Motorola's still sore with Apple over the ROKR.
Motorola's still sore with Apple over the ROKR.
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Droid only has 256mb for apps!!
Verizon may want to stop telling folks that this phone has 16GB of "onboard storage". Wrong! It has a 16GB SD card included with the phone.
It only has 512mb of onboard memory, of which only ~256mb can be used for apps!! Google Android does not allow apps to be loaded onto a SD card. This is Google’s (flawed) way of preventing pirating.
Verizon is falsely advertising this as “on board memory”. This presents two problems:
1) It kills any chances of the Droid running 3D games because they tend to be larger then 500mb. Tiger Woods golf on iPhone is 1.3GB! It also limits what developers can develop…because they have to make their apps so small.
2) This tidbit is not made knows to the general public so Droids will probably be returned in droves by customers saying “I thought I had 16GB on this thing. Why is it saying full when I download an app”.
In short, by doing this, Motorola and Google assured that Droid and Android Market could never compete with iPhone.