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Android Is Not Better. Neither Is iOS.

43 点作者 bozhidar将近 12 年前

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ZeroGravitas将近 12 年前
My personal favorite theory about why iOS makes more revenue in the app store, is that more rich idiots use iOS.<p>Now, I&#x27;m perhaps not serious about that, and I&#x27;m just reacting to the tone of &quot;Android users are lesser people&quot; that&#x27;s been prevalent recently. But I will note that according to this report:<p><a href="http://www.distimo.com/publications/archive/Distimo%20Publication%20-%20May%202013.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.distimo.com&#x2F;publications&#x2F;archive&#x2F;Distimo%20Public...</a><p>A $15.99 Final Fantasy game from Square-Enix made 73% of it&#x27;s revenue from Android in May 2013 while the &quot;free&quot; Candy Crush Saga and Simpsons: Tapped Out games made much more money from iOS.<p>These &quot;free&quot; games are apparently designed around &quot;Whales&quot;, people who spend literally thousands of dollars on them:<p><a href="http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/11/meet-the-whales/all/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;gamelife&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;meet-the-whales&#x2F;all&#x2F;</a><p><i>&quot;Lee says that spending money on games like Clash of Clans is actually saving him money in the long-run: Before he started gaming, he says he and a small group of friends would go out drinking, sometimes spending as much as $6,000 in a single night between them.&quot;<p>&quot;He wound up spending nearly $5,000 in that game before trading it for Clash of Clans, but says that’s far less than what he would have otherwise spent on alcohol.<p>“I actually save money playing these games instead of going out and drinking,” he said.</i><p>...<p><i>&quot;Vince P., who also asked us to withhold his last name, has been playing the Facebook game Battle Pirates since early 2011. His total spend: over $16,000.<p>“It does kind of shock me, for sure, that it was that much,” said Vince, who goes by the username “Spoon” in Battle Pirates. “And it’s all for nothing.”<p>Vince is 45 years old, divorced, with a 16-year-old daughter. He says he makes between $200,000 and $400,000 annually. He looked positively distraught over the situation during a Skype interview with Wired, as he tabulated a list of his receipts.&quot;</i><p>It&#x27;s my semi-serious theory that these people, at least in the US, are more likely to own iOS devices.
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pilif将近 12 年前
Nitpick:<p><i>&gt; (iOS7 will have multitasking for all apps).</i><p>Not really. iOS7 allows more situations for the OS to wake up an app for a short amount of time, but there&#x27;s no real multitasking as in android where you just write your service and stay running.<p>Aside of that, I agree with the article about strengths and weaknesses of the two platforms. I&#x27;ve used both Android and iOS over time, but in the end, many small things just let me prefer iOS, even though it&#x27;s probably completely subjective at this point.<p>The biggest lock-in to iOS is iMessage though and I hate Apple for that as it makes it next to impossible for me to ever not use an iOS device as my phone any more: When you move your SIM card from an iOS device to a non-iOS device, there&#x27;s a period of time during which Apple accepts iMessages for your number, especially when you have other devices configured with iMessage. At this point, people sending you an iMessage (it&#x27;s not as if they get to chose) will think that the message is delivered (it might even say &quot;delivered&quot;), when in fact nothing the like has happened.<p>Worse: Even once this settles and apple&#x27;s server stop accepting iMessages to a number, now the sender will see green chat bubbles instead of blue ones. This has caused me so much grief with non-technical iOS users, believing that something went wrong with delivering the message, causing them to call me after nearly every message they sent (&quot;the bubble didn&#x27;t look the same. did you get my message?&quot;)<p>This is an ugly mess and I don&#x27;t see any motivation for Apple to fix it as it only punishes those who don&#x27;t use iOS, never those using iOS.<p>The other big thing is visual voice mail which I really like and so far is not supported by Android (aside of some crappy carrier specific apps) even though in most cases it&#x27;s just audio-files-over-imap that&#x27;s powering the secret sauce under iOS.
