900,000 Android activation per day!

vegetaleb

Andy Rubin head of Android Google said that now more than 900,000 Android activation per day!

I wonder why Lebanese are rushing on iphones instead of the real deal aka Android?
Always wrong in this country lol

rtp

Lebanese:

High Class > Brain
Tradition > Brain
Emotions > Brain
Anything > Brain

by the way, common sense.... not so common

xterm

vegetaleb wroteI wonder why Lebanese are rushing on iphones instead of the real deal aka Android?

I don't like Tabbouleh, I prefer Fattoush.

Joe

xterm wroteI don't like Tabbouleh, I prefer Fattoush.

STFU. My phone is sooooo much better than yours. Look, the marketing guys just told me so.

NuclearVision

rahmu wrote
xterm wroteI don't like Tabbouleh, I prefer Fattoush.
STFU. My phone is sooooo much better than yours. Look, the marketing guys just told me so.

What's your phone rahmu?
Personally, i like iPhones, because of their wide capatibilites of course after a jailbreak.
iPhone is UNIX-based, i understand that android is open-source (i guess so)
But that's makes it not very stable and eventually iPhone wins.
Thats's my opinion, don't get me buffed with yout comments.
One more thing: @vegetaleb If there's 900 000 android activations every day, that doesn't mean that all the human being should own an android device.

vegetaleb

I mean that in the whole world people are choosing Android over other phones because it offers way more opportunities.
Only in Lebanon because people follow a snob group that they buy iphones.
Lebanese are followers of Lebanese, technology has not its place here sadly

yasamoka

NuclearVision wrotei understand that android is open-source (i guess so)
But that's makes it not very stable and eventually iPhone wins.

Open source means many are working on improving it at the same time. It means some of the greatest minds are taking a crack at it. It means that for more features, we steadily get more stability.

Also, Android is not being left alone. It is continuously being developed by Google, AND its source code is available.

yasamoka

vegetaleb wroteI mean that in the whole world people are choosing Android over other phones because it offers way more opportunities.
Only in Lebanon because people follow a snob group that they buy iphones.
Lebanese are followers of Lebanese, technology has not its place here sadly

While I do understand that you're frustrated of Lebanese users buying iPhones, it's only because most do not know about other phones, other than iPhone. For example, if one wants to use Whatsapp, or Viber, there is absolutely no need to go straight to the top-end in phone spec and price (iPhone, disregarding Android high-ends now). A midrange Android phone will do. Those 900,000 activations per day are not necessarily high-end Androids, while all iPhone users do have a phone that was high-end at some point in time.

The problem is NOT related to the iPhone. The same happened with BB, now it's iPhone, and already having a "SAMSUNG GALAXY S2" is a fad. HECK, it's NOT the only Android phone!!

My point is that regardless of how good or bad a phone is, a fad is a fad. You cannot prove from the example, the general property. If all people are going to iPhone because they never heard of Android, then it doesn't mean iPhone is bad. Nor does it mean it's good.

However, some buy the iPhone purely for its capabilities after jailbreak. These are highly technical, obviously, and you cannot say that they are simply following a fad. Others leave it like it is, because well, they want the iPhone as it is.

Fruitless to compare the two head to head, I believe.

The-MMMs

Considering the changes in android since 2010 till now with ICS its quite substantial

Considering the changes in iOS .... can't really put my finger on anything.

That is all.

NuclearVision

Well, let's wait for the world wide develpors conference. Apple will introduce some new features in ios 6 and more devicea are coming, at least that's what i read.

m0ei

iOS 6, 1 word ----> SUCKS.

Pure marketing campaign from Apple.

vegetaleb

If new features are like siri which has tons of better clones on Android or a 4'' screen while we have 4.7'' on sgs3 and HOX...

haidcar

ios 6: new maps app and Facebook integration, + a couple of minor improvements here and there, and that is it. i was really disappointed, there are so many things left out!
and they call it the most advanced operating system in the world!

Joe

iPhone is UNIX-based, i understand that android is open-source (i guess so)
But that's makes it not very stable and eventually iPhone wins.

iPhone is as much Unix based as Smart are Mercedes-Benz-based. It's just a tiny technical detail under the hood, but it cannot be comparable by any means.

Open-Source doesn't mean anything in term of stability. Stability itself is a word that has no real definition. For what it's worth, Open Source has produced some pretty secure and robust systems. From the control-freak point of view of Apple, surely Android must feel hectic, but dismissing something as "open source" thus "not very stable" is a heresy.

What's your phone rahmu?

This is why I hate these stupid topics. It's not about honestly comparing commercially available systems. It's about bragging "my phone is better than yours". Most of what's written in this topic has little-to-no value at all; just people giving a shallow opinion without giving any reasonable comparison.

If you want to know, I am the owner of a SGS2, but I honestly think, both iphones and android phones SUCK big time. That's a whole separate rant I'll leave it for some other time. In the meantime, if we could have some serious mature talk instead of petty comparisons and provocations...