[quote=kfc,Jun 12 2011, 06:49 PM]
oh man....
simply put it this way. itunes are for dumb or busy people.
the more time I spend on configuring it or flashing new rom the more I finds that I'm not being productive on my job.
Android is great, but I find it's a little too fragmented. things I built on a certain brand of phone doesn't means it'll be working 100% on the next device.

We have to give credits to apple for making a unified environment which helps to build an ecosystem where users can buy stuff with no hassle at all. and those stores are selling music, apps, books, podcast, videos and etc all under the hood of itunes. When all of this are acting the way like they said "it just works" then why would anybody wanted to use their i-devices with other manager other than itunes?

Even though android have came to the point where google are selling us app with market. but they still hasn't cover the music, books, podcast and videos. To a single user experience that would be very fragmented where they have to go to different vendor (amazon for example) to get what they want.

It's a shame that android still hasn't catch up to ios on the user experience yet.

Other than that, I guess us geeks can enjoy to have all of the freedom to use android the way we want while let the non geek happy with a simple unified itunes store.

Sorry mate, I can't help but to point this out so that we have to make it clear that itunes are not meant to break the sync the way u've mentioned it. u are just not playing by the rule.

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Added on June 12, 2011, 6:54 pm

dude. that's the reaction of most ios users.
the feel just right at home with buying stuff. and it's all under 1 unified environment. this helps to monetize the ecosystem.
if google don't do anything about android's fragmentation, most likely android wouldn't be get as big as what ios can achieve.

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Added on June 12, 2011, 7:06 pm

oh boy, I hope u guys won't think that i'm a fan boy for anything. I just came in to the discussion on this halfway reading the threads. So i'm not on any side.
Sometimes, I just finds that the comments on itunes are inaccurate that's why I wanted to make a comment here.

[quote=gmhafiz,Jun 12 2011, 05:53 PM]
I can go to the Pavilion too but they don't lock me in.

why would u say they are locking us in?
they are just providing a place where we can buy stuff on our own will. they offer in app purchase for other apps as well. well... it's true that they want a 30% cut to the profit. but I guess when they are providing an excellent mall (like pavillion) while there are high amount of hit (visitors). if they can make the sale riding on the success of the store. why not?
if u mean u wanted to buy songs from else where.... with IOS u still can buy ur own CD and rip it with itunes. u still can buy songs from amazon and sync it with itunes.

Android market and Amazon are making a cut out of the sales too. no one's doing it for charity.

Anyway, what I like about android SDK is that it's free.

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