With their new iPhone 4 and its iOS 4 software, “Apple’s marketing makes it very clear that iOS delivers multitasking that works, rather than an unrestricted environment where your battery doesn’t anymore,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for RoughlyDrafted. “Strike one at Android.”
“Steve Jobs also articulated on stage the value of creating an integrated product, highlighting both FaceTime and iMovie as integrated applications of the new cameras,” Dilger writes. “Google has no impetus to deliver sophisticated applications of hardware it isn’t selling; it leaves that up to the hardware makers, who are all terrible at software. That’s why, despite having a fancier camera than the 3GS, the Droid was panned for not being able to take decent pictures. Which is why most people want a camera in the first place, as opposed to having bragging rights on hardware specifications. Strike two on Android.”
Dilger writes, “The Nexus One bellyflopped into the same shallow nonsense that Microsoft dove into with the Zune HD: displays that only look really good in candlelit rooms and flashy screen animations that make for a wizzy demo but an unpleasant or at at least non-optimal experience for end users. Both Google and Microsoft are trying to impress the press, not their customers. Incidentally, that’s also why both are championing Adobe Flash rather than explaining to their customers that a beta-level Flash Player is not worth their time or battery. That’s a third strike on Android.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yer out! Back to the copier, er… bench now, Android.
Good thing Team Google has 27 outs in the baseball game, because there are a lot more strikes against Android than those three (although those three are probably the best ones).
The next OUT would be
Strike ONE: Fractured platform for app (and even OS) compatibility with various devices from various manufacturers. Confusion for customers, extra work for developers (breaking a smaller market into even smaller pieces).
Strike Two: No screening of apps for malware; McAfee, Norton, and the rest may profit from the mobile space after all. I can see a day when Android will need to “multi-task” mobile anti-malware software.
Strike Three: Since Android and most of Google’s software are free, Google’s real (paying) customers are advertisers (and whoever pays Google to collect private user data), not the users. The users are actually Google’s commodity. Apple’s customers are obviously the users who pay for the hardware. Why would anyone want to be an Android user, just to be “used” by Google?
And that’s TWO OUTS for Google.
@Allen
at the risk of being polarizing and divisive, i am actually really curious as to why you prefer the android to the iphone. i have yet to hear a compelling argument other than the carrier.
p.s. the reason it’s so popular is that there are no other options; its on multiple networks and is being given away in two for one deals.
@ Allen,
Same, I would like to know what makes you like the Android more, I really dont know anything about it and why it would be better.
my my, how people have swallowed the ‘apple juice’. im not a ‘droid’ fan, just a tech fan…but apple is bending everyone over a barrel and people just don’t care.
ads on apps you PAY FOR? wtf! still no removable battery?
not the apple i remember as a kid in the 80s
Allen, just drop dead. Thank you.
whos allen?
@ Scott
The majority of apps in Apple’s App Store are free. And I have no problems with apps having a price tag. If the developer did a good job and created a useful app, the developer should be compensated for his or her work. Also, Apple’s new iAd initiative is primarily a way to help developers create more higher quality free apps, and have the effort be worthwhile financially. So if “free” is your thing (because you’re a tightwad), the floodgates are about to be opened even wider on free apps for iPhone.
If your iPhone battery not lasting long enough to get you through a day was a problem (you did a lot of talking or 3G access), the new iPhone should solve that problem. If Apple made the battery removable, they would not be able to make the battery long and thin as it is in the new iPhone; it’s basically designed to take up the available free space. So you would have a blocky battery, necessary because you can’t make the “door” for the battery that runs 75% the length of the case. There would be wasted space inside because you will need user-riendly battery connection points and some “slack” room. The case would have to have a door. All of these design requirements would make the case noticeably thicker (and less rigid), all for a battery that most users never remove. My non-Apple mobile phones all had removable batteries, and I never removed the battery (except for the times I had to do a hard reset by taking the battery out).
