On Jan 23, 5:50 pm, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 23, 5:19 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > But the thing about Android is that it's very > > evolutionary, unlike Apple which aims to deliver a very carefully > > crafted message about how "magic" each release is. > > From what I can see, Apple has a more developer-focussed approach to > deliver a few OS updates a year and ship betas to developers ahead of > the release. This make developer's life easier on some levels (less > versions to support, more stability) and harder on some others (bugs > won't be fixed for a couple of months), so this is harder for Apple > because the QA has to be a lot tighter. And they certainly failed in > iOS 4.0 which was really buggy. > > But it seems to me that Apple certainly increased the speed in which > they add features to the OS - after 3.0, there just was 3.1 before 4.0 > (if you leave out the iPad-only 3.2). Now we have 4.1 and 4.2 and > soon 4.3, each adding significant features. The wonders of > competition! :-)
One thing is for sure, the Android brand is loosing credit fast these days (whether they know it or not, care or not). There's also good coverage of the issue in TWiG 78: http://twit.tv/twig78 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
