In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems nospam wrote:
In article , Chris Malcolm
wrote:

I guess I must have been very lucky. I bought a cheap low-end Android
smart phone. Every app in it, and every app I've downloaded into it,
has always launched faultlessly whenever I tap the icon. Nothing has
ever crashed. What amazing luck! For a fraction of the cost I got
something that works as well as an iphone!

how is it a fraction of the cost? the price of android phones and
iphones aren't that much different and the price of the service is
going to be the same no matter what phone you have.

That may be the case now where you live.

it is.

And don't forget the cost of applications etc..

you can't count apps in the price of a phone since not everyone will be
buying the same apps.

nevertheless, if you were to buy the top 100 apps on both platforms, it
would cost quite a bit more on android than on the iphone:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/02/...ps-cost-2-5x-m
ore-than-iphone-apps/

In the U.S., for example, the cost of purchasing the top 100 paid-for
apps in the Android Market is $374.37 -- an average of $3.74 per
app.*The top 100 iPhone apps would cost $147.00, or $1.47 per app.

But that's not necessarily comparing like with like. to make a proper
comparison you'd need to select say the top 100 apps, whether free or
paid for, on each platform, and then look at the cost of acquiring the
nearest equivalents on the other platform. Plus considering how
important it is if there's no satisfactory equivalent at any price.

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Chris Malcolm