I'll tell you why.
Unlike apple, which controls every facet of app creation and takes a healthy cut of the profits AND charges to allow you to become a developer AND makes it near impossible to publish anything, Android and google have a more hands off approach. Does this mean the market is FLOODED with substandard apps - YEP. However, as always, the cream rises to the top. There are FANTASTIC apps out there, it's just that you have to wade through the crap to get to them. This begs the question, is control better or worse. The very nature of the open source android development 3rd party realm dictates that there will be more useless apps available - but it also means that more and more people can try their hand at creating apps. The truly good ones will surface. If you want a better app experience, try amazon apps. It's a free download and they give a free commercial app away every single day. Yesterday they gave away Guitar Hero 5. Before that, it was a database app. It is a MUCH better marketplace. But that's the point. There is not just one marketplace, there are HUNDREDS. Some great, some not so great and some truly amazing. Mike On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 01:35:31 -0500, Chipp Walters wrote: > Hey Lynn, > > I'm typing this from a standard USB keyboard which I just plugged into the > side of my Android. > > And I can use a standard USB mouse to click the send button. Miraculously, > when you attach keyboard and a mouse, this thing turns into a PC. The > onscreen keyboard goes away and an arrow cursor appears, which you control > via the mouse just like expected. Pretty cool. iPad certainly can't do THAT. > > Even so, I've checked the Android App Store and it's predictably pretty > lame. Why can't Google, with all the billions and billions, create some > killer Android Apps, like Apple does for iPad? There's really no good > PowerPoint clone that I can see, nor is there any decent sketch note taking > apps, for which there are a couple on iPad. > > That said, it appears there's not enough money for devs for such apps, even > on the iPad. I've noticed the top 3 to 4 note apps on iPad have pretty much > ceased all development for quite some time now. And none of them are what I > would consider 'professional' apps. I guess you can't survive on charging a > buck ninety-nine per app. I suspect, I too, would quit free updates for my > customers after two or three trys. > > Still a long way to go before this is all worked out. > On Aug 2, 2011 1:03 AM, "Lynn Fredricks" > wrote: > >>> But, it does seem to be more Windows like and less Mac like in that it has many more settings and configuration options. Plus (big plus) it has both micro and full USB slots for memory storage along with built in micro-HDMI. Both front and rear facing cameras are significantly higher quality than iPad2, and I'm praying they work with Skype, which would be huge. >> Chipp, have you tried plugging in random USB devices (mice, etc) to see if there's any sort of plug-n-play/pray like experience? That's something Ive wondered about. It would be nice to be able to attach whatever input > > devices > >> one already has. Ive been giving thought to papa's first tablet... Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com [1] Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com [2] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-li > >> href="mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com";>use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubs > age your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode [4] Links: ------ [1] http://www.paradigmasoft.com [2] mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com [3] mailto:lfredri...@proactive-intl.com [4] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
