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Android Is Fading Into The Background—And That's A Good Thing
May 13th
This week’s Google I/O conference is promising to be an anticlimactic event when it comes to new products running Android, Google’s mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets. And that may be a good thing.
The Year of Android was 2011. That was the year that Android became a stable platform and sales of smartphones running the operating system began to rocket towards the moon. Android was all that anybody could talk about, for good or bad.
Two years later, Android is almost a forgotten term among the partners Google depends on to make hardware.
By our count, four major smartphones running Android have already launched this year: the Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One, HTC First and LG Optimus G Pro. All of these smartphones are some of the best to ever hit the market in terms of screens, batteries, processors and cameras. Even the HTC First, considered a ho-hum middle-market device, is of such quality that it helps to redefine what a middle-market smartphone can be.
Each of these smartphones shares a distinct trait: They all run on Android, and yet its presence is not a talking point. Instead, the smartphones themselves take center stage. The HTC One is best known for its “ultrapixel” camera, Zoe camera features and BlinkFeed home screen. The Samsung Galaxy S4 is so packed with features (like Air Gesture, Air View and Smart Scroll) and Samsung-made apps that the underlying Android operating system is hardly recognizable. The First is, of course, the “Facebook Phone,” running the Facebook Home launcher. The Optimus G Pro is a large-screen phablet, or smartphone-tablet hybrid, with a couple of neat user interface tricks up its sleeve.
The Device Has Become The Story
For Android’s first five years, the story about every new smartphone running Android was the operating system. How well does it work? Do apps run without crashing? What Android features are present and how well do they work? When manufacturers like Motorola, Samsung or HTC announced new smartphones, they would show off what can be done with Android. If something was good or bad about a device, it was Android that received the praise. Or the blame.
I was at the launch events for the Galaxy S4 and the HTC One. At both events, Android was mentioned exactly once, in passing to note what operating system the phones were running. In reviewing those two smartphones, I hardly thought about Android at all. The focus was on the features of the smartphones, such as the improved cameras and battery life.
Android’s Inflection Point
The first Android smartphone was released in October 2008. The HTC G1 was a curiosity. Most people thought of it as the “Google Phone,” and it was notable only because it came pre-loaded with Google apps like Maps.
Looking back over five years of Android, we can break it down into two distinct eras: What came before Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and what came after.
Gingerbread, released in December 2010, is still the most-used version of Android. It was the release that supercharged Android smartphone sales across the globe. But it defined an early era of Android development where manufacturers and users had to play a guessing game about compatibility with screen sizes and hardware.
Ice Cream Sandwich, which came out less than a year later, was the biggest leap that Android has made in its short history. This was the version where Google started to take design, performance, functionality, and ease of use and development more seriously. With Ice Cream Sandwich, Google made it simpler for developers and manufacturers to build apps for multiple screen sizes and varying chipsets. In Ice Cream Sandwich, the improvements that had been introduced in Android Honeycomb 3.2 (designed specifically for tablets) were merged with the core of Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
With Ice Cream Sandwich, Android not only became usable, it became seamless—and that’s when it started to fade into the background.
Since Ice Cream Sandwich, Google has worked to refine Android’s features, functionality and performance and been very successful. Last year, Google announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, a mostly iterative update that brought a couple neat tricks to the operating system, like its “Android Beam” NFC sharing, resizable widgets and Google Now. Google announced last year at its I/O developer conference that performance in Jelly Bean was a key focus (the so-called “Project Butter”) and the results were noticeable. Since Ice Cream Sandwich, users and developers have complained less about Android’s fragmentation problem, apps not working on different devices and screen sizes.
It is very telling that the focus for Jelly Bean (both version 4.1 and 4.2) was not on new features, but performance. It took several years for Google to get Android to the point where it wasn’t fighting itself but rather creating a platform that just worked well.
The Benefits Of Android Maturity
At the beginning of 2012, Google started requiring that apps show consistency in look and user experience across the board. The goal of Android’s Holo Themes: ensuring that various Android “skins,” or interface layers on top of the core Android OS, would look consistent while also allowing designers to differentiate the look of their apps. This, along with a variety of improvements in CPU performance and efficiency within newer devices, has led Android to a state where the operating system no longer gets in its own way.
