Los angeles android users: Help!

[philliplavelle]

Hey folks,

Long time user (and prior to that, long time lurker) on these forums - but today, I'm posting with a random, unusual request.

I'm trying to find Android fans in Los Angeles who may be available to help me with a little TV filming this coming Monday (26th June).

Long story short - my day job is as a TV reporter in Los Angeles.. I work for a global news channel called CGTN America (we broadcast out of Washington DC, Beijing and Nairobi to around about 1.2 billion homes worldwide.. including in the US on cable and satellite, though most of our viewers tend to come internationally)..

Since I'm a huge tech-head, I'm filming a story to go out later this week on ten years of the iPhone. But I want to make it different. What often happens with these stories is some networks get reporters who know nothing about technology to do them, and you end up with something that is just saying 'the iPhone is the most amazing device ever invented.'

Regardless of what side of the fence you sit on, it is an amazing device. And it did have a revolutionary impact. But there is so much to the story other than that.

One of the angles I really want to explore is the battle between iOS and Android. The way that the iPhone almost set the lines for a war. You see it on forums like this and XDA and Apple-related forums - people trying to outdo each other.. and people getting really irate as they nail their colors to the mast of their OS of choice.

I wondered if there may be some Android fans in the LA area who I could meet up with on Monday, if we can arrange a convenient time and we film a little sequence (details of which, I'm still to work out in my head) but talking about the iOS vs Android wars. This may be just Android users or it may an Android user and an iPhone user both debating what's best about their relevant OS.

It's still a germ of an idea. But I wanted to throw it out there and hope it gets seen over the weekend.

I'm gonna post this over on XDA as well to try to maximize the number of people who see it and also on the Samsung Forum here. The reason for the double post is that in my experience, the real ire is often between Samsung and Apple fans (reflecting the companies, almost) and so there may be people in that board that this really appeals to..

Anyway, please do reply to me on here, or via DM, or via twitter @phillavelle.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Phil

 

[smvim]

Thread bump as this does sound interesting.
Suggest you re-direct your focus not so much on the conflicts between the different Android<>Apple fanatics, but on which platform will actually serve a smartphone user in the most optimal way. Fan-boys/fan-girls touting their preferences generally argue why their phone choice is the best for their own needs but the media should target discussions on which platform is going to just frustrate you or add to your quality of life. Everybody uses their phone differently and everybody has a different skill level so their needs are also different.

 

[belodion]

I myself use and enjoy all three main systems and feel not the slightest antagonism towards any one of them, and zero hostility towards other users for their choices. You may want to mention that in your film story....I suspect that it's how practically everyone feels. If there is a 'war', it's being conducted by a minority who have yet to discover, perhaps, what things in life are worth caring about. They may also need to take more time to acknowledge and appreciate the marvels constantly being developed within those three main systems.