i love android, i have an android phone sa my daily driver (my main phone) and i dont know how i lived without android before my ZTE Blade (Orange san francisco), some of the obvious reasons why i like android are :
Hack-ability
Android is ridiculously easy to hack, put it this way in the first hour of owning my android device i had rooted it and installed Superuser and ClockworkMod Recovery, rooting was easy, you can even get apps from the market that do it in a matter of seconds for you like universal androot and others, some of the other things i mention take a little longer and abit teensy bit of know how with either ADB or CMD in windows ,Sudo in linux or Terminal in mac.
Customisation
as with hack-ability customising android is a piece of cake with the easiest way to change android is to change the launcher, there are many in the market like ADW.Launcher or LauncherPRO, these are the two most popular but there are lesser known ones like GoLauncherEX which is cool,now all of these have paid versions like ADW.Launcher EX and Launcher PRO Plus which offer more functionality to their products, like the paid version of ADW has lots of cooll 3D animation and customisation options and LauncherPRO has scrollable Sense-like widgets. But their are also launchers to imitate other Operating systems like Windows Phone 7, there is Windows phone android which gives you the cool metro UI homescreen with the ability to change the colour scheme e.g black background and green tiles.
and now onto some of the more me reasons
Side-loading apps (i do not condone side-loading apps)
.APK files in android are a lifesaver for myself, sometimes my device doesn't want to install apps from the market, and myself being a root user i use Titanium backup for root users, and that backs up everything on my phone, even the base code for the apps, which are filed as .apk's, so when i restore using titanium i get all my apps and app data back paid or free. now i said paid or free, and thats where the problem lies, because backing a paid app up makes a .apk , backing a free app up makes an .apk , so they are they same, you can extract .apk's from the phone, and if you be horrid enough you can host them online for other people to download and install them now getting paid apps for free, now this may seem awesome, but think about the developer whose job it is, he gets paid for coding and distributing that app, if it goes on the net, he doesnt get paid because it isnt downloaded through the android market. the downside to side-loading apps is that usually because its not registered in android market, you dont get the updates :(.
Hack-ability
Android is ridiculously easy to hack, put it this way in the first hour of owning my android device i had rooted it and installed Superuser and ClockworkMod Recovery, rooting was easy, you can even get apps from the market that do it in a matter of seconds for you like universal androot and others, some of the other things i mention take a little longer and abit teensy bit of know how with either ADB or CMD in windows ,Sudo in linux or Terminal in mac.
Customisation
as with hack-ability customising android is a piece of cake with the easiest way to change android is to change the launcher, there are many in the market like ADW.Launcher or LauncherPRO, these are the two most popular but there are lesser known ones like GoLauncherEX which is cool,now all of these have paid versions like ADW.Launcher EX and Launcher PRO Plus which offer more functionality to their products, like the paid version of ADW has lots of cooll 3D animation and customisation options and LauncherPRO has scrollable Sense-like widgets. But their are also launchers to imitate other Operating systems like Windows Phone 7, there is Windows phone android which gives you the cool metro UI homescreen with the ability to change the colour scheme e.g black background and green tiles.
and now onto some of the more me reasons
Side-loading apps (i do not condone side-loading apps)
.APK files in android are a lifesaver for myself, sometimes my device doesn't want to install apps from the market, and myself being a root user i use Titanium backup for root users, and that backs up everything on my phone, even the base code for the apps, which are filed as .apk's, so when i restore using titanium i get all my apps and app data back paid or free. now i said paid or free, and thats where the problem lies, because backing a paid app up makes a .apk , backing a free app up makes an .apk , so they are they same, you can extract .apk's from the phone, and if you be horrid enough you can host them online for other people to download and install them now getting paid apps for free, now this may seem awesome, but think about the developer whose job it is, he gets paid for coding and distributing that app, if it goes on the net, he doesnt get paid because it isnt downloaded through the android market. the downside to side-loading apps is that usually because its not registered in android market, you dont get the updates :(.
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