Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

[Edwin Humphries <edwinh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/02/2012 10:44 PM, Rod Butcher wrote:
> On 02/06/12 17:41, Nick Andrew wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:34:22AM +0800, James Linder wrote:
> SNIP
> > > While this thread drifts OT the basic issue is tremendously important
> > > for us as a group.
> >
> > So ... back to the important questions of whether Android or IOS runs
> > more apps?
> >
> > Nick.
> I originally asked whether there was any important functionality that
> Android-based phones lacked compared to the competition, and whether
> they struggled with any file formats. I then added that this appeared to
> me to be an issue of available apps and requested confirmation or
> otherwise of this assumption - the inference I intended was that I
> assumed that any such issues would not be a function of the operating
> systems themselves but rather a function of what apps had been written
> and what they could do.
> Rather than actually address the questions posters responded with clumsy
> sarcasm, recast the questions in terms of their pet hobbyhorses and
> wandered off into moral philosophy. Closest we got was some facts about
> techniques for extending battery life, which is important and relevant,
> but I still don't know how Android compares in this area to the
> competition.
> Rod

For a very subjective response to this, I would quote Steve Wozniak 
(remember him - Steve Jobs' partner?):
> 'My primary phone is the iPhone, I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.'

My Android phone has a lot of techy aps on it, to allow me to ssh into 
the server or RDP into a Windoze box, run DNS & reverse lookups, 
traceroutes & pings, telnet, wireless network analyses, etc - all of 
which are invaluable for troubleshooting customer's network problems. 
And all of these aps are free (even if they are not OSS). I haven't 
checked the availability of these on the iPhone, as none of my techy 
friends have iPhones; however, I have heard that the Apple Ap Store has 
far fewer free aps than the Android market.

For what it's worth.

Regards,
Edwin Humphries

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