December 2011
14 posts
Not even considering Android or Windows Phone... →
Matt Alexander, owner and editor of ONE37:
My life has just been made easier. There’s that much less in my digital life for me to be considerate of. No longer must I verse myself with codecs and conversion techniques in order to enjoy my media, or with firmware hacks and overclocking to get the best features and performance out of my hardware. My technology just works, and it does so in the...
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Dear Google: Android's Multitasking Sucks →
Jason Perlow from ZDNet gripes about Android’s multitasking model:
There’s really no such equivalent to this type of task managment in Android. Instead, the Android evangelists at Google will tell you just to trust Ice Cream Sandwich’s automated memory management and everything just sorts itself out.
You know what? I think they’re full of crap, because we don’t live in a perfect world where...
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5 Years Later, And Google Still Can't Get It Right
This is a guest post from an anonymous writer, who is a loyal user of Apple products and a veteran iOS developer.
I discovered the ICS Paper Cuts blog today and I was looking through some of the screenshots they had of Android Ice Cream Sandwich. As an iOS user since the first iPhone arrived, I don’t have much exposure to Android on a day to day basis. So it was an eye-opening experience...
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Amazon Kindle Fire (Android) vs. iPad 2 →
Marco Arment made a comparison table of Amazon Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2. It covers some factors that really matter, e.g., “Fun” and “Delightful”.
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Motorola explains why Android updates are super... →
If you want to get an idea how slow Motorola phones update to more recent Android versions, check this list out. It is indeed super slow.
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Samsung: no ICS upgrade for Galaxy S and Galaxy... →
Galaxy S users, that’s bad news. But don’t worry, the bright side is that Android is “open”. It’s really the time for you to learn “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make” from Andy Rubin (if you see a broken link, that’s because Andy Rubin deleted his famous...
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App Developers Bet on iOS over Android this... →
Flurry tracked 135,000 apps that use their analytics tools, and they “revisited” Android “momentum”:
New apps on iOS vs. Android: 63% vs. 37% (Q1, 2011) down to 73% vs. 27% (Q4, 2011)
In-app purchase revenue of the same app on iOS vs. Android: $1.00 vs. $0.24.
The numbers are self-explanatory. It doesn’t matter what Eric Schmidt says, what matters is what...
Muggers Demand iPhone, Turn Down Android →
This is not a gripe.
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This is why Android is incompetent
Android is incompetent because 1/4 of the users need to install apps to do what the system is supposed to do - killing apps.
Neilsen’s latest research shows that Facebook and Google’s stock apps are the most popular apps. If you look at the data carefully, you will find an app called “Advanced Task Killer (ATK) Free” is also among the most popular 3rd-party apps...
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A community full of haters?
I happened to find Steve Jobs’ bio in the Android Market. Not surprisingly, its rate is not good, 3 stars from 2,410 reviews. In Apple’s App Store, it’s rated as 4.5 stars from 10,098 reviews. Why is the same book about a person rated so differently in two communities just because they use different products? So I read some reviews from Android Market. To my surprise, I saw no...
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Android hates me, and it doesn’t like you much,... →
Dylan from VentureBeat:
Android phones aren’t exactly Edsels (they don’t have a big front grille that looks like, well, lady parts). But they are similar in a couple ways: Packed with features but also saddled with a dismaying lack of reliability and a lot of stray details that reveal just how little its designers care about you. It’s the ultimate triumph of the lame “good enough” philosophy.
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Gripe about Android and get free Windows phone
Ben Rudolph, Microsoft’s Windows Phone evangelist, announced the contest on Twitter using the hashtag #droidrage. This is hilarious. The contest seems to be over. Stay tuned for the next round, hopefully.
I’m sorry that Android Gripes cannot reward you anything for your gripes. :-) But if I could afford, Windows phone wouldn’t be my choice.
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More Android malware is coming next year, so be...
Lookout Mobile Security predicted mobile threat in 2012. Simply put, it is pretty scary if you use Android devices. When the device fails to protect users from malicious attacks, users should be more cautious by themselves. Here are advices from Lookout Mobile Security - use extra caution when you do these:
Visiting third party app stores. Lookout found that malware writers often test malware in...
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