What has this led us to? A developer landscape where apps built for Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean run with more consistency and reliability. Smartphones and tablets where the manufacturers can create excellent features and experiences that are built on top of Android without needing to be a feature of the operating system itself.
Some argue that this scenario puts Google at a disadvantage, allowing Samsung, the dominant Android smartphone maker, to take advantage of a weakened Android and push its own innovations.
I disagree. A sign of maturity for any technology platform is when it stops being primary topic of conversation and becomes part of the background.
It has taken the half-decade since the first Android smartphone for the operating system to get to this point, but now that Android has matured, everybody from app developers to smartphone and tablet manufacturers benefit. The ultimate winner then becomes the consumer who reaps the benefits of a platform that allows innovators to push the boundaries of what is possible.
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Phoenix SEO Company Big Mouth SEO Says Panda Update Is the Best Thing to … – PR Newswire (press release)
Apr 22nd
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PR Newswire (press release) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Big Mouth SEO, a Phoenix SEO company that also specializes in reputation management, has just revealed that the latest Panda updates by Google has not caused a decrease in their clients' … |
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Co-Citation and Co-Occurrence – The Next Big Thing in SEO
Mar 29th
Google has experimented with a list of algorithm changes. Over the past couple of years, these changes have of course directly affected the way SEO works. If we talk about more precise terms, we see that keywords, back-links and anchor text are some of the terms that have been very dominant, powerful and effective in the [...]
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Co-Citation and Co-Occurrence – The Next Big Thing in SEO – Search Engine Journal
Mar 29th
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Co-Citation and Co-Occurrence – The Next Big Thing in SEO
Search Engine Journal Google has experimented with a list of algorithm changes. Over the past couple of years, these changes have of course directly affected the way SEO works. If we talk about more precise terms, we see that keywords, back-links and anchor text are some of … |
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What If There Was No Such Thing As SEO? – Business 2 Community
Mar 28th
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What If There Was No Such Thing As SEO?
Business 2 Community If you want to have a successful online presence, you probably spend a lot of time talking about, studying, and trying to perfect your SEO strategy. But what if there was no such thing as SEO? What would your life be like? Well, you'd probably see … |
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Microsoft Adds Flash Back To IE10 – Is That A Good Thing?
Mar 12th
Beginning Tuesday, Microsoft is reversing itself and adding Flash back into the Internet Explorer 10 browsers used by Windows 8 and Windows RT. The browser will use a “touch-enabled” version of Flash optimized with Adobe.
Specifically, Flash will be enabled with the Windows 8-style “Metro” environment by default, Microsoft said. It will continue to run, as it previously has, within the Windows 7-like desktop, the alternative user interface still used by some apps. Microsoft has also flip-flopped its security protocols, swapping a “whitelist” of approved Flash sites for a blacklist of sites which are now prohibited.
Usability vs. Security
Microsoft’s decision has two key aspects: usability and security. On the usability side, people who use Windows 8 and Windows RT, including those who have purchased the two variants of Microsoft’s Surface tablet, will be able to take advantage of the numerous Flash games available online. On the other hand, adding back Flash also opens IE users to Flash vulnerabilities that the browser might have previously weeded out.
Before today’s change, Microsoft maintained a so-called “whitelist” of approved sites that could run Flash within the IE10 environment. Now, however, that so-called “Compatibility View List” will block (or “blacklist”) those sites that don’t meet Microsoft’s criteria for usability and reliability, or security. On Windows 8, they’ll be banished to the desktop via an ugly error message. On Windows RT, they won’t run at all.
“We believe having more sites ‘just work’ in IE10 improves the experience for consumers, businesses, and developers,” Rob Mauceri, the group program manager for Internet Explorer, wrote in a blog post. “As a practical matter, the primary device you walk around with should give you access to all the Web content on the sites you rely on. Otherwise, the device is just a companion to a PC. Because some popular Web sites require Adobe Flash and do not offer HTML5 alternatives, Adobe and Microsoft continue to work together closely to deliver a Flash Player optimized for the Windows experience.”