@allen
you got it. Of course a typical overly defensive reaction from the MDN crew here. I don’t understand everyone being so overly defensive when they believe anything apple has sh*t that doesn’t stink. Why bother? What are you worried about fanboys? Just because someone likes something that isn’t apple doesn’t make them the asses you all portend them to be. If that’s how you think then you are closed minded and belong in 1984 (coincidently the year the mac came out), blindly following big brother (apple). Hey I have 3 macs, 2 iPhones and 4 iPods but i realize there is room in the world for all.
haha, shocking, the iphone vs android article attracted fandroids with nothing to offer but whining and bs. i actually feel sorry for them, the cognitive dissonance they must be experiencing after seeing the new iphone must be brutal. damn that new iphone is sexy! and it has a freaking gyroscope!
Allen –
That was very kind of you to trouble us with your personal thoughts … well said.
However of the vast number of Apple users worldwide, the number of readers here at MDN is but a small subset.
Here at MDN we turn up the rhetoric and spew forth vitriol … so what, more often or not it’s funny, controversial, funny, heated, fierce, funny, impassioned and informative … did I mention funny? and we cover all subjects as long as we can differ.
So, we might be slightly dissenting, a little bit rebellious but on the whole we are freethinking and extraordinarily way ahead of the analysts and other so called experts, it’s like a big family (albeit a dysfunctional one) and most of the comments are from adults not adolescent teenyboppers. (although, sometimes I do wonder.)
Allen have you dropped by sites like Gizmodo, Cnet, PC Magazine, PC Authority I, Cringely, NY Times, the Guardian … or the hundreds of others … basically any web site that deals in tech and has a comments section, if so, you will have noticed that 90 + percent of the comments are from people who despise everything Apple, and the majority of their comments are polemic, filled with malignant, pejorative and fallacious assertions that are more often than not an endorsement of the blatant lies and the FUD printed in the initial report.
Live a little, it’s fun … no one gets hurt, especially not the Apple Revengelists’
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Scott !!! finish your homework.
So this buffoon takes a yet to be released iPhone and compares it to a two year old Nexus? Sounds like a fair comparison to me. Let’s compare the Nexus to the iPhone 3G and its OS of two years ago and see how they compare.
A more fair comparison would be the iPhone 4 and the Droid Incredible. The Incredible, with its Sense overlay OS, will do things you can’t do with a jailbroken iPhone. Apple was trying to hit the ball out of the park, but only managed a double; don’t try to spin it as anything else. That kind of blind loyalty is the exact reason Apple lost the market to Windows.
The hardware on the new iPhone is superb – there’s no question about that. But the OS is what makes the phone useful and functional and iOS 4 is still far behind Android Sense in the Incredible. When the Android app store catches up Apple is going to see its market share drop like a bomb,.
An Android may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
An Android must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
An Android must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Hey Google….yer out on 3 counts
“The Incredible, with its Sense overlay OS”
What the hell is an “Overlay OS”?
If Sense were an OS, what would they need Android for?
@Steve Gates. So the author is a buffoon for expressing his opinion but you’re not for expressing your opinion? hmmm. Guess I don’t see where the dividing line is.
The iphone 4 looks really cool.. I have written some posts on troubleshooting, expectations etc..Would appreciate if you would give some feedback on the posts.. I am just starting out as a gadget blogger and feedback would be more appreciated:
http://www.gadget-gizmos.com/2010/06/iphone-4-troubleshooting/
Don’t really have any comment on the iPhone, but I was really interested in what the article had to say about Safari reader. I hadn’t realized that it could get rid of the MDN contextual pop-up ads.
Safari reader is the best product yet.
Interesting, but certainly not relevant.
1. Multitasking may take more battery power, but since I have a phone that multitasks and the battery life is more than sufficient, it certainly is not an issue.
2. Droid is certainly not a prime piece of hardware. The EVO would certainly be more representative of the future. I will agree that the potential for sub-optimal configurations are possible with the way Google does things, but would expect those configurations won’t be successful.
3. No one cares about Zune so what’s the point in bringing it up. And battery life goes back to #1 above. There is NO reason I shouldn’t be able to view a site with Flash or Silverlight as long as Android clearly indicates that any issues are out of their control. Much better than “can’t because it MIGHT be a sub-optimal experience”. I would think that not being able to do something at all would be a sub-sub-optimal experience over something that MIGHT be a sub-optimal experience.