John Bresee » Rock music http://johnbresee.com Honest Commentary on ecommerce, mcommerce and usability all over. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:46:52 +0000 en hourly 1 Don’t Trade Your iPhone for a Droid http://johnbresee.com/2009/12/05/dont-trade-your-iphone-for-a-droid/ http://johnbresee.com/2009/12/05/dont-trade-your-iphone-for-a-droid/#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:53:07 +0000 John Bresee http://johnbresee.com/?p=470 Thanks for checking out my stuff. I hope it's not crushingly dull. I mean if you love the internet and radically changing business models and the many laughable errors that are teh nature of trying to run a business then you might enjoy a post now and again.


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An O’Reilly reader asked the question, “should I dump my iPhone for an Android?” and it seems to be a question that is being asked more and more. The simple answer is no, unless you are a very early adopter with a massive tolerance for behaviors like your phone crashing. There is much criticism of AT&Ts network and the occasional dropped call. I, being a pathetic dork, carry both phones at the moment. I lose one or two calls a week due to AT&Ts shoddy network. And my iPhone crashes maybe once a month…maybe less. And that’s the thing with my phone, it’s like a light switch or a car, you want it to work every single time you turn the key or flip the switch.

A crashed OS and a bad network leave you with the same result…no phone. That’s not okay. AT&Ts network seems to be improving faster than the next version of the Droid will arrive.

And the Android crashes constantly. They use nice words like “forced restart of search application” or some such thing, but the truth is I have to sit and wait for my basically beta version phone to settle down and begin working again. I am confident that by version 3.0 things will be rock stable. But right now the Droid is the crash-o-matic.

The question is kind of a, “should I buy an Acura or a Maserati?” thing. One of them is cool and works beautifully all the time and the other one doesn’t look nearly as cool ’cause it’s in the shop several days a month. But Maserati’s are cool in their own way. If you want a second phone, Droid it up.

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