5 reasons not to buy the iPhone 4

[MrPinkPanther]

Most android devices are accelerometer enabled with touchscreens. Hardware buttons change nothing, and any phone made in the past five years has infared and bluetooth.

MOST may have accelerometers and touch screens but certainly not all so for maximum exposure you would need to develop a number of different control methods. It's all extra wasted development time. What about other features..err..say like multitouch? A wide array of devices aren't going to have it so as an app developer I can't utilise it within my application without cutting off half of my market. To develop and application for Android not only takes longer in development time but it takes longer to research and maintain. As an iPhone Dev I can say, yep 100% of devices have multitouch, on Android I would need to look up lots of devices to find the optimum control solution supported across as many as possible. Again I would need to regularly check this to make sure it works with what up to date Android devices are providing. With the iphone you only have to do this once a year. The beauty of the iPhone is that they are manufactured by Apple so the core insides remain consistent throughout with new things occasionally added such as the Gyroscope.

Games work in a variety of custom resolutions too because of the nature of developing with a dynamically expandable display resolution which the ADK is all about. They've gotten Sense UI working on a QVGA htc vogue. You can't say there's graphically imposed limitations due to the software, because there's not.

But surely if I develop a 2D pixel based application I have 2 options, to stretch the images making them look distorted or to allow the user to see things that they were never intended to see originally?

Android allows torrent clients, wifi teathering, adult applications, VOIP apps, tunnelling and proxies. If you're seriously going to complain about the restrictions on Android's market don't even touch the iPhone because it's 10000000x worse.

The iPhone does have censorship. For sure. I've never denied that. But he said that the Android Market has no censorship which just isn't true.


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[StefanWolves]

Haha. Dw I'll add my two pennies worth regarding certain users when I get back home on my laptop.

[Recursion]

But surely if I develop a 2D pixel based application I have 2 options, to stretch the images making them look distorted or to allow the user to see things that they were never intended to see originally?

Or create the space in which the game is playable bigger... you don't create an Application on a PC or Mac for one resolution, why should it be any different on a phone?

[Jordy]

Hitler is now upset his iPhone has poor signal it seems...


One for the android fanboys too i guess

[HotelUser]

MOST may have accelerometers and touch screens but certainly not all so for maximum exposure you would need to develop a number of different control methods. It's all extra wasted development time. What about other features..err..say like multitouch? A wide array of devices aren't going to have it so as an app developer I can't utilise it within my application without cutting off half of my market. To develop and application for Android not only takes longer in development time but it takes longer to research and maintain. As an iPhone Dev I can say, yep 100% of devices have multitouch, on Android I would need to look up lots of devices to find the optimum control solution supported across as many as possible. Again I would need to regularly check this to make sure it works with what up to date Android devices are providing. With the iphone you only have to do this once a year. The beauty of the iPhone is that they are manufactured by Apple so the core insides remain consistent throughout with new things occasionally added such as the Gyroscope.

As an iPhone developer you have to use a Mac and code in completely ******ed objective-C. It's easier to develop in Android. You get an option of using an XML or object based GUI for the user and if a developer develops an app with multitouch then it will still work with one touchpoint in a single touch device so I'm not sure why you're using that flawed example :S

But surely if I develop a 2D pixel based application I have 2 options, to stretch the images making them look distorted or to allow the user to see things that they were never intended to see originally?

Wrong. Google search robo defense.

The iPhone does have censorship. For sure. I've never denied that. But he said that the Android Market has no censorship which just isn't true.

The heck it does, and a ton more than it's Android counterparts!

[CrackSplat]

I would love to have the IPhone, my phone is whack: Sony Ericsson w350a :S

[HotelUser]

I would love to have the IPhone, my phone is whack: Sony Ericsson w350a :S

In the current phone market that doesn't qualify

[Sameer!]

Was thinking of gettign the iPhone 4, but reading all these complaints and stuff I may have to change my mind...

[Flisker]

Was thinking of gettign the iPhone 4, but reading all these complaints and stuff I may have to change my mind...

I'd say get a HTC Desire Great phone!

[Recursion]

I'd say get a HTC Desire Great phone!

Agreed