[OT?] Android phones

[Dave Cramer]

I still see the dream on their site ?

Dave

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> On 2010-03-27, at 16:10, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>> Tyler Aviss wrote:
>>>
>>> though I find that the iphone app store seemed a bit more "polished"
>>>
>>
>> Well, what do you expect from Apple? ;-)
>>
>
> There's more apps, but many are a wasteland of worthlessness.
>
> Apple keeps frying more apps due to not fitting "policy" which regularly
> gets more self-serving.
>
> The Android "Marketplace" is not nearly so controlling, and, except when
> carriers interfere (cough, cough, AT&T), leaves an express "out" for users
> to get at third party apps without need for any central control.
>
> Sipdroid, for instance, allows data-based telephony which Apple *strongly*
> rules out.
>
> I have played with Apple apps on my iPod - some are quite slick, but lame
> apps are not rare.  One of the Apple "culls" is of the cast of thousands of
> "menu UIs" of pictures of bikini girls.  Not heinous stuff, but it does add
> to thousands of pretty worthless downloads.  (And if you *want* that, the
> Safari browser can find plenty of such of whatever level of raciness may be
> desired out on the web.)
>
>> I find the Nexus One looks interesting too.  I had been considering the
>> HTC Magic, but Rogers seems to have dropped it.
>
> I'm also looking at this with interest.  My Palm died (cracked screen, sob!)
> the other day, so I will likely be on something new soon.
>
> The HTC Android phones have quite a lot of third party support for custom
> firmware - look for CyanogenMod, which is only one example.
>
> I worry that Android may be diverging from Linux, but it doesn't much affect
> application space, and kernel devs are worrying about it, and the problem
> does not seem intractable.
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