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Story: Why Apple's iPhone is like a 1981 IBM PC

Posted by: 1000030281 (Friday 28 March 2008, 10:19 AM)

Google's Android platform far more flexible than iPhone

Good points here. In the long run, the iPhone SDK shortcomings may hurt it in comparison to Android, which does allow background processing.

iPhone's lack of (3rd party) background processing will hamstring whole classes of new apps. The best summation of iPhone SDK problems I've seen is here:

Apple's iPhone SDK Prohibits Real Mobile Innovation

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