11-04-2012, 06:40 PM | #436 | ||
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Android also has many other full-featured reading apps such as Aldiko, Moon reader, and Cool reader. Some of these apps even have text-to-speech options. Those 6 Android apps alone as a group are far more than what you can find on iOS, where currently only Shubook can be considered full-featured and current with iOS 6. And I don't know of a single iOS app that will read Calibre tags and group your books into collections with the exception of Stanza which is now broken on iOS 6. Yes, there are options on iOS, but overall they pale in comparison to Android. --Pat |
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Android is essentially JAVA atop LINUX and so it has inherited a lot of mature cross-platform open source code and apps. Coolreader and fbreader, for example, originated on LINUX and draw on ported dictionaries and other resources to refine and enhance the app. Apple on the other hand discourages iOS development with cross-platform tools in favor of native iOS-optimized code which reduces ports *both* ways. And it makes it harder for small developers to operate. Everything has a cost one way or another. |
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