how come apple is the only one that can pull off a smooth touchscreen experience?

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BlahBlahYouToo

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had extensive time playing with a friend's ipad, my gf's iphone and it's just so smooth, so responsive and so fast.
flipping pages in the ebook app, pinching to expand photo albums, swiping to scroll pics, surfing on safari... just felt like a refined experience. the way it should be.

my storm is sluggish and a piece of crap compared to the iphone.
it's been awhile since i used a palm pre but i remember saying to myself, apple is still better.
even the moto droid, while better, still can't compare.

so why is it that no other manufacturer can get it quite as well as apple?
is it because they control both the hardware and software?
 
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sswingle

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I think Android is miles ahead of iPhone.

Your Storm is most commonly known as the worst blackberry ever made. Probably not a good comparison to anything.
 
Krynj

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HTC's Sense UI is extremely responsive. Even the Droid Eris, which has less horsepower than the Moto Droid, has a much smoother touchscreen experience, thanks to Sense UI. I get annoyed with my Droid sometimes by how choppy the touchscreen experience can be.

I think you answered this question yourself. It's just the way it should be, and Apple knows how important the user experience is. Talented developers coupled with high standards.

I was rather shocked when I got my Droid, and it wasn't as responsive as an iPhone. I thought for sure Google and Motorola would have nailed that. They made a phone that they expected to dethrone the iPhone with, yet they left a crucial element of the OS feeling unfinished.
 
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TheWart

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sswingle said:
I think Android is miles ahead of iPhone.

Your Storm is most commonly known as the worst blackberry ever made. Probably not a good comparison to anything.
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I think that certain android devices are very good, but others are not as smooth as the iphone, nor do they have the responsiveness.
 
Phobic9

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BlahBlahYouToo said:
so why is it that no other manufacturer can get it quite as well as apple?
is it because they control both the hardware and software?
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Most likely this. Much easier to develop software for a platform that has minimal hardware changes. MS is doing the same thing for Windows Phone 7 by having strict hardware requirements for all the manufacturers to adhere to.
 
rudeguy

rudeguy

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I'll put my myTouch up against any iPhone/iPad/iWhatever.

I'll post a video tonite.
 
vshah

vshah

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my g1 was definitely choppy at times. my N1 has no such problem. compare scrolling around a webpage while it is still loading on an N1 and an iphone...the difference is night and day. iphone also doesn't (currently) have to worry about background apps/services
 
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Suspicious-Teach8788

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vshah said:
nexus one. even on a 3gs, you get the checkerboard pattern at times while scrolling quickly. i'm sure the upcoming "iphone 4" with a new CPU will make it pretty much even, or put apple back on top.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMGkhBIqOMg - choppy on N1.

I agree with the OP though. Apple has really optimized its devices and its OS. To think that the iPhone has a ~1000 mAh battery only compared to the 1400 mAh of Nexus One is pretty impressive. You'd expect 40% better life from the N1 but it's not really that much better. Furthermore, the Droid is a complete slowpoke compared to the iPhone. It takes all 1ghz of the N1 to catch up. And even then, there are some simple tasks as noted by Engadget and me that somehow takes forever on the N1. Sure it flies with live wallpapers and video, but some simple tasks like bringing up text messages seems to take forever!

But HTC has really gone the extra mile with its sense devices like the Eris. I expect the Desire will be well polished too. Motorola really hasn't done crap with its Droid and if anything its closer to bare bones than the Nexus is. Not only that there's a lot of issues with Moto devices such as the notification problem with 2.1 Milestones.
 
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Krynj said:
HTC's Sense UI is extremely responsive. Even the Droid Eris, which has less horsepower than the Moto Droid, has a much smoother touchscreen experience, thanks to Sense UI. I get annoyed with my Droid sometimes by how choppy the touchscreen experience can be.

I think you answered this question yourself. It's just the way it should be, and Apple knows how important the user experience is. Talented developers coupled with high standards.

I was rather shocked when I got my Droid, and it wasn't as responsive as an iPhone. I thought for sure Google and Motorola would have nailed that. They made a phone that they expected to dethrone the iPhone with, yet they left a crucial element of the OS feeling unfinished.
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My Droid is just amazing. Then again, it wasn't that way stock.
The OS was awesome stock, but the experience, left a little to be desired.
Enter: rooting

After a lot of initial ROMs, I am now using Cyanogen Mod, overclocked the ARM Cortex A8 (a beast of a chip when clocked properly, 550 stock was just wrong!) to 1.2ghz, and then, when you add in themes... it can look dead sexy and still scroll and swipe with style.
 
zerocool84

zerocool84

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Tight control of all hardware/software is how Apple is able to optimize better than other companies. Having an OS like Android, it's difficult to optimize for different hardware configurations. If Apple ever licensed out their OS, it'd probably be worse than other OS's out there cus it's optimized for practically one type of hardware. Just like their desktop OSX, they control all the hardware and if they licensed that out too it'd be a clusterfuck. It just has to do with controlling every aspect of the hardware/software.
 
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