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Top 10 Awesome list is Wrong

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Generally, most top tens are wrong somewhere, but Whitson Gordon dives in with a compilation of awesome, yes actually awesome features that the iPhone doesn't have but the googley phone does. Most of them are, well things that are perhaps not awesome and more like useful to some people more than others. Flash is also something that could never be described as awesome, however I digress too much.

Number five in his list is... Wireless App Installation. Er, what? He says, "The App Store and Cydia App Store aren't exactly fun to browse on your phone", what does he want, a fun cute game with unicorns to download apps? Actually that might be awesome. But anyway, the App Store is a thing of beauty and much nicer than the Android Marketplace, though again beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Wait, whut? His point, "but you either have to download apps on your phone or plug it into iTunes to sync them all over." So he is saying, you either have to download an app wirelessly to your phone, or copy it over from iTunes, the first one being wireless app installation if ever I've seen it.

He says, "With the new Android Market, or with third-party sites like AppBrain, you can find a cool app, hit the install button, and it'll be on your phone the next time you pick it up. It doesn't get much more convenient than that." He's right, it doesn't, and the iPhone has been able to do that since the very first 2G released years ago.

Thank you Whitson, for being wrong!


Nintendo president Satoru and Silicon Knights Boss Dyack Are Both Wrong
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I'm not going to spend too long on this one, to sum it up, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata said that mobile phone app prices are completely screwing up the gaming eco system and devaluing games in general. Silicon Knights boss Denis Dyack, of Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem fame, has joined in on the side of Nintendo with the comment that in his opinion it is, "not clear if it's a viable industry."

I'm sure Rovio, the makers of Angry Birds, Cut the Rope creators Chillingo, and casual game kings PopCap of Peggle and Plants vs Zombies fame will all disagree.

Rule one about being in an industry, if it changes over time due to technology, don't whinge about it, move with it. Otherwise you'll only end up like the record industry, trying to get an MP3 player tax to keep your aged out of date business model afloat.Previous Page

Posted by Robert John Shepherd