Pizzey & Knight

I don’t understand a lot of that. I can only do one thing at a time on my computer. I turn it on and click on the e and it goes to google. From there I use gmail and can get to birdline and facebook and google things. That’s as far as my computer knowledge goes. I put the cd for pizzey and knight into the slot on the computer and I now have a picture of a rosella next to the e that I can click on and it shows the pizzey and knight electronic version. I had to turn the speakers off because I keep hearing bird calls.Will the “PC “pizzey and knight I have work on an iphone or whatever they are if I get one? Or is it only for the big computer at home and I will have to buy another one to use on a phone? Thanks, david Richardson On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 5:03 PM, David Adams <dpadams@gmail.com> wrote: > > PS I don’t know what “Android “is apart from in sci-fi movies. Im not > > being silly, I genuinely don’t understand the differences. > > Fair enough. There’s now to summarize a big subject like this one without > skipping something important or saying things that while approximately true > aren’t complete. Even still, I can offer you a sketch that might help. > > Android and iOS are the two dominant operating systems out there for smart > phones and tablets. For an end user, they’re more the same than different. > Which one is better? Yes 😉 They have fans and detractors on both sides, > such is how it goes. Both are geared towards small screens, conservation of > battery life, and nearly instantaneous startup. If you know how to use one, > you could easily figure out the other. Apps on Android and iOS often look > and behave very nearly identically. They are both very different from > desktop computers of whatever sort you might be using now. Instead of a > mouse and keyboard and apps in different windows, you generally use one app > at a time on a small screen using your fingers. > > Android is developed by Google and then more-or-less given away to phone > makers to include on their handsets. The dominant Android smartphone maker > is Samsung…but there are dozens of others. > > iOS is developed by Apple and used exclusively on their hardware: iPhone, > iPod Touch (iPhone without a phone), and iPad. > > Apple and Samsung have been in a court battle for years that you may have > seen in the headlines. It’s pretty much about Apple suing Google by proxy > for cloning the iPhone. None of that matters much to us as users. > > You can buy a cheap Android phone at Woolies or Coles for $40-80 on sale > but it probably won’t have the memory to run the Pizzey app…or most any > serious birding app. Apple doesn’t make low-end devices but, in many > markets, completely owns the high-end. (High end laptops? They own it. High > end phones? They share it.) If you’re in the price range of Apple’s > products, their kit is competitively priced with comparable gear. If you > want something cheaper, they just don’t do that. I’ve got a couple of > Android phones (love them), an old iPod Touch (works great, even years > later), and the new iPad Mini. I have to say, the Mini is the greatest > gadget in the history of gadgets, so far as I can tell. With a sturdy case, > it can go in my bag and I’ve got thousands of pages of birding info, sounds > and pictures from around the world. Magic. Oh, none of these devices are > easy to read in bright light. So, books and pads of paper still have their > place, to be sure. (I prefer paper guides for areas I don’t know as I flip > through the pages a lot.) > > To buy apps for either platform, you go through a store. In the case of > iOS, it’s Apple’s iTunes App Store. For Android, you’ve got choices. The > biggest and most trusted is Google’s Play store. Many apps are free. When > you buy an app, it’s usually licensed for one account on multiple devices. > So, if you have a tablet and a phone you can often buy one copy of the app > and legally use it on your two devices. With Apple, the license is always > for 5 devices, so far as I know. For Android, it depends a bit. If you buy > an Android version you don’t get a license for iOS or the other way around. > Just like buying Office for Windows doesn’t let you run Office for Mac. > Different OS, different license. And, yes, Microsoft does make a phone > operating system and just finished buying Nokia something like yesterday. > Windows Phone isn’t Windows, is getting increasingly positive reviews…and > has a trivial market share for now. So, you don’t see so many apps for > that. > > Colin R asked: “why is it cheaper for androids?” > > Probably because Android users are, as a market, far, far, far less > inclined to spend money on apps. I assume that Guy Gibbons is attempting to > get the best price he can for his efforts, and fair enough. Also, if the > Android version is licensed for two devices and the iOS one for five…some > people will find it cheaper on iOS. Birding apps as a category are some of > the more expensive apps I’ve seen on either platform. > _______________________________________________ > Birding-Aus mailing list > Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org > _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org