Re: iPhone - Apple also has the luxury of controlling both the hardware
and the software.
Don't know how much is involved in porting Android to various phones,
but given that they don't have the same identical hardware, it's got to
be a pretty involved process.
Add to that phone manufacturers each wanting to have their own software
and hardware "tweaks" to make their product stand out.
Also, this is embedded software, and it's very different by its very
nature. Despite this, Android teams managed to come up with an
architecture that feels pretty close to a desktop operating system for
the developers. This, I think is quite an achievement by itself.
So my personal opinion is - overall, it's a freakin' miracle it works as
well as it does!
This is despite having run into a few issues that I hope will get fixed
some day.
-- Kostya
07.06.2010 22:32, TreKing ?????:
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:50 PM, blahblah...@gmail.com
<mailto:blahblah...@gmail.com> <blahblah...@gmail.com
<mailto:blahblah...@gmail.com>> wrote:
My software isn't that buggy. Neither is the iphone.
No developer thinks their own software is that buggy - users usually
disagree =P
And the iPhone has the luxury of having been out for some time now and
being much more controlled that they're probably a bit more stable
than Android.
Android is evolving very rapidly. Any system being iterated on at this
pace is bound to have issues - it's part of the software development
process.
Besides, "buggy" is in the eye of the beholder - depending on who you
talk to you your software could be considered quite buggy as could the
iPhone, both of which are pretty much guaranteed to have bugs. It just
matters how serious they are and who is being affected by them. The
bugs you mentioned, for example, I've never run into or have had any
problems with.
No, but in my 16 years of commercial software development
experience I have never come across any other piece of software
that has so many serious bugs that are apparently not being addressed.
I'll bet good sums of money that the Android team, like any software
team is subject to time, budget, and resource restrictions which
limits how much they can do in a given amount of time and forces them
to prioritize which bugs to fix and features to add. The bugs you've
encountered, I assume, are not deemed to be of high enough priority to
deal with at the moment, if at all.
If they bother you that much, as Toni state, it's open source - fix
the issues that bother you and contribute to the project.
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