Interesting. I'm glad that they are similar. It shows that the design patterns are good enough to be replicated. But who copied whom would remain a mystery ;)
take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz +91-9840348914 http://androidrocks.in - Android Consulting. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Incognito <[email protected]> wrote: > > Regarding the api comparison between iPhone and android I was really > surprised how similar the two frameworks are. It even made me wondered who > copied who. Granted, the api's have different names and different sintax but > at a high level they are similar. They must be using similar design > patterns. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Mike Hearn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My 2c ... > > Although not as much potential as the iPhone; > at least not at the present moment. > > Potential for making money? I agree. > > Potential in general? I think it has a lot more for the usual reasons > (better thought out API and open source nature). > > 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. > > Nice! It's very hard to get good comparisons between the two, because > of the old NDA issues and just general lack of people developing for > both platforms. Writing up a comparison of iPhone vs Android > development/API in detail would be really interesting to read, I > think. > > 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". > > Yes and even worse NULLs propagate. I couldn't believe that when I > found out. Seems like a great recipe for data corruption! > > 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. > > If it doesn't, definitely try and figure out why that feeling is > present. > > The button thing I find I prefer - iPhone apps have to dedicate > valuable screen real estate to things like "go back" and the menu > options. Most of the time I am not using the things hidden by the menu > key, so I get more pixels to look at what I *am* interested in. That > said I have not used an iPhone for any length of time. > > On the other hand, software related things can often be changed, if > you can identify how to make it better (beyond "copy the iphone" of > course). > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
