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Which is better windows mobile or android os or iphone os?
Dormouse:
I don't want to unlock it, I want to jailbreak it. Two different things. -Musubi (March 20, 2010, 04:07 PM)
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Accepted: I used the wrong word; not concentrating. - but what you are wanting to do is to change the experience away from the one that Apple have designed. And Apple would argue that if they allowed people to do that, they would no longer have the smooth OS experience that makes the iPhone popular.
Musubi:
True, but I want choice, I want to be able to customizer my system, and the iphone os will stay smooth, because I just want to add some apps. And If I think it isn't smooth no more, I can just restore it in itunes.
Shades:
It reads to me that you have a personality that is more in line with the Android OS than the IPhone OS.
After all, if you have to deliberately break a phone to have the more open nature of the Android OS, you should not ask any further. You have already made up your mind, but maybe you didn't realize it.
Personally the Android OS sounds more appealing to me (but let it be noted that I am anti-Apple) and with a little bit more time you can have all the extras from the IPhone platform on Android as well.
jshare:
Too bad you're not considering a Palm Pre/Pre Plus, they can do everything you listed in your requirements list except for an Anki app- you'd need to use the AnkiOnline site, but there are other flash card apps.
Musubi:
I don't know why but no provider in poland I checked gives out the palm, maybe I'm wrong though, and anki beats all other incremental learning/ flash card programs hands down, because it automatically synchronizes between programs. It's like evernote, just for flash cards. I have more than 6000 cards on my anki, and I want them synchronized. I used supermemo 2006 before and anki is just better.
The fact that I'm more android inclined personality wise is true, but you have to consider that as of now the iphone is more popular, and right now it's 1 iphone gets an app 2 then android gets an app 3 then everyone else might or might not get an app.
Oh you might know. In which language/ how do you write an android app? I know you use the iphone sdk and html/css cocoa for iphone, what do you have to use for android?
Is it easy for a novice to make an app?
And about iphone being a closed system. I actually like the analogy that the iphone is like a gaming console and the android is a computer. The os in the iphone is optimized for the device, while android is made to work on many different devices. It might not seem like much but I have compared firefox and the windows optimized Pale moon firefox mod, and Pale moon is noticeably better because it's optimized for windows. It's realistic to assume that the iphone os might be a little bit better because it is optimized for one device. Of course this is only a hypothesis on my part, I might be wrong. I'm in no way an expert.
Oh and there's one more thing the iphone has no other device will ever have- the number of 3rd party accesories. Because the iphone is one device and the different models aren't all that different hardware wise the iphone has a massive amount of third party accessories like for example this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW6Iy-UE4Wo&feature=related
4ithumbs - a tactile keyboard.
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