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Google wants the Android platform to move away from SD Cards, their Nexus series really shows this. The Nexus S, their second Nexus phone, had no SD card. However, due to the requirements of a separate filesystem for USB Mass Storage, they partitioned the internal storage into two. Then you get the Galaxy Nexus, with only one partition. It features Ice Cream Sandwich, with MTP (Mass Transport Protocol). MTP allows ac…
Google wants the Android platform to move away from SD Cards, their Nexus series really shows this. The Nexus S, their second Nexus phone, had no SD card. However, due to the requirements of a separate filesystem for USB Mass Storage, they partitioned the internal storage into two. Then you get the Galaxy Nexus, with only one partition. It features Ice Cream Sandwich, with MTP (Mass Transport Protocol). MTP allows ac…
Why the hate on SD cards? I mean, what's the reasoning behind this?
If only people spent as much time working on a decent platform like Andengine (which works on most devices with little effort) instead of porting ios code and ending up with apps that only work on devices they were tested on (or complained from). It makes sense they have to deal with problems all the time since they clearly don't have a thorough understanding of the Android platform itself and what it takes to actual…
How do you anticipate problems like buggy GL drivers with inconsistent shader implementations? At the rate new devices are coming out it seems impossible for any framework to cover them all.
This reminded me completely of the pre-jquery era where if you wanted some advanced JS functionality you'd have to reinvent the wheel over and over in dealing with browser inconsistencies. After years of bitching and moaning people finally released libraries to deal with the issue.
These companies have the right to complain, but complaining will not actually help solve anything except give them a way out avoiding the the complexities of porting platform-specific code to another platform.