A guide for developers provides some additional guidance – namely, that Microsoft isn’t giving up its emphasis on HTML5 over Flash. And just because IE10 now supports Flash doesn’t mean Microsoft will bless any old implementation. Any app that requires a double-click, for example, will be frowned upon, as will apps that call Flash for panning, zooming, rotating and swiping. The use of cameras and microphones powered by Flash code will also not be allowed.
Fortunately, fewer than 4% of sites on the Web fall on the CV blacklist, Microsoft said.
Security Headaches?
Microsoft’s Mauceri wrote that the new version of Flash has been “optimized for touch, performance, security, reliability, and battery life. Adobe made substantial changes to the Flash player to align with the Windows 8 experience goals.”
Unfortunately, that also means that IE10 will require Flash-specific patches, too. While Flash may not be as vulnerable as Java – recall that the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) recommended that Java be disabled in January, even after Oracle issued an out-of-band update – Flash is frequently patched. That’s a double-edged sword: It means that Flash is constantly being attacked, even as Adobe and others constantly update it. In May 2012, for example, Adobe discovered and patched a vulnerability that could hijack Windows PCs. Adobe representatives did not respond to requests for comment via a Web form. According to Microsoft, any needed Flash updates will be delivered via Windows Update… no surprise there.
This is a big issue because from a security standpoint, Internet Explorer is a gateway into Windows PCs. And both Flash and Windows. are constantly in dynamic states of security.
Microsoft should be congratulated for maintaining the CV blacklist as an additional layer of security, simply refusing to access sites that it knows harbor malware. Unfortunately, “innocent” sites that merely display their content in ways that are unfriendly to touch screens or IE10 may also be blocked. Developers can manually request their sites to be unblocked (with the number of visitors being one criteria) and use sites like Microsoft’s IE-friendly Modern.ie to facilitate its removal.
A Microsoft spokesperson had this to say: “Adobe and Microsoft have worked closely together for some time to address security and reliability issues, sharing best practices like the SDL and ASLR as well as information on hangs and crashes. We are also working together on accessibility, manageability, and privacy. Flash updates with the Windows Update mechanism to distribute security updates from Adobe to meet expectations of Windows customers with regard to security updates and delivery of those updates.”
Flash Is Dead. Long Live Flash?
Flash may not be inherently bad – but it sure has plenty of enemies. Adobe itself pulled the plug on mobile Flash development last year, and groups like OccupyFlash would like to eliminate it from the desktop, as well. (BlackBerry, for some reason, has chosen to cling to Flash in BB10.)
“Flash Player is dead,” the site’s manifesto reads. “Its time has passed. It’s buggy. It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates. It doesn’t work on most mobile devices. It’s a fossil, left over from the era of closed standards and unilateral corporate control of web technology.”
That analysis is absolutely right. If Flash isn’t dead yet, it’s surely dying. But just as Windows users gripe about backwards-compatibility with their favorite apps and games, so must the Web hold on to Flash. For now, at least.
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Newspaper Pay Walls Are A Good Thing – Here’s Why
Nov 26th
Guest author David Brauchl is chief communication officer for paid content strategy experts Piano Media. He was a professional news photographer for nearly 20 years, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work in Sarajevo, South Africa and Germany.
Newspaper publishers struggle to successfully monetize their online content, and they are not getting any help from journalism schools, despite the fact that these are the very institutions preparing young people to enter the shrinking field and the ones you’d think would be trying to help newspapers stay alive, not hasten their demise.
Most people understand that the content found in newspapers costs money to produce. The cost of producing that content is not diminished when the content is distributed online.
Nobody should understand that better than academic professionals in the field of journalism.
Nevertheless, some in the field have become advocates for making content free, even to the point of encouraging students to circumvent newspaper pay-walls and, in some cases, showing them how it’s done.
Teaching Students To Steal
One example is Kristin Gilger, an Associate Dean at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, who recently sent an email to all associate faculty detailing how to avoid a paywall that The Arizona Republic had installed.
“With the Arizona Republic/azcentral.com going to a pay wall, you may want to share the following info with your students (especially if they’re required to read the newspaper for your class),” Gilger wrote. “A PDF of the front page of the Republic is available at the Newseum Web site.”
