\/brett-mccracken-3-27\/\">hipster thing<\/a> to do &#8212; and the phone looks great with your soul patch and black turtleneck.<\/li>\n<li>Steve Jobs would <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macintosh_TV\">never lead you wrong<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago, I flashed my G1 with the Cyanogenmod 6-RC2 Operating System for the 4th time in just a couple weeks. It was starting to get a little annoying. Thankfully, I finally decided to do a complete wipe and flash (essentially formatting the phone and reinstalling the OS from scratch) and I haven&#8217;t had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/15-reasons-you-should-buy-an-iphone-instead-of-an-android-phone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">15 reasons you should buy an iPhone instead of an Android phone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[3570,655,280,3228],"class_list":["post-6307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-iphone","tag-steve-jobs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1DJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}