Will iPhone apps now be available on the Android Market?

[blam03]

I'm curious, will the iPhone apps also be accessible to us Android users once the iPhone is available on 2/10/11?? I'm specifically curious about the Angry Birds game..you can get it on Android right now, but it's very slow & choppy. Will that improve at all, or no...? I know, I know this is a very superficial question, but I wanna know!!!

Thx,
Beth

 

[Chroma]

yes and no. Only if the dev wants to code their app for both ios and android.

Angry birds are on both ios and android.

Angry birds, for me, is real smooth. On both my Nexus 1 and Galaxy tab.

 

[Tre Lawrence]

Yep, as noted, depends on the developer. Ease of development and potential returns play parts in the process, I imagine, but it mostly depends on the coding guy.

 

[blam03]

yes and no. Only if the dev wants to code their app for both ios and android.

Angry birds are on both ios and android.

Angry birds, for me, is real smooth. On both my Nexus 1 and Galaxy tab.

Hmmm...well, my ERIS doesn't like it much. I didn't realize how slow it was until I downloaded the walkthrough app & saw how freaking fast & smooth it was on the iPhone that was used in the video.

 

[steaky]

Angry Birds runs great for me. Maybe the Eris does not have the power to run it well?

 

[tinynipples]

Hmmm...well, my ERIS doesn't like it much. I didn't realize how slow it was until I downloaded the walkthrough app & saw how freaking fast & smooth it was on the iPhone that was used in the video.

My sister-in-law had the same problem, the ERIS doesn't have the processor to make it all run smoothly. it is a surprisingly resource hungry game. perhaps root and play with SetCPU a bit? OCing is always fun.

 

[blam03]

My sister-in-law had the same problem, the ERIS doesn't have the processor to make it all run smoothly. it is a surprisingly resource hungry game. perhaps root and play with SetCPU a bit? OCing is always fun.

I'm a techie dummy. I have no idea what rooting or a SetCPU or OCing is... I'd ask how to do it, but am sure I'd really eff up my phone.

Thx, tho.

 

[Tre Lawrence]

I'm a techie dummy. I have no idea what rooting or a SetCPU or OCing is... I'd ask how to do it, but am sure I'd really eff up my phone.

Thx, tho.

Nope... you won't. It's easy as pie. But don't bother if you really don't want to.

But yes, Angry Birds can play just as well on Android devices (of the proper specs) as it can on iPhone.

 

[blam03]

Okay...so could you or someone possibly PM me and explain all this stuff to me??? Pwease? I'd really appreciate it.

Thx

 

[drewcam888]

Okay...so could you or someone possibly PM me and explain all this stuff to me??? Pwease? I'd really appreciate it.

Thx

Just go to the HTC Droid Eris section of the site and start reading in the all things root section. The one click root option is easy and quick

 

[sic0048]

I'm curious, will the iPhone apps also be accessible to us Android users once the iPhone is available on 2/10/11?? I'm specifically curious about the Angry Birds game..you can get it on Android right now, but it's very slow & choppy. Will that improve at all, or no...? I know, I know this is a very superficial question, but I wanna know!!!

Thx,
Beth

No. The iPhone coming to Verizon won't have any impact on this. iPhone and Android phones run two different operating systems. It's like Windows and Apple, you cannot buy an Apple program and expect it to run on Windows and vice versa.

As Android phones are becoming more popular and cutting into the iPhone's market dominance, then I think we will see more and more developers write programs for both systems. But they have to write a different app for each platform.

One could argue that the iPhone's release on Verizon might cause the iPhone to gain again against Android. If this happens, we might see less apps being written for Android. I don't think that will happen, but it's always a possibility.