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Things get clearer when you look from a phone maker's point of view. Android's goal is to be there for phone makers to be put on their new phones. Just like Sym
by LaPingvino 16y ago
Things get clearer when you look from a phone maker's point of view. Android's goal is to be there for phone makers to be put on their new phones. Just like Symbian and the like. You can make iPhone-killer phones with it. You can make crap with it. We all want iPhone-killer phones so we can show off, right? But that's not the point of the OS. That's the duty of the phone makers.
For a fair comparison, compare e.g. the Nexus One with the iPhone, not Android as a whole.
- masklinn 16y agoYou missed the issue he was trying to point out. If you want to choose an iPhone, you have a 3GS (low end), a 4/16 and a 4/32. The progression from one to the other is clear and well delineated, the choice is not hard. Now if you want an android phone, you have the N1, the Evo 4G, the Droid Incredible (which is not the same thing as the Droid or the Droid Eris), the Desire and probably half a dozen others for the latest generation on Snapdragon and 2.1 alone.
- dagw 16y agoLook at it the other way around. If you want an iPhone, you have essentially one from factor to chose from. If you don't like it, tough. With Android I can pick the hardware features I want, screen size, processor speed and battery life, camera quality, hardware keyboard etc. etc. and then pick up the phone that fulfils my requirement list. Basically it all depends which approach you take to buying a phone. Do you start with an OS requirement or do you start with a set of hardware and form-factor requirements.