Switching to Android

Post by buro9 » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 1:43 PM UTC

troystribling wrote: post #23

starnix17 wrote: post #2

Other then the fact that he says iTunes music is DRM'd (I don't think it is any more), I'd say this is a pretty fair review of the Android ecosystem. Edit: This is completely irrelevant, but Chad Fowler looks way different with shorter hair.

I have had an iPod since 2005 and have never purchased music from iTunes. You can purchase or rip music from anywhere and put it on any Apple device. eMusic and Amazon have been the main online music stores I have used. Many people seem to assume that Apple devices can only purchase music from Apple music stores but this has never been the case.

Post by callahad » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 3:04 PM UTC

commandar wrote: post #29

Sidnicious wrote: post #21

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I have never understood the appeal of speech-to-text on mobile phones. I don't want to sit next to someone on the train while they enunciate a long email or a text message to their girlfriend. Nor do I want to shout my own internet musings at those around me. Besides, these days most of us are used to editing as we write. Good PC dictation software makes that easy. On a mobile phone, you'll end up editing it by thumb…

>Yep, Android's has lots of cool features that iPhone has not, but a lot of its core functionality isn't fucking done. Like? I've had a G1 since launch, and I can't really agree with this sentiment. Yes, Android has had some very rough edges in terms of UI, but, if we're talking core functionality, I've never felt like anything was flat out unfinished. There've been a lot of things added iteratively over the last two…

Post by grammaton » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 3:08 PM UTC

Sidnicious wrote: post #21

TomOfTTB wrote: post #6

If I might go off on a tangent about one of his points I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately… “Speech recognition is actually useful. Big surprise here. I can tweet, search the web etc. with minor edits to my dictated text” For those who don’t know Android has a built in Voice Recognition API so any application can easily put use it for input while Apple has steadfastly refused to include this feature because “i…

I have never understood the appeal of speech-to-text on mobile phones. I don't want to sit next to someone on the train while they enunciate a long email or a text message to their girlfriend. Nor do I want to shout my own internet musings at those around me. Besides, these days most of us are used to editing as we write. Good PC dictation software makes that easy. On a mobile phone, you'll end up editing it by thumb…

Post by Que » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 3:19 PM UTC

silversmith wrote: post #37

Crossfire wrote: post #26

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I agree, the voice speed is too slow, and it sends the data back to google for analysis each time, rather than doing it on the phone, which means if you are anywhere with less than stellar reception, or if you have limited data, it can become instantly useless. If you could download the maps for you local area, and do vocal direction searches on it, or search your phone without having to be connected to the internet,…

Google gestures sounds awful lot like iOS Spotlight - it too indexes apps, contacts, calendar and contents of some applications. Instead of full screen drawing it gives you the default keyboard. Swipe right on home screen to access it.

Post by joubert » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 3:42 PM UTC

jokermatt999 wrote: post #56

joubert wrote: post #49

Dude, iTunes music has been DRM-free for more than a year now.

Amazon has double the bit rate though. That may not matter to some people, but I'm not going to spend money on 128kps songs. I'm no audiophile, but there is a difference at that low of a bitrate.