Android.....my first thoughts...!

Theres usually apps out there that'll do what you want.
Android market share is exploding, In the last three months Android had 1/7th the share of the iPhone, now it has 2/5ths.

Even if the next iPhone is completely game changing, by the end of the year market share will dictate that apps are made for Android first - Android phones are coming out on much lower cost contracts and Apple will never compete with that.

Unless they sacrifice their massive profit margins and target an iPhone at the mid-range (i.e available on £20 contracts and around £150 PAYG) Apple will lose it's dominance of touchscreen smartphones.
 
i must admit, I am warming to android. I've had more time to play with it over the last day or so and I'm starting to like it more.

I had a go with my GF's iphone last night and decided the 3GS isn't for me.....the screen looks pants in comparison. If i were to change, I'd wait for the new Iphone but so far I'm tempted to keep with this.
 
Just wondering: apps on the iPhone are developed for a much smaller range of hardware (the iPhone, the iPod Touch and to a lesser extent the iPad), whereas there are a large number of Android devices which Android Market apps work on.
Does that give rise to a problem that Android devices aren't being used to their full potential? Given that devs usually want as wide an audience for their apps as possible, would they therefore tailor it to the more basic devices, limiting the abilities of apps on the Marketplace?
 
I can see Android going the way WinMo "went", complaints about it being slow and buggy, in the next few years. The problem WinMo hit was it was released on too many devices, quite a lot with too low specifications, this may eventually tar all Android sets with the same brush...

Nothing to do with the actual OS, more to do with greedy manufacturers sticking it on hardware not powerful enough to use it...
 
Apps are overrated, seriously :p. When are you ever going to need iPlayer on your phone apart from to show off to friends? And don't say on the bus, because that's never going to stream well over a moving 3G connection and it's such a battery drain it's hardly worth watching the latest rubbish TV show on a <4" screen.

As for everything else (bar games and utilities), it's all available online as that's all the apps do - download and present content from an existing website in a different way. Just go to the BBC Sports website for latest scores for instance.

The only useful occasional apps - things like stopwatches, IRC clients, song IDers etc - are all available for any OS.

I just don't get why some people pay £5 to get some Jamie Oliver recipe app when they're all available for free online anyway. Just use Opera!
 
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