Android 3.0 Honeycomb more akin to Tablet PC than iPad - Page 5

I see. So, what defines an OS as an Android OS?

iOS does allow for optional stylus use and there are a number of 3rd party note taking apps for very reasonable costs. Making this point not as damning as it could be

You could do that before yesterday - they just added a new feature, which is an extra option that there isn't an iPhone/iTunes equivalent of yet, that's all.


Again, missing the point entirely. We aren't talking about comparing the merits of Google Checkout and any other payment system, the author of the article said

"The difference is that Apple's web store links to iTunes for purchases, which can be made via credit cards (since 2008); Google still only accepts its own Google Checkout for payments."

Which implies that using Google Checkout is somehow different to being able to use your credit card on iTunes.

No mention of vouchers. Or PayPal. Or anything else.

Just replying with anything to disagree isn't the same as following a discussion

I know there are a lot of car manufacturers that would be sad if you made the rules... there are a lot of Ford, GM and Chrysler automobiles with engines made from other manufacturers... but, to the best of my knowledge, these cards are still Fords etc... [on edit - Tapas aint Android regardless if it has an Android engine]

Android sounds like a whole lot of hurt to me if they are calling every variant an android phone even if you can't immediately run the latest android os on all of the latest android based phones.

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Here's a thought. Buy whatever f*cking phone, tablet, computer you want. I really don't care.

Forums probably aren't the place for you then, I reckon

One can totally understand 'detailed technological management', even work in the field and choose to use iOS over something else. Not all uses need that kind of tech. Sometimes you just want to do what you want to do without the bells and whistles that you totally understand etc

Let's not forget that when you buy an android device you don't have to plug it into a Mac or PC and sync with bloatware iTunes just to start using it.

Kind of ironic when all the apple loving media state how it can replace your laptop - indeed my parents have iPads for this precise use - yet you still have to plug it in to a conventional computer to use it

The advantage comes when you're browsing a site happen to come across a new, cool app being shown. Instead of picking your phone or tablet up, you can have the app installed with a few mouse clicks from the computer you're using already.

One of the cooler cloud sync things I've been using is Chrome-to-Phone, which is essentially the same thing. If you're using Google Maps and plan out a route, Chrome-to-Phone will send it to your Android device and automatically start up Nav and input the destination.

No other company can or will try to make both hardware and software. Its a business strategy that yes is paying off greatly for Apple but not long ago had them at the brink of extinction. Its so much easier to use a free OS than to dump loads of cash into RD. It just wouldn't make good business sense for there to be 6-7 OSs out there. A little fragmentation is much better than total segregation.

Is there an age limit on this site or can even eight year olds post?

Dudes are complaining about Itunes but everybody in the industry is kicking themselves for not making it..... The webstore is cool but try downloading Need for Speed or Madden that way.......And how do you back that pretty new xoom up,,,,,,,, Either plug it up to a computer or no backing up at all. A piece of software to tie everything together is a great Idea ( One Google doesn't have an answer for)!

He gives absolutely no reason for his proposition that Android Tablet will outpace IOS in 2 years. what is balanced about that?

Remember Wintel, try assessing the situation here when a single software manufacturer & multiple users of that software. Eventually that will make the PC market where there is only Intel & Windows. It doesn't work for the long term. Product manufacturers should do there own inventions thats the only way market can grow forward and consumers will reward their inventions. If, a company constantly sits with a thin margin of profit then you can think that there will least investment in R&D and more on packing together things based on cost. So, that someday they will hit profitability enough that can be added to the R&D budget.

If, andriod fails to generate a significant amount of revenue for Google, it will loose interest in the charity work and cut team sizes working on them.

The Fragmentation and App piracy will push devs away from Android. For a dev, IOS offers protection from both. So being segregated isn't all that bad.

I think google wants every body to come to the web & thats the underlying agenda.

Everything else is a smoke screen, I also believe it is a preemptive strike against the upcoming 3rd party andriod stores from the likes of amazon etc.., to have people locked up with google accounts.

This fragmentation & chaos at it's best

And the world will end on 2.012

And what's the problem?

iOS (option 3): Link in browser syncs with iTunes and opens it to where you can download it directly.

I looked at a Highlights Magazine app from their website, clicked on their link and it took me to a page on Apple's site, that automatically opened iTunes for me after a dialog box came up saying the link needs to be opened with iTunes, and I gave it permission (in Windows 7)...and away we went. Try it for yourself, if you have iTunes installed:

http://www.highlights.com/apps

Both of those are things all platforms have to deal with to a certain extent.

If anything, there are more and more developers being drawn towards Android. If fragmentation and piracy were as apocalyptic as everyone here makes it out to be for Android, the developers would have fled a long, long time ago.

And is automatically installed on iPhone without connecting it to the computer.

or you have a limited Brain....

I'm currently at work, so I don't have iTunes installed (not allowed). I did follow your link and it eventually led me to the iTunes download page on Apple's website.

