Preventing Android from Overthrowing Apple and talking over the SmartPhone world
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‘Apps’
Before you explode,
stop for a while to consider the app development of another will-known platform
say, Apple’s IOS. Just to be able to submit any apps to the App Store, a
programmer need to line up for a developer account, which doesn’t exactly come
cheap, going for USD 99 each? That automatically deters a lot riffraff programmers
lurking for a chance to make a quick buck, especially the ones who aren’t
confident about the quality of their apps. If a programmer does manage to get a
developer account (which often requires weeks and weeks of waiting) and submit
an app, it still needs to pass a variety of quality control tests and content
censors before it is finally allowed to venture onto Apple’s iTunes App Store.
All in all, the procedure helps to keep a considerable amount of trashy apps
from ever hitting the market, and ensures a constant, seamless and uniform
experience for end-users.
On the other hand,
the Android Market is open and unrestricted. While that sounds rather nice and
friendly, its effects have been rather disastrous. Anyone with barely
sufficient coding knowledge can cook up and submit an Android app and submit it
to the Market, which is exactly what happened. In terms of sheer numbers, the
Android Market is catching up, but when one stops to consider the quality ( or
lack thereof) of a vast majority of these apps, the impact left by the lack of
quality assessment basic utilitarian applications written for Android suffer
from shoddy interface designs and stuttering performance . A great many Android
developers don’t even bother to optimize their apps for speed and stability
prior to publishing them. However, the reason behind this is not just a lack of
patience, the true cause lies deeper and is in fact linked to the second answer
to the mystery behind Android’s eternal game of catch-up.
Fragmentation
In the Android
community, the f-workd is…continue……
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