Hi Levi,
It's just numbers. With 90% of the market, there is more "out there" for Windows than there is for MacOS with under 5% of the market. Just numbers. Not that the stuff on the Mac is "bad", just that for every one way of getting something done on a Mac there are 10 ways on Windows. This gives people / businesses / my clients more options / more flexibility. Same with Android's Marketplace vs. Palm App Catalog. 50,000 vs. 3,000. And yes, same can be said about the Apple Store, but in that 200,000 there are lots of near exact duplicates and non-English apps, so the comparison is more like 75,000 vs. 40,000, and Android is catching up fast in a way that Palm's App Catalog is not. Android outsold Apple this past quarter, too, so that pace will accelerate. I agree about Apple's hardware being "overpriced" but I'm not absolutist in this. Apple hardware is very overpriced *compared* to its hardware reliability peers (it is no better than that of Toshiba, HP, etc. - the "retail" computers out there). I'm talking reliability here, not beauty. It is somewhat overpriced compared to the best in the industry for hardware reliability - Lenovo and Dell - which are far more reliable than Apple (I'm talking hardware here - the core of it all). With Windows 7 being close to an equal for the Lenovo/Dell hardware, the current Windows package is superior to Apple in reliability/stability, and approaching it in aesthetics. No question Apple builds the most beautiful hardware/software around, but that's not what my clients and I are looking for; or, at least, we're not willing to sacrifice hard-earned dollars and base reliability for it. That's why Apple lost in the marketplace and has only 4.6% of the market. They have over 90% of the market in the most expensive laptop category, but that's where the Apple fanboys and others live - willing to pay whatever it takes to stay there, and happily visiting the (oh, so humble) Apple Experts at the (oh, so humbly named) Genius Bar when displays go out, keys fall off, wireless adapters fail, etc. etc. etc. My $0.02USD But I digress - Android vs. WebOS, round two, coming up next Friday! Should be fun! Cheers, Don From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Levi Wallach Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 5:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Android 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] <mailto:don%40ferguson.us> > 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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
