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Betterment means improvement  Yes, I believe something that works should be made available to others be it improvised or just the way it's supposed to be. My point about the call answer app is Android has enough to differentiate itself from other platforms because it is moulded by the people as opposed to being moulded by the platforms which is how it has always been traditionally. I think this is a fair point to make
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God these topics always get side tracked to Apple vs the world...getting boring now.
Regarding adobe i guess with html5 it was only a matter of time, my question is what use will adobe have on the computer that html5 would not? |
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If the "betterment of the world" really relies on the state of mobile devices, then I think any sane person would give at least some credit the iPhone and Jobs (who, ironically, very much did believe in the power of technology to improve things). Without the iPhone, Android would be utterly unrecognisable now, if indeed it existed at all - and smartphones would be in far, far fewer hands, whether sliding to unlock or not.
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@Boinng
Everyone who's converted to the Apple religion seems to have this tone nowadays even my usually docile cousin turned nasty recently. Nobody's denying your god's (Jobs) contributions that had inspired Android. I think nowhere in my earlier posts did I deny that so chill. My point is, eventhough building on Apple technology (happy?) Android has managed to differentiate itself and managed to go down a road where Apple wouldn't. So they're now the leaders, and that's business for ya. Competition is after all healthy ain't it?
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My point is the main differentiation between Android ad IOS is price, and the ability of android manufacturers to serve a number of lower price points (because OS development is sponsored by google, and fragmentation across lower-end cheaper hardware isn't considered an issue). Those are the reasons why Android as an
OS was always going to sell more that iOS, not the presence of Flash or the "freedom" or any of the other claims eulogised around here.
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Without Apple's iPhone influence, Android will follow RIM Blackberry suite : search for very first Android prototype nowhere near today Droid at all.
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On 2011-11-09 23:13:23, Boinng wrote:
It's going to make it a bit harder for android manufacturers (and RIM) to differentiate their products from Apple, particularly in the tablet market - one of the most common marketing claims for device X, Y or Z was that it "does flash"
I thought the original intention of this thread was more in line with your above statement rather than what you just mentioned. Anyway, if you started this thread to collect some sort of Android debt on behalf of Apple then it's more serious than I thought! 
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Ok, put it another way, Android will always sell more than iPhone in the low to mid range because of the price differential, so in terms of unit sales it's unlikely to ever lose that lead.
At the higher end, where Apple makes all its profit and the price difference isn't such a factor, the loss of flash as a boast in the sales pitch over iOS - not just in terms of actual support (which will likely continue for a while yet) but the embarrassing admission from Adobe that mobile flash isn't worth pursuing anyway, certainly won't hurt Apple's sales. That's assuming that any significant number ever genuinely chose their mobile device based on flash support in any case, which some here will have been swearing blind was the case up until just a couple of weeks ago.
It's interesting that in the tablet space, where the pricing is all a lot closer and others have struggled to shave much off the ipad's price, android has yet to make any real inroads even with the boast of flash. That might change with the kindle fire, but like the phones it'll be because of the cheaper price, not the features (or at least not android's features).
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Android sells well also at the higher end
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