Gilger’s email set off a remarkable discussion among faculty in which several members detailed techniques for defeating pay walls. One professor, John Leach, explained to his colleagues how he circumvented all pay walls by using two computers, different browsers, deleting cookies and using the “incognito” feature on Google’s Chrome browser. He justified his subterfuge with the assertion that “the students need that money more than Gannett stockholders do.”
Another professor, Paul Atkinson, claimed he had “found a bypass to websites like the NYTimes and LATimes that restrict access.” His detailed instructions were to “copy the headline from the website, paste it in a search tab. The results will show the title and source. Sure, it takes a few extra seconds, but I’ve never been denied access this way.”
A Lone Voice Of Dissent
Only one faculty member, former Wall Street Journal reporter Anthony Ramirez, questioned the majority’s view that paying for content was reprehensible, writing that “I’m troubled by this ballooning information-is-free ethos.”
University professors routinely include local newspapers in their curriculum to provide students with valuable examples of journalism in action. Clearly they must understand the impact a newspaper’s failure would have on the local community.
However, the presence of a discussion like this at a premier journalism school where the ethical position is the minority view shows how difficult the business of journalism has become.
What is the source of this ethical collapse? When did even the people who depend on the future viability of the industry for the sustenance of their careers and the well-being of their families decide that stealing the news was an acceptable action? Who gave them that idea in the first place?
Papers Brought This On Themselves
One answer could be that newspaper publishers themselves created their own undoing. Starting 1996, all the news that was fit to print was given away for free using a business model that was wholly advertising-supported. This approach worked for a while, with newspaper advertising revenue topping out in 2006 at $64 billion.
What followed, however, was stagnation and decline. By 2011, advertising revenue from both digital and traditional sources dropped to less than $25 billion. Clearly, radical measures were needed to preserve the industry.
Enter the New York Times. The Grey Lady developed a reasonable pay-wall system that provided the casual reader 10 free online articles from the newspaper per month. For more dedicated readers, the New York Times requested payment for an annual subscription.
It worked. The paper gained more than 350,000 readers when the pay wall went into effect, and the business continues to add subscribers at a 10% rate quarter-on-quarter.
A Wake-Up Call To Newspapers
While the New York Times’ pay wall does not completely discourage content theft, the paper’s bold approach served as a clarion call to the industry. With astonishing rapidity, other media publishers have jumped on the bandwagon. Currently, 25% of all U.S. newspapers monetize their content through some sort of payment system. Of course, there will always be readers who are comfortable with stealing proprietary content. No publisher can control the ethics of their readership. However, publishers can control the technology.
Until now, most content security was easily defeated by javascript, manipulation of cookies or browsers with incognito settings. Newspaper publishers, aware of the myriad flaws within their payment systems, have been ready for a solution.
Why This Matters To Me
How do I know about this, and why do I care? Genes maybe. My grandfather was the publisher of the Wheeling, W.Va., newspaper in the 1950s. My brother has been the editor of two major U.S. newspapers, and I made my living for almost 20 years as a photojournalist, covering most of the major conflicts in the 1990s, everything from the breakup of Yugoslavia to the Russian incursion in Chechnya.
I have worked for the wires, photo agencies, magazines, newspapers, even online, with Salon right when they launched. I know the value of news, how it impacts decisions made at the top, how it affects the people living in dire circumstances and how important a job being a journalist is.
I believe in media, and I want to see it survive, which is why, after taking some time to heal from PTSD, I got back in and joined Piano Media, a Slovak company, because it seems to me these guys, or companies like them, are the ones who will help journalism save itself.
The Piano Media Pay Wall System
In 2011 Piano Media developed a system that allowed publishers in Slovakia to bundle their prime content within a payment system and charge for it like cable TV. Subscribing readers paid one low price and received open access to everything within the system in return.
Readers have been receptive. Our system works. Within a very short amount of time, we expanded into Slovenia and then Poland.
We recognized that publishers in bigger markets were equally desperate to find ways to monetize content with technology that was both efficient and secure.
