IPhone vs Android

I just want to discuss the main reason why Android will overtake the iPhone in sales this year, according to an IDC forecast released Tuesday. IDC predicts that by year's end, Android will have a 16 percent market share worldwide, compared with the iPhone's 15 percent. Symbian will continue to lead with 40 percent, and the BlackBerry platform will hold on to second place with about an 18 percent share, IDC said. Steve jobs call for  "Go get an Android device if you want to watch porn," should not be a reason I guess. Let's dig into the reasons which prevent you from choosing iphone.  

1. You could never go back to not having my home screens exactly as I want them.

2. Safari only reflows text with double tap and I like to choose the font size of the text as my eyesight isn't great.

3. Safari does not have kinetic scrolling so you have to swipe ten times instead of a single finger flick.

And the list goes on and on...

And why I prefer android 

1. Android offers FULL multi-tasking, not some ripped up save state multi-tasking which isn't multi-tasking at all.

2. Android allows file transfer over Bluetooth - any file. iOS on any device does not and has not since the first device.

3. You don't need iTunes to move music/video to and from the device and...

4. Most important is that Android doesn't have a lying Chief Executive Officer.

The future is tough to predict, especially when it involves something as dynamic as technology. I may be wrong in my assumptions and in my high hopes for Android.

Filthy Indian Hygiene ..

  Being an Indian i'm sorry to write abt this, but after all we are in a democracy where we don't give a shit about one another and here comes our topic of the day - 'shit'.

  More than half the Indian population doesn't use proper sanitation. According to a recent UN survey, roughly 366 million people had access to improved sanitation. That's less than our mobile penetration: more than 545 million cell phones are now connected to service in India's emerging economy. Clearly, we prefer cellphones to toilets. 

  When was the last time an Indian protested against the lack of toilets in a country of more than one billion population and a GDP of 3.526 trillion. We have been so sanitized that we are no longer troubled by how close we are to garbage and waste in public spaces.

 We  don't mind co-existing with crap. Our tolerance level for rubbish is high compared with first world countries.When i was a child living in kapileswarapuram(a remote village in South India) i used to pass through a stretch of road which was used as an open toilet by hundreds of people,  I am very sure that even now they are very busy unloading at the same place the only difference i can think of is they may be talking on a mobile phone (after all India is developed and they can afford to have a mobile).

  Or consider the 9000 passenger trains of the Indian Railways carrying over 2 million passengers a day. They don't even use proper sanitation system but using the technique of Catch and Throw (just like exception handling in Java).What are these but dumping machines throwing  people crap at over 100 km per hour across the length and breadth of the country, can u believe that they don't even think of changing the system? 

  Even the purest of all Ganges the holy river -where you can find the half burnt corpses drifting in the river, in transit to heaven. If god exists (?) on the banks of Ganga i am sure he would opt to stay in a better place.

Hygiene is not at all a part of the 'quality of life' we are thriving for ...