Good points there. Lemme elaborate more on The APP Store.
Once the users realise the most important thing is the the apps, no matter how high-tech the hardware it is still useless.


I've been a WinMo user since 2003 to 6.5 including cooked roms, and tried various Series 60 Symbians and tried Androids.

As I always upgrade new phones especially HTCs, I have been facing the same problems:

1. Difficult to get the apps I want, not to mention very seldom see nice games on WinMo or Symbian (Except some N-Gage games)
2. The apps I previously downloaded cant work properly on my new phones (eventhough same OS version and same Manufacturer-HTC)
3. When I upgrade the OS, previous apps/games I downloaded unable to play, or no updates/patch available.
4. Buttons are not standardize for most of the games.
5. Cannot find any reliable productivity apps when I need it. A repository where I can download and install cabs(WinMo)

After I changed to IPhone, I finally realise IPhone is not a hype ( I was Anti-Iphone before I started using one )

1. I can get whatever apps I want, a lot of quality apps (170k and counting)
2. IPhone 2g,3g and 3gs is identical. Maybe newer versions can perform better
3. App Store manage the apps updates perfectly. When I change another IPhone, I just sync the app and it works the same.
4. Well, the multi-touch screen is amazing and accelerometer is perfect. Same interface, same experience for all the games.
5. Again, I get whatever apps I want. When I was camping, I forgotten to bring my guitar tuner, I just download from AppStore(luckily EDGE Available), and solve my problem. When I need a to calculate the car loan/house loan, I just download it right from AppStore and it's free.

Can you guys really see the magic?

1 Manufacturer(IPhone), 1 OS(IPhoneOS), 1 Standard (Zero Fragmentation unlike WinMo and Androids)


Why do Big Games like Red Alert, Need for speed, Fifa, Sims 3 and many more is available on IPhones? Why do Nintendo thinks that the big rival is IPhone?
It is not because IPhone has cutting-edge hardware, there are many higher tech phones out there with better resolution and graphic. The reason is simple, the application is easy to develope and maintain. As well as the developers can manage the incompatibilities issue easily.

This applies for many apps too- TomTom Navi, Papa Go and many hundred thousands apps. The developer know the users can download the software easily. It is much easier for them to sell the apps compare wit other platforms.


Why there are so many creative apps on AppStore?
It is because AppStore allows them to earn money by sellingtheir apps online. 99 cents app with 1 Million download will grant them a ticket to millionaire club. This is why so many developers are squeezing their brain juice for strange, crazy, funny and entertaining apps for IPhone.


I know IPhone is big, no memory card, everything is lock, unconventional interface, cannot change battery, no multi-tasking option(Os 3.1), no 3g camera and many more functions that can be found on Rm200 phones. But somehow the AppStore and the maturity of the OS really amazes me.

I have jailbroken my IPhone and throws tonnes of Apps and games, the multi-tasking works perfectly. Big games running at the background is so light. From a software developer point of view, it is really optimized perfectly. Eventhough I am running mem-intensive games, 1 click at home button will quit the game and continue my task. Unlike any other phones I have used before.

This post has been edited by Crazyboyrs: May 10 2010, 05:20 PM

I hope so. That's what I heard 2 years ago. IPhone is so easy to be beaten if we compare with Androids

Manufacturer
IPhone - Only Apple
Android - HTC, Motorolla, Samsung.....and counting

Distributor
IPhone - Only selected Telco for a region - AT&T, Maxis, Digi....
Android - Any distributors or Telco

Feature-wise
IPhone - Limited and locked
Android - Getting packer and packer

Design
IPhone - Same design since it launched
Android - Getting nicer and nicer ( I love Droid/Milestone )

Hardware Specification
IPhone - Dated hardware since it launched.
Android - Latest tech available - HD, AMOLED, Google Navi, Goggle

Connectivity
IPhone - Very limited
Android - Highly interoperable

Storage
IPhone - Fixed since the first day
Android - Mem cards / Internal Storage

True. But how many of these apps are 100 % compatible across different type of Androids phones ?

Maybe about 5000 apps are compatible with HTC Dream / 1.6 (First Gen), another 10k of apps are developed for Droid /2.0, another 20k are developed base base on Nexus / 2.1.

These are the current fragmentation issues that need to be addressed.

Some of the problems I found on other forums.

I am not sure any users understand the fragmentation issue which might affect the potential of Androids, this platform itself is like a double-edge blade. The loosely coupled concept might be a bubble that gonna burst soon. Anyone agree?

This post has been edited by Crazyboyrs: May 11 2010, 02:25 PM