I have had my Nexus One for over a year and a half, and not once needed to restore for any reason. Major crash? My cheapo SD card got corrupted and I had to get a new one, which involved resyncing my music with iTunes.
Hacked? Hacked how? I suppose if you're silly and download some app that's malicious this could be a problem. But that's why you make sure you know what you're downloading. The same applies for a computer: Mac or PC.
Actually, they aren't sure. They both said that they don't download anything questionable. From my brother, it's just one day it was working fine and the next everything was gone. In talking with someone at Verizon tech support while trying to find all of the data and apps that apparently disappeared, he learned that it was hacked.
That is the same with my employee. One day it was working fine, she was most recently using the maps app. She downloaded a couple of the more popular apps for her vacation and the next day the phone would turn on, but it was a black screen with white lettering and she couldn't do anything else. She was told that she was most likely hacked as well.
It's more that each manufacturer takes the stock Android from Google and customizes it to varying degrees. Not sure what fields you're talking about...Gmail, Facebook, etc all live in the cloud and app data sits on the SD card.
They said that some of the fields in their contacts didn't move over. For example they may have had a few extra fields with notes or extra cell phone numbers for a particular contact that didn't transfer over.
Funny, my BF updated his iPhone to iOS 5 last night and had to re-download and reinstall all his apps because the update process cleared his phone and didn't back up the apps.
Oh boy. Now I am a little nervous. I just updated my iPad 2 to IOS 5 last night and have not checked it yet to see how it works. I was planing to do that when I got home.
I would beg to differ - I think they're both comparable platforms, but Apple's marketing genius would have people think otherwise.
You are right about how they market. But, actually I tend to ignore what Apple has to say. I put off my Apple purchases for years because I just thought they were overhyped. I was fine with my Dell and Gateway PC's and laptops. But, when I did switch, I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised.
I may also watch some Youtube video reviews, read online reviews and what not, but mostly I mostly check forums such as this one and try to listen to what people say who made the same switch I am considering. Most of my friends and colleagues have already made the switch from BB to either the iPhone or Android, so I have been getting a lot of feedback. I hate to learn from my own mistakes. So much easier to learn from others. 