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Speaker 1: Well, it's something we all go through in our lives.
Speaker 1: We know at least somebody who when you text them,
Speaker 1: it's the green bubble, isn't it? Absolute iPhone or Android?
Speaker 1: Which is the best mark. You know, you're going to
Speaker 1: piss off a lot of people.
Speaker 2: You can't win this argument.
Speaker 1: You cannot.
Speaker 3: Well, you're you're probably one of those rare individuals who
Speaker 3: has tested.
Speaker 1: He probably has one of both, hundreds of probably one
Speaker 1: of both.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I'm a dual wheelder. Yeah, it's just you know,
Speaker 4: it's occupational hazard. I have to use both iPhone and
Speaker 4: Android to review apps.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thank you.
Speaker 1: And then and then you have all those burner phones,
Speaker 1: of course I do.
Speaker 4: Actually, there's a burner app that's great really both Android
Speaker 4: and iPhone. It's called text Now. It's free t e
Speaker 4: X T n OW one word and you choose what
Speaker 4: city you want to look like you're from. You could
Speaker 4: say La or wherever, and it'll give you an available
Speaker 4: area code and it'll ring just differently on your existing phone.
Speaker 4: You don't need a separate phone, and you can call
Speaker 4: and text as if you had another phone.
Speaker 1: You just helped so many people commit crimes and affairs.
Speaker 2: It can be used for legit purposes.
Speaker 4: Let's say you're going on okay, you're set up on,
Speaker 4: you go on a date through a dating platform, and
Speaker 4: you don't want to give out your real work and
Speaker 4: they could they could turn out to be a creepy.
Speaker 4: Or you're selling something on Craigslist or I don't know, Facebook, Marketplace,
Speaker 4: and you don't want to give out your real info.
Speaker 4: You have a fake number that you choose until you
Speaker 4: gain trust with the person your dating.
Speaker 1: One of my girlfriends she had somebody tried to open
Speaker 1: up a bank account and her name, and she on
Speaker 1: the group chat she asked our single girlfriend, how do
Speaker 1: I get a burner number again? And she I think
Speaker 1: sends something to this effect exactly.
Speaker 3: I used to have an iPod in high school and
Speaker 3: the way to get around not having.
Speaker 2: A cell phone was to use text. Now, Oh awesome, yeah,
Speaker 2: great hack. Yeah.
Speaker 4: If you had an iPod Touch, which doesn't need a
Speaker 4: cellular connection as long as you have Wi Fi, you
Speaker 4: can make calls over well, you can do that over what's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, great, all right.
Speaker 3: So when it comes down to it iPhone or Android.
Speaker 4: All right, So yeah, I open up that can of
Speaker 4: worms in a recent article looking at a very subjective
Speaker 4: look at different categories and who's the winner for each
Speaker 4: and then I know it's kind of lame, but I
Speaker 4: didn't come up with a conclusive winner at the end,
Speaker 4: but I did think that I gave the reader enough
Speaker 4: info to make a decision. So ease of use iPhone.
Speaker 4: Android's getting better and iPhone's getting more difficult over time
Speaker 4: as it's adding new features, which I welcome, but it
Speaker 4: is a little more difficult to use generally an Android
Speaker 4: than it is iPhone. So iPhone wins in the ease
Speaker 4: of use. You're buying a phone for your ninety five
Speaker 4: year old Ma or granddad iPhone. There are exceptions, but
Speaker 4: that's my two cents. For cost Android, you know, iPhones
Speaker 4: are even the least expensive iPhone, They're not. They're not
Speaker 4: cheap as Android. On the other hand, for under one
Speaker 4: hundred dollars, you can get a decent, not great, but
Speaker 4: a decent Android phone or you know, I'm talking about
Speaker 4: like a Moto G Play or a Samsung Galaxy A
Speaker 4: series phone not S series. So hundred bucks for an
Speaker 4: Android that is going to be good enough for most
Speaker 4: people out there. Form factors, as in what the choices
Speaker 4: you've got for how your phone looks and operates, Android
Speaker 4: is the winner because iPhone only comes in one basic
Speaker 4: rectangular or candy bar shape they call it. Whereas Android
Speaker 4: you can get phones that flip, that that open up
Speaker 4: to become a tablet like they fold.
Speaker 2: There's more sized.
Speaker 4: Options because Android, you know there, iPhone are the only
Speaker 4: folks who Apple are the only people who make iPhone,
Speaker 4: and so you're limited in what you can buy. Android
Speaker 4: is open to everyone else, so you've got a lot
Speaker 4: more selection, and so in price and in form factors,
Speaker 4: Android wins there. For photos, I say it's a tie
Speaker 4: because yes, iPhone, especially the sixteen Pro, and it is
Speaker 4: as good as the Samsung Galaxy S twenty five Ultra
Speaker 4: or the Pixel nine Pro, which are Android based.
