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Fine device just needs a decent OS: Running Android on an iPhone.
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April 22nd, 2010 at 11:41 am
The OS for the iPhone is fine, because it’s underlying guts are MacOS, who’s underlying guts are basically NeXTStep. The problem is, they’ve purposefully crippled the phone from doing things like multitasking to save battery life. The underlying OS is completely capable of doing multitasking, and those of us with jailbroken phones can enjoy that capability now. The differences between the Android OS and MacOS are that the Android designers didn’t crippled their phones, because they made room for more battery than Apple did. Battery life is one of those things about the iPhone that’s a real problem. I have to plug mine in every night.
April 22nd, 2010 at 2:54 pm
The iPhone OS multitasking? Comes out in the next revision. And it’s just as “limited” as the android multitasking, which isn’t “real” desktop multitasking, but a client-server model.
“Real” multitasking devours RAM. Given that iPhones definitely have no virtual memory, and everything I can find says that Android devices don’t either, there’s a reason that Apple made that decision in the beginning, and a compelling one.
There’s a reason only “new” phones will support the multitasking in iPhone OS 4, and that’s that they have more ram.
With no VM, you can’t just run unlimited processes. Everything has to fit in real physical memory, all the time. Thus both Android and iPhoneOS kill off (politely) unused processes; the only difference up to now is that iPhoneOS killed it when it stopped being foreground, while Android let it sit around until it was out of ram.
I’ve never given a damn, myself. The only compelling thing about my coworker’s Droid, compared to my iPhone, is the screen – and that’ll be at parity in the next iteration.
April 23rd, 2010 at 1:51 am
54% Of Women More Likely To Date Men With iPhones, Says iPhone Retailer
The iPhone is the app for getting a date. Okay, the post comes to the conclusion that this survey didn’t actually happen.
I was wondering why my Apple stock jumped $15 this week. Apparently, it was caused by a surprise 90% increase in profits due to the iPhone sales. Doesn’t say anything about the which device is better but it does say something about Apples salesmanship.