On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Rzepa, Henry S <h.rz...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > 1. Do you want a QA controlled (by Apple) environment, or the more > advertising-oriented environment of Android?
I do have several Android apps installed without advertisement... I do not think the above choice is accurate... > 2. Which app store best contains the kind of apps that you want? Here too, you have way more choice with Android: e.g. there is F-Droid, an app store dedicated to open source apps: http://f-droid.org/ (Bob, maybe you could upload the Jmol app there too?) > 4. Security, again allegedly, is lower on Android. F-Droid has interesting apps in this area... > 5. iPad is not fragmented, but Android is device fragmented (unless of > course you consider Samsung as the only alternative player). Choice == fragmentation. Do you want a monopoly (no fragmentation) or a choice (fragmentation)... if you rather pay a lot for not having to make choices, then iPad is your thing. If you like to encourage your students to explore things no one has done before, then iPad/Android is even be a choice. > 6. Few Android devices update the OS as often as Apple does IOS. Android's can be installed with custom ROMs which you can update any time of the day you like. Forcing your students to use certain hardware and certain software may sound cool, but ask a student and ask him/her why she cannot as study as optimal as he/she would like... you'll hear one thing: access to study material. So, if you go iPad, make sure that all students has iPads 24/7 and can install/view and study whatever educational material they deem needed... I find it very disturbing that educators are even considering creating a learning environment where students are restricted in their learning! That is just another step back to the middle ages... Henry, I very much appreciate that people use the platform on which they can perform their work most efficient; do not disallow your students the same choice! Egon -- Dr E.L. Willighagen Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/) Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
