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It depends on what they mean by power user. If you like customizing the OS, running another ROM, launcher, or theme, than Android is friendly to that. If you l
by clumsysmurf 11y ago
It depends on what they mean by power user. If you like customizing the OS, running another ROM, launcher, or theme, than Android is friendly to that.
If you like using more powerful software, than iOS / iPad seem the clear winner there. Look at the top 10 in both stores, they are very different.
In Apple Store, you will see lots of photography and music apps. In Android, its games and social media.
I've been developing for Android half a decade now, but still see the OS as a toy that can't grow up - mostly because of its design and APIs, but thats another story for another time.
I think both Microsoft and Apple are in better situation with convergence between their form factors and the capabilities of each platform.
- minthd 11y agoFor audio there's the known latency problem, but photography(the more popular category), android recently released new camera API's . won't they solve that issue?
- soylentcola 11y agoYeah, the imaging software can be really good on Android as well. Still, even as a fairly devoted Android user and not a big iOS fan, I'll point out that only the best Android devices have camera hardware comparable to the newer iPhones. The flipside to being able to install Android on any hardware means that the OS can only do so much if OEMs cheap out on the camera hardware. Still, for the average user, the cameras on just about any higher end Android phone or iPhone will be perfectly fine for their intended purpose: being the camera you have at hand. For a photography pro or enthusiast, even the newest mobile devices (from any OEM) will only win on convenience versus a dedicated camera with larger optics. There's still only so much you can do with a lens that's a little chip of glass and a tiny sensor.