Why Google's Android is a winning formula

news24 said:
If you are in business and cannot afford a Mac then you should probably quit. How many start-up companies are out there to develop for iPhone vs Android? Even some Academic institutions in US support and edge their students to get an iPod Touch. Apple have a winning formula, that's why all software vendors are moving to centralize their app stores, apple revolutionized Touch Screen Phones, now all vendors have joined the wagon and are making touch screen phones. It is still feasible to brag about iPhone whether 2G, 3G or 3GS, can you do the same with Samsung Omnia, HTC Magic, Nokia 5800 Express???? No because the manufactures have long forgot about them and churning out other models.
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no, the point is that you have to buy expensive hardware just to develop for single platform. no matter how big your operation is.
the reason open source is gaining popularity is that you don't have to fork out for proprietary hardware and licensing or get locked into a vendor.
mozilla has made the choice to not develop on winmo7 or iphone for that reason.

the reason that apple has a winning formula on mobile is that they have limited range of devices, making development and testing quicker and easier.
apple's model of a centralised app store was revolutionary because provided a single point of provisioning and distribuition for a particular vendor.

but networks and device manufacturers will start to clash increasingly over control of app distribution, as can be seen in sprint's adoption of getjar.
http://venturebeat.com/2010/02/10/s...&utm_campaign=Feed:+Venturebeat+(VentureBeat)

iphone is a great device, don't get me wrong. it's just not the only device out there, and more options are coming to market for the consumer.
 
murraybiscuit said:
the reason open source is gaining popularity is that you don't have to fork out for proprietary hardware and licensing or get locked into a vendor.
mozilla has made the choice to not develop on winmo7 or iphone for that reason.
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If opensource was so popular, it would have been evident with linux. But I guess Android is slightly different.

Reason why Mozilla is not developing for WM7 is because Microsoft does not want open-source applications running on their platform. In the case of iPhone, Mozilla wouldn't even start dreaming about developing for the platform, because their application would be duplicating functions of the iPhone.
murraybiscuit said:
iphone is a great device, don't get me wrong. it's just not the only device out there, and more options are coming to market for the consumer.
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I cannot disagree with you there. The are a lot of other options out there.
 
I support Android because it is Linux based. I do have a problem where Android is creating mini eco systems of it self. That is the downside of opensource based OSs.

The problems that I see are related to new users entering the market. They read Android and take it that all of them are the same. The support would be the same. This is where the confusion starts.

Almost as if Android versions supported by different vendors are similar to Linux Distributions. Yes it is Linux, which part is open source and which part is closed source or even binaries only? Do they all share same method to interact with the User. The problem with binary only installations, are the libraries.

If a vendor brings out Android 1.6 on their mobile device, with library version x. The vendors cannot guarantee that the application you downloaded in binary form would interface correctly on your already old library version.

One solution would be that all applications would be compiled static, which in turns grows the app size. Not a problem anymore with devices that have 8GB storage.

Drivers on the phone, probably closed source. I would imagine. Again, locked into a specific vendor even though it is Android.

Users require stability and ease. Not to make the repetitive tasks to difficult/time consuming to do. iPhone just wins in that category and users are willing to pay for that. :(
 
chubster said:
I support Android because it is Linux based. I do have a problem where Android is creating mini eco systems of it self. That is the downside of opensource based OSs.

The problems that I see are related to new users entering the market. They read Android and take it that all of them are the same. The support would be the same. This is where the confusion starts.

Almost as if Android versions supported by different vendors are similar to Linux Distributions. Yes it is Linux, which part is open source and which part is closed source or even binaries only? Do they all share same method to interact with the User. The problem with binary only installations, are the libraries.

If a vendor brings out Android 1.6 on their mobile device, with library version x. The vendors cannot guarantee that the application you downloaded in binary form would interface correctly on your already old library version.

One solution would be that all applications would be compiled static, which in turns grows the app size. Not a problem anymore with devices that have 8GB storage.

Drivers on the phone, probably closed source. I would imagine. Again, locked into a specific vendor even though it is Android.

Users require stability and ease. Not to make the repetitive tasks to difficult/time consuming to do. iPhone just wins in that category and users are willing to pay for that. :(
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I'm with you on this one.
 
chubster said:
Users require stability and ease. Not to make the repetitive tasks to difficult/time consuming to do. iPhone just wins in that category and users are willing to pay for that. :(
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Android gives great stability and ease... in my opinion it is just as user friendly as the iPhone... I think Android and iPhone will still be around fro a long time like BMW and Merc :)
 
I am really happy that Apple brought out the iPhone. I used to be one of those guys that used to buy the latest and greatest from Nokia, Samsung, Sony Erikson....and then, because i was so impressed with my iMac and MacBook Pro, I bought my first iPhone. That was the first of their offering when it was not available here. Then I bought their 3G and recently bought their 3GS.
My days of checking out reviews of other phones are totally over. I no longer have any desire to have any other phone - at last, I am totally content with the phone I have, and will only buy new updates of the iPhone.

Heck, out of curiousity a few years back I bought a Blackberry Bold 9000 - the Blackberry fans were adamant they had the best phone, so I bought one to see. It lasted a full 10 days before I gave it to my girlfriend. IMHO the blackberry does not even come close to an iPhone
 
surfs-up said:
Heck, out of curiousity a few years back I bought a Blackberry Bold 9000 - the Blackberry fans were adamant they had the best phone, so I bought one to see. It lasted a full 10 days before I gave it to my girlfriend. IMHO the blackberry does not even come close to an iPhone
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Blackberry is a good business communicator, but fails miserably with multimedia capabilities & web browsing. Though I've had rumors that they are working on a new formula.
 
I'd love to get an Android phone, but the Exchange syncing is just not at the level required for corporate use. Contacts do not sync with Exchange, and it doesn't support device policies (forced lock password, remote wipe, etc).
 
TimTDP said:
what has everyone got against Windows mobile?
I have an HTC HD2 running Windows mobile.
My PC OS is Windows 7
My e-mail client is Mozilla's Thunderbird.
Everything syncs perfectly. Address books, calendars. This very important to me.

With Andriod, so I understand, you use google mail / address book so now have to change to that. I don't want to!

Anyway, how many of all these extra "features" & "apps" does the actual user really use? It is a phone / communicator! Get on and do some real work rather than play. Sureley there is more to life than playing with your smartphone all day?
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Symbian isn't for everyone, neither is Blackberry or iPhone or Android.
Each to their own but I would have thought myBB was above writing such biased nonsense
 
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