5 Reasons Why Android Is Objectively Better Than iOS (For The Power User)

5. Customization

Look at that slick thing. Just look at it. It screams "customization".

There's so much to be said about the classical Android interface. Not that Touchwiz bloatware or any other similar nonesense. AOSP (Android Open Source Project) is where the fun is. Right out of the box, Android 4 gives a load of personalization options to the user. While this guarantees a steep learning curve, it also makes learning the ins and outs of your device fun. For the geeky types mentioned in the opening paragraph, this is a must. Finding a random new status bar option might sound fascinatingly boring to the casual user, but the tinkerer will use it to enhance his phone's interface.

After you learn everything there is to know about your device, why shouldn't you install a custom launcher and give yourself some more things to tweak around? In the end, an experienced user is going to have a sleek UI that iOS users can only dream about. True, most Android users keep their stock interface, but the tweakers are going to have wildly different and unique screens. If you look at the iPhone OS, all the devices look basically the same. You can't even edit the icons, not to mention that all the other options are fairly limited. Another thing missing from iOS are the widgets. Their usefulness (ranging from the "dead cat" all the way to "digital swiss knife") can be left out of this article, but they are an important customization option nonetheless. And we haven't even reached the rooting part, which opens Android up even more.

In the end, the average Joe will see complications where the power user sees opportunity, and that's the main difference between Android and iOS. If you want a relatively boring and static UI, go for the Apple's product, but for an extremely customizable and versatile application platform, get a goddamn Android phone.