Rooting Android VS Jailbreaking iPhone?

I have had the iPhone now for a year or so, and I had it jailbroken, but there was a hardware issue and now I'm stuck with ios 6.1.3 which doesn't have a jailbreak for it yet. I'd like a galaxy s3 but, I've had the iPhone now for so long, I don't know if I should get an s3. There are major differences in Jailbreaking and Rooting. I've never had a 'rooted' android device, so I don't know how they work, or what comes with it and all of that stuff. With rooting, is there something like the "Cydia" app? With Cydia, I know you had to download the different user-made settings and different things. Any knowledge on rooting would be great.

Rooting is similar to jailbreaking, no there's not a "cydia" like app for android most of the the things you want can be found in forums. And a lot of the uncustomizable things in iPhone don't require root on android it's a much open source OS. Custom roms are your best friend. Free Paid apps, music, flash and just better customizability are just some of the things android does without root you can have a deeper more customizable experience with root but you just have to know how to do it.It'll take about 1 week of searching online to fully understand all the benefits and things that your phone can do as all phones are different, but very similar.