Just trying to provide balance.
I find the need for people to justify spending masses amounts of money for devices which offer essentially nothing more over their rivals quite amusing!
I have an iPhone through work, it's an excellent device. I have a blackberry playbook tablet and enjoy the ease of use it's operating system gives and the affordability of the hardware and my personal mobile phone is a Galaxy S3 which has delighted me no end.
All devices are superb, are capable of doing essentially identical things and all from three entirely different stables. All offer pros and cons over the other yet all are superb in their own right. Yet they seem to draw apparently grown men into arguments that remind me of the Super Nintendo v Mega Drive arguments that occurred at school when I was ten, the main ones who do this tend to be the ones who have spent the most money....... I wonder why..... In my experience excellent devices can be obtained without breaking the bank to the same extent, it's good having more disposable cash.