The Android Invasion Cometh; Is Resistance Futile?

DeviceGuru writes "Last month, we learned from Gartner that Android will probably be the number-two worldwide mobile OS this year, and may lead the pack by 2014. With Android's growing use as the OS embedded in phones, in tablets, in set-top boxes, and in LCD HDTVs, it seems like the Linux-based OS could end up dominating the entire non-PC consumer device operating system space. What do Slashdot readers think: Is resistance futile?"

Comments

Nice Deflection

[eldavojohn]

With Android, Java skills are everything and... um... we got more people capable of doing Websphere/JBoss stuff? What a victory would that be.

So because there haven't been totally unrelated very large and sometimes hated Objective-C projects, iOS is better than Android? I find it humorous how quickly this has been sidetracked to a religious language flamewar instead of looking at the platforms and developer support. Yeah, it's in Java. Yeah, Java can be used badly. Just like every other language. Where's your evidence that Android uses it poorly? Or do you have to say "Hitler drank Java and Java is run on Android. Do you want to use Hitler's mobile operating system?"

Java skills aren't everything with Android. They're important and you will need to know a touch of Java. You also need to know XML and sometimes have a choice of how you store resources like Strings between Java and XML. Also, there is another way to construct your apps in Android.

Re:Apple?

[LordLimecat]

[citation needed] Or are you referring to just the US?

Re:I think ...

[BitZtream]

Except the statistics don't match what's seen in the wild. They simply aren't believable if you compare what you actually seen in the wild.

That's my point.

I realize pointing out the descrepancy between reality and what slashdot wants it to be just results in a -1 troll, but I'll point it out anyway. At least a few people will think about it rather than just turning into a red faced gambit such as yourself. Your blinded but what you want to see and ignore the fact that the data doesn't match real world observations at all and have no explination as to why.