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The audio thing is the number one reason I will never use the Android platform. At this point, iOS devs have so many numbers of years ahead of Android devs in
by lostgame 12y ago
The audio thing is the number one reason I will never use the Android platform.
At this point, iOS devs have so many numbers of years ahead of Android devs in the music department, and the simplicity of porting existing Mac OS compatible audio stuff makes it incomparable.
Metaphor:
Two people are going for a race, over the same distance. One starts 5 years ahead of the other.
At that point, is anyone even watching the race anymore?
Sorry, despite it's absolutely God-awful flaws such as no user-accessible filesystem, no ability to do a basic task such as download an MP3, without GarageBand (and it's awesome ability to open files I sketch out on the go right in Logic on my Mac...), without iElectribe, and the list goes on, I absolutely just can't even use the platform, and I have no reason to go back 5 years technologically.
Sorry, Android, you already lost, here is a user you can never have.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoNot really good metaphors. Its not necessary to cover the intervening ground, to catch up technologically. Fix latency, app developers port and voila - Android looks pretty good again.
- lostgame 12y agoDid you not get the '5 year head start' bit? Doesn't matter how fast developers create applications that are amazing, iOS has already had all these years to create an already fantastic subset of these applications. Doesn't matter how 'good' it looks - for the use case of music, android has simply lost.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoThat was actually my point. There's no need for Android development to cover that ground - it can just start where we are now, with cool apps that can just be ported over. Once the Android audio latency issue is addressed. App developers LOVE to port, its another sale with small effort.