by !anaughty!
Google blames third-party app developers for Android phones’ terrible battery life
[Via MacDailyNews]
“If there’s a single knock for just about anything mobile nowadays, it’s battery life. Laptops, netbooks, smart phones, you name it. And the more these companies try to cram into these devices, the bigger the drain on the juice,” Jim Goldman writes for CNBC.
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Developers seem to be mad at Apple for a variety of things but customers are supposed to be what are really important. Developers can make great apps but they can make the phone almost unusable if the apps diminish battery time. One of the key aspects of the iPhone that Jobs has stayed focussed on is that it is a phone first and that people will not be happy if the battery dies. leaving them unable to make or receive calls.
I think that is why apps were not even on the docket when the iPhone was released. They wanted to figure out a way to keep the apps market from creating apps that would degrade the usefulness of the phone itself.
They now have that. Although many developers do not like the controlling aspect of the App store, it provides a degree of safety for most customers.
Apple has done the same thing with multitasking – tried to find a way to allow it without degrading the ability to make a phone call.
Goggle has gone another way – opening everything for the developers, who are free to create apps that can actually reduce the customers ability to use the device. Thus, Google blames the developers for doing exactly what the openness encourages.
“Hmmmm. And therein lies the difference between Google and Apple when it comes to innovation,” Goldman writes. “Google: The Android battery life is sub-par and we blame you, the developers, our partners out there who are slaving away at trying to expand the platform. Apple: We’ve identified an issue in our platform and we have come up with an innovation to address it, so that we can help you the developers, our partners out there who are slaving away at trying to expand the platform.”
Goggle and its developers seem to sometimes lose sight of what the customer wants because they are too focussed on servicing each others needs. Apple appears to stay focussed on the customer, even if it makes their developers mad. As a customer, I like the latter approach.
[Listening to: Long Lankin from the album "Commoners Crown (Remastered)" by Steeleye Span]
