@MillySonka - The thing is, though, Android phones are not simply knock-offs.  Google is a huge company as well, with every bit as much name recognition – if not more, being that it was a well known name even before the whole smartphone thing, and before iProducts were as popular as they are now.  Now, there are crappy Android phones, but if you know what you’re looking for, there are also very, very good ones – Samsung’s Galaxy series of phones and tablets come to mind.  In fact they’re probably among the most well-known Android devices, which would explain why Apple and Samsung are currently in this kerfuffle – they’re the biggest name in the business, so Apple goes after them.

But there’s been this crazy elitist idea lately that Androids are a poor-man’s iPhone – that, if you own an Android, it somehow reflects that you’re too poor for an iPhone, or some other such BS.  When Instagram got an app on Android, many iPhone fanboys were pissed!  They acted like Android owners were some kind of inferior peasants, and they’d say shit like, “I don’t want to see your low quality Android pictures in my feed!” (Android cameras, by and large, have been up to par with, or better than, that of the iPhone).  It’s really bizarre and makes for an interesting case study for the psyche of the average iPhone user and Apple user in general.  They’ve somehow convinced themselves that iPhones are simply superior, even when the evidence shows otherwise.  iPhones don’t even dominate the market by the same margin any more, Android sales are growing more and more every year!

All I’m saying is, call Androids what you want, but they are by no means “knock-offs.”  Make no mistake, there have been plenty of iPhone knock-offs, but Android has certainly risen above that rank and reached “alternative” status by now.