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dmix将近 12 年前
Paul Stamatiou wrote specifically about his experience with 4.2.<p>The author having not used Android 4 makes this a very poor analysis. I also hated Android &lt;3.0 and loved iOS for years.<p>Then I bought S3 (and now S4) with Android 4.2 and the improvement was massive. Android only recently got their shit together (design &amp; performance wise) and it&#x27;s now very competitive with iOS. Arguably much better in favor of Android if you&#x27;re a hacker.<p>Cyanogenmod is very easy to install. There&#x27;s no reason to be locked into old versions because of your smartphone vendor (assuming you&#x27;re moderately technically savvy).
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vectorpush将近 12 年前
I bought my first Android (Galaxy S4) a couple months back, before that I&#x27;d only owned iPhones. For me, Android has been a superior experience in <i>almost</i> every way. I could talk about a few dozen different aspects, but one that really sticks out... The browser experience.<p>Chrome and Firefox alone were enough to make the switch worth it for me. Firefox extensions are just as rich as on the desktop, private browsing is quick and seamless, I also really enjoy the tab sharing between devices in Chrome. Tabs stay open all day and don&#x27;t refresh every time I switch an app, files I download manifest themselves onto a file system I can easily consume with a USB cable. It just feels like a real browser experience, whereas iOS feels like a joke in comparison.
JonFish85将近 12 年前
You&#x27;re saying there are tradeoffs to different platforms? No shit. Like anything else in life, it all depends on your situation. Whether it&#x27;s programming languages, car you drive, food you eat, etc. Want a phone that&#x27;s expensive but &quot;just works&quot;? Buy an iPhone. Want a phone that has the ability to do interesting wacky things? Buy an unlocked Android phone. Phone wars are stupid (in the &quot;X is better &#x2F; no, Y is better&quot; sense).
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jjindev将近 12 年前
While the author attempts to view the world as a user, I think many of his bad experiences are early adopter woes. Given that most people didn&#x27;t have smart phones in those early days, I&#x27;m not sure ancient history matters.<p>In the long term it will be a battle between mature and slowly changing phone&#x2F;tablet OSes. Apple knows this, which is why they are desperately designing watches.
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pmelendez将近 12 年前
I have an experience similar to OP&#x27;s. I had been user of four platforms (Blackberry, iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8) and all of them have benefits and caveats.<p>I only differ with OP in the fact that he pretty much blames device makers in the android case, and I think that the problem is more than just the device, at least that was the case before Ice cream sandwich, and at that point I was just done with Android.
badman_ting将近 12 年前
I thought that was the point of Marco&#x27;s post as well, but I&#x27;m sure it got interpreted as &quot;Apple is better, nyah nyah&quot;
da_n将近 12 年前
&gt; you’re trusting an advertising company with all your personal data :-)<p>Although this is probably my single biggest gripe with Android, you should employ just as little trust in any of the big tech companies at this point; Apple, Microsoft, Amazon etc are all openly deceiving their customers. As Steve Gibson says, trust no one.
mark_l_watson将近 12 年前
I like having one of each, more fun that way. I use a Galaxy S III and an iPad mini - love them both.<p>Using a few services like DropBox and Evernote eliminates some of the down-side of using two portable devices.
Moto7451将近 12 年前
Sadly cell phone OS choices have become something that straddles the divide between a holy war and a football rivalry. I simply don&#x27;t understand it.
dylangs1030将近 12 年前
This exactly echoes Marco Arment&#x27;s &quot;Google Blindness&quot; post. I&#x27;m sure a lot of people read &quot;Android is Better&quot; and &quot;Google Blindness&quot; and perceived a direct thesis-antithesis relationship, but that wasn&#x27;t the case. He actually proposed a compromise view in the middle that (surprise) <i>different people like different things.</i><p>Different strokes for different folks and all that.<p>I&#x27;m also disappointed by everyone succumbing to the usual flame war-ish ideologies surrounding iOS and Android. One does not <i>need</i> to be better than the other. You can develop for both. Developing on either one has strategic advantages and disadvantages, and you can always port to the other later (okay, almost always).<p>It&#x27;s so annoying that people attempt to crunch all the arguments for and against each operating system into a binary response to using either one. It&#x27;s childish and uninformed.
YeahKIA将近 12 年前
Why does this whole thing reminds me of this: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsQxaNKWFfA" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EsQxaNKWFfA</a>