Music on Android: still crap?

[Peter Korsten]

These days, we have quite a few evil empires. Microsoft in comparison looks
moderately cool; it's come that far. Google are clearly evil, more so
because they pretend to be cool. We' not Google's customers; we're their
products. Apple are evil because of their brainwashed users, and Oracle are
evil because they are the Gibson of the software world.

Linux is the whore of the software world: everybody uses it, but because
it's public property, nobody really cares too much about it.

The argument about the myriad of screen resolutions and hardware
configurations on Android is not particularly convincing. It's like saying
that PCs are not very good gaming platforms because there are so many
different versions of Windows, and variations in CPU and GPU power. It
reminds me a bit of the days of AmigaOS 1.3, which some people complained
about because the direct jumping to ROM locations (which was specifically
discouraged by Commodore) caused their crapware to crash. And if Talking
Tom (yes, yes, I know) runs without problems on practically any hardware
you throw at it, why can't you run any other app without too many issues?

The point about lacking OS support may be valid, but then again this
article is a year old and runs two Android versions (and two iOS versions)
behind. Things might have changed in the meantime.

- Peter


2014-06-09 6:36 GMT+02:00 Andrew Tarpinian <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com>:

> If apple is the evil empire too what's not the evil empire?
>
> Don't say Linux, they are the Ewoks.
>
> On Jun 8, 2014, at 11:54 PM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> I gave up on android as a music platform and joined the evil empire.
>
> The windows 8 tablets might sway me back, however.
>
> Tony
>
> > Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 22:58:04 +0200
> > From: peter at severity-one.com
> > To: music-bar at lists.music-bar.org
> > Subject: Music on Android: still crap?
> >
> > Following the deafening silence after my first post to the Bar in
> > months, let me give it another go. :)
> >
> > Since Thursday, I got my grubby hands on a Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1.
> > This thing sells for around €470 in the UK and Ireland, €380 in the
> > Netherlands and €350 in Germany. The latter is a reasonable price for a
> > device with a 2560x1600 screen, and 16 GB memory (plus you can put in a
> > 64 GB MicroSD card).
> >
> > I still don't really know what to do with it (the most used application
> > is probably My Talking Tom), but this will come in due time. The idea is
> > to transfer some of the stuff I currently do on PC to the tablet, if
> > nothing else because it's easier to read (my eyes aren't getting any
> > better).
> >
> > From what I can gather, the music scene on Android is pretty much like
> > it was on the iPhone 1, two weeks after it came out. :) Or am I missing
> > something and is it the next best thing since sliced bread?
> >
> > - Peter
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