I agree with your top 16 (except the AT&T one, here in Australia the iPhone is on every carrier).
But I think there's a bigger reason Android doesn't succeed outside the geek world because the entire user interface feels like it was designed by a comittee of programmers, instead of proper designers. There's nothing uniform about the experience and some things are just poorly designed. None of the apps look anything like each other, and you feel like you have to learn a new paradigm every time you download an app. Then there's the apps: I don't care about numbers, I care about quality. And you'll only get quality if your development environment is better than Apples. I have to be frank, it's not. Yes you don't need to buy a mac or learn Objective-C...but that's where the advantages end. You have to develop for dozens of phones (new ones coming out every week) all with different capabilities and screen resolutions, you have to do your UIs in XML using layouts that should have died back when Swing came out with Java 1.1 and the interfaces just don't appear to have the same level of thought put into them as your iPhone counterparts. Then there's the UI widgets...much like Swing there pretty bad, which leads to people making their own...which leads to that same disjointed experience. True multi-tasking is great but the 3 hour battery life I get on my new HTC Desire is not. This part just confuses me, I got one of those task killer applications and I keep killing tasks off but they just come back...and it takes forever to charge back up. My 3GS lasts for a day and a half with moderate use. My HTC Desire literally dies in 3 hours of the same use. Is this part just me? But there's one thing that really bugs me: Google don't let Australian developers sell apps in their paid store? What the? How many years has Android been out and they still haven't fixed this? Don't get me wrong, I love the Android platform but I expected something a lot better after I heard so many people saying how great it is. Surely Google can fix all this? Hire some designers guys! On Jun 19, 11:15 am, Incognito <[email protected]> wrote: > I would rather prefer Motorola becomes top dog in Android world instead of > HTC. Just my personal preference. Have always liked their phones. > > On Jun 18, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Victor Grazi <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just trashed my iPhone for an EVO. > > Here are my 10 Reasons why Android beats IPhone > Reason #1 - The keyboard has left , right, up, down arrows - no need to try > to punch your finger into the right dot in your text to make a change > Reason #2 - Tabbed browsing in the Dolphin browser > Reason #3 - Go Back button - I hate when I accidentally hit a link in an > email that takes me to a browser window. With Android just hit Go Back > Reason #4 - True multi-threading > Reason #5 - No more AT&T! > Reason #6 - I can program it without having to buy a Mac and learning > Objective C > Reason #7 - My EVO screen is much larger than IPhone - at last - I can read > technical books > Reason #8 - Applications are not locked out by Apple - Applications in > Android are free to add items to your calendar or manage your contacts if you > want them to. > Reason #9 - Can use the Android as a network drive > Reason #10 - No more ITunes!!!! > > If HTC had the marketing reach of IPhone, Apple would be out of business in 6 > months > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. -- 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.
