This would be a rather weird claim unless you are only looking at the hardware specs, which obviously would be pretty stupid.
You cannot exclude things like ecosystem from the equation.
You cannot exclude things like ecosystem from the equation.
What is great about the iOS ecosystem is that the quality is much higher, people actually pay for their apps apple constantly and consciously help evolve.
It might be a walled garden, but it is a very well kept garden.
How is Apple "helping evolve" (apps? iOS?) in a way that Google and its various partners aren't? The Android Market has features and categories, Android gets lots of new features on each cycle, and it's totally open-source. So what's the problem here? What is the big secret special thing Apple does that makes everything magically better on iOS?
Also I am not talking about the quality of the apps only, I am also talking about he quality of the app-store, the payment process, access to music so easily and so on.
All these things are what matters at the end of the day much more than crazy tech specs or complete freedom.
And of course you can make money on Android but there is a reason why Angry Birds is free there and not on the iPhone.
> The entire article, comparing the tablet market,
> never _once_ uses the word Android or Honeycomb.
It's kind of a shitty argument, though, if you ask me. I don't follow the Android market all that closely, but it seems competitors are, in fact, doing things to differentiate themselves, even if they share the same core OS.
That is a rather fundamental difference and explains why the android marketplace is one big sorry mess with no direction. I wish it would be different but it's not.
The difference between the chaos on the internet and the Android ecosystem is almost non-excisting.
So I think it is fair to not spend much time if any on Androids ecosystem. What is there really to say about it other than it's big?