Incognito, Thanks for Sharing. Appreciated.
take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz +91-9840348914 http://androidrocks.in - Android Consulting. On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:23 PM, incognito <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just got my G1 over the mail. I have to admit that it is much better > than I expected. I even feel excited over having it because I think > that it has potential to make several developers quite comfortable, > economically speaking. Although not as much potential as the iPhone; > at least not at the present moment. > > I've had an iPhone for almost a year and I'm quite familiar with it. > I've also done plenty of development on it and have even published two > apps in the iPhone AppStore. > > With regards to Android, I've been an Android developer almost since > day one. I submitted three applications to the first Android challenge > (unfortunately did not win). > > Now that you know my perspective here are some comparisons I want to > share with you. > > 1.Ease of development. > I think it is easier to develop in the Android platform. The reason > for this is that it uses Java which has garbage collection. Also, you > can use Eclipse for your development. > iPhone does have a very good software development kit but the big > problem is that it doesn't have garbage collection. If you screw up a > reference somewhere you could easily spend days or weeks trying to > figure out why is it that your app is crashing "randomly". > > 2. Potential for making money. > I think that at this point iPhone has the biggest potential for > making money to a poor developer coding his days away. In the future > however, as more Android devices become available Android's potential > may increase. That is, if it doesn't die. > > 3. Look and Feel > Since the first day I started using my iPhone it just felt right. > As if they had designed the iPhone specially for me. One big reason > why it has become so popular with consumers. > With Android, on the other hand, my first impresion was that it > didn't "feel" right. Maybe because it has more than one button, maybe > because I have to pull the tab up to view the rest of the applications > but it just doesn't feel right. Anyway, maybe this feeling will > decrease as days go by. > > Incognito > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
