After throughly going through the App experience on my EVO there's a little bit left to be desired.
So there seems to be huge disconnect from iPhone apps and Android apps. I own an iPod touch and I loaded up iPod touch apps and its exact variant on my EVO. I will say right now that when it comes to games, there is absolutely no comparison, so I'm not even going to go into that. I'll just be covering utilities.
The Apps I loaded up are:
Digg, Engadget, iHeart Radio, and Facebook
So you can load up these apps for yourself if you want to get a better picture of what I'm talking about.
Ranking from best to worst
1. iHeart Radio
2. Engadget
3. Digg
4. Facebook
iHeart seemed to do the best job in porting the app from the Apple App store. These two apps are pretty much exact, except the Apple version has sliding animations. Kudos to iHeart Radio
Both Engadget and Digg on Android was a poorer version of the iPod's. Blurry graphics, ugly graphics, slow scroll, and the Android Digg version has no pinch zoom.
As for Facebook Android, its absolute trash compared to the iPod/iPhone. The Android version is slower, uglier, and has less features.
Don't get me wrong, I love my EVO, but I can't help and be frustrated that apps are being developed on the iPhone first, then has a shitty upsized blurry port to the EVO.
Are developers just plain lazy? When can we expect to get some real quality apps? It seems like every Android version has crappy icons, ugly ui, and less features. I really really hope that Android cleans up real nice and doesn't end up like a piece of slop that WinMo has become.
So there seems to be huge disconnect from iPhone apps and Android apps. I own an iPod touch and I loaded up iPod touch apps and its exact variant on my EVO. I will say right now that when it comes to games, there is absolutely no comparison, so I'm not even going to go into that. I'll just be covering utilities.
The Apps I loaded up are:
Digg, Engadget, iHeart Radio, and Facebook
So you can load up these apps for yourself if you want to get a better picture of what I'm talking about.
Ranking from best to worst
1. iHeart Radio
2. Engadget
3. Digg
4. Facebook
iHeart seemed to do the best job in porting the app from the Apple App store. These two apps are pretty much exact, except the Apple version has sliding animations. Kudos to iHeart Radio
Both Engadget and Digg on Android was a poorer version of the iPod's. Blurry graphics, ugly graphics, slow scroll, and the Android Digg version has no pinch zoom.
As for Facebook Android, its absolute trash compared to the iPod/iPhone. The Android version is slower, uglier, and has less features.
Don't get me wrong, I love my EVO, but I can't help and be frustrated that apps are being developed on the iPhone first, then has a shitty upsized blurry port to the EVO.
Are developers just plain lazy? When can we expect to get some real quality apps? It seems like every Android version has crappy icons, ugly ui, and less features. I really really hope that Android cleans up real nice and doesn't end up like a piece of slop that WinMo has become.