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Where Android Beats the iPhone
snydeq writes "Peter Wayner provides a developer's comparison of Android and the iPhone and finds Android not only competitive but in fact a better choice than the iPhone for many developers, largely due to its Java foundation. 'While iPhone developers have found that one path to success is playing to our baser instincts (until Apple shuts them down), a number of Android applications are offering practical solutions that unlock the power of a phone that's really a Unix machine you can slip into your pocket,' Wayner writes, pointing out GScript and Remote DB as two powerful tools for developers to make rough but workable custom tools for Android. But the real gem is Java: 'The pure Java foundation of Android will be one of the biggest attractions for many businesses with Java programmers on the staff. Any Java developer familiar with Eclipse should be able to use Google's Android documentation to turn out a very basic application in just a few hours. Not only that, but all of the code from other Java programs will run on your Android phone — although it won't look pretty or run as fast as it does on multicore servers.'"
One of the best things about Objective-C is that it is ever so slightly more difficult than Java to learn. This has thankfully prevented it from becoming the language of choice in major outsourcing and offshoring destinations like India, Pakistan and Vietnam. It's part of the reason we don't see shitty apps on the Mac; Objective-C has historically only been used by American and European developers.
So all that Wayner is admitting is that Android will let companies continue to use these third-world developers who can't put out anything that actually works. Android phones will have a small number of useful apps, but a whole lot of utter shit developed overseas. Meanwhile, the iPhone (and soon the iPad) will be somewhat immune to this because Java isn't supported there.
Exactly that is why you see so many 3d games written in java, throw in physics .2 frames per second. The iphone however can easily handle all
and you should get
that at better than 30 fps.
Just for the record I am a SA and Programmer, I love java apps, they require gobs of hardware to run on. The more deployed hardware the more money I make.
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SCREW android!! SCREW java!! SCREW YOU!!!
no, I mean REALLY. This isn't a joke.
Apple was evil even in the 1980's. In fact, what's happening with the iPhone closely parallels what they did with GUIs in the 1980's. Apple got a hold of Xerox's GUI technologies, rushed a machine to market, and then proceeded to sue Microsoft and threaten others over also shipping GUI-based machines.
And it's not like they don't admit it. Steve Jobs himself said: "We have always been shameless about stealing [sic] great ideas." Well, yes, they have. And then, they proceed to sue others over the ideas they "stole".
It's actually even worse than that. PARC's GUI was a lot more advanced than the crap Apple actually shipped as MacOS; Apple merely imitated its looks but cut corners on the implementation. That's why MacOS was on a death spiral within ten years: it didn't have a solid architecture or foundation.
OS X actually copied a bit more of PARC's technology, but even Objective-C and Cocoa are lousy compared to PARC's original technologies.
You're full of s***t! See how that claim works?