I’ve always said (like many others before me) that to compare Apple’s iPhone to any Android phone is like comparing apples to oranges. People still pit the respective app stores as obvious rivals and understandably so. I suppose coming up with ways in which Android differs from Apple or the ways in which Apple’s iPhone is superior to Android makes for good blog content.

Let’s take a journey however, to the abstract recesses of our minds. Let’s imagine that Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone courageously go where no other two rival operating systems have gone before (not to my knowledge anyway) – onward into the future, hand in hand (sort of).

This isn’t the first time I came up with such an absurd thought. I did imagine a scenario that involved Steve Jobs announcing at a future MacWorld Expo .. something about Android. That didn’t fly to well with a few readers. No one really commented on my insanity, but I did get a few interesting DM’s.

Having been a Mac Addict for 23 years and now a closet one, I understand the strength of the Apple brand. Apple is a brand that has backed it’s fruit logo with a well disciplined engine. Its strength lies in their strict control over everything that comes out of the Cupertino building, so to speak. In Apple’s more youthful days, one of their missions was to change the way the computer industry was being handled. Their number one opponent was IBM and Apple wanted to do everything in their power to be different from IBM.

Times have changed and thinkers have evolved. What IBM represented 20 something years ago and what Apple wanted to be known for is almost similar to what Apple represents now, in context to Google’s open source operating system. Apple now appears as the old school, controlling entity and Google .. errr, Android, opens up a free to do what I want mentality (sort of).

Because history does repeat itself and because man seldom ever learns from his past, partly because he is so focused on finding ways to increase the “bottom line” and only meeting the needs of a few select target markets, I say it’s time for a change.

There is strength in numbers and two heads are definitely better than one. Steve Jobs may never adapt anything Android into Apple’s environment and Android may never be a tightly controlled power engine (it’s open source) but that doesn’t mean we have to be pitted against one or the other.

We should all feel opportuned to be able to have both devices sitting side by side on our desks or even occupying the same pocket space on our person. I will no longer stay the closet mac addict that I am. I will happily move forward embracing the fact that I LOVE my Apple products as much as I LOVE the Android OS.

In this case, I can have my Apple and Donut or Eclair or Flan and eat them too!

So if anyone asks me which I prefer more, Android or Apple I’ll just simply say, iDO both.