Yes, I agree having the app store concept, especially combined w/ a good app review/certification process, is a good thing and does help as Hanson points out.
My main beef wrt this discussion is the marketing ploy being used to tout iOS over Android, et al. Meanwhile, there seems to be this laziness (or maybe even agenda) w/ reviews being so iOS-centric in covering other non-iOS devices.
Don't keep regurgitating to me about the giant see of crap in the App Store -- which might actually be turning into a rather bad thing, if you think about it, since I find myself wasting too much time looking for anything actually useful there each time I bother -- but actually apply some due diligence in one's published reviews of these rapidly advancing products. I don't fault the average (or even moderately advanced) user for not knowing better, but any cross-platform reviewer who wishes to be taken seriously *must* do better than simply drinking Apple's Kool-Aid, especially at this point in the (r)evolution curve.
Afterall, it's not like this whole smartphone/tablet platform thing has reached a high plateau and everything will clearly just be diminishing returns...
_Man_
My main beef wrt this discussion is the marketing ploy being used to tout iOS over Android, et al. Meanwhile, there seems to be this laziness (or maybe even agenda) w/ reviews being so iOS-centric in covering other non-iOS devices.
Don't keep regurgitating to me about the giant see of crap in the App Store -- which might actually be turning into a rather bad thing, if you think about it, since I find myself wasting too much time looking for anything actually useful there each time I bother -- but actually apply some due diligence in one's published reviews of these rapidly advancing products. I don't fault the average (or even moderately advanced) user for not knowing better, but any cross-platform reviewer who wishes to be taken seriously *must* do better than simply drinking Apple's Kool-Aid, especially at this point in the (r)evolution curve.
Afterall, it's not like this whole smartphone/tablet platform thing has reached a high plateau and everything will clearly just be diminishing returns...
_Man_