hugelshofer
"The Android platform is currently stuck in second gear because Google, their OEMs and the carriers can't, won't or simply have no incentive to get the installed base past the Android 2.x API set. There are better and more powerful APIs in Android 4, and there will be better ones again in the future, but developers can't take advantage of them because almost nobody is running the latest OS."
hugelshofer
"I used the Mac in the days when nobody used the Mac. I don't believe and I'm not arguing that absolute quantity of apps is the sole determinant of a platform's value. The Mac often only had one or two apps in a certain category but it almost always had a good app in that category.
I just don't see the same quality, range, depth or ambition in the Android marketplaces that I see in the App Store."
hugelshofer "The Android platform is currently stuck in second gear because Google, their OEMs and the carriers can't, won't or simply have no incentive to get the installed base past the Android 2.x API set. There are better and more powerful APIs in Android 4, and there will be better ones again in the future, but developers can't take advantage of them because almost nobody is running the latest OS."
hugelshofer Around 1% of the installed base is currently running the latest OS release: Android 4
hugelshofer "I used the Mac in the days when nobody used the Mac. I don't believe and I'm not arguing that absolute quantity of apps is the sole determinant of a platform's value. The Mac often only had one or two apps in a certain category but it almost always had a good app in that category.
I just don't see the same quality, range, depth or ambition in the Android marketplaces that I see in the App Store."
hugelshofer You're either buying into a platform or you're buying gadgets.