[nfbcs] FW: compiling iPhone apps to Android apps

[Jorge A. Paez]

Oh Android is well established.
As far as sales they control 80% of the market.
As far as accessibility they aren't doing that bad.
Not as good as Apple as far as I know--like, not totally built in, and
some things are missing here and there but its not terrible either.



On 3/28/15, Todor Fassl via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I suspect what you are saying will come as news to a lot of people. I
> certainly didn't know that Android had caught up to Apple with respect
> to accessibility. I haven't looked into it for years but the last I'd
> heard was that Android had major accessibility problems.
>
> I just got into a very hot debate on a Apple products list about
> different screen readers. Actually, I was just asking questions and
> trying to get answers. Naturally, I got
> accused of trolling. But one thing that did come out was that Android
> was the best selling operating system in the world in 2014.
>
>
>
> On 03/27/2015 05:10 PM, Joseph C. Lininger via nfbcs wrote:
>> I've been hearing a lot of talk about how great Apple's accessibility
>> is, how that in Android is lacking, etc. However, as of today I'm just
>> not seeing it. I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong, as I don't
>> have an Apple device. That being said, I've watched people using them
>> and I'm not seeing a lot of difference in their capabilities using an
>> iphone and mine using a Galaxy S4. A couple of years ago, I would have
>> said there was a major difference. I won a Galaxy S3 tablet in a
>> raffle, and it just didn't work that well as far as accessibility
>> goes. However, my Galaxy S4 phone has a newer version of Android and
>> is much more capable as far as accessibility goes. I can even install
>> things from Google Play and they usually work. In fact, there has been
>> exactly 1, count it, 1 app that I just flat could not use. It was one
>> that came with the device. I would be interested in hearing about what
>> abilities the iphone has accessibility-wise that I don't have with my
>> Galaxy S4.
>>
>> What I have seen, and what made me make the original choice of Android
>> over Apple is that the Android offers me some choices that are simply
>> not available with the iphone. I can use an SD card to exchange data
>> between my machines if I want to; I'm not required to pass data over a
>> network or sharing service. I can synchronize my address book,
>> calendar, and task list wiht that in Thunderbird by installing a
>> program on my computer and an app on my phone. I can connect my phone
>> to my computer and have it appear as a drive so I can transfer files
>> if I want to do that. No itunes or other software required to make
>> that work. (Apple might have that ability too; unsure) I can write
>> software and load it on the device over USB without publishing it to
>> Google Play.
>>
>> In the interest of complete honesty, I will admit that I am not overly
>> fond of how the dialer works. It's not the easiest thing in the world
>> to get it to cooperate and work the way I'd like, although I'm not
>> sure how much of that is an access issue and how much of it is just
>> that I don't like the way it operates. I think it's a bit of both,
>> actually. From what I saw, the one in the iphone works more the way I
>> would like. I wouldn't make a purchase dicision based on that, but I
>> do acknowledge it.
>> Joe
>>
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