Considering a move to Android

[GD201]

On the verge of shelving my iPhone for a Samsung Hercules (Telus) and have a few final questions:

I am totally new here so bear with me...

APPS - Am I right in thinking that it means nothing that I have spent money, lots of money over the past few years on iPhone Apps and that I cannot transfer those purchased Apps to a new Android phone?

MUSIC - I have done some research and understand there are some third party programs I can use to get my music on an Android phone; what recommendations do you have?

I come from years of using an Mac - not a problem?

Many thanks for your insight and shared experience!

Gavin
Vancouver

 

[Bnice]

Welcome to Android. Give yourself adequate time to go through the learning curves. Yes you are correct about the apps as for the music, you can get a few third party apps that will help you. Double twist, iSync and mediamonkey are a few that can help you with music transfer.

 

[chanchan05]

Apps - if they have the same developers, (like MobileNoter for example), you may want to try contacting them if they'd allow a transfer.

Music - Depends on your music source and type of DRM protection, but an Android can act as as flash storage device like a thumbdrive and you can just copy over music files from any computer.

 

[chanchan05]

Apps - if they have the same developers, (like MobileNoter for example), you may want to try contacting them if they'd allow a transfer.

Music - Depends on your music source and type of DRM protection, but an Android can act as as flash storage device like a thumbdrive and you can just copy over music files from any computer.

 

[UssjTrunks]

Hypothetical question, that might be relevant to your situation:

If you already bought an app on one platform, would pirating it for use on another platform be unethical?

 

[karandpr]

Hypothetical question, that might be relevant to your situation:

If you already bought an app on one platform, would pirating it for use on another platform be unethical?

Yes it would be .But it is more relevant to TOS granted by the Author/Developer .Some Like Gameloft dont even allow chnage in phones on same platform if I am right .
Yet some developers may be cool enough to let you switch or offer some discounts .

 

[aysiu]

APPS - Am I right in thinking that it means nothing that I have spent money, lots of money over the past few years on iPhone Apps and that I cannot transfer those purchased Apps to a new Android phone?

This is correct. However, you'll find generally speaking (obviously with exceptions) that a lot of apps that are pay-for in the iTunes App Store are cost-free and ad-supported in the Android Market.

So you can probably start off not paying for any apps at all. Later on you can slowly pay for the non-ad versions to get rid of the ads if they bother you.

MUSIC - I have done some research and understand there are some third party programs I can use to get my music on an Android phone; what recommendations do you have?

I'd recommend using DoubleTwist. It adds in an extra step (you have to launch the DoubleTwist desktop application to sync with iTunes before syncing with your phone), but it works well.

I come from years of using an Mac - not a problem?

I use a Macbook Pro as my main computer, and I have no problems with my Android phone.

 

[dan330]

what aysiu said is very true.. there are a lot of Free versions of apps. most of what you want can be found for free.

what you have to keep in mind, since you have been so intrenched with IOS..
you will have a slightly more difficult time with the differences. NOT sayin it is Hard or difficult.. just keep an open mind. the learning curve should be 5-10days.
dont go in trying to find faults! and you will come out lovin it.

good luck!