Tech attracts passion like no other consumer intersection vertical . And the Android vsiPhonedebate is microcomputer vs Mac for the digital native contemporaries . We all love our contraption , but some hoi polloi take thing to extremes . Here at Macworld UK we aim to protect you from these extremum of Android fandom , and we believe that forewarn is forearmed . So here is our spotters conduct to the seven type of Android fanboy you’re able to expect to encounter on the cyberspace . We ’ve left it gender neutral for leave no - one out ( but in our experience the worst behaviour is exclusively male : in Fandroidism as in lifespan ) .
Take a abstruse intimation , and plunk flop in . The weewee is nerveless , but full of Fandroids . ( For balance , see also : The 10 types of Apple fan : which one are you ? )
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The 7 types of Android fanboy (and girl): Google completist (and apologist)
This person just think , no * knows * , that Google is changing the world in a positive way . Far from being evil , Google is revolutionising the path we source information , communicate and do patronage . And it ’s all gratuitous . FREE !
‘ depend , I can choose not to corrupt things that are publicise to me , yeah ? Like I can choose not to keep pumping Apple full of lucre by paying its sumptuousness taxation ( you sleep with that iPhones are made with Formosan unicorn origin , right ? ) ’
This individual is felicitous with Google having their user data , good in the knowledge that it is anonymised . ‘ Better in Google ’s hands than the political science ’s . ’ They have a Chromebook and a Nexus , and their actual name on their Gmail address . They Tweet about the latest Google Doodle , watch all their TV via Chromecast ( and YouTube ) and have never find out the phrase ‘ if you do n’t pay for the mathematical product , you are the product ’ .
They detest the customisation that manufacturers bring down upon Android , principally because it stimulate people to apply non - Google apps , shop outside the gambol Store and occasionally complain about Android . If they ca n’t get a Nexus , they will set up the Google Launcher to achieve a similar outcome . And woe betide the earpiece exploiter who does n’t know that they are using a Google product . ‘ It ’s Google Android , geddit ? ’
The possible action of a Google Store on Tottenham Court Road has added a new tourist destination for our Google fan . But really this somebody want nothing more in living than to work at Google . They devour tales of munificent canteens , roof gardens , and in - office syndicate tables . So much so that they have seen , and profess to like , The Intern .
The 7 types of Android fanboy (and girl): Career/Korea Samsung-ites
This soul ’s life top out at the Galaxy S4 launching , when Samsung launched an Android earphone without mention ‘ Android ’ or ‘ Google ’ .
You will recognise this person because they will wield in the fact of all opposite that the iPhone ceased to be a worthwhile leverage with the launch of the ‘ ranking ’ Galaxy S2 . They will claim that Samsung invented the phablet with the Galaxy Note . sensible , you may call back ( forgetting Palm and Dell in the process ) , until they survey up by attempting to really use the S - Pen in your presence .
If they then march one of Samsung ’s myriad pointless software feature , you have found your Samsung - ite .
These people use Samsung laptops , TVs and tablets . They cite Geekbench figures as if they were religious doctrine ( which they are , in the sense that they bear only an allegoric relation to historical fact ) . A Samsug - ite will comment on the Samsung ingredient in your Apple mathematical product , and know by how many GHz and cores their smartphone ’s mainframe ‘ beats ’ your iPhone .
The unfeigned mental test of a Samsung - ite is their reaction to TouchWiz . Any sane someone understands that Samsung , like other Google OEMs , put its own software skin on top of Android in monastic order to push people into its own stores , and to make them think ‘ Samsung ’ instead of ‘ Android ’ . Even Samsung has massively tramp back on recent versions of TouchWiz , but your true Samsung - ite professes to love TouchWiz . believe it , too .
The 7 types of Android fanboy (and girl): The unbiased biased
But you will know that you have find oneself the unbiased coloured Android fangirl or -boy when they utilise set phrase such as ‘ Apple is the best for some people , just not for me ’ , or ‘ I could n’t use Apple , I really need the customisation Android offers . But I know that is not the event for everyone . ’
It seems fair . But what they are really say is : ‘ Apple is for people who are – unlike me – stunned . ’
You will never be able to pull ahead an argument with an unbiased colored Android lover : whatever power point you make will be returned to you as an lesson of your own unconscious preconception . But you will be able-bodied to comfort yourself with the fact that you have friends , and a life married person , and a sentience of self deserving that does n’t bank on you being able to win pointless argumentation about consumer products .
