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ultima on 28 August 2012
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rocketpig said:
ultima said:

I may not know what WebOS is, but I know enough about iOS, Android, BB, WP to educate people about them. You telling me I have no business doing that is like you telling a mathematician that he shouldn't be teaching number theory, just because he doesn't know game theory, despite him having vast knowledge of number theory itself. But that's irrelevant, because I never said I'd be educating anyone on mobile tech. I said, if you read that again, that I was trying to educate people who supported apple on that particular issue that they were supporting something that was good for neither them as a consumer nor the industry as a whole. And you may like to know that Android was actually in development before iOS. So yeah...

That's a disengenous statement. Yes, Android started development in 2005. It also released a full 18 months after iOS was shown to the public. When it "started development" is really irrelevent.

Look, you're trying to defend Android. That's nice but I don't really care about companies. I bounce back and forth between devices based on what I think is the best value at the time. But it's blatantly apparent to any objective viewer that Google aped the iOS design aesthetic in early incarnations. Yes, they branched out from that point into some pretty good design but it's impossible to deny that those early OSes were heavily influenced by Apple.

So you're saying that Android development was just a stagnant project until iPhone was released, at which point Google got off their asses and started working? Do you know that Google released Android beta with its SDK a mere months after the iPhone release? Now you're going to tell me Google just slapped a few sticks together in the image of iPhone in those couple of months? Come on, man... Besides, the original iPhone's UI was in no way original. Icons on a static (unchangeable) background. Where have I seen that before? How about pretty much every OS with a UI ever made?

I'm not denying that Android was influenced by iOS, because that may well be true. Who were, in turn, influenced by others. I'm not against that. But if you look at the state of these two systems now, Android is miles ahead. Gingerbread (and perhaps even FroYo) was a more powerful OS than iOS5. There are features that iOS is taking from Android now. Again, I'm not against that. What I'm against is lawsuits and anti-competitive behaviour, which Apple is heavily engaging in now.

It's true that my preference is Android, but that has nothing to do with this. In fact, I also really like WP and even iOS is not bad in my opinion. And I've had more than enough exposure to all of them to form an opinion. Don't try to make this look like I'm getting into an emotional argument because you insulted a product that I am apparently in love with.