First off I like to write music apps, so I keep an eye on the music apps that are out for iPhone.
Two of these really popular apps are BeatMaker and Noise.IO. Beatmaker is a sample driven sequencer MPC style, and Noise.IO is a full featured FM synth. I read something disturbing in the app info yesterday that shows just how much power Apple has over developers. In the past Beatmaker and Noise.IO had formed a way to share data - the ability to export a synth sound out of Noise.IO and import it into Beatmaker. It looks like Apple now "forced" them to change how this sharing works - in fact so much so that currently the export feature in Noise.IO is GONE! And the lastest reviewers of the app aren't happy about it LOL. And the Beatmaker app indicates that import is gone in the current update. Imagine LOSING functionality in an update! Wouldn't that piss off a customer! Anyway the Beatmaker page mentions something about having to switch over to Apple's copy/paste functionality instead of the way they were using before, and that this was requested by Apple. So that makes me feel much better about Android, I think it sucks when a product that has been out for a long while already, and now Apple comes in and bullies the developers to break their software basically for no good reason except they want some control over how stuff is done. How obnoxious. Also, I dont see how Apple is so "groundbreaking". I was looking up specs on the iPhone OS 3.0 yesterday, and it didn't come out until June/July 2009, this is when it finally got copy/paste, MMS, and Push notifications. By the way Push notifications are where an app can get notified to start when it receives some data, even though the app isn't "running". Well, Android was well along the way already back in 2008 and it had Widgets and Intents, which do this already. Push notification is just a widget with an intent basically, and it came out much later. I am not an Android Fanboy or an Apple fanboy, I always figure whoever has the best tech wins in the end, I am writing Android apps and I usually compare Apple apps to what I'm doing so I can see if such a thing is possible at all processor speed wise, etc. I found that the original iPhone processor was actually only running at 412Mhz or so, and still has some good music apps, so that gives me a bit of info on how those apps are written then. iPhone has objective C and can compile to native code, but Android has NDK and you can also use native code, so I should be able to still write comparable apps processing power wise. So reading some of this info made me start to see how Android is really ahead of the game in a lot of ways. Back in 2008 it already had copy/paste, MMS messaging, and widgets and intents long before iPhone OS 3.0..The hardware such as the touch screens still isn't as accurate or as good, but the OS it pretty darn good, and it's nice not to have big brother over your shoulder everytime you write an app. -niko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
