Monday, November 22, 2010

Android on iPhone. Why?

So apparently, there's this wave of interest spreading around the net about hacking your iPhone and making it able to run Android Froyo. It's on Androidspin, and almost all over android fanboy sites that I don't bother to surf since they all post the same stuff anyway.

And I have one questions for you Android Fanboys--

Why would you do such a thing to an iPhone?! It's a crappy phone in the first place, and when you port Android to it, almost nothing works, and the whole user interface [UI] is buggy. Sure, once all the bugs are worked out, the touch screen will be the BEST on the market, since the iPhone does INDEED have the best touch screen, but why waste good Android developers on something like that?! The iPhone is optimized for use with iOS, and nothing more.

Nothing more.

Now I'm sure most of you are thinking--We ported over Android onto the HTC HD2, which was originally running [ha ha] Windows Mobile 6.5, but now it's getting more support from the developer community than the Nexus One [aka the Google Supported Phone]!

Correct. It IS getting more support, but that's because of the Hardware, and because it's an HTC phone. If it was a Samsung phone, no one would even bother. If it was a Motorola phone, no one would care. XDA was originally created for HTC phone support, and nothing more. Samsung and Motorola [don't forget about LG, whoops I just did] phones sneaked their way onto the forums because of user interest and alternative UIs [aka MotoBlur(Motorola), TouchWiz(Samsung), etc].

If you want to have an Android powered device, then buy an Android-powered device. OR, if you have the time and the patience, buy an HD2 and port Android to it.

PLEASE don't waste your time trying to support the Android-Onto-iPhone community. Leave the iPhone [and all other iOS devices] alone. Let them dominate the mp3 player market. Let them dominate the tablet market. Leave the hacking up to redsn0w and Jailbreakme.com, and Cydia too. Leave Apple Alone, Android Community!

1 comment:

  1. Best touchscreen? Not so much. Best LCD?(retina display) yes. that is all. also android on an iOS device is fucking awesome, the iphone 4 has really good hardware, the 3g and the 3gs have mid range hardware. so these would actually make relatively GOOD android devices. i think its a good use of time. also motorola and samsung have come out with some relatively GOOD devices, as far as android devices are concerned. you and your HTC fanboysim. :P

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