There will always be the Apple faithful on one side and the Android faithful on the other, both having an allegiance to their preferred platform, with one side always claiming their platform is better than the other and visa versa; however, apparently some of the Android faithful are apparently looking to abandon Android in favour of iOS and the iPhone 5.
According to an article over on Beatweek, as the possibly rumoured release date, and I stress possible, gets closer there is apparently evidence that a percentage of Android users are looking to switch to Apple’s new iPhone.
Apparently this assumption of a mass exodus from Android is based on how many Android users have been online searching the term “iPhone 5 release date” and apparently on the 29th of June they saw thousands of users hit their site with that search term using and Android web browser.
Thus the article says that Android users aren’t just searching for the iPhone 5 release date so they can jump on the iOS bandwagon, they are doing so via an Android phone.
So said article has come up with a few reasons as to why Android users would want to make the jump to the Apple platform, with the first being they originally purchased and Android handset because their carrier didn’t offer the iPhone.
Another reason they claim is when the user when into a tore to purchase an iPhone the salesperson “coerced” them into purchasing an Android based device by “telling every lie under the sun.”
The next reason is because they say the user is a cheapskate and didn’t want to pay the price of an iPhone so picked up a cheaper or even free Android smartphone, and so will switch to the iPhone 5 if the handset is cheap enough.
Lastly the article claims that people took up the Android platform over iOS because it is hack-able and say “they call it open,” and since owning an Android device the novelty of having to program the device yourself has worn off
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Article Source: http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2011/07/02/iphone-5-potentially-attracting-users-from-android/