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Fake Steve Jobs: Why I'm Switching to Android

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Re: Fake Steve Jobs: Why I'm Switching to Android

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Post by raganwald »

ryandvm wrote: post #3
raganwald wrote: post #2

This article is actually by Daniel Lyons. It's true that Daniel also writes parody articles as FSJ, but this is not one of them.

Man, Fake Steve Jobs is going to be pissed about this article.

To be perfectly honest, while there's nothing wrong with the article, after reading the title I was looking forward with a certain amount of evil glee to find out exactly what FSJ was going to say about switching to Android.

Nothing against Daniel, but his reasons are far less entertaining than FSJ's would have been.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs: Why I'm Switching to Android

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Post by junklight »

while all the commentators and media are wetting their pants about who has landed what blow on who I can't help feeling that the real winners are going to be us users.

Apple will lose if they don't respond - and it would seem likely that they will be forced to add some of these features - streaming from my media library being one I would particularly like.

Keep landing those killer blows guys and making your products better and better!

(mind you I have horrible suspicion that I will end up with devices from both camps - if the production android pad is cool will almost certainly buy one as well as an ipad)

Re: Fake Steve Jobs: Why I'm Switching to Android

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Post by tptacek »

runevault wrote: post #5
es3754 wrote: post #4

If there's a 30 day backorder on the HTC Incredible you might as well check out the HTC EVO when it hits the streets on June 4th.

Unless you don't want to be on Sprint of course. Some people really want to be on Verizon.

I will never, ever do business with Sprint again, after I cancelled my phone service (twice!), threw out my phone, and they mysteriously re-activated the account a few months later, silently accrued an account balance with late fees, and then reported me to collections.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs: Why I'm Switching to Android

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Post by lukifer »

I'm getting really tired of reading hacky comparisons of iPhone vs Android to Mac vs Windows. For one thing, there is not a huge price discrepancy in the smartphone space the way there was on the desktop in the 80s and 90s, when Macs tended to carry a 2-3x markup. There isn't the problem of too few games on the platform; Apple currently has the advantage here, though obviously not forever. And despite Apple's willingness to piss off devs, I would say Apple is still providing more tools and support to developers than they ever did when the Mac was fighting for survival.

Windows also had an advantage of a write-once, run-anywhere software ecosystem. Other than different screen sizes, or perhaps graphic cards for games, you could expect a consistent mouse-keyboard-screen interface. Android has to account for lots of little differences in hardware form factors and feature sets, and the onus is on Android devs to manage these, which was seldom an issue for Windows devs.

Mac vs. Windows was last generation's technology battle, and it's long over. We're now in uncharted territory.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs: Why I'm Switching to Android

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Post by edw519 »

1980: CPM on your choice of hardware or lock into Apple hardware & software at a higher price.

1990: DOS on your choice of hardware or lock into Apple hardware & software at a higher price.

2000: Windows on your choice of hardware or lock into Apple hardware & software at a higher price.

2010: Android on your choice of hardware or lock into Apple hardware & software at a higher price.

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