“…ALL the famous Apple fanboys” aren’t switching to Android, and for all we know, those named, may be doing it merely for business opportunities. We don’t know. And why is that only the platform users that don’t have many Apps, or those that don’t have the best Apps always try to argue that Apps aren’t important or that they are overrated?

Blind iSheep? How about blind Phandroid bots?

The malware and privacy concerns are not nonsense. They’re very real. Some of us believe it is sheer folly to trust your most important personal computer — your mobile handset — to a company that makes its money tracking people and selling their private data to advertisers and marketers. This eventually will come back to haunt all Android customers, just as it eventually came back to haunt Microsoft customers in the desktop era when businesses, rather than people, became the primary target of Redmond’s Web initiatives. The parallels are obvious.

The larger point is, you Phandroids sound like politicians trying to convince yourselves you’re gonna’ win the next election. And you may. But you’ll still be stuck using a stolen, insecure OS on cheap, plastic hardware designs pilfered from an innovative American company by foreign manufacturers. Of course that only describes Samsung and the like. There is no excuse for what Google has become — a once-admired U.S. company that sacrificed ethics for the mighty dollar. The Microsoft of the mobile era. What an accomplishment.

It would be fine if you merely appreciated the improvements in your own preferred platform without trying to turn discussions into sanctimonious, anti-Apple rhetoric. While I’m happy that Android users gradually are seeing improvements in their derivative platform, not everyone likes Google, Motorola or Samsung products. Get over it.