662: iPhone or Droid
iPhone or Droid |
Title text: It may be a fundamentally empty experience, but holy crap the Droid's 265 ppi screen is amazing. |
Explanation
This comic references the "phone wars" between the iPhone and phone that run the Android system. The third panel references the fact that, officially speaking, the iPhone is a closed system which does not guarantee entry into the official store, yet anyone can acquire an .apk file that will install an app into an Android phone.
Cueball has a point in the second panel. After consuming a lot, would you not want to actually give back to the community that gave you all the ever-fancier toys? Would you not get a pleasure from actually constructing and contributing something yourself? Would you want to feel useful about yourself?
This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Please include the reason why this explanation is incomplete, like this: {{incomplete|reason}} If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks. |
Transcript
- [Megan sitting at her computer is talking to Cueball standing behind her.]
- Megan: Well, it depends what you want. The iPhone wins on speed and polish, but the Droid has that gorgeous screen and physical keyboard.
- Cueball: What if I want something more than the pale facsimile of fulfillment brought by a parade of ever-fancier toys? To spend my life restlessly producing instead of sedately consuming?
- Cueball: Is there an app for THAT?
- Megan: Yeah, on both.
- Megan: Wait, no, looks like it was rejected from the iPhone store.
- Cueball: Droid it is, then.
Discussion
The title text is outdated. 75.69.96.225 01:53, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
We'll get right on that for you. 107.205.30.219 11:32, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
L. O. L. 108.162.219.223 07:09, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
What is meant by the incomplete tag? I see no reference to Linux (although it is the platform that Droid is based off of, it does not seem relevant). Kyt (talk) 02:27, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
Cueball's response is vacuous New Age-speak. That's what makes the idea that there's an "app for that" so funny. Gmcgath (talk) 07:36, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
wow android used to have a physical keyboard User talk:Anonymous)
anyone found an app that actually works like described in the comic? Anonymouscript (talk) 18:58, 31 May 2022 (UTC)