Re: Why Buy A Droid over an IPhone
bkfist
Specialist - Level 1
To be honest there are not that many "kinks" still to work out on the Motorola Droid. Many revolve around trying to get access to "non-compliant" pop3 email. (AOL, Yahoo etc.) For me, the main reason I would never consider the iphone is that I do not want to be told what I can do with my phone, what program i can install, how I must dial with it, how it must look. Android Market is not the only "approved" source for programs on any Android device. There are alternative "Markets" if you wish to install an application, and any program can be installed OTA by simply downloading the APK file and selecting it to install. Nobody is ever going to be able to limit or control what applications you may run on your Android device. If you are at all interested in "streaming media" such as watching videos online, keep in mind that the apple restraints on the kinds of programs that can be put in their app store will prevent Adobe Flash from ever being installed on the iphone, as Flash is an "interpretive language" and is prohibited. People wishing to "publish" a flash application or such for an iphone would have to create a separate "app" for each, which of course will allow tens or hundreds of thousands of separate apps to be added to the itunes store, each providing a single function, show, etc. while on an Android device you would simply be able to use your web browser to access each of these items without having to download an app to do so. (Flash is not YET available on Android either, as Adobe has not released it, but it is expected in the next several weeks.)
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