Don, I'm curious, why do you think Apple (or really the latest version of MacOS) is "limited" compared to Windows 7? I'm a PC guy myself and used to think of Macs as more for graphic designers and those without a lot of technical savvy, but recently I've seen a ton of developers like myself using them over pc's. I still think they are overpriced compared to the PC counterparts, but I just don't know enough about them (or Windows 7 for that matter since I'm still using Vista), to understand why they are limited. Sorry if this is off-topic
To keep this on topic, I haven't played much with the Android OS myself, but what I see as its main advantage (for me) is its faster operation. A lot of that is hardware but I'm sure a good part is the OS itself. It may be true that the UI is more customizable as well, but I'm not sure. What I do know is that the Homebrew community has done a lot to make things more customizable (including some of the things you mention) via patches, and have even help speed the device up. You may argue that this "hacking" doesn't really count and that Android probably has a similar community - actually a friend of mine has a Droid and he did tell me a little while back he was overclocking it to 1Ghz, but he didn't like the fact that the scaling was slow to take effect. In any case, I know you have always been curious about the latest devices out there and have managed to try many of them for short periods, which I suppose is a perfectly fair way to look at this. I'm still on contract though and don't have the funds to put down a couple hundred or more on a new phone anyway, but I'm sure I'll find a way if that's still the case later in the summer of fall if a new WebOS device comes out! ;-) Levi Wallach blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com tweet me @dvdmon (http://twitter.com/dvdmon) On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Don Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting. > > > > I think the comparison with MacOS and Windows 7 is backwards, though. The > Pre is very much like Apple - beautiful, and limited. Android is much more > like Windows - almost as nice to look at, and much less limited. > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
