The availability of the amateurish apps is one of the great strengths of this platform. Not everything you use needs to be complex and polished, sometimes they just need to do what you need them to do. That being said, yes, there will be some crap. Thats great because it means that anybody can publish, unlike the apple board of nazis that prevent you from competing with them, speaking up against them, or doing anything that is actually creative.
The browser performance issues seem to be quite common. If you're not happy with the existing browser, you can try opera or steel, or wait for cupcake (the updated browser is said to improve drawing speed by 5x and also includes other updates to webkit). http://source.android.com/roadmap/cupcake On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:45 PM, mike quinn <[email protected]>wrote: > That's because apple apps are constrained to a set design, graphics, icons > etc. > > But I agree some of the android 3rd party apps look amateurish > > On 14 Jan 2009, 6:41 PM, "code_android_festival_way" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Well I experienced the same problems. And to be honest the iPhone and > Palm Pre (from the videos) is much smoother than Android running on > the G1 at the moment. I got rid of all the 3rd party apps but well > browsing is slow (even on Wifi/WPA2) and sluggish. > > But I'd like to address another thing. Looking at the iPhone and the > design of most of the iPhone apps I really have to cry when I compare > them to my G1 apps. G1 apps feel like a lot "Open Source" apps. Just > not really ready for normal consumers and not really compelling from a > layout/design point of view. And I don't think that it is just a > question of time since even the first apps introduced for the iPhone > had been really compelling. (I'm only talking about visual design at > the moment) > > On 14 Jan., 18:25, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > pilkro > wrote: > > Along these sam... > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
