Jan Zdarsa Every app that a developer would like to place on the Appstore must go through an approval process. Developers often complain that this the process is too long (currently 4-5 days) and users again complain that Apple doesn't approve everything. Of course, we may have reservations about a few cases of disapproval, but let's take it from another side.
For example Google, forging its open-source path, this week bumped lightly. Or its users. The MemoryUp application appeared on its Android Market, which was supposed to optimize the use of memory in the Google G1 phone. Everyone wants the phone to make better use of its memory and make the whole experience faster.
But everything was different. Application instead of sdeleted all contacts in the phone, installed Adware in it, froze the phone and spammed the owner's email account. Some even add that it completely wiped their SD card. The app is said to have been downloaded by an incredible 10-50 thousand users (the exact number is not known) and the app has received 932 reviews, mostly with one star. But no one understands how this app rose to prominence so quickly that so many people downloaded it.
I know some elements of Apple's policy are not exactly pleasant and we can scold them, but he does not realize what we would risk otherwise. As another thing, take for example the ability to run applications in the background. Some users complain that every smartphone can do this, so the iPhone is from the stone age. But is it really so?
Take Windows Mobile, for example. I install several apps, a few of them run in the background and they together take up so much RAM and use up the whole phone so much that it's more of a hassle to work with him. In addition, some of the applications can eat up a large chunk of my battery life, so I have to find out which application drains my mobile phone when and why. I have the phone to be able to use it and not to solve constant incompatibilities or other problems.
I see a plus in that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), simply developed a different style of smartphone use, which works! I can install any apps from the Appstore without worrying about anything. If I don't like it, I delete it, but I know I'm not risking anything. In short, Apple will "protect" me. Or would you like the same thing to happen to G1 phone users? Have they solved problems with applications in Windows Mobile? What is your opinion?
I agree with the article. I once bought a Win mobile (2 years ago) - as an ornament, it certainly looked nice on customers - but for USE - a disaster.
I searched a bit - these WM phones have (had) a phone as an additional mod and they are not very stable + if the operator + user uploads some ballast there => disaster. People didn't call me (after 4 hours it wrote me a bunch of missed calls).
When a person spoke, he turned on applications with his "ear"... Never more. That's why I understand limiting apps running in the background and Applestore
Now I have the 3rd day of the iPhone - it's really a jewel. But now you may stone me - in my opinion, this is not a phone for someone who needs to make a lot of calls. This is for such an occasional operator, the boss of a lady, etc.. But it looks really nice
I agree with everything, except that it's good that Apple doesn't allow applications in the background, because of memory, for example...can't the choice be up to me? if some application would be worth it to me, that it would run in the background and I wouldn't even mind the memory? this bothers me a bit, I don't have the possibility of my own choice...otherwise I agree with everything
Complete agreement. Everything has its pros and cons. The Apple approach seems to me to be the least painful way. I was quite skeptical when I went to iPhone, now after using it for some time I have to admit that their policy is well thought out, although it may not suit everyone in everything... and it can be very closed in some things, but it just works.
Exactly. Better less and functional than more and anger :)
For several years, I used devices from HTC Nejdrive MDA Compact with WM2003 and then HTC TYTN 9600 with WM5 and later WM6. Everything was quite slow (at the same time, the processor was 403MHz), it managed to play div-x in original quality (720MB movie), but the WM was not enough, a really ordinary thing like picking up or hanging up a call took the system sometimes even a few seconds, so I pressed the pick up button while still in my pocket, then I wondered who was calling and then put the cell phone to my ear... Or displaying the file with pictures also took about a minute (approx. 1000 photos). Since the iPhone is optimized, it can open a folder with 4000 images practically immediately and I no longer have to worry that the call has not been hung up, as a precaution I pressed the hang up button 10 times on the WM :) I prefer not to write about the synchronization of the post on the WM because it was a trick for the systems ;). The fact that the iPhone does not allow multiple programs to run at the same time is a good thing, because 50% of WM applications were diagnostic utilities that should have kept WM alive. I had to restart WM once every 1-4 days because some part always stopped working. The iPhone can run stably and comfortably for about a month, which only happened to WM when I was on vacation and left my phone at home. One thing the iPhone should have is support for instant messengers. Now you are online only when the application is active, it is logical because otherwise the program with the messenger is turned off, this could be solved by maintaining the philosophy of one application by supporting it directly in the sw phone, which would contact a server at a certain time interval, on which the user would be process with your messenger, if the user was waiting for a rushed message, the iPhone would show a preview just like with an SMS, and after clicking on it, the appropriate application would open with the entire call window and the possibility of a reply....
I completely agree with the author. I have the same opinion.
iPhone is not a smartphone, for God's sake, realize that.
It is not intended for work like the others, but for entertainment (games, music, video, internet), so it is a gamephone file.
Whether the iPhone is or isn't a manager's phone doesn't matter if it's made perfectly and foolproof. Considering which applications are leading on the Appstore, I wouldn't be afraid to say that typically the user of these phones is an idiot, taken in a global scale, so they know very well what and why, even at the cost of the fact that the user will simply have to learn to understand their attitude and change the approach to using a mobile phone as such.
Totally agree, yesterday I was called an iphone maniac when a colleague tried to explain to me what a "fuck" iphone is. I had the first HTC/QTEK on win mobile and once the first of symbians. I spent hours on both of them crawling through the forums and finding out what and why it crashes etc. My phone with win mobile didn't even last a week stable. Well, what do I have today? Certainty. I come and solve, I need an app for this... fine "search" and then I just pay two dollars for it or is it free? But I know I install and it runs. I know that the tel is nimble and fulfills my requirements with the obedience of a soldier. I have never had this certainty with any device. Really, the only minus I see is a weak camera, but I've come to terms with that and when I go to take a photo, I catch a lemming and that's it.
to eMU: for God's sake I won't realize it, each user has the opportunity to decide. The first bookmark on my iPhone is full of applications that I use for organizing work, sorting tasks and recording notes Things, Evernote, google apps. The second one is full of utilities that sometimes come in handy, such as a smart calculator, GPS, geocaching, and the third one is full of Sudoku tanzen puzzle games that my daughter also plays. I never noticed that there was only a Games tab on the appstore. It only proves that you know a thing or two about the iPhone's environment and capabilities.
I still have WM mobile.
I would say that the biggest problem with correct use was on my side.
After a few days of boredom, I started installing programs and repeatedly until I had to do a hard reset within a month.
The biggest "mess" for me was applications imitating iphone! ;-)
– what I still miss is setting a peek time for downloading exchange work emails.
Or does anyone have a solution to its settings?