Well, I'm about to get myself the 15" MacBook Pro @ 2.53 GHz for various reasons (iphone development being the last one). Trying to explain why you *have* to have a MacBook Pro is like trying to explain to someone without kids why having kids is *so* great! That is, you have to experience it ;) The only man on earth who was kind of able to explain how cool Apple's products are is very unfortunately dead.
Cheers On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > This weekend I had what I thought was a pretty good idea for a product > on Android. But then I figured I didn't want an iPhone dev to steal > the idea and cash in so to speak, so I figured I'd look into a > simultaneous release on both platforms. > > But I got a shock when I researched the cost of Macs this weekend. I > have recently purchased a top-spec PC laptop for under £500 ($750). > > For the same price I couldn't even get the lowest spec MacBook and if > I was looking at a higher end MacBook Pro, I'd be looking at 3 to 4 > times the price! > > And ultimately the Mac is just another development tool that lets me > browse the web, send emails and view pictures. I have read so much on > Mac forums about better build quality, security and quicker setup > times, but I have had no issues whatsoever with my new PC and I set it > up in about 10 minutes! > > Is it just me or are the Mac brigade trying to make themselves feel > better about how much money they are burning on 'superior' Mac > hardware? > > Anyway, back to the point - could this be a driver in helping the > Android market to eventually outperform the iPhone market? After all, > once the momentum builds for Android and devs can see that they can > use Java, make a minimal investment on hardware and make the same > returns on their apps, why even consider the Mac route? > > Also the economic recession could have an impact on Mac where casual > users / developers cannot justify spending the extra money on a > machine that ultimately does the same thing. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
