Comments on: Learning from the Vodafone HTC Magic Debacle

By: mihaela

mihaela — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:08:19 +0000

jocul asta este cel mai tare joc

By: imam

imam — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:33:01 +0000

maksudnya apa tuch???

By: Rob_nz

Rob_nz — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:23:36 +0000

Interesting…

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/FB2A17A17CDBF4FECC2575EB000024AE

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/devt/9B5D2EF276931B6DCC2575EB0006ADED

I think there is a lot potential for Android in its agility. If improvements keep coming at a rapid pace, then hopefully it will build the development ecosystem.

Don’t forget it’s only a year or so old, but the 3rd release is almost here. (2.0 – Donut)

Now that the installed base is nearly 2 1/4 million between the Dream and the Magic, hopefully the momentum is there.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:46:29 +0000

I was going to say the same thing Karl. I’ve been really pleasantly surprised byt the amount of UI sex that the iPhone SDK includes by default. You can really see the attention to detail that has gone into that, as opposed to say XML parsing.

The latter is annoying to have to code, but unless you really screw it up it’s not going to affect the user experience.

Compare that to coding for S60, where you *would* have to manually double-buffer your scrolls, and forget any 3D flipping effects.

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:39:12 +0000

@RichardV
As someone who has actually developed smooth scrolling views for the iPhone I disagree.

It’s not a development nightmare, it’s not hard, and it should be considered as important to fix UI faults as it is fixing functional faults. The beauty of the iPhone is that the developers care about making a good user experience. Everything else is broken by design until they realise that.

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By: RichardV

RichardV — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:17:02 +0000

@Ben
No, course it isn’t an upgrade. Being able to receive twitter in the *background* isn’t better. Being able to receive email in the *background* isn’t better. Being able to synchronize tasks with Remember the Milk in the *background* isn’t better. My *blackberry* 8830 is more useful than an iPhone, which is just screen candy. I considered getting an iPhone, and then decided I didn’t want my user experience to go backwards 10 years – if I wanted a game platform I’d just get a PSP.

And the comment about the scrolling – iPhone is just the same unless you bit-blit the scroll image to the screen. Smooth scrolling on the iPhone is a development nightmare.

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