Wife's iPad2

[SquintySteam]

I have a hard time understanding the fragmentation argument. Sure it'd be nice if every application I ever bought worked on every device I would ever buy but I don't hear people whining about fragmentation in the Desktop OS environment. Why is it such a big deal on phones or tablets?

 

[2CupsWithString]

Fragmentation is more of a blog/media issue than a real user issue.

Have you ever seen anyone, even on this entire forum, say "man, I wish I was on android version blah blah blah, so I could blah blah blah" ?

 

[E_man]

can u compare the smoothness,and quality of the ibooks app to the google books app? I read a lot, and the ibooks app on my sister's ipad is pretty nice and smooth.

The biggest problem with google books in my opinion is that you cannot side load books.

It's a benchmark run hopefully on the same version of the source code. Each system has different compilers with different optimizations. Also, since this is a graphic benchmark this maybe more of a comparison of GPUs instead of CPUs, and graphics libraries. Perhaps the libraries on Honeycomb are not optimized for the larger displays. I know Apple has updated their graphics libraries several times over the last year with some substantial increase performance.

The only thing we know is that iPad2 did better than the XOOM on these specific tests. If your do not do similar tasks in everyday usage the tests do not necessarily relate to your experience. It also does not mean in the future a firmware or software update could not result in the roles reversing.

I actually think the CNet's web site loading test may be more relevant test since this is a more likely task for a "typical" tablet owner.

I've also heard that Anand (usually an amazingly accurate site) side loaded the test app that would not install from the market due to incompatibility. They then ran the test despite the fact that the app didn't use large parts of the GPU's ability. Then they posted charts without normalizing it for resolution. It was somwhat sloppy work, not what I expect from anand.

 

[frenzy757]

Fragmentation is more of a blog/media issue than a real user issue.

Have you ever seen anyone, even on this entire forum, say "man, I wish I was on android version blah blah blah, so I could blah blah blah" ?

Netflix is rumored (as well as mlb.tv) to only work on certain devices regardless of the OS version.


So you will hear "Man I wish I had the Droid 23334 so I could get the Netflix Ap"

So now instead of all Android 2.X users having netflix (like we currently do with Flash and 2.2+ and the Nav on 2.0+ etc) we will have Netflix limited to DEVICES...To me, thats a huge problem.