So we purchased the rights to software that could closely track audience engagement, enabling us to offer a proven payment system that could not be defeated by cookie deletion, use of multiple computers, special browser settings or alternative devices. This new system is called Piano Solo, and we will start rolling it out in December 2012.
I hope that our software will change discussions like the one that took place at ASU. No longer will teaching the wrong side of ethics and morality be easier than discussing both sides constructively.
I also hope that these discussions will help us restore the sense of trust we once had for our news when it arrived every morning.
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The Tricorder X Prize: The Biggest Thing In Home Health Care Since The Thermometer?
Nov 13th
The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize promises to turn everybody into a Doctor McCoy by 2016. It could change everything about the way we practice medicine. But are we ready for it?
If you’re a redshirt thinking you might have a case of Rigelian Fever, where do you go for advice? Whether you’re planet-side or in the sick bay, odds are you’re going to start with a tricorder. In the Star Trek universe, the tricorder was a non-invasive, handheld device that scanned geological, meteorological, and biological data. When used by medical personnel, the tricorder could diagnose all but the rarest diseases.
The tricorder inspired X Prize Foundation Chairman Peter Diamandis, who wondered whether – with enough incentive – engineers could build a medical diagnostic tool that could monitor health and identify illness on the spot, without a doctor’s assistance. Add in $10 million in total prize money from Qualcomm and you have the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, launched in January, 2012.
In an interview earlier this year, Diamandis described the ideal healthcare tricorder:
“A device that is easy and friendly to use that a consumer–whether that’s a mom at home at 2:00 in the morning or someone on the road–can use to diagnose themselves without having to go to a doctor or a hospital. It’s really about reinventing the future of healthcare.”
It’s a tall order, but X Prize isn’t shying away. A successful tricorder will:
- Diagnose diseases
- Provide ongoing metrics of health (vitals)
- Allow monitoring or continuous use of sensors to diagnose and measure health
- Provide awareness of health state
- Give confirmation that everything is OK with a consumer
- Notify that something is not OK (a “check engine light”)
Specifically, the tricorder will be able to identify the following 11 conditions:
- Anemia
- Urinary tract infection
- Diabetes
- Atrial fibrillation
- Strep throat
- Sleep apnea
- Melanoma screen
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Abnormalities in a comprehensive metabolic panel
- Hypothyroidism/hyperthyroidism
- Leukocytosis
Any winning device will have to be able to diagnose these conditions routinely and accurately.
Sounds great, right? So is there a catch?
Maybe.
Some people in the medical industry are a bit concerned. The tricorder’s goal is the “deskilling” of routine medical checks. Ultimately, for simpler ailments, it aims to remove doctors from the treatment equation altogether, down the line. Diamandis gets major points for going big in an industry as conservative as healthcare, but are we legally and physically prepared for the consequences?
There are plenty of things that could go wrong. What if a device misses a melanoma a visual inspection might have caught? Who’s legally responsible for malfunctions? Will a false sense of security cause users to skip routine physical checkups?
The Thermometer Test
To get some perspective, I ran the tricorder idea past a friend of mine who’s also an epidemiologist. He shared my enthusiasm, praising “any technology that gets people more involved managing their own health,” but immediately applied some cautionary brakes. “It’s a fantastic idea, and a big step when everyone is thinking incrementally. But it also kind of worries me.”
The reason? It might not pass “the thermometer test.”
To a doctor, the home thermometer is the single best piece of home medical equipment ever created. “It’s a perfect triage device,” my friend explained. “It provides accurate, objective information that medical personnel can use to make judgements. It’s a pretty good barometer to judge the severity of many common ailments, but it also doesn’t try to diagnose anything.”
In other words, a thermometer tells you if you’re running a fever, but it doesn’t try to tell you why. It provides critical data to healthcare personnel, but leaves the decision-making in their hands.
That can make a world of difference, particularly in situations requiring counseling or judgement of the patient’s mental state. “I’d hate to see physicians removed from the discussion. It’s not a matter of job security. It’s a matter of full-circle patient care.” He went on to surmise that absent a doctor at the point of diagnosis, users might be more likely to pursue treatment options online, or a diagnosis might unhinge a mentally fragile patient who could do harm to himself or others.
