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Motorola CEO Blames Open Android Store For Phone Performance Ills
angry tapir writes "Motorola's CEO blamed the open Android app store for performance issues on some phones. Of all the Motorola Android devices that are returned, 70 percent come back because applications affect performance, Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility, said during a webcast presentation at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Technology conference."
Flash support was a big mistake. Apple is doing great without it. An old tech thing .. time for it to go.
From my (basic) understanding of Android and how it's multitasking it works: No.
This is nothing to do with the App store being open, this is more to do with Android App devs no doubt learning to code on a PC and not really getting to grips with coding for a mobile environment how Android multitasks in a unique way. In desktop development power consumption is rarely even thought about.
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html
They need to go with it rather than try to workaround it. Nor at times do they seem to grasp what limited resources and a battery mean and how Google designed around these limitations.
If you encounter an App that behaves poorly, uninstall it, rate it low in the market and harass the developer. That's what the rating system is for.
Often you'll find many alternatives that achieve the same thing - inexplicably one app may hog battery in the background, one may not at all. It's lazy rushed make-a-buck development pure and simple.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
Nah, the 195 apps that are preinstalled (hence cannot be removed by design) on the Droid X couldn't possibly be impacting performance. For comparison, a plain AOSP Gingerbread system image has 45 apps. IIRC, the average android user installs fewer than 10 apps, so obviously 150 extra should come with the phone.
/system/app folder. Many of these are blur_facebook, blur_twitter, etc., and not standalone applications. These aren't all listed in the app launcher (only ~50 are), but they do generally autostart via hooks into specific system calls, such as an incoming phone call or entering text into a field. So they do impact performance, and certainly more so than your average game would.
To be fair, I'm counting '.apk' files in the
There are more Android PHONES, but iOS runs on iPod Touch and iPad as well. The are many more iOS devices that Android devices. Sigh.
I had a Motorola Backflip for a while, I loved the concept, but the large number of apps that they insisted upon installing with the firmware, the ones I couldn't uninstall pretty much killed it for me. On top of that because they opted to use their Motoblur, it meant that had I kept the phone that I would have ended up waiting for them to QA that on top of whatever time it took for Google to release an update.
It being tightly locked down really didn't help anything.
The openness of Android is a big part of why Android has better marketshare than iOS, so maybe they shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Openness has almost *nothing* to do with Android's market share. The number of people who care is inconsequential. And besides, iOS has, and has always had, a greater market share than Android. Some time this quarter (it may have already happened, it may happen next month) Apple will have sold its 200 millionth iOS device. Android will be lucky to have half that.
All of the battery issues I have had with my Droid 2 Global have come from Motorola bundled functionality. Their modified Exchange client had some nice features, but was a battery hog. I nearly doubled my battery life by installing Touchdown. Something they did causes the phone to run the GPS almost continuously. My original DROID did not do this with the same set of apps installed. It attributes the time to the Maps app, but from what I've read, that is only because some other app is using the location service from the Maps app.
It was me, I did it, I moved your cheese