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TheRealMafoo on 22 April 2010
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mirgro said:
TheRealMafoo said:
mirgro said:

See, I never had a problem with Apple until very recently. When they rolled out their iPods, I eventually got one after they dropped the ridiculous DRM.

It has been basically since the iPhone came out that they have started to be more and more of a bad company. Also I do feel lied to by Apple, they promised me I could surf the web perfectly fine on my iPhone, and without flash support that has not happened, not to mention lack of multi-tasking. You just can't do what you want without that

Ultimately however, it's the AppStore and how they handle it that has basically taken Apple from a "ok, whatever" company to a "piece of shit, scum of the earth" company.

Just so you know, no mobile phone does Flash. Some do a very old version of limited flash, but unless you DL the beta of Flash 10.1 for Android, no one is playing farmville on a cell phone.

I think what Apple said was the iPhone is the best mobile browsing experience possible on a call phone, and when it came out, they were right.

I am curious to see how well Flash really runs on Android. My guess is the UI will suck, and the battery will die quickly.

 

Well yeah that's what I meant. For a beta it isn't bad and I haven't noticed this battery drain Steve talked about. Though I never leave my phone out of a charger for more than 7 hours so I may not be the one to judge.

But again, this wasn't even the big thing, it's how they handled the App Store. They are doing the same thing they did with their computers back in the day, and we saw how that worked out. Now you have the Linux, Mac, and soon Windows, phone OSes and with any luck, Apple will get its ass kicked again for another decade or so and come back humbled and ready to bend over for their customers again. The way it should be.

I cut my last response short, because I am at work and had to go to a meeting....

The App store is a hit and miss thing. While I agree it's limited (why can't I get Chrome, or Fire Fox?), it's not like Apple took something someone else was doing, and then screwed it up.

If not for Apple, there would be no such thing as an app store (or it would be years until someone else came up with the idea). I think the concept of an App store is the single biggest advancement in the computer industry in the last ~20 years.

The app store is not even two years old yet. Give it some time for the thing to mature.