Concerns notwithstanding, self-diagnostic technology is coming, in condition-specific devices like a bra that detects breast cancer and general-purpose machines like the tricorder.
The first-gen Scanadu Scout, which falls nicely within the thermometer test zone, should be hitting the market in late 2013.
Like all data, medical information is useful only if its used properly. Here’s hoping that patients accept some responsibility along with their flashy new devices.
Lead image from Memory Alpha.
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Google’s Nexus 10: It’s Not An iPad, And That’s A Good Thing
Nov 2nd
I want to love the Nexus 10. There are a few specific reasons I never really loved the iPad, and Google’s new flagship tablet addresses some of the biggest ones.
It’s lighter, it’s thinner, it’s easier to hold. It has big, loud speakers you can actually hear, and it’s not worse than the iPad at anything, save one: It runs Android, so there’s not as much good tablet software for it. Yet.
iPads feel precious. The glass wants to shatter, and the aluminum wants to scratch or dent. That’s the biggest problem with the world’s leading tablet, which is meant to be carried around, scrawled on, handled and touched.
The Nexus 10, built by go-to Google partner Samsung, feels like it’s built for working and playing. It’s grippy and rubbery, and the edges have this gentle slope that fits in hands in a variety of ways. You can hold it with one hand. I found my favorite way to use it was resting on the palm of one hand, like a painter’s palette, using it with the other hand. I’d never do that with an iPad.
There are trade-offs, though. Every detail of the iPad feels carefully considered. It didn’t take me long to discover that the Nexus 10’s volume switch doesn’t switch directions with orientation. So while it’s correct in landscape mode, while going from left to right, it’s upside down in portrait mode. Down turns the volume up, and up turns it down. While I’m sure this will be fixed in a software update, it says something about attention to detail.
Better Than Retina
The iPad’s 9.7-inch display has a resolution of 2048 x 1536, while the Nexus 10′s 10-inch display clocks in at a whopping 2560 x 1600. This display is luscious. The aspect ratio is more widescreen, so it’s better for watching movies, too.
The performance is ridiculously fast, though that’s true of modern iPad as well. The Nexus 10 is especially fun for gaming because of the front-facing stereo speakers that run along both of the short sides. Unlike the iPad, these puppies actually get LOUD, which is great for a racing game. The sound quality is still fairly terrible for music, though.
An Entertaining Option
But the Nexus 10 is still interesting as an entertainment system. Its docking port is on the side, so it could be docked in some kind of speaker peripheral – if one existed – while you watch the brilliant, HD display. Android 4.2 now supports an industry standard called Miracast, so you can stream media over your Wi-Fi network to supporting devices. It’s just like Apple’s AirPlay, but it’s open, so TV manufacturers can build it in.
The Nexus 10 is also better for sharing than an iPad, and that’s critical. Android 4.2 supports multiple users, so everyone in the family can have their own, separate profile on one tablet without messing up anyone else’s. Apple should have beaten Android to this, but it didn’t. For some reason, this feature isn’t available until November 13 when the unit goes on sale, so I wasn’t able to try it. But Google showed it to me in the demo when I received my review unit.
The cameras are okay, but no one in their right mind should take a photo with a tablet. For video Hangouts using Google+, the Nexus 10 is perfectly fine.
Android Still An Issue
The Android app ecosystem is still not there yet. Yes, there are thousands and thousands of apps, and many of them are free, but that’s not what I want. I want painstaking craftsmanship: the perfect app for doing what I need to do. iOS has lots of those, and Android does not.
That said, the new version of Pocket for Android, which arrived Thursday, offers a great reading experience. That’s how I spend most of my time on a tablet. But I still have to settle for subpar apps for most of what I do. If apps matter to you, the iPad still rules.
But now that there’s a great tablet in this size, perhaps there’s a better reason for developers to build great software for it. And, of course, there’s no better experience for Google’s own services than on an Android device, and they shine here. The Nexus 10 is the full-size tablet Android and Google fans have been waiting for. And at $399 for 16GB and $499 for 32GB, it’s a better deal than an iPad, too.
Correction: An earlier version misstated that the Nexus 10′s pixel density was lower than the retina iPad.
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