> iPhone users are more likely to pay for things. There's all sorts of crap in the Android ecosystem, a lot of it is free, but the users are largely the sorts o

> iPhone users are more likely to pay for things. There's all sorts of crap in the Android ecosystem, a lot of it is free, but the users are largely the sorts of people who will take what kind of freebies they can get and don't want to pay for a premium product. I hear this argument a lot. I'm an Android user and as somebody that received an iPhone 6 as a gift and sold it to buy an Android, plus I also own an iPad, let me give you a counterpoint. 1) I feel the need to block ads. On Android I have Firefox which has add-ons, on iOS I don't have it. Well, you can usually find a shitty shell to iOS's webview that does. And even if the cost is non-zero, it's still shitty, not to mention untrustworthy. 2) I feel the need to view videos in any format. On Android I have VLC, the leading open-source player, OK? On iOS I don't have it (even though an implementation of VLC exists for iOS, a month ago it was pulled from the iTunes Store). Welcome to the dozens and dozens of shitty alternatives from the iTunes Store, many of which demand money for it. 3) I feel the need to listen to streaming radio. On Android I have VLC. Need I say more? 4) I feel the need to block spammy phone numbers, blocking calls, automatically deleting SMSs, plus I want regular backups, like for my SMS messages and so on and so forth. Oh wait, on iOS that's not allowed, whereas on Android I'm a paying customer. Dropbox on iOS is freaking broken, because in order to stay active in the background and sync, it needs to detect movement. 5) On Android I bought Tasker, because it's so useful at times, whereas on iOS such a thing will never be allowed. 6) I have about 8 games that I bought installed on my Android right now, even though I'm not a gamer, but it just so happens that Google Play keeps suggesting me tower defense games - whereas this doesn't happen on iOS because iTunes is restricting reviews to locals and I'm not living in the US, so all I get are suggestions for, you guessed it, shit - to search for iOS apps, I'm actually doing searches on Google. 7) Android's apps for maps are much better in my experience - besides Google Maps, I have about 3 others installed, all of them good, I only keep them around because while in roaming I don't want to be caught with poor area coverage. You're talking about iOS having "premium products", whereas the way I see it, my basic necessities are not satisfied and if I am to pay for something for iOS, it's usually in the hope that it works. And this happens primarily because of Apple's restrictions. iPhone 6 seemed to me like a really sexy phone, but I sold it anyway because of the ecosystem.