What the tits is the deal? I waited up until 3AM for this b!tch and still couldn't get it.
Nick, your the tech guy. Whats going on?
I updated my iTunes to version 10.5 like they say you had to, but it still says my iPhone version 4.3.5 is the latest up to date version!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Gosh darns it, Steve Jobs wouldn't have this.
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Starting with version 1.0, Android has been able to run multiple applications at the same time regardless of whether they are system apps or apps from the Android Marketplace. The current version of iPhone OS does offer limited multitasking, but only allows native applications such as Mail, iPod and Phone to run in the background. Android users benefit greatly from this discrepancy, as they can receive notifications, listen to music, or even record GPS data without keeping the application open. Apple will try to level the playing field with iPhone OS 4, granting developers access to a small and limiting list of APIs that can run certain services in the background, but it's a long way from the true multitasking that Android has.
2: Android Keeps Information Visible on Your Home Screen
One of the key features Android has is a customizable home screen keeps active widgets right at your fingertips, always accesible and always visible - without having to launch an application first. There are widgets for just about every app in the Android Marketplace from playing music to checking the weather and keeping up to date on Facebook. Meanwhile iPhone users are force to flip through their app list to locate and launch each app. If you wanted to check the forecast, for example, you would have to find the app, launch it, and then wait for it to load. With Android, all of that information can be displayed directly on your home screen, never more than a finger swipe away.
3: Android Has a Better App Market
It's true that Apple's App Store has over 180,000 applications, while the Android Marketplace has only just broken the 50,000 mark but Android's rapid growth and adoption give it the potential to catch up to the iPhone App Store. Android also has another advantage: a completely open market. Apple receives around 10,000 app submissions per week, yet many apps are overlooked because they appear too simple or denied because a similar app already exists. The Android Marketplace is driven entirely by its consumers, so the best app is the one that succeeds - not the first one to reach the market. In addition, the Android Marketplace doesn't censor its apps, so the possibilities are truly endless.
4: Android Gives You Better Notifications
The iPhone has some trouble with notifications. Because it's restricted to pop-up notifications, it can only handle one at a time and because it lacks multitasking, applications must be open in order for them to make notifications. Android, on the other hand, has a convenient notification bar which displays an icon for every notification you have waiting. The notification bar can also be pulled downward to reveal more detail about each notification. Android also allows app developers to make notification details viewable from the lock screen, something the iPhone can only do with native applications.
5: Android Lets You Choose Your Hardware
Apple users are encouraged to "Think Different" but when it comes to the actual hardware, they don't get much choice. You can pick the color, either black or white, and you get to choose between the 16GB or the pricier 32GB version. Other than that, you're stuck with the 3.5-inch, 320x480 pixel display, 256MB of RAM, and 600MHz processor. Because Android is an open platform, manufacturers have the freedom to pair it with any hardware they want, like the Nexus One (with 3.7-inch, 480x800 pixel display, 512MB of RAM, and 1GHz Snapdragon processor) or the Motorola Droid which has a physical keypad. Obviously, available selections will vary by carrier
So, it's okay for Apple to sue Samsung for patent infringements, but when they basically steal all the standard android features for their new OS its cool?
The entire IOs5 update is adding features that have been standard on android for years.
2: Android Keeps Information Visible on Your Home Screen
3: Android Has a Better App Market
4: Android Gives You Better Notifications
5: Android Lets You Choose Your Hardware
1. this list was obviously created over a year ago because this point has already been adressed. Apple iOS4 could run multiple apps and you can quickly change between apps without even closing the one you are in. not to mention os 5 is constantly running apps and streaming them all in one place. one click to open
2. other than the time i dont know what you really need on your homescreen... i have to push a button to check the weather (from my homescreen) but i do that about once a year. i prefer the app icon layout with easy access to any of my widgets to having them open all the time cluttering up my homescreen with things I dont use. on most of the droids ive seen you have to flip through page after page of "widgets" to get to what you want. no thanks
3. im not sure how the decription says there is a positive in the android market over the app store... the number of apps is less than 1/3 of the app store, you can sort iphone apps by reviews, rating and type, and why wouldnt you want some type of filtering and review over apps before they are available to users? any iphone user can submit an app, apple reviews it and if it feels users will benefit from it, they will deploy it.
4. Again, this might have been true prior to ios4 and especially 5, but the new operating system has a central notification screen (might be what the video is referring to "stealing" functioanlity from droid) with notifications from all apps. i choose to turn push-notificaitons off anyways so this hasnt effected me in the slightest.
5. i prefer the iphone hardware to any other phone on the market. wheter is be the screen resolution, screen sensitivity, keyboard, size, weight, whatever, personally the iphone is the most comfortable phone ive picked up in while.
as for flash, steve jobs has always been against flash because of its simple rendering and unstable coding. theres rumors that now that he died they may deploy flash so well see. but there really hasnt been anything i havent been able to do on my phone because of the lack of flash. one could argue watching porn but ever since the deployment of porn tube for iphone i can jerk off anywhere i want
im too lazy to look it up but do any of the droid phones have 1080i video? the iphone 4s does
I have a MacBook and wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. But in terms of phones, there's no comparison, and for my last argument.
Where's the flash bro?
-- Edited by Jpoo on Wednesday 12th of October 2011 03:34:37 PM
Flash is needed for one type of audience. Guys that need to jerk off using their cell phones. I think I can deal without Flash. By the way, there are apps that can run Flash content.
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Just finished downloading it. Let me just say, it completely changes my phone. I now can wait without problems for the iPhone 5, and can officially say I don't honestly know what else the iPhone needs to do to be the single greatest electronic device I have ever owned. Changes my life.
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