October 18, 2010
Android Versus iOS, which is better or which sucks less?

The short answer, for those with ADD, they both suck.

For the rest of you…

Each of these mobile operating systems suck in their own unique ways.  

One problem with Android is that everything seems like a beta, unfinished.  On the plus side for iOS, most applications and UI feel like a finished product.

But when it comes to iOS, it’s Apples way or the highway.  If you want to share a photo, to bad you can only use email (who uses email anymore?)

On the plus side with Android, I can share data based on the apps I have installed,  Have facebook installed, fine share it with facebook.  Have Evernote installed, no problem share it there.  Unless you received a photo via MMS, then your screwed.  You can look at it, zoom in or out on it, and that is about it.

Want to view that site with the embedded flash file, good luck on iOS, but no problem with Android.

Want to click on a notification you just received in your Facebook app to view it, well on iOS, no problem, on Android you get shot out to the Facebook mobile site so you can relive the pain of the Internet in 1992.

Feel like turn by turn directions live updating on your mapping app, no problem on Android, on iOS … they have an expensive app for that.

Bluetooth on iOS, basically ornamental.  Does nothing useful.  Android, no problem what do you want to do with it, it will do it.

I could go on like this all day, but the point is, what we need is for Apple to share a little and Android to finish something.  Or better yet a mashup of the two.

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