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> Android has more power (and now equal market share) because > of its underlying OS tools are Free Software. Uhm? Xcode is free, and it compiles my iOS apps w

> Android has more power (and now equal market share) because > of its underlying OS tools are Free Software. Uhm? Xcode is free, and it compiles my iOS apps with GCC… go figure. And somewhere there is LLVM in the works, and Apple supposedly had some say in making it happen. And the there is WebKit somewhere in the picture. > An iPhone out of the box can't do very much, you add apps to > get more functionality. Android does everything without apps? Interesting. > meaning more apps, more advanced apps, and easier > proliferation of those apps and features across different > hardware. Last I heard there was no shortage in quality apps for iOS. How far is iPhone apps market lagging behind that of Android? How about possibility for developers to sell apps on Android market compared to that of App Store? Last I checked I still could not neither sell nor buy apps on AM in my country. Are you really thinking that Android market share is equal to iOS because it is open? Not because there are more than one manufacturer and more than three devices they make with android? How open is Android when it gets to under control of carriers? Where do you get source code for Google navigation app, or Google Voice?

puppetmanbeast 16y ago
"Uhm? Xcode is free, and it compiles my iOS apps with GCC… go figure. And somewhere there is LLVM in the works, and Apple supposedly had some say in making it happen. And the there is WebKit somewhere in the picture." Xcode is gratis, not Free Software (i.e. not GPL, not X11, not CC, nor BSD-style licensed), Webkit is Free Software, but Android uses it as well. "Android does everything without apps? Interesting." I never said Android does everything without apps, Android is more or less as functional out of the box as an iPhone. I made a point that because more of Android's OS tools are Free Software that any app developed on one Android device by vendor A can easily be used on another device by vendor B. Easier proliferation of apps is made possible because of the partial liberation of the Android OS. "Last I heard there was no shortage in quality apps for iOS." Thaaaat is true. "How far is iPhone apps market lagging behind that of Android?" iPhone still has more apps I believe, though some complain that there are too many to find a suitable app at times. "How about possibility for developers to sell apps on Android market compared to that of App Store? Last I checked I still could not neither sell nor buy apps on AM in my country." I don't know how the Android Market works, but if a country limitation is in place I would assume that either the carrier is responsible or that your country is banned just like some countries are banned from buying and selling apps on the iPhone App Store as well. "Are you really thinking that Android market share is equal to iOS because it is open? Not because there are more than one manufacturer and more than three devices they make with android?" No. I know that the Android market share is equal to iOS because it is partially Free Software which makes it easy for multiple manufacturers to make more than three devices with Android, and that makes Android proliferation in the world-wide market easy. "How open is Android when it gets to under control of carriers? Where do you get source code for Google navigation app, or Google Voice?" The base OS tools are always Free Software no matter which carrier is selling the product. And you can't get the source code of neither Google Navigation nor Google Voice, this is one of Google's Android evils.

puppetmanbeast 16y ago

"Uhm? Xcode is free, and it compiles my iOS apps with GCC… go figure. And somewhere there is LLVM in the works, and Apple supposedly had some say in making it happen. And the there is WebKit somewhere in the picture." Xcode is gratis, not Free Software (i.e. not GPL, not X11, not CC, nor BSD-style licensed), Webkit is Free Software, but Android uses it as well. "Android does everything without apps? Interesting." I never said Android does everything without apps, Android is more or less as functional out of the box as an iPhone. I made a point that because more of Android's OS tools are Free Software that any app developed on one Android device by vendor A can easily be used on another device by vendor B. Easier proliferation of apps is made possible because of the partial liberation of the Android OS. "Last I heard there was no shortage in quality apps for iOS." Thaaaat is true. "How far is iPhone apps market lagging behind that of Android?" iPhone still has more apps I believe, though some complain that there are too many to find a suitable app at times. "How about possibility for developers to sell apps on Android market compared to that of App Store? Last I checked I still could not neither sell nor buy apps on AM in my country." I don't know how the Android Market works, but if a country limitation is in place I would assume that either the carrier is responsible or that your country is banned just like some countries are banned from buying and selling apps on the iPhone App Store as well. "Are you really thinking that Android market share is equal to iOS because it is open? Not because there are more than one manufacturer and more than three devices they make with android?" No. I know that the Android market share is equal to iOS because it is partially Free Software which makes it easy for multiple manufacturers to make more than three devices with Android, and that makes Android proliferation in the world-wide market easy. "How open is Android when it gets to under control of carriers? Where do you get source code for Google navigation app, or Google Voice?" The base OS tools are always Free Software no matter which carrier is selling the product. And you can't get the source code of neither Google Navigation nor Google Voice, this is one of Google's Android evils.