Episode 2 - Get Drinking Bitch

Hello and welcome to the blog for the social nerds, in which the weeks episode will be summarised, and we hope this will provide a supplement to your listening and general enjoyment.

This week on The Social Nerds podcast, we had a special guest, Mr David Geeson from the other podcast Dan hosts on The Xbox Banter Cast. We had some very interesting and wide ranging discussions, discussing the weeks news as per usual, having some debate about iPhone and Android, and thanks to Dave, things got weird and awkward, but in a good way of course.

We progress from Italian porn to German, albeit very briefly. Ben and Dave discuss playing BF3 Co-Op missions as well as the other games we have been playing, and then we discuss what we've been watching, including The Walking Dead.


Among other discussions, we then come across our discussion for the week; iPhone VS Android.

Dan is very much an apple fanboy and therefore sides with the iPhone, while Ben and Dave are champions of the Android camp. Although there were two entrenched views within the discussion, both sides were able to see the merits of the iPhone, which has chosen a very specific premium slot within the market, and the Android which is much more diverse, with a phone to suit what each person is willing to pay.

What sets apple apart from other phone's, atleast in the first instance, is probably it's appearance, apple products are beautifully designed, and as much as anything else, the product is meant to look attractive, which of course all products aim to do, but apple stand above the rest in creating a product that people want to look at, touch and show off. While android phone's in the most part certainly aren't unattractive, they strive for practicality and functionality sometimes to the detriment of aesthetics.

Then there is the aforementioned functionality. Android phones are good at what they do, and what they do is based around practicality, while there are many add ons to occupy the user, boasting apps that rival those of the iPhone, from the base up, android phones have everything you need and expect in a smartphone. Where as apple, have sometimes lost sight of what a phone should have by default, because they strive so much to be innovative, attractive and creative with all their products.

What it all comes down to at the end of the day is preference. What do you feel comfortable and find intuitive to use? That is what is important. Most smartphones these days do everything you want them to do, it's just the way they do them that changes, and that is what we found within our discussion, we talked about the strengths and weaknesses of both camps, but it all just came down to how we feel about the rectangle of metal and glass that we put in our pockets, what we want from it and how we want to use it.

Written by Daniel Smith

P.S iPhone is the best