grkhetan

Well, from the guidelines - it violates this guideline:

22.4 Apps that enable illegal file sharing will be rejected

Also in general, bittorrent is maily used to download copyrighted content illegally. I mean comeon, all bittorrent users know it and use it for that.

Secondly, I really dont think iphone is good for bittorrent also -- i mean you would continuously loose battery and bandwidth. Also its background multi-tasking does not allow more than 10 minutes of downloading so it will not work properly in the first place. Thats why, this app was merely monitoring and managing download queues happening on a server. So its better in terms of implementation but still voilates copyright guidelines and illegal files sharing guidelines.

The basic issue here is that in the US, iphone is only available with 1 carrier - AT&T -- which has only 30% or less of the wireless customers in the country. Since the reach is so low, iphone has to have a low market share. Once it is available with all carriers in the US, then it will be an even playing field. Even then ofcourse, it will have to compete against 20+ android phones, atleast it will have the opportunity to. In Europe, where iphone is generally available with more than 1 carrier, it's rate of getting new subscribers is still 3 times android! See:

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/stats/1733041/apple-google-cont...

I used to love Google, and will still love Google. But this action of theirs disappointed me. Google thinks that they are an "open" and esp android is very "open", i.e. it is free and open source. Manufacturers can modify the code and adapt to their hardware. Thats all well and good. But when Motorola modifies the code to add skyhook wireless for location, Google says take it off, or else.... This is really not good and does not match up with Google's ideals.

And note that skyhook wireless is a known firm for such a thing, in fact they had the first databases for wifi location search and iphones also used to use them

I have talked to 15 iphone 4 users, and they are really happy with the device. CR is trying to stay ideological here, whereas in practice this issue does not have any significant impact. CR also may be just wanting some attention (eyeballs) here.

If you look at the list of so many positive points of the phone, the small antenna issue is of hardly any significance in the overall evaluation of this phone.

And Samsung. Because I hear they are indeed coming out with a phone-less version of Android... but they would have to wait atleast a few months, since current android 2.2 requires phone functionality to be present (from what I hear), and 3.0 will remove that restriction. And hence true competitors to ipad and iphone touch will happen then (around end of year). Current android tablets like Samsung Galaxy Tab have a phone built-in, which is unnatural. Anyway, with 3.0 release I think you can expect several ipod touch competitors by first quarter of next year -- beginning from a device by Samsung and probably expanding to other mfgrs like HTC, Motorola, Dell, etc. -- all using android.