The end of Andriod?

[nicholas]

"We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business," Jobs reportedly told employees at a company meeting in February of 2010. "Make no mistake; Google wants to kill the iPhone. We won't let them."

Looks like he failed...

http://www.osnews.com/comments/27220

That's just Samsung, add the rest of the Android devices to that number and it's even more of a landslide victory for Android.

[nicholas]

I think Android is there to stay.. but Android bugs on my Samsung S3 put me off from buying Android tables and my next phone is going to be iPhone. Or perhaps Nokia if they have got something useful done. But not Android. It is buggy.

I've had no problems with CyanogenMod on any device but the Samsung Touchwiz crap on my S2 and the even more dire Sense rubbish on my HTC Sensation were really buggy.

I might be tempted into a Jolla device for my next handset if I can get my hands on one.

[nicholas]

Nokia phone? That was a funny joke!

Nokia have always made the best hardware, it's just a shame they tied themselves to the WinPhone abomination.

[nicholas]

I think the board would have to get rid of the MS stooge Elop first and it doesn't look likely.

[nicholas]

I did install some software from Samsung App Store. I was also thinking that there could be a fault in hardware but bugs I found are reproducible. It just seem to be sensitive to certain touch screen actions and lockup and finally reboot (I assume a watchdog comes to rescue).

Root it then install ROM Manager from the Play Store, then use that to wipe the Samsung crap and install CM10.1 you won't regret it.

[nicholas]

talking about android... i have a samsung tablet with the "great" android, everyone talks about the marvellous of rooting the device but for what? I prefer to uninstall many applications that i cant and a way to smooth the device without cyanogens or whatever rom. Im just asking from my ignorance of android.

To root a device means to enable administrator account to use Windows parlance.

[nicholas]

I liked the image of the 'Samsung before and after iPhone'. It isn't too much of a stretch that before iPhone there was no or limited touch interfaces and needing the use of a keypad. After iPhone you had touch enabled OS's, which obviously have no need to a physical keypad, how different can you make what is essentially a rectangular screen and nothing else?

I had a Motorola A1000 three years before the iPhone came out.

Exact same shape.
Touch screen only.
Multitasking OS.
Native apps installable from anywhere.

I used to have it playing Amiga chip mods and SID tunes on the train to work whilst web browsing and checking email and my son used it to play emulated Sega Megadrive games.

I really do fail to see what was so "revolutionary" about the iPhone.