Comments on: Why the Android ecosystem is broken

By: Sean Hull

Sean Hull — Sat, 11 May 2013 18:49:00 +0000

Thx Sean

By: Sean Bello

Sean Bello — Sat, 11 May 2013 02:58:00 +0000

maybe try using a device that runs a more current version of android? that’d be novel. sharing of private data? Apple does nothing to protect your data, actually they sell it to anyone willing to buy it. also “calendaring” and “kludgy” aren’t words.

By: hullsean

hullsean — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:26:00 +0000

From RWW: Many free Android Apps are starting to look a lot like malware. http://readwrite.com/2013/04/05/free-android-apps-starting-to-look-like-malware #platform #fail

By: hullsean

hullsean — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:45:00 +0000

@google-c5335461297d2ecea49fcffff260dc2f:disqus thx for the comments. Yep definitely depends a lot how you compare the two platforms and what’s important to you. If you compare feature lists side by side iOS may not measure up.

Ultimately for me it’s about usability. The nonsense about “Easy Task Killer” was a real deal breaker for me. If the platform requires a housekeeper to keep a watchful eye on things, it seems it’s not able to clean up after itself.

By: Dan Jay

Dan Jay — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:42:00 +0000

Okay, try downloading any ringtone and try installing it without iTunes. Impossible. Have someone email you an mp3 file and try storing that in the iPod portion of the iPhone without iTunes. Impossible. You’ll have to keep going back to your email attachment to listen to that song. iOS is weak.

By: Dan Jay

Dan Jay — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:41:00 +0000

By: hullsean

hullsean — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:29:00 +0000

an interesting piece from ars-technica: Android isn’t a feature – http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/to-cell-phone-builders-android-isnt-a-feature/

By: hullsean

hullsean — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:47:00 +0000

Some great points @google-454cea4c773e4e7ef6ceeb7ef0e18bd9:disqus. For sure developers have to consider the features or platform in each case and it’s strengths and weaknesses in order to build a great product. iphone does lack in some of this integration.

By: hullsean

hullsean — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:45:00 +0000

@google-454cea4c773e4e7ef6ceeb7ef0e18bd9:disqus Thx for the clarification. Being an operations guy I use the command, and install packages in Linux with Yum or apt-get. So to me yes “untrusted sources” has some meaning. To many many lay people, perhaps the majority, such technical stuff would be well beyond their reach. It may be that some devices come with better defaults, so untrusted sources may not be a problem on all android smartphones.

By: Zenobius Jiricek

Zenobius Jiricek — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:08:00 +0000

Actually it’s pretty simple…

You don’t enable installing an APK from untrusted sources.

By: Zenobius Jiricek

Zenobius Jiricek — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:02:00 +0000

Apps ported to android that still look like iphone apps often don’t sell well.

Simply following the up to date interface design guidelines helps a lot.

The other aspect is that Android is far more conducive to sharing content thant iphones are… so if i am doing something in my app and i want to share it directly to my dropbox, then i hit share and i choose dropbox (if i have it installed).

Iphone developers are responsible for providing any sharing endpoint beyond twitter, facebook, sms or email.

Android developers simply include a sharing menu and the android system provides all the installed endpoints.

So while iphone users might be ok with less features, simply porting the app over to android without catering for the richer feature set android provides is short sighted.

By: hullsean

hullsean — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:57:00 +0000

Well said, Dave.

By: dave

dave — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 05:21:00 +0000

Man, I don’t care what anyone says. I felt the same way the author did and bought a Samsung Galaxy s3, moving from a iphone 4. Biggest. Mistake. Ever. Clunky, Battery hogging, buggy native software, ewwww. The friend who recommended the phone has never had an iPhone, it suddenly all made sense. When it comes down to it I need my phone to do at least 2 to 3 things well and being a phone is one of them, shocking. The galaxy has issues with that. If my contacts freezes again, or flips out mid call I am going to flip out. It doesn’t matter if Androids wonky disorganized marketplace has a million iterations of every app that apples has, it doesn’t count if they all suck. And for everyone that is gonna say ‘well just tweak this setting, or change that, or keep an eye on that.’ the thing is my friend my iPhone took care of all that for me so I wouldn’t have to babysit my phone, I could just use and enjoy it.

By: hullsean

hullsean — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:48:00 +0000

You are talented with the pen, kind sir.

By: the dave

the dave — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:45:00 +0000

the author of this argument has written a falicious argument, pkaying to many emotions, not pointing out the negatives in the close source of ios, ect.

furthermore, if you like ease of use because your a dumb sheep, go ios
if you like options cuz you have atleadt half a brain go android.

furthermore, samsung note ii, bigger screen, fadter processor, more apps, better conectivity. the best iphone yet

and another note, ive used android for three years now. I have never, ever, ever had a problem with my contacts or syncing. is the auther straight retarted. dont blaim the os, blaim the user for not knowing how to use it. its a computer. it dose only what you tell it to do. your fault soley

By: hullsean

hullsean — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:46:00 +0000

This RWW article talks about the app development problems: http://readwrite.com/2012/10/24/sloppy-app-development-leaves-android-owners-at-risk

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:11:00 +0000

Please explain your comment in a way that addresses the statement I made and we can all understand what your point is. Do a lot of droid-heads have trouble spelling and/or writing clearly {example ‘doesn’t right’ WTF} and to claim I am uneducated makes your statement a farce. I call Apple on crap when and where I see, thank you very much.

By: hullsean

hullsean — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 02:24:00 +0000

That’s good news. I think getting a handle on the app store, and improving quality control there will help strengthen the platform as a whole.

By: hullsean

hullsean — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 02:22:00 +0000

Rotary, let’s stick to comments & discussion about technology and not start making jabs at each other. It’s the not forum for that.

Thx.

By: rotarydial

rotarydial — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:59:00 +0000

“David Wollmann
3 months ago
The researchers who made this claim have since backed off. It
now looks like there’s no evidence to support the claim that Android is
the vector.”

By: rotarydial

rotarydial — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:55:00 +0000

because apple doesn’t right? It’s one thing to be a fanboy it’s another to be a uneducated fanboy..

By: hullsean

hullsean — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:56:00 +0000

@google-454cea4c773e4e7ef6ceeb7ef0e18bd9:disqus some good points. I was basing some of this off of anecdotal accounts from an entrepreneur friend of mine. His firm was developing apps, and he was vehemently anti-android. He said they had tried developing for android, but on the testing end there were so many handsets to QA that it became prohibitive for them to do it well. And their app wasn’t selling nearly as well on the android side as it was on iOS.

By: hullsean

hullsean — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:53:00 +0000

thx for the comment @google-454cea4c773e4e7ef6ceeb7ef0e18bd9:disqus . Although I’m sure those protocols would work for sync, I was having the biggest trouble syncing my addressbook. That was causing serious trouble in my case, either from the android version or the sync software I used on my mac. Extremely slow syncing, duplicates & errors had me entering records manually at times.

By: Zenobius Jiricek

Zenobius Jiricek — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:09:00 +0000

emails: use imap/exchange?
calendars: use caldav-sync/exchange
files: dropbox/owncloud/usb/rsync/etc

By: Zenobius Jiricek

Zenobius Jiricek — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:06:00 +0000

It’s also a myth that developers on either platform make huge amounts of money.

Both platforms have the capability to fund apps via adverts.

Both platforms have problems with piracy.