Apple has a stable os most of the time and they make decent hardware that's stylish and slick. I'll give them that. They also have a completely oppressive architecture that limits users to what they can buy on iTunes or rip off cd, a very constrictive gui that limits customization, no flash support, no way to expand storage with sd card and as far as iPhone is concerned, an unnecessarily fragile piece of gear. Why would you want both sides of your device to have the awesome ability to shatter? ITunes is a horrible oppressive memory hog of a shit bag program to put on your computer and every I pod I've owned has shit it's pants and either needed completely rebooted and all media reloaded or just completely bricked and needed thrown in the trash. Conversely I've never had an android device lose its shit and erase all my data, you can put whatever you want on it from whatever computer you want and you can also torrent data onto it. The apps and games are mostly free albeit ad supported.