have fun writing software and drivers for way to many platforms

All Android apps run on the Dalvik platform... except when masochists make use of the NDK. Drivers are provided by the hardware manufacturer.

For those who don't get it: iPhones (And all apple stuff really) is software & hardware harmony. Android is windows all over again. Sure there's more hardware, but have fun writing software and drivers for way to many platforms.

Also, you have to blame the chinese for screwing up open source.


My iPhones are awesome! I have the 2g and 3g, my brother has the 4. So yes, I take the Wozniak approach to multitasking since no iPhone can actually do it... I use two (at the same time!).

Android looks nice, but since I don't have any, I'm not qualified to say if it's worse or better. All I know is that part of the reason it'll suck (if it does) is that the chinese manufacturers and vendors never contribute a line back to open source.

Google's settling for lower standards because they want more proliferation. They could probably do something like Apple, but they're the underdog and are willing to sacrifice quality for quantity. Which isn't necessarily bad, because if I could have four android phones instead of one iPhone and could use them all at the same time (super duper multitasking!), that would be awesome.

Those apps also didn't come from just anywhere on the Internet, but from the Android App Market.

Just thought I would point that out ;-)

Yeah, they should have checked more thoroughly.

After all, it would be so much fun looking at applications which use too much stuff! Which, of course, they should do anyways.

Sure being able to install anything means that it can be more dangerous, but with apple it's apples way or the highway.... Which is why aps that compete with apples stuff gets banned (google voice).

Also with android you can have widgets and customize it however you want.... With the Apple platform you have it how they say.... in their little grid......

see how quickly they change their ways if all those Android users did a class action against em lol...

Google could still have an approval process which is much less picky than that of Apple's and still deny applications, especially applications that simply change wallpapers (or animated wallpapers, can't remember) that then harvest sensitive data (their phone number, some identifier, and other stuff), which is obviously not needed for a wallpaper.

Know what happens if you have a 'less picky' approval system?

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179167/Mozilla_yanks_password_stealing_Firefox_add_on
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9084078/Mozilla_shipped_worm_with_Firefox_add_on
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9152578/Mozilla_confirms_infected_Firefox_add_ons_slipped_through_security

hate to break it to you mop but the Iphone app store is not any more secure regardless of severly limiting your ability to install what apps you want

http://www.pcworld.com/article/200618/apple_400_itunes_accounts_hacked.html

Sure being able to install anything means that it can be more dangerous, but with apple it's apples way or the highway.... Which is why aps that compete with apples stuff gets banned (google voice).

Also with android you can have widgets and customize it however you want.... With the Apple platform you have it how they say.... in their little grid......

But with several Android based phones I have seen on YouTube (and my friend's HTC Hero) there is lag when you are doing basic things such as browsing the web. When you look at videos on the iPhone 4 you don't see that lag. Sure Android has widgets and full customization, but until the manufacturers of Android based phones and the developers of Android fix up the lag issues you won't see me grabbing an Android phone any time soon.

First off that has nothing to do with the Iphone superiority first off for this over priced phone you get a 412mgz processor compared with the I don't know the evo's gigaheart processor, it's the flash that is laggy but you see the thing is that youtube  supports html5 video as well as flash, atm not all video's have html5 versions.... but since the Iphones don't support flash youtube it serves it the html5 version by default. That is due to the Iphones deficiencies only....

2 things with this.....

1. If you tube doesn't support html5 for the vid you want to watch your SOL

2. You can view these HTML 5 version in android or whatever as well.... you just opt in to the html5 version right here http://www.youtube.com/html5.

And remember not everywhere is as supporting of this crippled OS as youtube is, 90% of the web has video's wrapped up in flash, with if you are using the phone that doesn't support flash your SOL