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I'm just a bit bothered by this phenomena of discovering features on Android that were present on Palm phones for ages and then attributing them to Android: voi
by taligent 14y ago
I'm just a bit bothered by this phenomena of discovering features on Android that were present on Palm phones for ages and then attributing them to Android: voice input, voice actions, the ability to answer phone calls with canned texts, and now maps among many other things.
You have heard of Palm, right ?
- capo 14y agoNeither have the press evidently.
- modernshoggoth 14y agoThe reason I dived into Android with so much relish was because it was so much like my Asus WinMo PDA. The TOMTOM maps on that was brilliant. GPS was way more accurate than Google Maps, both as in "determining what road you're on" and "pinpoint accuracy in the middle of nowhere".
- zarify 14y agoFairly sure one of my old dumbphones had canned texts for phone calls. One of the good things about Apple is precisely what lot of people here are complaining about: they tell you what you can do with your phone and why it's neat. Samsung have been getting on board wih this of late, with their Apple mockery ads, where they actually advertise features to the general public.
- fpgeek 14y agoI'm far more bothered by Apple's process of discovering features that were on Palm / Windows Mobile / Symbian / ... phones for ages and then either patenting them or figuring out a way to twist decade-old Mac OS patents into covering them.