I don't think it's fair to (1) bring up the history of your experience as a gamer to explain why you don't respect Apple products and then (2) claim that the reason you chose the PC over the mac is now irrelevant to gamers who choose iOS over Android now that Apple has that advantage on handhelds. Just because you personally claim to be too hardcore to tolerate the inferior graphics of handhelds doesn't mean that's true of knowledgeable and experienced gamers everywhere.
You spend too much time characterizing the
personality of Apple devices and users: "Mac makes very 'take it as it is' devices which never has peaked my interest. I am a tech . . . and would never pick and 'here you go this is what you get' iPhone."
Again -- not fair to people who are techs and choose the iPhone for entirely different reasons, nor to people who jailbreak their iPhone 4 and/or write customized software and firmware for it.
Some people choose Android phones with keyboards specifically to play games, and I can see making an argument for physical hardware on certain Android phones being better for gaming. But if you were really being fair, you'd then admit that the library of available games (and I mean free games alone) is inarguably greater if you don't include pirated legacy games. You'd also admit that gameplay is quicker and smoother on an iPhone than any Android phone currently in existence. That probably won't always be the case -- especially now that the PSP NGP is going to use Android -- but it's still a major factor.
It's entirely possible for smart and technically savvy people to prefer gaming on an iPhone to Android devices -- Android is both new and non-hardware-specific, which means more potential glitches and lagging. No reason to assume every Apple user is simply too dense to buy an Android device.
It's also out of line to resort to ageism to explain why you prefer the Desire to an iPhone. "Maybe if I was 100 years old" is, again, you maligning users who might have valid personal or work-related reasons for buying an iPhone with attacks on their physical age and, by inference, technical competence, both of which you and I know nothing about.
One example: In the States, it's a given that most studio musicians and people in the film industry use macs because those devices are most compatible with those of producers, studios and individual clients (years ago, that used to include design people before MS incorporated better gamma correction and could run programs like Photoshop; it still does in a lot of design studios). There were always technical things you couldn't do on a Mac, but technical people have always used them when the work they do is Mac-dependent and when specific kinds of smoothness and stability are crucial in specific contexts. It really is unfair to suggest that musicians like St. Vincent and surgically precise laptop DJs like Akufen and Michael Zorn are "100 years old" because they use and prefer Mac devices. And those same qualifications apply to the iPhone, which can be used as a controller for Digidesign hardware and software, and is why the iPad has driven at least two virtual mixing board companies out of business. Tourists aren't buying them for that reason, professional technical people are.
Every single point you're making suffers because of your assertions about the character of Apple devices and users. The bottom line: No user who chooses a device carefully is making a worse decision than you have. No user is necessarily at a technical level which is inferior to yours simply because they choose an Apple device.
Besides which, there's nothing wrong with being a hundred years old.
The irony is that what you're saying about Apple and Apple users is itself an old cliche, but I would never judge you or your technical expertise because of that, nor would I make assumptions about your age or relevance. All I would say is that we're better off talking about features than users.
The iPhone 4 is still an amazing device; it's also a bit too fragile and non-customizable in ways that the Desire HD is not. In the past, I'd have recommended the Desire in part because AT&T doesn't always have reliable service. That reason is now history, since Verizon offers the iPhone, and the choice comes down to the preferences of users who needn't be
profiled by us no matter which device they choose.
Yes my decision is based on a previous experience because that is how I am with electronic products. . . When I started getting into computers back in the day they had mac and they had windows 3.1 There was maybe 2 or 3 games for the mac and so much much more for windows. This is why I went towards windows over mac. . . . Games on my phone are irrelevant as I only do my gaming on my desktop. . . . Mac makes very "take it as it is" devices which never has peaked my interest. I am a tech and a person who likes to customize and tweak my electronic devices. . . . mac gave the outlook of boring and windows allowed me to have the option of after doing work to have fun in which I only like to use computers for in the first place. . . . Maybe if I was 100 years old and barely could use technology I would buy a iPhone or Mac.
Even these 3 things seem like really small thing to add to any phone, so far nobody never really did that, except Apple. (I dont know why DHD ended up with so poor battery life, display and really poor loudspeaker, but anyway , they did)
