Comments on: Google: “ISO Developers for App2SD”

By: Adr

Adr — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:59:42 +0000

Well, the only thing I can hope for is that this update can be updated over older models as obviously the Android by the next year would have advanced to probably something like pralines? Mousse?

P.S. Android has wierd names…..

By: JSAY

JSAY — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:42:47 +0000

@iPhone – Look at Apple’s history and see who they originally copied back in the 80′s…Xerox. Oh and I’m a big apple fan and love my mac’s and their amazing OS but I’m not closed minded where I don’t look at what’s around and what has amazing potential. Watch out because soon, the iphone will be copying things android does. Fortunately, they have some creative minds over at Apple and should be able to one-up Android again. This will go back and forth building some great phone OS’s and I am excited to see the future of these 2 great OS’s. And if you’ve ever used an android phone, you’d know that the OS is vastly different than iphone’s, not just a copycat OS. So keep the ignorant closed minded comments to yourself. Actually don’t cause you will make me look much better in front of everyone.

To iphone and android! May you both push each other to provide customers with the best possible phones we could dream of and more!

Good Day!

By: iPhone

iPhone — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:23:32 +0000

Avoid the Droid if you don’t want to be annoyed!

iDon’t have enough memory to store even 2 apps!
iCopy everything that the iPhone does and think I’m innovative!
iMitaton is the sincerest form of flattery and Droid loves the iPhone so much, it imitated the entire OS and design!
i’M so lame I have to peek over Apple’s shoulder to see what they’re doing to come up with an idea for a phone!
i’M sorry but this is just another so-called “iPhone Killer” that will meet it’s demise before the world even noticed it existed!

By: Zerix

Zerix — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:42:39 +0000

I don’t think paid apps are an issue. Think of how Steam works with games. All the games you have ever bought can be re downloaded on any computer as long as you are signed in with your steam user name, sign in on two computers at the same time and the prior one gets signed off. I’m pretty sure the Google Market works the same way. All your paid apps are tied to your Google account. The app will only work if you are signed in on that phone which is setup when you first activate the phone. If you remove your SD card and put it in a friends phone then all the free apps will work but not the paid ones because your account is not signed in. This should also mean you can carry over your paid apps to a new phone since they are still tied to your Google account.

By: TheJaezus

TheJaezus — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:59:20 +0000

Does anyone know if this is something that they are working on for future phones only? Or can this feature also be added to existing phones also like the G1 and the Droid (coming out friday)?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:09:02 +0000

I love the transparency of development on this platform. It is much easier to wait on something when you can read the developers thoughts on the day-to-day progress and issues that need to be overcome. This is in contrast to other platforms where you don’t even know when features will be added or even if they are being worked on at all.
Having a yet-to-be rooted device such as the CDMA Hero, App2SD is my number one request for improving Android.

By: vincent

vincent — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:08:09 +0000

Great news for android lovers !
today if i had a milestone (not yet announced to france wtf ?) i wouldn’t be able to buy and download tons of music from amazon mp3 to my device right ?

By: whatawuss

whatawuss — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:17:04 +0000

thanks for the responses, guys. do you all think there’s a reasonable chance that they’ll get this app2sd thing working within, say, a year, and we’d be able to get that update OTA?
i can see this as something the average consumer wouldn’t know about/notice initially, but then down the line get really ticked off at having to deal with such a limitation.

By: J_N

J_N — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:21:57 +0000

I wonder if this is a fix for the ailing G1 memory issue. If there is an option to run apps from SD, the internal memory partition could be expanded to eat up some of that memory saved by this, then we get eclair!

By: C_H

C_H — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:40:57 +0000

whatawuss: right now the apps have to go in the puny space, rather than the ext card, which is why the project above was started. Hopefully they’ll get it going and we can put the apps in the card

By: Carig

Carig — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:04:35 +0000

@whatawuss

yes that’s completely correct, but (hopefully) not for long

it’s been one of android’s biggest issues, as of right now, most apps seem to be around 1Mb on average so it’s not too big of a problem yet, but when it comes to more advanced games and stuff with lots of sounds, textures, etc., 256 Mb is way too small

By: TheJaezus

TheJaezus — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:56:28 +0000

Yes, you’re exactly right. Hence this discussion thread

By: whatawuss

whatawuss — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:09:56 +0000

ugh, i’m confused. so, there’s an internal memory (256M) and an external card (16G).

based on what i’ve read, it sounds like apps can’t be stored in the card. if so, do all my apps (cumulative size) need to be stored in that puny-sounding internal space?

can someone help clarify this for me?

thanks!

By: Droidready

Droidready — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:55:52 +0000

@JakeMG…actually even with an 8GB iphone…you still can’t load 8GB of ANYTHING, as a portion of that 8GB is used for basic memory and settings… but yes it will be great to actually USE your SD card and not the 256 MB of memory for running apps.

By: David M.

David M. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:52:21 +0000

ANDROID … A platform for the People and Of the People. Freakin Awesome!!!!