smarterware.org — But there is a misconception that the iPhone is a superior smartphone, and that’s not necessarily true. What’s true: The iPhone software has been out longer than Android, so it may be more fully-baked (though apps and Safari crash on my iPhone regularly, more so in the 2.0 “upgrade”). The iPhone has a much larger market share.
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Closed AccountFeb 10, 2009
Copy/Paste and MMS....."Android doesn’t tie me to iTunes, which is a fine piece of software"obviously he has not used itunes...
ku16610Feb 10, 2009
agreed
cbeachFeb 10, 2009
Google Sync is now available on the iPhone for 2-way push-syncing of calendars and contacts, using the MS Exchange protocol:<a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/sync.html">http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/sync.html</a>Working pretty well for me so far, though the import of Mac Address Book data into Google contacts doesn't seem to preserve the contact photos.
mattbdFeb 10, 2009
I'm interested to know if the fact that you can't develop for the iPhone on anything other than a Mac is likely to harm its prospects compared to Android. The iPhone SDK is limited to Macs since it's based on Xcode, whereas the Android SDK will run on Windows, OS X and Linux. So developers have to buy a Mac to develop for the iPhone, whereas Android developers can use whatever platform they want.Not to mention the fact that Objective-C is almost unknown outside the Apple world, whereas Android uses Java, which I believe is currently the most popular programming language in the world.
vassarFeb 11, 2009
I looked at an Android today and did NOT like it at all. The keyboard was horrible and the interface non-intuitive. The web browser was way BEHIND Safari.I am keeping my iPhone (and so will most people.)