CyanogenMod7 arrives on the Amazon Kindle Fire

4. tedkord (Posts: 15011; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)

Translation: Android is poised to outsell iOS again, even more quickly than in the smartphone arena - I must rationalize this.

I don't have, or want any tablet - I just don't see the point when I can pick up an infinitely more powerful and flexible laptop for nearly as cheap. Just my preference.

I do have an Android smartphone, which I chose over an iPhone knowing full well which OS it ran. And I chose it for the same reason I built a PC in the 90's using an AMD Athlon platform instead of the Intel Pii-Piii - not for the price, but because the Athlon blew the Intel CPU out of the water.

Android isn't for all folks, and for some I wouldn't recommend it. Just as for some folks, who ask me to recommend a PC, I tell them to just get the cheapest Intel Core platform they can, with embedded video and sound. If you're only going to surf the internet and type word docs and play solitaire, you don't need a discrete, powerful graphics card, Dolby surround or the latest CPU. Power users, who play intensive 3D gaming, or do extensive video editing or 3D CAD work - they need those things.

I would recomend iOS for the first group, Android for the second group, not so much based on power, but on flexibility and customization. The power of each platform is pretty even, Android can just do more because of it's inherent freedom. (Except, I can never recommend iTunes. Hate that program, hate that you have to use it for everything on your iOS device. Put it on my PC for my daughter's iPod, and it completely gummed things up. Bought her a laptop for her room for Christmas that year, yanked iTunes off my PC, threw it on hers and now it's her problem.)

BTW, I bet most iPad and iPhone customers only care about the brand name, and don't have a flipping clue how the competition stacks up. They're the same folks who had to have the Jordache jeans in the '80s, or bought a pet rock. I know several iPhone owners who are exactly like that. They're the same ones who are always asking me to fix their PC after they crap it up. They are technotards. My sister-in-law very specifically falls in that group. A coworker, two days ago, brought in his laptop to work on his resume, and it had a very effeminate wallpaper - his ex-wife had put the wallpaper on, and he had no idea how to change it. He could only turn the laptop on/off, and click on program icons. He has an iPhone and an iPad.

5. xray174 (Posts: 85; Member since: 21 Nov 2011)

he didnt read the post were it said kindle fire outselling the ipad in best buy