Android’s Shortcomings Proves Brilliance of iPhone
At 24 Sep 2008 23:49:32 +0000 Larry wrote:
> > (and because the hardware is built by HTC, that philosophy
> > includes "ugly" and "clunky!")
> >
>
> I agree with this, but being built by HTC has the distinct advange of
using
> chipsets they already know work together without, for instance,
"connection
> issues on 3G"....
Don' kid yourself! HTC can build a phone with the best chipsets available,
then blow it by screwing up the firmware!
Then they'll release new firmware which creates two new bugs for every one
fixed, then abandon development of firmware upgrades for it entirely four
months later when they release the phone's equally buggy successor!
I use HTC products mostly because there are very few equally-featured
alternatives in the WinMo market, but I don't particularly like the
hardware design or the sloppy firmware.
Take my AT&T Tilt- nice specs, plenty of features, but stupid design. HTC
calls it a "multimedia phone" but uses a non-standard headphone jack, a
mono speaker, and while they included a chip with a hardware graphic
accelerator, THEY DIDN'T WRITE A DRIVER FOR IT!, so video rendering slows
the device to a crawl because the CPU is doing all the work! HTC isn't
"evil," just very lazy, and a typical tech company that thinks good specs
will trump bad design.
Plus, since they create more models of phones in a year than John Grissom
writes books, any truly crappy models are quickly and quietly replaced with
v2 hardware and a work like "Pro" added to the name.
Say what you want about Apple, but the level of support they're giving
original iPhone owners is certainly above and beyond the norm in the
industry. If HTC had built the iPhone, any firmware upgrades to the 2G
model would've stopped the day they stopped manufacturing the beast.
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