What? Really?? Hmm, wonder what the fuss is all about iphone when it seems to lack more than a few important API's and functionilties.
All that can be said is, Steve Jobs is a genius! On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Biosopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm concerned that the Android platform will lack the visual appeal of > the iPhone and will tend towards the techie crowd more than the > mainstream consumer. BUT..apps are king and Apple's missing the boat > on a crucial mobile function that Google has totally nailed so far. > > Yes...at least for the moment, Android has something that the iPhone > SDK completely lacks and so far Apple seems uninterested in pursuing: > MapView. > > The iPhone SDK lacks the basic mapping API required by application > developers hoping to tie the mobile experience to a geo-specific > location. The only mapping function provided by the iPhone SDK is to > send a URL to the iPhone's built-in Google map application and to let > Google handle the rest. > > I learned this while researching the iPhone SDK in comparison to the > Android OS. I wanted to determine how difficult it would be to port > Pocket Journey to the iPhone. As it turns out, the port could never > happen as it couldn't for the majority of the apps submitted to the > Android Challenge. > > If you want, you can read more about this discovery here: > blog.pocketjourney.com. > > Cheers, > Biosopher > > > > > -- take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://mobeegal.in find stuff closer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
