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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:41:06 -0400, Warp wrote:
> > Mike the Elder <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> >> Actually,I've been wondering about a NON-American tablet called the "We
> >> Pad". Link below:
> >
> > The major problem with alternatives is that they have something like
> > 100 apps,
> Hmmm, on my Android phone, searching the market on "app", I get a few
> more than 100 that show up on the list. In fact, I get 335,119 results -
> 3x what you say is on Apple's "App Store"...
The 100 thousand apps I mentioned are specifically targeted for the iPad
(iow. they have high-resolution graphics and use the size of the screen to
their advantage).
From those Android apps maybe 100, if even that many, are targeted
specifically at the tablet you mentioned (or any tablet with similar specs).
As I said, if you start counting *all* apps that will run on the device,
the number of apps you can run on the iPad probably increases ten-fold
(the majority being iPhone apps, of course).
The Android side has also one big problem that the Apple side lacks
basically completely: When you buy an app, you can't be sure that it will
run properly in your device. You see, Android has the same problem as
desktop PCs: There are approximately a million different "Android-compatible"
platforms out there, from numerous different manufacturers. Some of them
are more powerful, some less powerful. Whether the App will work properly
in your specific device is a game of chance. It certainly doesn't help that
the market is flooded with low-quality devices made for cheap.
> (which isn't uncommon in
> Apple's App Store - look at the way vendors have had to work around
> Apple's attempts to extort *30%* of content sales with apps distributed
> through the app store
Yeah. How *dare* they try to make a profit? They should offer the app
store completely for free. After all, they *are* a charity organization,
they should start acting like one.
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- Warp
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