Re: How does an ipod connect to the internet?

To a kid/teen, status is everything. It does't matter what is better,
it matters having that one item. Nike Air Jordans, Apple, and Mustang
are/were status symbols. You speaking from the geek level. The "common
person" doesn't always know or care about feature x. All they want is
something reliable. Based on the experience my wife is having, Android
isn't there yet. She has to reboot/pull battery at least once a week.
Again due to fragmentation and different hardware/software. Apple
doesn't have that problem as they control everything to provide the
ultimate experience.

Apple is not much different than what IBM does for their Power Systems
line of servers. I can't install i/OS on any other server platform.
Can I?

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me



On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 11/29/2011 12:36 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

On Nov 29, 2011, at 1:00 PM, pctech-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

You do realize there's no one "Android interface", right?

Yes. But the majority of Android phones I have seen seem to be fairly similar and I have simply not found them to be as as intuitive as the iPhone. That's just me - I don't own an iPhone and until the other day didn't own an Android phone either so I have no axe to grind.

As to the rest of the comment - useful information (I'd already read it actually) but I thought the discussion was about choosing phones for a teenager - not which was the best programming target. That's a debate of an entirely different nature.

See, that's where we differ.  To me it's important to start the kids on
the right platform straight off.  Rather than let them get absorbed into
the Apple Abyss by default, where everything just seems to be more
expensive and less flexible, I was providing an alternate option and my
reasoning behind it.  If you're the type that's perfectly happy with
whatever features Apple decides you should have, then by all means, go
with whichever iThingie best suits you.

Really, iThingies are iEasy!   :)

Joe
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