[ale] [OT] Are iPhone apps $$$ why Android apps are free?

[Jim Kinney]

And if yer tinfoil beanie gets a little thin, you can always tape it to the
back of a stray dog with a pork chop on a stick and "they" will think you're
running through the park...

I just sayin'...

I see the droid as the smart phone for power users.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Wolf Halton <wolf at wolfhalton.info> wrote:

> On 06/10/2011 10:51 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > After spending part of the day with the droid I guess I can say "Why did
> > I even bother with iOS"?
> >
> > I'm in love.
> >
> > The iTouch required me to do a lot via iTunes which required me to boot
> > into Windows.
> >
> > I downloaded a PDF and wanted to copy it to the Android.
> >
> > a)  Attach phone as disk to Linux
> > b)  Create Documents folder on the mounted volume
> > c)  Copy PDF to that folder
> > d)  Download file manager for Android
> > e)  Run file manager and select PDF from card.
> >
> > This would have been very difficult in iOS.  Currently the only solution
> > would have been to email the 100M PDF to myself and save in USB Disk or
> > copy to dropbox and mark as a favorite (it downloads to the device).
> >
> > I can even copy music to this phone without having to use iTunes.
> >
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> Droid has not caused me any trouble either.  It talks to my Linux box
> flawlessly.  I admit I don't do much with music on the phone.  I do take
> a lot of pictures and they save well to Ubuntu.
>
> -Wolf
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As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
- *2011 Noam Chomsky*
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