On Feb 6, 6:39 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > Android does have that limitation, albeit not sure how much of a > practical problem that is given that most people probably have no more > than 20-30 applications installed. What large applications tend to do > anyway, is allocate bulk data on the SD (GPS map data etc.).
As my beloved iTunes ( ;-) tells me, I have 1.37 GB worth of apps installed on my iPhone, but I'm not an average users. I think the iPhone way is the more convenient way for most consumers (maybe not me), compared to carrying more than one SD card with you. Apple puts more Flash memory into their devices than most of hte competitors because they buy so damn much that they can do it and still make a ton of money. Plus, it doesn't hurt the beauty of the design. ;-) Anyway, having all this memory for apps on the iPhone certainly encourages installing a lot of apps which I'm sure Apple doesn't mind. > I can > only speculate that Google chose to do it this way in order to avoid > people deleting installed files and/or to guarantee a certain speed of > the flash. This limitation is slated to be removed in the nearby > future btw. I think they have to do this if they want to have a lot of games on their devices (I have a poker game that's 93 MB or so). > > Yes because the N900 is so new (out last September?) that it hasn't > > sold enough devices to be attractive for most developers. I think it > > will be interesting to see how Nokia deals with its two OS (Symbian > > and Maemo). > > Agreed, there's such a thing as too many choices - especially when > coming from the same source. I agree with you. Hey, that must be a first! ;-) Feels good, though. Cringely even predicts that Nokia will switch to Android which I'm not sure of. They're certainly sending mixed signals to developers (N97 vs N900 - which one to develop for?), though. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
