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Does iOS provide some special support for high-resolution screens that Android doesn't? If not, then that's a hardware feature that any rival could easily pick
by etal 16y ago
Does iOS provide some special support for high-resolution screens that Android doesn't? If not, then that's a hardware feature that any rival could easily pick up. Remember how Motorola Droid first upped the ante on screen resolution at the end of last year.
- philwelch 16y agoRetina Display is shipping. You can't argue against that with a hypothetical.
- pyre 16y agoTo say that incremental hardware improvements are hypothetical, I think that you have to argue against history on this one.
- philwelch 16y agoIt's hypothetical that future Android hardware will outpace the display quality of future iPhone hardware for sure. And even if it's likely, the question isn't whether Android will overtake iPhone in the future, but whether Android is ahead of iPhone now.
- etal 16y agoThe point is that it's not an iOS feature, it's an iPhone feature. The original question is about the operating system, not the hardware. This distinction doesn't matter much for the iPhone, but it certainly does for Android devices.
- philwelch 16y agoUltimately, what matters is that the Android set of actual phones you can buy competes in the marketplace with the iPhone line. There's no competition between operating systems per se--this isn't Windows vs. Linux.
- enjo 16y agoI can argue with the HTC incredible that launched with a 252 (IIRC) screen. It's actually a rather similar form factor, and I'd argue that the screen is pretty damn close to the iPhone in overall clarity.