Nexus One from an iPhone Developer’s Perspective

iPhone Development: Nexus One from an iPhone Developer’s Perspective: “it’s just a general lack of attention to detail that defines the differences between the iPhone and the Nexus One, and that lack of attention to detail exists on both the hardware and software side. The Nexus One isn’t a bad phone by any stretch of the imagination. Had it come out three years ago, it would have been revolutionary. But you do have to train yourself to Android’s idiosyncrasies much more so than the iPhone. If you’ve never owned or used an iPhone, you’ll probably find the Nexus One to be a very adequate device and will assume that the minor annoyances are just part of owning a smart phone. If you’ve owned an iPhone for any length of time, you’ll likely feel, as I do, that it’s a rather half-baked device with some good ideas but generally weak execution.”

(Via Daring Fireball).

Very good article. I had seriously never thought of some of the little things of the iPhone UI as being as important as they, in fact, are. But that’s probably because I haven’t used any other smartphone heavily after buying an iPhone. I’ve been growing more and more disillusioned with Android. I once viewed it and the iPhone as the future of the smartphone alongside each other but the slow progress of android in comparison to the iPhone seems to mimic that of the Linux Desktop in comparison to the Mac.

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