[TriLUG] Android Phone vs iPhone vs other smartphones

[Adam Gregory]

I think the Apple App store model worked for the iPhone because there were
no other competitors so they could be nazis about it. But if there is one
thing that history has shown time and time again it's that a free market
will beat a closed one. The Android market isn't 100% open, I mean you can't
put p*rn apps in it, but they don't monitor and approve every app that goes
in. They they let developers develop and consumers consume. If you develop
and iPhone App it literally has to get vetted by the Apple people and then
can and alot of times will get rejected. Not the case with Android, develop
and release it. If for some reason it can't be put in the market it's not
hard to install apps from outside the market either.

I think in the end the free market system for the Android platform will over
take the iPhone. Not to mention you can an android phone on any carrier
other then ATs&T (Don't get the backflip, It's a AT&T locked down piece of
junk) so you have more options. You may not want to develop Android Apps,
but just knowing that your phone is locked into only one supplier is nice.
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Jim <jjtuttle at trilug.org> wrote:

> On 03/17/2010 11:24 AM, Matt Pusateri wrote:
>
>> On Mar 17, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Christopher L Merrill wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 'm pretty shocked to hear another poster say that the open-source nature
>>> of Android is worthlessif
>>> you are not going to build your own binaries from modified sources. I
>>> don't get that - I've been a
>>> Linux user for a decade now and have never built from sources. IMO, the
>>> open-source advantage of
>>> Android is going to manifest in many ways. We're already seeing a
>>> proliferation of Android on a wide
>>> variety of devices - some in non-phone form factors.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I think you misunderstood what I was saying.  What I tried to convey, is
>> that if you're not going to download the SDK and build your own apps like
>> one of the other posters decided to do, then the ability to do that is not a
>> deciding factor compared to the to having the more restrictive iphone.  If
>> all your doing is downloading apps from a app store and not developing apps
>> yourself, then it's less of a factor for you that you personally have access
>> to the source code.  I am not saying,  nor did I think I say "that the
>> open-source nature of Android is worthless".  One of the reasons I
>> originally considered an Android based phone is I don't like the restricted
>> nature of the iPhone.  But taking the politics of open vs. closed away, the
>> iPhone works for me, and I am not hindered by the closed source model with
>> regards to my phone.  I want it to work and be stable, my phone is not the
>> place I want to have to spend time tinkering, but that's just me.
>>
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> Yes, but there is value in others being able to do it.  I don't want my
> choice of applications mediated by a corporation.
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