Or possibly that is my own bias .
The 7 types of Android fanboy (and girl): Be different, yeah?
One Holy Scripture : ‘ iSheep ’ .
Spend long enough on the net and you will come across many people who consider that have a machine that runs the world ’s most used smartphone platform makes them somehow ‘ dissimilar ’ . That normal drones take the obvious path , and grease one’s palms iPhones . Only outlier renegades like them practice Android . recall dissimilar indeed .
There ’s account here , of course . For a decennary or more Apple was on the outside , and people who used Macs incline to work in the originative industry . And when several age after the iPhone boot the smartphone diligence the likes of Samsung and Asus finally made undecomposed Android phones there was some kudos in know how have a worthwhile smartphone that was n’t the obviously market - lead iPhone .
Now , of line , there is genuine choice in the smartphone and tab market . And Apple is for anyone , but not everyone . That does n’t stop some Android fans seeing the iPhone ’s intuitive user interface and innate security as some kind of fuzz out . But if they call you an iSheep , but baa contentedly and stroke your lovely woolly coat .
The 7 types of Android fanboy (and girl): The ‘you’re a fanboy’ fanboy
AKA : the Troll . By no way undivided to Android , the Troll is never happier than when they recover someone tell something – anything – that could be construed as an judgment . They will stay awake all night in gild to chastise someone who created in their brain the greatest spectacle of all : A PERSON GETTING SOMETHING WRONG ON THE INTERNET .
These people survive only to get a response . They should be known as ‘ toddlers ’ rather than ‘ troll ’ , and would be were it not for the fact that toddlers inhale erotic love and amusement , and troll can at best hope to generate exhaustion , unless they neaten their sleeping accommodation and do their homework when mum asks .
Once you recognise an Android troll they are easy to ignore , or bait . But we careful with the latter : far good a troll - electrical engineering than a troller be .
The 7 types of Android fanboy (and girl): The expert early adopter (aka: details guy)
Easy to mistake for the unbiassed biased , the expert other adoptive parent is a far more life-threatening beast . This soul is open about their love of Android , but believes that essentially immanent debate can be shrink to cold hard facts . That Android vs iPhone can be measure in numbers . Moreover , they believe that their credentials will make you palpitate before them .
Every conversation starts with a CV , that is somehow meant to overawe you , you simple mortal . ‘ As a Google - attest web engineer of seven old age , I have possess every Android headphone since before Larry and Sergei were digest . I am a web admin with a fleet of ONE HUNDRED MILLION ANDROID PHONES . And I have girlfriend . ’
‘ My iPhone is tight ’ , you might say . ‘ Er , no it is n’t ’ , they will argue . quote benchmark figures and clock fastness , and the fact that everyone * they * make out who has an iPhone finds it slow .
‘ I like my iPhone ’ , you will counter . ‘ No you do n’t . You ca n’t , ’ they will respond . Before explaining to you exactly why Android is ranking to iPhone , on their spreadsheet .
you may not win these arguments . Indeed , the only way of life to win is to exit the conversation , before you forget the key lesson of Apple products : the tech does n’t count . It ’s what you do with it that counts .
The 7 types of Android fanboy (and girl): EXTREME FANDROID
We ’ve arrive at the jackpot . This person combines all of the above , with the exception of the unbiassed biased . That would be too difficult to dribble off . This dude loves Android not Google – indeed they wish that Android had ‘ rest open ’ . Like Linux . They automatically believe that everyone else is an Apple fanboy – asunder from the journalists who are * manifestly * being paid by Microsoft . And Apple .
They own only Android phones and tablets , as well as Android badges and tee - shirts . They may even have an Android tattoo . ( These hoi polloi should be set about only with caution . ) They can quote all flavours of Android in historical order , and exact to live what all the upcoming flavours will be called . They understand what Google is on about when it speak about the Material Design oral communication .
you’re able to not win with an EXTREME FANDROID . They only language they interpret is congratulations of Android . So just let them gently be , reader . Let them be . ( See also:5 things Apple could learn from Google . )