Speaker 2: So it really, it really is.
Speaker 4: A tie because both the high end Androids and the
Speaker 4: high end iPhones are great. Video calling. iPhone FaceTime is
Speaker 4: just easier and smoother, more intuitive, I think than Google
Speaker 4: Meet or other platforms like Zoom works on both, but natively,
Speaker 4: I think FaceTime is just the easiest you can get.
Speaker 3: And can't I use FaceTime with others now.
Speaker 2: You can, but it's not so graceful.
Speaker 4: You get a link like if you're on Windows or Android,
Speaker 4: there's a way to FaceTime with I Phone people, but
Speaker 4: it's almost as if Apple was forced and they probably
Speaker 4: were by the EU to make it work, but it
Speaker 4: just doesn't work that great. So yes, thank you Gary
Speaker 4: that I that FaceTime is still the best experience between
Speaker 4: Apple devices. And then finally, security is I would say
Speaker 4: Apple still with Android, when you install an app, you
Speaker 4: don't get prompted do you want it to track you?
Speaker 4: Whereas iPhone for the last three years. Now, if you
Speaker 4: install an Apple I'll say ask do not to track?
Speaker 4: Do not track and you can say yes, and then
Speaker 4: the app that you're installing they won't know where you
Speaker 4: were before or after you use the app. But Android
Speaker 4: it's a little bit more difficult to install. Better cybersecurity.
Speaker 4: Apple just I think they have your back. There's things
Speaker 4: I don't like about Apple, but definitely I think they
Speaker 4: take privacy and security a little bit more seriously overall
Speaker 4: than Android. And it's easier to control because it's just
Speaker 4: one company that makes that phone where you know, but
Speaker 4: you got that walled garden, right, You can't download apps
Speaker 4: from other app stores easily on iPhone. They want you
Speaker 4: to stay in the ecosystem. What is the market share
Speaker 4: between the two? So iPhone is number one in the US,
Speaker 4: but worldwide, Android is number one. So yeah, in the
Speaker 4: West where there's money, so Canada, US, Mexico, and the UK,
Speaker 4: iPhone is number one. Virtually every other country Android is
Speaker 4: number one. So market share worldwide it still goes to Android,
Speaker 4: but there's also a lot more Android phones because it's
Speaker 4: open to multiple companies. But yeah, you can't touch Apple
Speaker 4: in the US. They're just by far the number one
Speaker 4: phone maker. But people have money. They have a thousand
Speaker 4: dollars generally speaking, Let it not be lost that we
Speaker 4: also like things that are dumb. I mean, we like
Speaker 4: the things that are the easiest to use in many cases.
Speaker 1: We ran out of time, but I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: to you about your iPhone spying on you. Maybe we
Speaker 1: can do that next week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I ad related issue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was having a phone conversation with a friend
Speaker 1: and I said a phrase let's just say it was
Speaker 1: let it Go, something like that, let it Go. I
Speaker 1: repeated it, and then I got off the phone and
Speaker 1: I hit Spotify and I hit shuffle, and the son
Speaker 1: that came up was again, I don't remember exactly the phrase.
Speaker 1: It wasn't as trite. It wasn't as trite as let
Speaker 1: it Go. It was something a little bit more nuanced.
Speaker 1: But it played the song with that is the title,
Speaker 1: and I was like, what the hell?
Speaker 2: That's a little sas says. The kids would say that
Speaker 2: is sus as hell.
Speaker 1: And I've noticed that on my Spotify, you know, created
Speaker 1: for you podcast that comes out every Thursday or Tuesday
Speaker 1: or whatever where like things that I say, or things
Speaker 1: that I'm looking up or things it's it's it shows
Speaker 1: up in the titles of the songs that it's suggesting
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: Well, chat next week. Yeah.
Speaker 4: She was having a conversation about as a soda water
Speaker 4: that you wanted to buy with probiotics in it, and
Speaker 4: she mentioned the name of the company and it shook.
Speaker 4: The next ad she saw was that ad. So it's
Speaker 4: like a little too coincidental, but yeah, all right, well
Speaker 4: we'll put a pin in that for next week.
Speaker 3: Talk to you then, Mark, have cheers bet Mark Saltzman there,
Speaker 3: of course, host of the Tech and Out podcast and
Speaker 3: an author of great articles when it comes to technology,