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Apple tends to do that a lot. It’s deeply ingrained in their culture, priorities, and product development practices. In brief, their philosophy seems to be to ship only what’s great and leave out the rest. That’s why, instead of having a bad copy-and-paste implementation for the iPhone’s first two years, we just didn’t have one at all

Android as a platform, both in hardware and software, doesn’t reflect this. Nearly every hardware and software release has major shortcomings or rough edges. Many details and design decisions are lacking, wrong, or inexplicable. Neither Google nor the current Android device manufacturers embody the part of Apple’s culture that allows them to release a great product on day one. They have a different pattern: It’s always getting better. We’re always supposedly one or two releases from it being really great.

I never make technology-buying decisions based on future promises, rumors, or potential. I let other people be the bleeding-edge extremely early adopters, and I stick with what I know will work and stay out of my way. I don’t buy things that are “getting better”, because they usually don’t. Whatever caused them to be lacking in their current release will usually prevent them from being great in future releases. I buy things that are great today. They’re usually things that have been great since day one. And, more often than not, they’re Apple products.

You're required to select a category for your application. On December 22, 2010, the available category types changed in the Developer Console. The original categories were renamed, merged, or split into new categories. We believe this will enhance the user experience significantly; the new categories will rolling out to users over the course of a week.

Moreover I am not one of top developers nor any of my apps have been promoted by Android Market. I am just an one among of thousands of Android developers with not to well known apps. And what may be really surprising all my apps are free as Google do not allow developers from my country (Poland) to sell apps via Android Market!

So keep in mind these facts: None of my apps has been ever promoted in Top of Android Market I am providing only free apps (mostly due of Android Market limitations) Even if I would be able to sell apps I would not use it as main income source… (I believe that you still can make more from ads…)

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让我们惊奇的是自从 Matias Duarte 加入 Google 之后 Android 的用户界面已经发生了很多改变和改进。Matias 以前工作于 Sidekick、Helio 和 Palm 的 WebOS，所以 Android 与他是完美的组合。仅 9 个月，Matias Duarte 和他的团队就解决了很多 Android 用户界面的不足之处：虚拟键盘不够好，平庸的多任务界面，隐藏的菜单需要点击按钮才能显示，而且软键盘不够灵活固定在了单一的方向等。

在 Android Honeycomb 中用导航栏和命令动作取代了隐藏菜单

The concept of ActionBar has been introduced with the Twitter application for Android. More recently, we have seen this widget in the Google I/O 2010 schedule application. To sum up, an ActionBar can be considered as an advanced title bar that is capable of: containing several ActionBaritems (similar to buttons) being styled so that the general look’n'feel of the application is in accordance with the underlying brand/visual identity containing a title to show the user a summary of the screen content featuring several user interaction pattern.

虽然 BGR 认为 XOOM 还是无法替代笔记本电脑，但是强大的硬件、令人印象深刻的规格配备以及专门为平板准备的系统，让 XOOM 仍不失为一款非常棒的产品。即便不够创新，与 iPad 相比在易用性、直观性以及软件选择上也没有做得更好，也一定会赢得很多消费者的青睐

总体来说，从硬件上 XOOM 超越了 iPad，在工业设计和美学方面和 iPad 也是同一档次，只是已经非常出色的 Honeycomb 系统在易用性上还无法跟 iOS 相比。除此之外，XOOM 无疑是当今市场最好的平板电脑

电力表现不俗，标称 18-20 小时，TC 的编辑经过十小时的正常使用（音乐、读书、浏览网页）以后，还能剩余 67% 的电量，对于普通用户来说，应该是绰绰有余了

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