Four months with Android (An iOS user's exploration)
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Four months with Android (An iOS user's exploration)
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Re: Four months with Android (An iOS user's exploration)
#2When I read "It's all about the feel," I imediatelly realized why he didn't get why people like Android. If he likes the feel, then nothing beats Apple.
But I do use it for different purposes. I need a physical keyboard. I need to ssh to my server when I need to. I need google talk. That's why I use Android.
Re: Four months with Android (An iOS user's exploration)
#3Your question of who the Android is meant for has a very simple answer. It's designed for people who want a smartphone, but aren't willing or capable of spending enough for an iPhone. Also Apple haters as noted.
Re: Four months with Android (An iOS user's exploration)
#4FTA: Fans of Android, let’s not tiptoe around this: Android exists because it is a rip off of iOS. Sure, it has grown into its own in a lot of ways, but its roots are decidedly placed at the introduction of iOS in 2007
While true, I continue to find it infuriating the extent to which people credit Apple with inventing things it didn't. The iPhone was not the first touch-only buttonless interface out there (depending on how liberal you want to be, you can credit the art directors of Star Trek TNG in 1987 with that). Nor was it the first app store.
It did these things better, and is certainly worth immitating. But to "date" the start of Android to 2007 like that is writing out a huge chunk of history.
Edit: To clarify, because people clearly don't understand why I see hypocrisy here: The moral context to this quote is that Apple did something first and Google copied it, and that this kind of copying is bad. But obviously Apple copied just as much from other sources when they "invented" the iPhone (including things like a full-size capacitative touch screen and app store). You can't simulataneously argue that it's OK for Apple to copy and not Google; I posited that this was ignorance on the part of the author and not stupidity, and noted that I found it infuriating.
Re: Four months with Android (An iOS user's exploration)
#5When I read "It's all about the feel," I imediatelly realized why he didn't get why people like Android. If he likes the feel, then nothing beats Apple. But I do use it for different purposes. I need a physical keyboard. I need to ssh to my server when I need to. I need google talk. That's why I use Android.
A physical keyboard is certainly a great reason to use Android, but I'm curious, what about ssh or gtalk requires it?
Re: Four months with Android (An iOS user's exploration)
#6Your question of who the Android is meant for has a very simple answer. It's designed for people who want a smartphone, but aren't willing or capable of spending enough for an iPhone. Also Apple haters as noted.
Linux is designed to people who want a computer, but aren't willing or capable or spending enough for Windows or Mac. Also Microsoft and Apple haters as noted.
Your level of ignorant is amazing.
Re: Four months with Android (An iOS user's exploration)
#7My first "real" smartphone after using a Nokia E51 was an Android, a Nexus One to be exact, last year. I hated the experience. The market place was horrible, there was no apps worth using, the whole concept of having both a menu screen and home screens seemed weird to me, home screen widgets, while nice, killed my battery life. I then got an iPad and found the world of iOS so much better, I then got an iPhone 3GS and never looked back.
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#8You want to be taken seriously, and the first thing you say is that "Android exists because it is a rip off of iOS"?
Even if it was true, you've set the tone for your whole article as non-objective and fanboyish.
Creating a product, like creating artwork, is a process that interacts with the whole industry. You see what others did, and you try to do better. Others see what you do and they try to do better. Lets not even talk about all the things that Apple has "created" based on other products. This give and take is part of a vibrant tech atmosphere and great competition couldn't exist without it.
Re: Four months with Android (An iOS user's exploration)
#9You want to be taken seriously, and the first thing you say is that "Android exists because it is a rip off of iOS"? Even if it was true, you've set the tone for your whole article as non-objective and fanboyish. Creating a product, like creating artwork, is a process that interacts with the whole industry. You see what others did, and you try to do better. Others see what you do and they try to do better. Lets not e…
You really make a great point, it's quite frankly an insult to the people who made iOS to say that Android ripped it off. Someone more objective might say they ripped KDE 2.0 off which comes across as much more believable.
Re: Four months with Android (An iOS user's exploration)
#10When I read "It's all about the feel," I imediatelly realized why he didn't get why people like Android. If he likes the feel, then nothing beats Apple. But I do use it for different purposes. I need a physical keyboard. I need to ssh to my server when I need to. I need google talk. That's why I use Android.
A physical keyboard is certainly a great reason to use Android, but I'm curious, what about ssh or gtalk requires it?
The way Gtalk client deals with unreliable connections is perfect. I don't have a 3G plan so I often walk around my campus roaming from one hotspot to another. It doesn't use the regular jabber of you notice.
Also SSH without a physical keyboard is gonna be a pain in the back.