This is the old bullet-list fallacy. Quality is simply a measure of the bullet list of features, and no attempt is made to what is behind the items on the bullet list. Remember when the first iPhone was announced? The bullet list after it was announced had touchscreen at the top of the list, so every manufacturer thought that all they had to do was add a touch screen to their existing platform, and hordes of just like the "LG ENV Touch" flooded carriers. Feature phones had small app stores where you could buy a dozen useless apps, so they beat the iPhone on that bullet item.
Exactly. I remember hearing similar ramblings from Symbian and Windows Mobile 6.5 users when the original iPhone was released. Or how the iPhone would never achieve market penetration in Japan because it lacked all the bells and whistles of their feature phones (built in TV tuner etc...).
> Remember when the first iPhone was announced? The bullet list after
> it was announced had touchscreen at the top of the list
No, the LG Prada was ripped off by the iPhone. Don't let apple fanboys rewrite tech history. Same with the iPod. Sure, it was a more polished product, but they were not the first with the feature set. Apple rarely is.
So Apple saw some photos of the LG Prada and then in a few short months designed touch screen-only hardware and all the software?
This assumption that before-after implies cause-effect is one of the worst logical fallacies.
Microsoft was first to mass market tablets. So Apple "copied" them 10 years later, and somehow succeeded where Microsoft failed? Microsoft invented the idea of a tablet-like computing device?
Google invented the idea of a notification system? Of turn-by-turn navigation?
That's exactly his point. Even if others offered the feature first, it's what's behind the bullet list that makes it a successful product (polish, if you will).
> Quality is simply a measure of the bullet list of features, and no attempt is made to what is behind the items on the bullet list.
I don't know what a more appropriate method of comparison you're suggesting would be. I can say that I've been using ICS for a few months now and I wouldn't want to use any other mobile OS, is that more what you were trying to get at?
