Android has been on the market for a year now and according to the San Francisco Chronicle the Os is still “not there yet.” With all the Android handsets and other devices being launched onto the market and the buzz that Android devices are creating it is hard to see where the OS is failing though it still needs a few improvements.
On the market today, there is the original G1 from T-Mobile that sold a million units the first month and now we have the myTouch 3G and a slew of devices form HTC and Motorola. The OS has a strong developer community and many of the major carriers are offering Android devices at home and abroad.
It seems that Android is doing well, the OS isn’t as popular as Windows mobile or the iPhone in terms of the number of handsets on the market, but it’s popular. Android isn’t perfect yet, but it is doing well.
It's still missing a lot of the polish of the iPhone, but the function is there. Heck, I had a co-worker come show me his brand new iPhone 3GS. He was showing off the equivalent of the Google Sky app. I kinda shrugged and pointed out I'd had that on the G1 nearly from the outset. Apple was playing catchup here. But when I looked at it on his 3GS, I have to admit it simply looked better than the Google app. It had a lot of pop and polish to it. Performance was the same, the information was the same, but if I had to pick one I liked better, the Apple app took the honors.
Stuff like that is why reviews will continue to say that Android isn't "quite there yet".
It's still missing a lot of the polish of the iPhone, but the function is there. Heck, I had a co-worker come show me his brand new iPhone 3GS. He was showing off the equivalent of the Google Sky app. I kinda shrugged and pointed out I'd had that on the G1 nearly from the outset. Apple was playing catchup here. But when I looked at it on his 3GS, I have to admit it simply looked better than the Google app. It had a lot of pop and polish to it. Performance was the same, the information was the same, but if I had to pick one I liked better, the Apple app took the honors.
Stuff like that is why reviews will continue to say that Android isn't "quite there yet".
Have you seens that Vans Off The Wall skateboarding game for the iphone? It's incredibly good.. we simply have nothing even in the ballpark.
When the project was ready for prime time, it was adopted formally as Google Sky Map. None of this process was hush-hush or secret, this information has been there in the credits and acknowledgements throughout.
I have run about everything on my phone and for the first time i am truely pleased with the performance. not to mention the themes are great too.
if Google is smart they will embrace Open Source Development even more and watch the competition melt away.
The iphone didn't have exchange support from the onset either and its done quite well for itself. I think the Android platform has done more in less time than the iphone platform. That said, the iphone is a very well done phone with an overwhelmingly larger support base and amount of developers and accessory manufacturers. I think overtime, no single android phone will even come close to matching the sales of any single iphone, but the overall android vs iphone numbers will be much closer.
It's as if people don't think about the fact that Android is less than 365 days old and they're comparing it to the iPhone which is almost 2.5 years old.
Where was the iPhone after almost a year?
It's still missing a lot of the polish of the iPhone, but the function is there. Heck, I had a co-worker come show me his brand new iPhone 3GS. He was showing off the equivalent of the Google Sky app. I kinda shrugged and pointed out I'd had that on the G1 nearly from the outset. Apple was playing catchup here. But when I looked at it on his 3GS, I have to admit it simply looked better than the Google app. It had a lot of pop and polish to it. Performance was the same, the information was the same, but if I had to pick one I liked better, the Apple app took the honors.
Stuff like that is why reviews will continue to say that Android isn't "quite there yet".
Sure, it's missing the polish. But what do you expect? The G1 has been out for less than a year and has not had a single hardware revision.
The iPhone 3GS is the third revision and it just finally got basic things like video recording. The G1 didn't launch with it, but had free video recording apps within a few months.
The original iPhone didn't have 3g. I had a cheap $100 Nokia N75 that had 3g...yet this hailed expensive as hell phone didn't?
In another 18 months, when Android will have been out as long as the iPhone has been out...things will be 200% different.
Plus, the iPhone lovers don't realize that the iPhone can only do one thing...apps. The G1 has apps, plus a desktop and widgets. As we all being Open Source which is pretty much always superior.
And the stock G1 is inferior to one of the many custom ROMs to choose from.
The iPhone can't multitask...so of course it runs faster when it's only running one App versus Android that can run a plethora. Have you tried the multitasking apps for the iPhone? The phone becomes extremely slow. Of course if you run CyanogenMod or one of the other good ROMs, speed issues and memory issues are gone.
I have run about everything on my phone and for the first time i am truely pleased with the performance. not to mention the themes are great too.
if Google is smart they will embrace Open Source Development even more and watch the competition melt away.