Well, you probably feel now like every single Gimp / Open Office developer.... for worst or better, there are applications that are a reference in their field (Photoshop, MS Office) and the iPhone is the reference for mobile development these days. No matter what you do on a mobile device it IS going to be compared against the iPhone. Same happens to every single search engine out there, it's always going to be compared against Google. Is that fair? Doesn't really matter, it's a fact.
Check out those other apps, copy what they do better than you, ask the users what *annoys* them from those very same apps and improve it, and if you hit a technical wall, gently explain. Good luck! Juan On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:40 AM, niko20 <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a music app for android that works really well, and I've tried > to model the app after other iphone music apps that I have seen. > > However, the problem is that I get emails from users about "can it do > like this app on the iphone", so then I try to write them an email > back saying, yes, I'm trying to use some of those iphone apps as > models, but this phone is not going to be able to do as powerful of an > app as the iphone. For example, only 16MB heap space, and also limited > CPU speed due to the interpreted java (not THAT slow, but still slow > for real time audio stuff with lots of data). > > Also there are some features that users seem to want that are simply > impossible, such as music apps with multitouch. Well the phone doesn't > support/expose that to development, so that can never be done right > now. > > How can we as devs help to educate the user base in some way so they > realize that this phone isn't an iphone, but has other features that > are still beneficial? (Other than emailing them about it) > > The worst thing is getting a rating/comment that says "wish it did > like app <XXX> on the iphone"...lol well sorry but that really can't > happen, not enough CPU/memory... > > Of course I also realize that we probably just have to put up with the > comparisons, just the way it goes :) Everybody is going to compare it > to the iphone. > > -niko > > > -- Juan Delgado - Zárate http://zarate.tv http://blog.zarate.tv --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
