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phuck if I understand a damn single word in this article.

WTF are they talking about?

damn I'm old.


One of the many announcements Google rolled out at its I/O developers conference this week was Froyo, the latest upgrade to its Android operating software. Android has been making some impressive gains in smartphone market share, more at the expense of smaller players like Microsoft Windows than Apple. But early reviews of Froyo suggest that Android might begin to eat away at the iPhone's share as well, unless Apple makes some significant improvements soon.

Mashable highlights the improvements to Froyo and makes some not-so-flattering comparisons with the iPhone.

It plays nicely with Flash and HTML 5. It does native and web apps. It makes devices run faster than the iPad. It streams music from iTunes or any other desktop music library. It does painless, wireless tethering. It makes transferring apps from the desktop to mobile completely automatic.


It makes the iPhone (and C-Dude) look like a clunky, locked-down piece of junk, in so many words.

Over at jkOnTheRun, James Kendrick got his hands on a phone running Froyo. He also runs through some improvements—it's two to three times faster than previous versions, it supports Flash and tethering—and concludes,

Android is like a runaway 18-wheeler going full speed downhill; there will be no stopping it. We were recently impressed by the admission that 65,000 Android phones are activated every day. It’s no wonder the latest figure shared today by Google left us amazed—100,000 Android phones are now being activated daily. That is a lot of phones, and demonstrates how rapidly Android is being adopted in the consumer space. Equally impressive was the word that over 1 billion miles have now been navigated using Google Maps Navigation, and that was only introduced 6 months ago. Don’t step in front of the runaway, you will get run over (by a gazzillion Little Darlings no doubt).

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What struck me most is that Froyo runs 2 unalterably opposed video presenting systems well. Flash from Adobe Systems has been banned from all Apple devices, while HTML5 (HyperText Markup Language 5), Apple's proprietary property, is the only way to view videos on the iPad, iPhone and other Apple products. Due to the huge success of these Apple hardware products, advertisers and even government units are forced to include both in the presentations...and more and more are going to HTML5 solo.
For the techies: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/excl ... ming-plat/
For those who aren't so much: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/05/20/ ... ORDS=froyo

Yes, everybody's well aware that "Froyo" means frozen yogurt--but then we all could stand a little culture. Ho ho.
And finally for you truly "Old Skool" troglodytes , there's this: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/05/21/ ... -turns-30/

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Flash may be crap but Android is the wave of the future, apple will find that they are driving developers away by the telling them what they can and cannot do, and how they must do things. Nor have they done anything revolutionary recently, Android has pulled ahead and the others have caught up.

HTML5 is the latest version of a web standard, not something that apple had much (if any) part in. You can see it on Chrome, Firefox, Safari and eventually IE.

And Flash - I hate it! Dealing with web pages that are clogged up with two or three flash movies all trying to play at the same time. It's been used for too many years by advertisers spewing out all that garbage. It's not a web standard - although Adobe would love it if it was - but everyone uses it as it's easy. Apple is blocking it "for technical reasons" but really because it's also used by developers to create applications for Android and other platforms as well as the iPhone. I use a Google Chrome extension called flashblock to cut out all the flash on web sites - it only plays if I want it to. Very useful and it returns harmony to my browser.

The video discussion is because HTML5 supports native video but versions before that did not, you had to have another app (like flash) that the browser would use to play it. Then HTML5 has to recognise the format of the video and there are two competing versions seeking to be the next video standard - H.264 which has widespread support but is not free and VP8 which Google is now giving away.