iPhone vs Droid

While I really wanted a Iphone, the wife's employers discount gt me a Droid. It took a while to get the hang of the phone. I too, like efusco, disike the mechnical keyboard. The touch seen, with word select makes for fast typing. There are several apps that I love, Google is great, there is an Ap called Shop Savey, you take a pic of a items barcode, once recognized, it jumps on the web and finds who has it at the cheaest price. That one flips my friends out!!!
So for now I vote Droid, but yesterday I saw an announcement the Iphone was coming to Verizon this summer......we will see!!!

 

One thing that could be a potential concern with AT&T is broadband 'allocation'. AT&T has had a bit of a challenge keeping up with iPhone wireless data usage. AT&T is making noises about trying to find ways to fine tune wireless data usage, but in the end, I would not be surprised to see them go to a usage-based pricing model. The only thing that could keep them from going to a usage-based pricing model would be competitive pressure (from Apple and the other wireless carriers).

I wonder how jailbroken phones will fare with future releases of the iPhone OS? Given Jobs' near fanatical obsession with control of the ecosystem, I expect that he is spending a non-trivial amount of time trying to defeat the jailbreaks. Look at how Apple went to war with the Palm Pre. And that was just over iTunes spoofing.

Intuitive use is probably Apple's strongest advantage. They went from 0% market share to 20-ish percent in the shortest time ever. Especially for a new market entrant that never sold phones before.

But what is Proco to do in the interim? It would seem he has to make a decision fairly soon.

Summer 2010 seems to be when a lot of the new 'goodies' will be released. Stuff from Apple, Verizon and Sprint at a minimum are going to be released from June to probably August. It would seem to be prudent to defer any contractual decisions until then.

 

iPhone (and now iPad also) doesn't support Flash. At all.

 

Killing flash will be Steve Jobs greatest contribution to computing!
:cheer2:

 

Adobe and Google already teamed up to build Flash directly into Chrome, and provide an API for developers to make it OS- and Browser- neutral.

Flash is not going away anytime soon, with or without Apple's acceptance and support.

 

Droid = open, easy access to your data.

iPhone is a closed format, just transferring contact information in/out is a pain, and non-standard format.

I chose neither, went with Blackberry, no regrets.

 

iPhone. As others have said, it's just so intuitive and can do whatever we wnat it to do. I got my wife one and we both love it.

The only problem I've got with it, is that she drives the 05 prius which doesn't have the iPod/iPhone plug in capability that my 08 has....so now she wants my car or to upgrade to a 2010 so she can listen to her music through the car.

 

Now which aps will you get addicted to? (for me it's tapfarm and bejeweled)

"you drive honey...I gotta harvest our crops!"

 

Is the Droid totally compatible with the bluetooth of the Prius? Will it show the caller ID and transfer the phone book?

 

Shame shame shame!!!

 

I'm gonna have to be careful in that I haven't figured out if either of you desire that outcome. Seems like a game of "apathy chicken". (no offense)

 

Totally off topic: I knew a curmudgeonly old lady who, after retiring from a lifetime teaching career, and having decided that she didn't like the school system, went on a multi-year crusade (still on-going the last time I spoke with her a decade ago) to convince the State of Minnesota to revoke her teaching credentials. They kept refusing because there is no procedure for a teacher to instigate the revocation of her own credentials, and since she's retired, there's nothing she can do to incite someone else to initiate the revocation procedure.