I have no doubt that your process does what it says it does. But if you were doing this on a separate computer, I'm assuming all it does is open iTunes and download the app? Wouldn't you still need to connect your iDevice to the computer for it to be synced over?

If you're doing all of this on the device itself, then all of this is a moot point, since you already have your device in-hand.

You've been reading too much crap journalism. My brother had an iPhone, and had one since the very first. He now has a Droid X, though he's going back to iPhone soon. His kids have Droids. In determining if I should upgrade from an iPod Touch and get an iPhone, now that Verizon has them, he told me that the Droid has most of the good apps you'd find on the App Store. He said that the majority of the apps on the App Store aren't all that good, but many of the good ones either have duplicate access on the Droid, or a corresponding replacement app that's just as good. Plus, he said there is a lot of cool stuff coming from Google. He's only going back to the iPhone because he's so used to the iOS that he's annoyed to death with Android. His opinion is that it's a toss as to ownership of either. Both have their good points and bad points.

I'm an Apple Fanboi and all...but this is one of the most Apple biased articles ever written by AI.

Very difficult to read and not feel like the author is threaten by A3.0.

(And no, I don't own an Android or ever plan to, loathe the OS and its devices, 100% iOS here, but this article... man, what a pile of Apple-sauce.)

When you say "Android will own," are you talking about Google? Because Google doesn't own Android, it gives it away. It "shepherds" Android (in their words).

Before Android, did JavaME "own" smartphones? How about Flash Lite, did it "own" phones in some sense just because most vendors were licensing both as platforms?

Android is getting anthropomorphized to create an antagonist to battle Apple, but there is no Android licensee that is anywhere near Apple. The closest is Samsung, but its posting poor profits and can't sell the Tab even in minor amounts at Christmas (vs Apple's first quarter of iPad in the spring!)

It makes a ton of Android models worldwide, but its not beating Apple in any sense, and its doing the same "no updates" thing as all the other Android licensees. Samsung probably makes some of the best Android phones, but they're still no iPhone.

How about Motorola/Sony Ericcsson? Ha, no they are literally dying on the vine.

How about HTC? First major Android pusher, was jumping ship from WinMob. Doing okay, growing fast, but still no Apple contender. Can't ship a tablet anyone wants. There's also LG and all the big Chinese hardware cloners who are making the vast majority of Android phones, which aren't shipping outside of the Far East.

How exactly are these bottom feeders going to revolutionize the market? By dumping lots of Chinese phones on the other side of the globe? That's what they all were already doing with Linux (including Motorola). Shipped a lot of phones. Didn't do anything to make Linux popular here. Were just closed phones with GPL software so the Chinese didn't have to write their own.

Google is getting vast amounts of press for doing what Apple did last year or two years ago. Their vision for the future is geeky stuff not far removed from Zune. How well did that work out? Android is just the next PlaysForSure: third rate hardware makers trying to stretch a ho-hum software platform and work with a bunch of different stores. How'd that work out?

Just tried it on my iPod Touch. The link took me directly to the App Store to download it. I'm sure there are lots of other sites with links to iPhone apps that do the same thing.

Do you think you'll get around to telling us exactly what makes Android OS Android OS before then?

What developers? Android Market is just junkware and some easily ported iOS apps. There's very little original development, and absolutely nothing like iOS. Look at the store! Do a search and the few legit titles are buried in junkware wallpapers and ringtone "apps"

Don't think so... Motorola is what launched the Android to being what it was with Verizon's "Droid" campaign. They sold a whole lot of them. Motorola is doing well.

Google totally owns Android. Some might argue it even owns Android users, or should that be pwns.

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As I've said, if you have the device already in-hand, then all of this is a moot point. The difference is if you happen to be using another device.

Say I'm using a friend's computer and come across the app. I can sign in to the Market webstore, buy it and have it shot to my Android device. I don't have to install any additional software onto his computer and I don't need to pull out the device and search again. Personally, I like having options.

Bottom line, use what you want to use. I have an iPod Touch, and love it. Still on the fence about iPhone 5 vs. Droid Bionic. I'll make that decision when they come out. Until then, I'm not jumping on 3G when 4G is just a couple months away.

As for tablets, which is what this whole thread started with, I think a lot has yet to be determined. Android 3.0 is in its infancy. The apps are few, and the whole platform has yet to catch on. We'll see. iPad would be a sure winner, if I could open Flash content within the browser and read PDF files without having to download them and open them in a separate reader application. I really hate Apple's stance on this. It really chaps me how they won't let ME decide...

I could understand this about an iPod Touch or iPad, but exactly who goes anywhere without their phone, which in this case is the iPhone? If I was at a friend's house, browsing on their computer, my phone would be accessible because it would be in my pocket.

I'm not trying to be a smartass, but is this a security concern? Suppose a hacker figures out your login and password. Would he be able to download malware to your phone or tablet remotely?

I was going to respond, but on a second read, your mind is already made up so it'll be like talking to a brick wall.

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
Henri Bergson

I have said, but you don't want to understand.

My God, this forum is full of teenagers who only troll.