On Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, iPhone released its latest and highly anticipated iPhone 6. Students were asked how they felt about the new smartphone and all the media coverage and attention it’s received.
Logan Burns, a second year student and iPhone user, says that he’s been a proud owner of both iPhone and Android and comments on the differences in complexity.
“I feel like Android is more complicated to use, so if you’re not really that tech savvy person then it’s kind of hard to get the hang of an Android. Whereas the iPhone is more simplified, ” Burns said.
Burns also discussed the differences between the two operating systems.
“The thing that Apple lacks is the diversity because Android has tons of different companies that produce phones where Apple only has one actual phone.” said Burns.
“The good thing about Android is they go along with Google; pretty much anything besides Apple. Apple is trademarked only to itself.”
Student, Brandon Belcher, also said that Android can do a whole lot more than an iPhone, he owns an iPhone and favors it over Android.
“[The iphone] feels like more of a business phone to me and Android is more of a play phone,” Belcher said.
Loyalty played a role in Milan Spencer’s choice to have iPhone because she’s always had one. While Timisha Cooks has always been an Android user, but she chose to make the switch to iPhone recently.
“There isn’t really a difference now because I have the iPhone 6 so it’s just as big as the Galaxy. The only difference is that it [the iPhone] only has one button.”
Johnny Jones, a returning college student, uses an Android and said all these phones aren’t too different.
“That new iPhone is a bunch of crap,” Jones said. “The owners are just hyping it up for the money. As long as it calls and answers a call, like it’s supposed to, it doesn’t make any difference.”
“Every iPhone is hyped up. It’s the same software just a different phone style,” Belcher said.
When asked about the new iPhone software, Milan Spencer said she is not a fan.
“I think it’s overhyped considering it’s the same thing, just bigger. There’s not that many changes,” Spencer said.
Raychal Jones