TBH, I’m surprised people still argue about what OS is on their phone or computer. There’s choice. You may choose. Not everyone likes the same stuff. That’s fine.
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only joking
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daren’t send my smiley because its would be from my iPhone
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Sent from my Nokia Communicator
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I don’t know… I wouldn’t want everything to turn into an OS war or for anyone to get genuinely upset, but there’s definitely a place for a little minor ribbing.
Did no one have a mate with a Spectrum when they were little? Poor things with their bizarre black and white looking games that beeped a lot. Whilst all right minded people were years ahead with our C64s? (What? I didn’t hear that)
Or Mega Drive/SNES,
Saturn/PlayStation, Dreamcast/PlayStation 2/Xbox,
PlayStation 3/Xbox 360,
PlayStation 4/Xbox One.
PC/Mac
Etc, etc, etc.
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betamax and VHS remember them well 
You’re thinking of the ZX81. That was black and white. The Spectrum was colour. Clue in the name and the rainbow stripes on it. 
Commodore 64, you say? Pah. BBC model B over here 
I loved my minidisc player 
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Yeah, colour… 
C64 v Speccy - don’t even need to ask anyone to guess which is which!
Look at the state of that!
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I’d bet this is Android Pay coming before Apple Pay…
But this person was saying that Android is a rubbish OS…when it’s the most popular mobile OS on the planet (by # of devices)
And just going back to my earlier, jokey point, at least it support modern technologies like Bluetooth v5 and WebVR 
Not an OS war, totally agree it’s choices. But if you are going to argue it’s inferior… 
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iOS VS Android arguments can pretty much be found in every online community. I wouldn’t say it’s a reflection on Monzo.
I’ve participated in more than my fair share in the last decade
iOS for me was basically unusable until around iOS 8 or so. It was way too limited, the cloud services were terrible, it lacked basic functionality for anything not part of the ecosystem (this is obviously still true in some areas like NFC - here in Birmingham, public transport cards can be topped up via NFC on an Android phone, can’t do this on iOS).
I’ve used Android since 2008 and the very first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1. These days I use both (Nexus 6P and iPhone 6S) and they both excel in different places.
Anyway we love Android at Monzo, we’ve got a way bigger Android dev team than we used to have, and they are busy building some awesome, awesome stuff. Some of which are big announcements ahead of iOS, as Tom mentioned in his tweet (no I’m not gonna spoil the surprise).
Main problem with fanboy wars is that the vast majority of people in them haven’t even spend a serious amount of time with the “other” operating system. Their loss! I feel like if you actually like technology you’d want to explore both and learn the ways in which each excels 
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I didn’t really want to chime in at first since it’s such a contentious issue!! but I thought I’d mention I “bicker” with my friend about which is the superior OS all the time. The running joke on here is that Monzo hates Android so I guess you took it as an insult bec you didn’t know him well enough to get it?
My friend tells me the iPhone is for dummies who can’t figure out tech (he mimics his grandparents poking slowly at the screen with large text on) and Instagram wh*res; I tell him the android OS looks ugly and he can’t have more than 10 games on it. Just a load of bants really.
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This is very true. In fairness, it is very similar in the Windows/Linux argument…
Linux has absolutely atrocious video driver support and has been getting worse every kernel release, and Windows is slow, buggy and unmodifiable (plus no package manager!) however I use both for different things.
I was peer pressured into getting and original iPhone not that long after they came out. I was shocked at the time what a backwards step it was from my previous phone.
The only big innovation from other flagship phones in the UK at the time was the large touchscreen (the UK didn’t have apps for ages after launch remember) It had no 3G, which was common in the UK. But as 3G was almost non-existent in the USA at the time - and obviously it was primarily made for US users - they didn’t consider it a thing.
It was very backwards in so many ways but I was stuck with it because back then I didn’t have much money and a phone was a massive purchase (not that I purchased it, it was on some ridiculous contract).
I also got the iPhone 3G when Apple finally ‘invented’ 3G. I used them for a few years.
But I haven’t looked back since I first used Android on the crappy Xperias with their 5 minute battery life back in about 2010.
I did use a current iPhone the other day though - and apart from a notification screen - it seemed almost exactly the same as 10 years ago.
So it does come from experience - I do actually know how inferior iPhones are, first hand.
I don’t understand how anyone can prefer it.
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I wouldn’t say iPhones are inferior. They’re different, that’s for sure, and potentially have a slightly different target market.
If you want to get stuff done, an iPhone is probably the right choice. Not saying you can’t get stuff done on Android, but the iPhone mostly “just works” with sane defaults (little configuration required) and whether you like it or not the apps on it are better.
If you’re a tinkerer and don’t mind spending hours setting up your device to make it exactly like you want it, then Android is definitely the right choice. You’ll have a device exactly tailored to you, at the expense of spending hours/days setting it up.
For me, getting work done without thinking too much about it is paramount so I use iOS, though at some point I did have lots of time on my hands and appreciated the power that Android gave me in modifying anything I wanted, but those days are unfortunately gone for me - priorities have changed, I’d rather spend 5 minutes more with my family than trying to debug a weird Android issue caused by my tinkering.
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I have to say that I go through phases, so I have a mac and an iPad so am certainly not unfamiliar with apple.
So I have just recently swapped from Android to iOS but prior to that I’d had a nexus 5 and a galaxy S6 and before that a mix of iphones and android models.
So I’ve gotta be honest that I don’t really prefer either, one of the reasons I swapped was that I wanted some of my pocket space back (Galaxy S6 to iPhone SE), both have their issues but for me they are mainly as follows:
Apple is too restrictive, its either apples way or no way, sometimes they make annoying decisions (like removing headphone jacks) but then the OS and phone work together because they are designed from scratch to.
Android as an OS is fine in its basic form but I absolutely hate that networks and device manufacturers have too much creative control e.g. Samsung like re-skinning the stock OS and filling it with their bloatware and networks have the choice of when they can send updates. Partially this was the reason for getting rid of my S6, despite buying an unlocked version I’d still get updates after all of the network locked versions. I personally think google should put their foot down and force stock software.
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I think Google is a bit stuck - the core of Android is open-source and so if they make terms unfavourable to manufacturers/carriers they’ll just roll their own Android with the proprietary Google Play services replaced (for example using the Amazon App Store instead of the Play store), so they can’t easily force anyone.
What they are doing however is their own range of devices (Pixel) which is free from any crapware and runs stock Android. That’s personally what I would recommend to someone looking for a good Android device.
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I used to buy the Nexus devices for exactly that reason, they were good value with lots of features but the prices have skyrocketed with the pixel.
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