iPhone or Droid
by Jeff
Image text: It may be a fundamentally empty experience, but holy crap the Droid's 265 ppi screen is amazing.
More existentialism for your Friday!
The iPhone is a portable computer device and phone that has millions hundreds of thousands of applications or "apps" that can be downloaded to add functionality to the phone. The iPhone commercial tag line is: "There's a app for that" which the question in panel 2 is a reference to. That explanation was for anyone who has been living under a rock for 4 years or is possibly reading this from the past. The iPhone store is notoriously strict in seemingly random times. Some apps will get approved and other similar apps will get rejected.
The Droid is a new portable computer device and phone, the software for this one was developed by Google to go head to head with the increasingly popular iPhone.
Everyone - Am I right about existentialism? Is my forgotten college philosophy failing me?
November 13th, 2009
I always thought that existentialism is the idea that’s opposed to destiny or fate; one’s future is not written in stone or stone-like material. The character’s complaint sounds more like it’s consumerism-related.
November 13th, 2009
No existentialism is just having to define ones own purpose in life. This comic might qualify though it sounds much more anti-consumerism. The subjects are not exclusive though.
Btw. aren’t the phones called android in general, or is there a specific one called droid? I believe HTC Hero is an Android phone for instance.
November 13th, 2009
That’s correct. Android is a broader group of phone OSes. Droid is a subset of Android. Which makes the name make sense I guess…
November 16th, 2009
Droid is the name of the phone made by Motorola which runs the Android os.
November 13th, 2009
Correction: There are approximately 100,000 applications for the iPhone OS, nowhere near “millions”.