Looks to me as if you gravitate towards the worst of both worlds. If you look at Android's differentiators you will find that you can build your player to keep it running in the background. In the eyes of the iPhone enthusiast, that alone should be enough to put your product on its own two feet... if you mention it in a diplomatic way.
On Oct 1, 8:40 pm, niko20 <nikolatesl...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have a music app for android that works really well, and I've tried > to model the app after other iphone music apps that I have seen. > > However, the problem is that I get emails from users about "can it do > like this app on the iphone", so then I try to write them an email > back saying, yes, I'm trying to use some of those iphone apps as > models, but this phone is not going to be able to do as powerful of an > app as the iphone. For example, only 16MB heap space, and also limited > CPU speed due to the interpreted java (not THAT slow, but still slow > for real time audio stuff with lots of data). > > Also there are some features that users seem to want that are simply > impossible, such as music apps with multitouch. Well the phone doesn't > support/expose that to development, so that can never be done right > now. > > How can we as devs help to educate the user base in some way so they > realize that this phone isn't an iphone, but has other features that > are still beneficial? (Other than emailing them about it) > > The worst thing is getting a rating/comment that says "wish it did > like app <XXX> on the iphone"...lol well sorry but that really can't > happen, not enough CPU/memory... > > Of course I also realize that we probably just have to put up with the > comparisons, just the way it goes :) Everybody is going to compare it > to the iphone. > > -niko --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
