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by al_borland 669 days ago
I’ve been an iPhone user since day 1 and have been happy with it. Any time I look at Android it feels like managing my phone would need to become a hobby, which I don’t want.

On the iPhone…

- The built in camera app is pretty good. If you don’t want to use Apple to store your photos, there are likely options that can upload them where you want… or plug it into a computer and copy them off like a camera.

- GPS, the usual suspects are there for maps or other GPS needs.

- Web. All browsers use WebKit on the backend (for now), but then if you have a particular browser of choice to sync bookmarks and things, it’s probably there. I did this with Firefox for a while, and it worked fine.

- RSS. NetNewsWire is open source and has been around forever. It’s what I use.

- Chat, again, it’s all there, plus iMessage, which is not available elsewhere. And RCS is coming later this year, which should make things better between iOS and Android, instead of SMS.