Control. Quality of user experience. Android has the ability to freeze background processes based on priority, without this functionality (which may be patented-able), processes will freeze, but who knows which one? Apple does not want that experience. It would destroy their ad campaign.
With the Macintosh, they missed the enterprise space vs PCs, and have regretted it. Enterprise folks typically like control. In good economic times, businesses can buy the high end phone. The graphics on the iphone make it a good sharing tool. Apple has defined the sandbox to force focus on market they missed in the past. Not unlike a gardener using a trellis to shape a fig bush into an espalier. A few paragraphs in and you will see what they are trying to do. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1216/is_n2_v180/ai_6286265 Google is doing the same sort of thing with deadlines and sample code. If there is deadline pressure one will use what is available rather than invent. List 6 speech view is my favorite. If our team did not have such a commitment to hands free, eyes free applications our entire documentation package would use that UI. We choose not to include those files at all to help the judges realize through body languge that our app does not consume attention but rather conserves it. I think we ask them to look at the phone for a grand total of 140 seconds! Yes, it is an "It is not about the phone" application. Anyway props to List 6 Speech View. With demo code like that and a little schedule pressure, Google will have a more useful, more accepted hand set. The key will be putting purpose specific skins on android so that customers will recognize why they should choose Android, without having to make any significant intuitive leaps. Apple is saying to the enterprise folks, "We work for you and are the obvious best choice for handsets." Most enterprise guys have sprained an ankle here and there, so they will balk at a leap. !!Off to work. I hoped this helped, Ed On Apr 17, 2:03 am, "Muthu Ramadoss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an unbelievable limitation.. Anyone know the reason why SJ & co went > this way? > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:29 PM, cr0vax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > IPhone is not in competition. Sorry but with less than 1% of the > > market, Apple isn't a competitor at all. > > > And if you consider developping, the fact that you can run only one > > third-party app at a time, and that this app cannot go background, > > then you understand that you simply have no usefull app at all from > > the iPhone community. > > > On 16 avr, 15:28, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Android User Display:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRxsxynZV8I > > > > Games and display enhancements won't provide the user with "Needed" > > > functionality, > > > > What applications can provide Android with superior user > > > functionality, not available elsewhere? > > > > A separate issue: > > > > iPhone is in direct competion to corner this market, and preclude a > > > free user interface. What functional applications can be provided to > > > make Android more desireable than iPhone? Not following iPhone and > > > mimicking their functionality, but leading and producing functionality > > > that iPhone does not provide. > > -- > take care, > Muthu Ramadoss. > > http://mobeegal.in > find stuff closer.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
