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But there are plenty of cautionary tales to keep from getting too excited. Motorola worked with Google on Android 2.0 and the original Droid and then proceeded to motoblur and lockdown the **** out of future phones. |
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No fricking joke... Samsung supposed did a great job on theirs and I'd still rather not deal with it.
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My only problem with this statement is that we've been hearing it for years now and it still hasn't happened. The Android Market still hasn't caught up in terms of quantity, quality, or priority among developers.
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03-24-2011, 07:19 PM | #1325 | |
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The Android market caught up long ago in terms of "useful" non-tablet apps... and since Android has only had a Tablet OS out for about a month... I think you may want to give them a little more time... Oh and your completely wrong on developers... http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/39452 The last big hurdle for developers will fall next week... http://emoney.allthingsd.com/2011032...mod=ATD_skybox |
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03-24-2011, 08:32 PM | #1326 | |
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The iOS app store still has over 100,000 more apps than the Android Marketplace. http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/03...rent-so-lucky/ QUALITY: Of the three, I'll concede that this is the one that could be somewhat geared toward personal preference. I'll also concede that because of Android's open nature, Android apps sometimes offer more functionality depending on the situation. My point though is that if you ask a number of users, other than Google's own apps, most will say that the quality of iOS apps surpass that of Android apps. Case in point: the iOS Facebook app vs. the Android Facebook app. DEVELOPER PREFERENCE: I can name a number of mainstream apps that either don't currently exist for Android, or were available for Android AFTER they were available for iOS: Netflix, Kindle, Twitter, Facebook, etc. |
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03-24-2011, 09:24 PM | #1327 |
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Just for fun, I opened up my app drawer to see what apps I regularly use (almost every day),
"Alarms + Clocks", Amazon Appstore, Calendar, Facebook, Gmail, Market, Pandora, Twitter, and Web. I left off games. I also left off stuff that Android considers apps, but I consider part of the OS: call logs, camera, etc. There are a few others that I don't use a lot, but "need them". BoA mobile, Opentable, Navigation... The rest are mainly random shit I've downloaded and haven't bothered to delete yet. I don't see the need to have 500 apps on my phone. If I want to look at ESPN, I'll open espn.com. I don't need "an app for that." Although I"ll grant that the situation is -a bit- different with a tablet. As for quality and developer preference, I think you're right, or at least you were. The facebook app was complete shit when I first got my phone, but I think it's reached parity with iOS now. I can't speak to other examples. Android support has come a long ways. The biggest remaining gaps are with multimedia for some reason. Netflix obviously. Hulu too. A couple others. I bet those will be out within months though. I'd say within six months, you'll have parity for what most users want. Right now, I already have everything I want. |
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I'll have to dispute the claim that you give up functionality with an iPhone. I understand in certain cases this would be true, but as an iPod addict who pretty much needs some aural stimulation or at least the option of it 24-7, I find it incredibly functional to have my iPod and phone be the same device. The convenience of everything syncing with iTunes can't be underscored. Yes, android phones play music but when I could either drag and drop 2 or 3 podcasts a day to an sd card or just plug my phone into the computer, I'll take the second option every time. And maybe you're right, Apple might be hoodwinking everyone into accepting less functionality. Of course, the other argument could be that, since nobody else seems to be able to do something radically different or better, that the technology simply isn't at the point you want it to be. And in the meantime, what exactly is apple supposed to do? Sit on its hands, forego the hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in revenue generated by the iPad until they can produce a full-fledged MacBook pro on a tablet, or should they develop their product as they release new models? Imagine for a moment if henry ford had said 'no no, we won't be releasing the model T because at some point we're gonna develop the ford gt and that thing is gonna kick ass. Hitler already pre-ordered one last week'. That be ridiculous, but it's essentially what you're asking apple to do. Also, to say we're a mere twelve-eighteen months away from computer-equivalent tablets when nobody seems to be able to develop an efficient Flash-capable tablet after a year (moreso on Apple's side) of R & D seems a bit optimistic. I get that we're moving forward in quantum leaps when it comes to technology, but I'll believe that a tablet can replace my computer when I hold one that's capable of it, not when someone releases a spec sheet or tells me how great the new operating system is.
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I'd like to point out that android came out well after the iPhone, so logically every android app was released after it was available on iOS. Im not sure what your point is with that.
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My point is that for over a year now, we've been hearing how Android apps are going to catch up to, and ever surpass, iOS apps. We've been hearing over and over how it's just a matter of months before it happens. The truth is, it hasn't happened, and there's nothing to indicate that's it going to happen anytime soon. Maybe eventually, but certainly not in a matter of months. For the most part, currently any organization who doesn't have a bias toward Android and is worth their salt is going to focus on their iOS app first. The Android app will either come at the same time, or after. Not before though. The fact of the matter is that iOS is currently at the top of the food chain and that's not going to change "in a matter of months". |
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#2 I currently use a Win7 tablet that works just as well as my desktop except that it's battery life sucks #3 in terms of pure computing power... we are 6 months away... I don't think 12-18 months to put that power to use is much of a stretch at all. |
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