Comments on: Android G1 to iPhone 3GS

By: Chucky

Chucky — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:07:36 +0000

I wanted to get an iPhone at first but didn't like AT&T service. When I heard about Android I decided to wait. When you wrote the above 23 weeks ago, the Android platform was moving a snail pace. It was only in the last 2 months, mainly October and November of 2009 thing started to change at a phenomenal rate. I'm glad I waited. I don't want to be redundant (as I posted this before), but this site gives a pretty good time-line of what is happening with Android: http://androidcompare.com/time-l.html

By: Chucky

Chucky — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:36:01 +0000

The G1 is the first generation Android phone that was introduced in 2008. Only this past October 2009 things started to take off for Android. Many much more powerful phones are coming out in January of 2010 (http://androidcompare.com/time-l.html). Noticed a good Android vs. iPhone comparison on the same site as well:
http://androidcompare.com/iphone.html

By: Chuck Reynolds

Chuck Reynolds — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:05:49 +0000

and http://www.authoritydomains.com/blogs/seo/4-must-...
I have those but they're not anything that'd make you do seo via mobile verse doing on your laptop lol… but hopefully they build em up more

By: Chuck Reynolds

Chuck Reynolds — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:02:09 +0000

I haven't really looked but http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+apps+for+we... turns up some good ones… though I really don't use all of those.

As far as SEO… there's a few apps but nothing that's really good… I do use the whois one often however

By: SEO Manchester

SEO Manchester — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:29:33 +0000

Does anyone have the definitive list of apps for the iPhone for useful for web dev's, designers, seo?

By: Chuck Reynolds

Chuck Reynolds — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:06:52 +0000

I'd agree with you totally… The biggest thing for me as an early adopter is I put too much faith in thinking that developers were going to hit the open source thing hard and put out the apps that I wanted that all my iPhone web devs had. The fact of the matter is that it didn't happen. It's been a year and finally some of the bigger apps are coming out for it. Again apps are subjective… you may like/use apps I don't. Whether or not an iPhone or an Android phone is for somebody depends on the person – for me the iPhone is where I need to be right now. That may change next year or not… idk – but I'm where I'm happy right now and at the point that Android, the apps and the hardware can out trump my current setup – I'll switch.

By: brad

brad — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:34:06 +0000

ok, I got a magic(32A) with the stock standard ROm installed, i think you know what that means, anyhow, then along came the Hero with its sensUI. I of course got UI envy, and decided to flash the ROM am currently running a faster better looking UI(even than iPhone) on top of my true MULTITASKING(got rub it in :) Android device. Now that Android 2.0 is released that itchy feeling to upgrade is right back and as soon as theres a ROM for that available im gonna flash it. The point is this, As long as i'm running android, i've got options. And as long as you are running the iPhone, you dont.

The droid may not be faster than the iPhone, but it beats the pants off it in terms of functionality. Steve, you probably pretty bothered right now, cause all you hanging onto is the app store right now, the Android market will grow, in fact all the big apps are already there :)

By: Chuck Reynolds

Chuck Reynolds — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:33:11 +0000

I can't argue with you regarding Apple's behavior lately with app approval… There's more to that than meets the eye and hopefully one day we'll find out and they'll get over their pissing match. As far as I've heard it's due to AT&T but we may never REALLY know.
As far as code… to each his own man – I haven't touched any type of mobile dev – just hang out with many that do so…

By: Seth

Seth — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:01:38 +0000

Another rejected apple app store application Google voice. Man is it nice.

Also as a developer I much prefer Google's (all though modified) implementation of java to objective C. Programming in Netbeans or Eclipse (Where I am already comfortable) is a major plus as well. Using java based IDEs means I can dev on windows/Linux/OSX/BSD/Solaris.. etc etc etc… The java stack is just so mature at this point, its really nice to be able to use junit for my unit tests and Hudson for my CI. An open source programming language on an open source OS backed by the company that defined web 2.0 apps. Nuff said as far as I'm concerned.

By: Jamie Martin

Jamie Martin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:01:37 +0000

I think a lot of your problems stem from an old/maybe defective phone.

With all the applications that I have on my G1, like Locale, Enkin, Compare Everywhere (all reasons in themselves to get an Android phone) – I couldn't see myself changing phones.

Most of these applications wouldn't be possible on the iPhone due, not for technical reasons but because of the restrictions Apple places in their SDK.

And that's the biggest problem that I have with the iPhone. eBook readers have been banned because "questionable content could be read." – They rejected the South Park application because it was objectionable, etc.

There are plenty of applications and hacks to make your G1 look like whatever you want and to do whatever you want, and it's backed by a company that supports you doing so.