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So. Google has all the best engineers there is, unlimited supply of money, Android is as old as iOS (in software terms a grandpa) and Head of UX that makes fun

by atirip 11y ago

So. Google has all the best engineers there is, unlimited supply of money, Android is as old as iOS (in software terms a grandpa) and Head of UX that makes fun of iOS on every occasion he gets. And still. What gives?

DannyBee 11y ago
Anandtech complains about most of the same things (multitasking ui, large app scaling, blah blah blah blah blah) for their ipad pro and IOS reviews, so i'm not sure what gives either. It sounds like they both suck :)
- JoBrad 11y ago
  iOS has gotten worse over the past few years. I love it that they demand as much perfection as I do. Companies will focus resources where they hear the most noise.
kmfrk 11y ago
Apple has iTunes, all companies are perfectly capable of sucking, unfortunately. We take good software for granted.
aiiane 11y ago
No supply of money is unlimited, and throwing more people at a problem doesn't necessarily solve it. No sane company is going to invest more money in a platform than they believe they'll eventually get a return for, so that's generally an upper bound. You don't spend 20 billion on a project you think will net you 5 billion in revenue.
- kazinator 11y ago
  Unless it's someone else's 20 billion and the day of reckoning isn't anywhere on the horizon yet.
- 0xFFC 11y ago
  >No sane company is going to invest more money in a platform than they believe they'll eventually get a return for, so that's generally an upper bound. You don't spend 20 billion on a project you think will net you 5 billion in revenue. That is completely incorrect. It depend on strategy of company . If company consider some product to be strategic place, they will spend hell more than what they will get in return. About android it is same. Google does not think about Android as strategic product (they maybe change their mind after windows 10 attack and Microsoft revive, I dunno). Mostly they think that is something we have , we provide it to the market , specially to the third world . Just for getting more and more people access to the internet. That's all.

by atirip 11y ago

DannyBee 11y ago

Anandtech complains about most of the same things (multitasking ui, large app scaling, blah blah blah blah blah) for their ipad pro and IOS reviews, so i'm not sure what gives either. It sounds like they both suck :)

JoBrad 11y ago
iOS has gotten worse over the past few years. I love it that they demand as much perfection as I do. Companies will focus resources where they hear the most noise.

kmfrk 11y ago

Apple has iTunes, all companies are perfectly capable of sucking, unfortunately. We take good software for granted.

aiiane 11y ago

No supply of money is unlimited, and throwing more people at a problem doesn't necessarily solve it. No sane company is going to invest more money in a platform than they believe they'll eventually get a return for, so that's generally an upper bound. You don't spend 20 billion on a project you think will net you 5 billion in revenue.

kazinator 11y ago
Unless it's someone else's 20 billion and the day of reckoning isn't anywhere on the horizon yet.
0xFFC 11y ago
>No sane company is going to invest more money in a platform than they believe they'll eventually get a return for, so that's generally an upper bound. You don't spend 20 billion on a project you think will net you 5 billion in revenue. That is completely incorrect. It depend on strategy of company . If company consider some product to be strategic place, they will spend hell more than what they will get in return. About android it is same. Google does not think about Android as strategic product (they maybe change their mind after windows 10 attack and Microsoft revive, I dunno). Mostly they think that is something we have , we provide it to the market , specially to the third world . Just for getting more and more people access to the internet. That's all.