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Why Android is a bad investment and why Apple is better.

R.Perez said:
Ridiculous fanboi post.

Oh and itunes sucks, bad. Use songbird sync with android... go.
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sounds like the pot calling the kettle black :rolleyes:

The general consensus is that itunes is a much better music play then most other products out on the market. I had used android for a period of time, and found songbird lacking. There are other programs to help syncing music on an android based phone and so far, none of them are on the same level as iTunes in syncing, or using.
 
maflynn said:
sounds like the pot calling the kettle black :rolleyes:

The general consensus is that itunes is a much better music play then most other products out on the market. I had used android for a period of time, and found songbird lacking. There are other programs to help syncing music on an android based phone and so far, none of them are on the same level as iTunes in syncing, or using.
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Did you not give Banshee a try maflynn? It was mentioned in the N1 switchers thread and I found it to be very comprable to iTunes in Ubuntu (which is no good to Windows and OSX users sadly).


Other than that, I agree that nothing beats iTunes when it comes to media syncing. Nothing comes close on Windows or OSX so I just drag and drop when I want to add media to my N1. Of course, my iPod touch handles the majority of my music now. :cool:
 
Yeah I tried that one, it wasn't bad. What I found out the hard way was that I still own a sizable amount of DRM'd music. I thought I had those converted back when I could on itms. At some point I need to scrounge the intarweb and look for a solution to strip drm from those music files.
 
AAh, DRM....... :(
I only have a few DRM riddled tracks so it's not an issue really for me. (24 tracks out of 4324). thank god we have DRM free stores to purchase music from nowadays.:D
 
Has anyone tried The Missing Sync? The website makes it look like you can use it to wirelessly sync your music/playlists etc. from iTunes to an Android device, but I'm skeptical.
 
ChazUK said:
AAh, DRM....... :(
I only have a few DRM riddled tracks so it's not an issue really for me. (24 tracks out of 4324). thank god we have DRM free stores to purchase music from nowadays.:D
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I have > 400 DRM'd tracks :(

nycbhh said:
Has anyone tried The Missing Sync? The website makes it look like you can use it to wirelessly sync your music/playlists etc. from iTunes to an Android device, but I'm skeptical.
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When I was searching for tool for syncing my N1, to my music this was on my short list. After searching the net and reading feedback, most people complained about how poorly it worked. To make matters worse, they don't seem to offer a demo to try before you buy.
 
Thanks for the info. I was actually just doing a search for reviews on it right now and saw one software review site complaining that the company refused to give them a review copy. Not a good sign. Guess i need to keep looking. 'Sigh' Sounded to good to be true.
 
maflynn said:
I disagree with the premise that was written. Google is on to something and as each version of android becomes more feature complete and polished, they will have an advantage that apple does not.

Scale: Google gives android away to that end, android based phones will typically have more advanced features then the iPhone. This is because the iphone is updated annually, where as android phones are being released almost on a monthly cycle which they can then take advantage of the latest and greatest technology.

Choice, you can choose what carrier you want, what model of a phone (physical keyboard, virtual) size, memory etc. The choice extends to the software as well. You don't have some company dictating what is worthy to enter their hallowed application store.

Frequency: Google is doing a better job at updating android. How many updates has OS3 3 seen? One major and a handful of minor ones in a years time. For google in the few months that version 2 has been out, they've released on major one and it appears version 2.2 is already out so it will be in the wild very shortly.
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Updates don't mean "great quality" to most people. Updates mean "we screwed something up, here are the fixes." That's why Apple withholds them until they have a large update that also includes some kind of new stuff, because then it's focused as much or more on the new bits as on the fixes, unless it involves security, of course.

You can respond how you want, but the Iphone has succeeded because of its simplicity. One phone, one carrier, one app store, and it's ALL known to be SAFE. Dealing with the mass of Android phones is basically like being in the Windows world. There are tons of those phones, they all look alike, and unless you know what you're looking for or are a techy geek, you're going to be overwhelmed by the choices and may very well come away with something you don't really want.
 
Hrm, I've heard that the reason a lot of car companies don't offer you every single option singularly (and rather insist on a few packages instead) is that they don't want to offer you too many choices. Apparently it has been shown that if you offer too many choices you tend to confuse consumers and make them want to think about what they are buying first in which point you lose some customers to losing interest after having time to cool off.

So, it is not a good plan to offer too many choices to people at one time in general cause you want to get them to buy while they are still excited about it.

I think this could easily translate to other consumables as well... particularly ones that are not cheap.
 
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