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CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: CCM on July 19, 2011, 02:57:53 pm ---And isn't the Transformer about half of what an Ipad 2 costs?  So, in reality he didn't spend Ipad type money.

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About $100 bucks less than the "comparable" (e.g. 16Gb, WiFi only) iPad2 (which lacks in the areas that Blanka describes, although I don't see the lack of a keyboard as an issue).

I haven't *loved* an Apple product since my beloved Apple ][+. While my family was loving their iPods, iMacs and iPhones, I was avoiding them with a vengeance.

But I loves me my iPads (currently have 3 in the house) and have returned all other tablets so far.

Dartful Dodger:
I develop apps for Blackberry, iPhone and Android.

The reasons that iPhone people are saying Android can't compete with iPhone, are the same reasons Blackberry users said iPhone couldn't compete with Blackberry.

Android is by far the easiest operating system to develop for. As far as tablets go this is the first year it's releasing tablets and it already has hardware options that are better than the iPad.


2 years ago Blackberry was the only smart phone we were developing for. Last year we were developing the same apps for Apple and Blackberry. This year we’re only developing for Android and Apple. Clients don’t want to pay extra for us to develop for Blackberry.

One client just switched to Android devices to avoid the nonsense with submitting apps to the App store and dealing with the corporate licensing for internal apps.

Donkbaca:
Cool, then answer me this question.

Here are three major advantages the ipad has with regards to apps:

1) market penetration, you are probably more likely to make apps for the ipad than you are for the android.  If it is easy to port them over, then perhaps you make apps for both.  What does this mean?  That there unless android becomes more popular than the Ios, which isn't happening anytime soon, there will be apps on the Ipad that are not available on the android.  That is my guess, doesn't make sense to develop an exclusive app for a second place OS.

2) The app store, hands down easieist software buying experience anywhere, ever.

3) The problem with bringing android apps to markets, other than an app store, is this: there are too many android devices and platforms.  So, who cares if your android tab has a super great screen, unless there are apps that take advantage of this, that advantage is useless.  There are several versions of android running around, they are not perfectly compatible.  On top of that you have several devices, all with different hardware specs.  This means that if I am an app developer, in order to have the most sales, I am designing my app around the most vanilla of all android devices.  Whereas, with the Ipad you have one device you are designing for.  Makes a huge difference.

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on July 19, 2011, 04:09:20 pm ---2 years ago Blackberry was the only smart phone we were developing for. Last year we were developing the same apps for Apple and Blackberry. This year we’re only developing for Android and Apple. Clients don’t want to pay extra for us to develop for Blackberry.

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Seeing this a lot and, as a long-time Blackberry user (before phones were smart), it saddens me, but RIM has so totally dropped the ball. We have dropped the development that we had planned for BB this year.

Hoopz:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on July 19, 2011, 04:43:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on July 19, 2011, 04:09:20 pm ---2 years ago Blackberry was the only smart phone we were developing for. Last year we were developing the same apps for Apple and Blackberry. This year we’re only developing for Android and Apple. Clients don’t want to pay extra for us to develop for Blackberry.

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Seeing this a lot and, as a long-time Blackberry user (before phones were smart), it saddens me, but RIM has so totally dropped the ball. We have dropped the development that we had planned for BB this year.

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Gizmodo or Engadget linked to a great article about RIM last week or the week before.  Very interesting read.  I remember using a Palm IIIx (I think but I don't remember now) to check stock quotes around 1997/98 that used RIM technology/modem.  Very interesting to see how quickly a company can lose it's vision.

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