Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

scobleizer.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 36 posts

Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

#11

Post by mark_h »

jrockway wrote: post #5

I think his problem with websites was a simple matter of screen size. On my Android phone, the right navigation wraps, because there's no room for it otherwise. On the much bigger screen of my Archos 5 media player (Android also), it displays fine -- it looks like it does on my desktop. Turn the text size down, and things are fine on both. Also, what does Twidroid Pro not do that anything on the iPhone does? I can po…

I think he does just like to whine, but I remember Gruber linking to this piece a while ago that mentions twidroid: http://notes.torrez.org/2009/08/android-software-day-3.html

Summary: a bit clunky, options that should be disabled/omitted are enabled, slightly buggy. Lots of little cuts, rather than missing features. Things may well have improved since then; I don't use twidroid.

Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

#12

Post by StrawberryFrog »

Pretty much every reason that he gives against the droid makes me want it more. Hairdressers have iPhones. I'm a geek, I want a geeky phone. "a phone an engineer could love" sounds good to me.

So the best (3rd party) twitter app on Android isn't as good as the best (3rd party) twitter app on iPhone? Well wait a bit, there will be more apps.

Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

#13

Post by StrawberryFrog »

omouse wrote: post #2

Don't care. There are multiple phones running Android, unlike the Palm Pre and iPhone.

There are multiple models of iPhone too. It's fair to compare the latest, top-of-the-range flagship model to its counterpart. Right now, Droid is that for Android.

Sure, the Android ecosystem is probably going to get richer than Apple can allow for iPhone, but right now, that's the comparison.

Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

#15

Post by eleitl »

tzury wrote: post #7

Says who? Well Mr. Scoble, we already won the server farms, and it just a matter of several years until Desktops, Mobile Phone and Netbooks would all be running Open Source Operating Systems. Signed -- Open Source Fanboy

I agree that he's completely missing the point. Of course the iPhone is a far more polished product.

However, it is a far more locked down platform than Android.

This is the reason I bought my Samsung Galaxy, though it is sluggish, and crashy. That's the current tradeoff you have to make if you operate a more open platform. In future, I hope the pain will subside.

Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

#18

Post by ruslan »

"My first reaction was “boy is the screen beautiful but boy am I overwhelmed by the complexity.” What do I mean by that? the iPhone has a far simpler UI. You can only drag it one direction, left and right. On the Droid you can drag the UI left and right and up and down. This introduces a LOT more complexity."

I laughed my ass out because this guy is stupid idiot posting his idiotic ideas on idiot's blog! For instance, if I could drag mouse in Windows only left and right would it make the over all Windows UI better and much easier to use ? Would it make Microsoft a better company ? Of course not.

Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

#19

Post by pieter »

ruslan wrote: post #18

"My first reaction was “boy is the screen beautiful but boy am I overwhelmed by the complexity.” What do I mean by that? the iPhone has a far simpler UI. You can only drag it one direction, left and right. On the Droid you can drag the UI left and right and up and down. This introduces a LOT more complexity." I laughed my ass out because this guy is stupid idiot posting his idiotic ideas on idiot's blog! For instance…

There's no need to ridicule the writer for his opinion.

There's a big difference between a moving a mouse in 2d space with a device moving on a 2d surface and navigating in menus. A better comparison is navigating in a 3D game vs a 2D (platform) game. The latter is easier for most people.

Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

#20

Post by ruslan »

pieter wrote: post #19
ruslan wrote: post #18

"My first reaction was “boy is the screen beautiful but boy am I overwhelmed by the complexity.” What do I mean by that? the iPhone has a far simpler UI. You can only drag it one direction, left and right. On the Droid you can drag the UI left and right and up and down. This introduces a LOT more complexity." I laughed my ass out because this guy is stupid idiot posting his idiotic ideas on idiot's blog! For instance…

There's no need to ridicule the writer for his opinion. There's a big difference between a moving a mouse in 2d space with a device moving on a 2d surface and navigating in menus. A better comparison is navigating in a 3D game vs a 2D (platform) game. The latter is easier for most people.

I will say it again, this Scobler guy is moron and complete idiot! He proves this with every post he makes. Somehow the idiotism he posts makes his blog even more popular, so I conclude that ppl who read him are in same coherent "state of mind".
Post reply on HN