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Not so with Android. My wife annoys the hell out of me showing all the crap she can do with her homescreen.
I for one would be glad if my wife would be interested in android enough to do anything but complain that it's sometimes slow, or has bugs.
The iPhone had sold millions of units before the app store launched. A significant proportion of iPhone and iPad users have downloaded less than a handful of apps. I'm very much of the opinion that apps were more effective as a viral marketing strategy than as a truly attractive feature. People talk about apps, people show their friends, but most of the non-geeks I know don't actually use anything but the built in ap…
No offense meant, by the way, I just wanted to point out that everybody has different priorities when reading these posts.
I feel like he's missing the point of an ecosystem. It's fine that he only uses a few apps on his phone, and that most other people probably do the same. The problem is that those "few apps" that most other people use aren't the same "few apps" that he uses.
One can wonder if a platform becomes successful because of a rich ecosystem of apps or if rich ecosystem of apps follows success of a platform, but the undeniable fact of life is: every successful computing platform also has a rich ecosystem of apps. Be it Windows, Mac OS, web, iphone, playstation or Commodore 64. So reality strongly hints that you cannot have successful computing platform without a rich ecosystem of…
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Except Nokia didn't abandon Meego. They're strategy is pretty straightforward and sound. 1) Focus on WP7 for the short/medium term. They'll be the premiere phone on the OS and if it takes off, they'll rake in the cash. 2) In the meanwhile MS gives them a boatload of money. 3) Develop Meego in the background and push it later down the line. The problem, as noted in the leaked stories, is that they didn't have a pipeli…
I am having problems believing the 3rd point as Nokia is just laying of a lot of Meego-developers. As for current Maemo/Meego-experience, I think not much can actually be said before the phones appear at stores this fall.
I liked my Palm IIIx (1999) better than my Android. That's not to say it was better, just that its simple, snappy, tightly integrated set of base apps helped me be more productive. My Android, which comes with nothing very useful, makes me unproductive. PDAs were great time savers whereas 'smart' phones are great ways to get ads in front of people. :-)
The closest thing I've seen is Bump, which is cool but nowhere near as immediate. Plus it's a 3rd-party install.
The iPhone had sold millions of units before the app store launched. A significant proportion of iPhone and iPad users have downloaded less than a handful of apps. I'm very much of the opinion that apps were more effective as a viral marketing strategy than as a truly attractive feature. People talk about apps, people show their friends, but most of the non-geeks I know don't actually use anything but the built in ap…
I think what you say may have been true in the past but I do think moving forward apps are playing an increasing role, even if it is just three or four for many users.
One can wonder if a platform becomes successful because of a rich ecosystem of apps or if rich ecosystem of apps follows success of a platform, but the undeniable fact of life is: every successful computing platform also has a rich ecosystem of apps. Be it Windows, Mac OS, web, iphone, playstation or Commodore 64. So reality strongly hints that you cannot have successful computing platform without a rich ecosystem of…
Compare and contrast A and B. A has features X and Y. B only has feature X. B is missing Y. Reviewer complains.