This is apparently the original article. I'm with the Motorola-is-stupid crowd on this one. They are a hardware/telecom company, not a software company. They have no demonstrated track record of developing a competent, competitive smartphone OS. Short of buying Palm's WebOS, which maybe they should have done... That said, I wish MOT well because a little competition is good for the consumer. I would prefer that they work on perfecting their tablets and smartphones in the Android space, however. The Xoom is a great first effort. Why not tweak it until it's flawless and best-of-breed? Why not help Google improve Android in the areas where MOT feels it's deficient? For a lot less money and resources than developing their own proprietary crappy OS, they can be very competitive Methinks Motorola is not thinking this through very clearly. Then again, it's just a rumor.
Does any body notice a pattern?
Nokia rejects Android in favor of Microsoft Winows Mobile 7. HP rejects Android in favor of a web OS. HTC decides to build Windows Mobile 7 in addition to Android to be safe. Motorola, a leading Android manufacturer, let's it escape that it's premier Andoid Tablet isn't doing all that well so they are not planing on manufacturing it past June 2011. Motorola is having difficulty keeping the secret it wants to use a Web OS instead of Android which is the subject of this thread. This week Goggle let's it slip that the Chinese are producing crappy Android phones and tablets that increasingly are giving the Android brand a bad name.
Blogs and pundits start talking about the quarter million Android that were burnt by hackers rooting the hardware right from the Google marketplace. Other developers discover their apps are being copied and sold in that same marketplace, not mentioning the sheer volume of Android app piracy is taking money away from them every day.
Some Android manufacturers now face over thirty lawsuits demanding compensation for technology infringement.
This is all good news for the future of Android?
How?
Why then is anyone surprised all the larger hardware manufacturers are now working on a 'PLAN B' instead of betting the farm on Android past 2011?
The spare diesel generators had to be placed 2 -3 kilometers inland, on a hill, not on the shore near the nuclear plant. And connected to the plant by 3 kilometers electrical cable. This way the generators would not be damaged by a tsunami.
Am I the only engineer who realizes it? Am I that talented?
Any person can pull this up in Google maps. Look closely. the whole complex is built on a very steep man made hill next to the Pacfic, well above tsunami levels.
The only reason to site the generators elsewhere would be it is too dangerous to place them any closer at this time due to radiation and/or radiated heat.
Obviously they are on top in distributing Malware to mobile devices.
What I want to know is why did it take Google five days to respond to this new Malware? Why isn't every app scanned for this stuff before it goes live in the Google Market Place?
Any script kiddie in the world can create a new bad Android app by running DreamDriod package kit. This sounds just like the crap that threatens Windows where some evil genius made it super simple for anyone to create malware.
Google needs to be more like Apple and Microsoft and block this stuff before no one wants Android.
"it might be best to take your device to your carrier and exchange it for a new one"
Yeah good luck with that.
There may be far more returns than expected. The story has doubled in size as Google has now killed over fifty apps from their market place according to one mobile security firm. That firm has a detailed breakdown off how the malware works. One user just reported Google killed an app he downloaded a month ago, so this has been going on for awhile.
It is not the carrier's problem. It is an Android problem.
If you want to really be absorb, blame Obama and the FCC for not protecting you from cyber criminals instead of Google who made it possible in the first place.
Overpriced? Really? It's $99. Why don't you just post "I hate Apple" instead of trying to pretend to put reason behind your post. $99 is cheap and AppleTV works very well for what it does.
Apple TV is also found in enterprise too as a handy wireless connection for keynote (ppt) presentations. It is so small you can easily pocket it.
I recommend ASL users to use it too for group meetings. BTW ASL users will be in high cotton when the iPad 3G has FaceTime like the iPhone.
Finland's Nokia is lost. It is now turned into a patent troll. Goodbye to technologies like Webkit, Qt, MeeGo, welcome to Win7 mobile. Surrender, surrender.
Unfortunately their patents spell trouble for Google. Apple will probably make peace with MS and Nokia combined by cross licensing certain intellectual property. Google by contrast has little of value and lots of money to give up. Android may become too expensive for them to continue with.
It is interesting to read the reasons Nokia as the worlds biggest phone manufacturer rejected both Google and Android and picked Microsoft. Competing manufacturers may be reconsidering their options now for the same reasons.
Android was a big loser today. For some that hasn't sunk in yet. Think!
Why would you not have your cellular phone with you?
Because I do not OWN a cell phone. They're a huge fucking ripoff and until they get to the point where it's a reasonable price with vendors that aren't asshole oligopolies I will not get one.
If my wife wasted $175 on an Android tablet thinking it would be like an iPad, she would find she was now an ex wife.
Besides what that says about your relationship and marital skills, you seem to make the assumption that my wife thought it would be like an iPad (or even that I might want an iPad!)
I got MORE than what I wanted, I love my Android pad, I use it every day, and it is exactly the device I expected and more. Why would I want to pay $499 for something I don't want, when $175 exceeds my every requirement, including many requirements that the iPad does not even meet?
My bad.
I forgot others do not have my high expectations in a wife or even a tablet.
To Date not one tablet competitor has been able to meet apple's price point by a significant margin
I mentioned last November that I would get a notepad when the 10-inch Android models hit the $175 price point.
With that specification, I had one waiting for me under the Christmas Tree, 2010.
I laughed as I walked by the iPad displays in Best Buy over the next few days, with prices of $499, $599, $649. iPad, baaah. I could have had 3 Android pads for the price of the CHEAPEST iPad.
You guys just need to find wives who can shop! (maybe I should have ended that sentence at 7 words.)
If my wife wasted $175 on an Android tablet thinking it would be like an iPad, she would find she was now an ex wife.
i'm not sure why this is marked as flamebait, the word evil perhaps? It's sensible for Apple to sell at or below cost, since other manufacturers don't have the established content market.
If Apple sold at or below cost we would have a $250 10" iPad 3G. Apple doesn't sell anything at or below cost. They do not have too and as a result they make money hand over fist.
I bet your retirement fund has Apple stock in it now. Apple is the darling of Wall Street investment firms.
For most of us we have a direct vested interest in Apple continuing to dominate their markets by making the most money possible without buying market share by doing something foolish like giving away the farm just to say they sold more than some other manufacturer.
Are you high? 14.8 million tablets in 8 months isn't impressive? For a product that entered the market as a first gen device. Really?
Most analysts put the 3-5 million as an optimistic prediction. You have no idea at all.
IPad sales are limited by how many can actually be built each week. Once that bottle neck is removed then we will see explosive sales.
No need to weep for Samsung and their failed Android tablet. Samsung's profits also include the fact they manufacture more than half the components used in the iPad.
You make a good point about the iPad reducing the weight of books and paper by displaying documents so well. In Japan there is a shortage of scanners as students are making PDFs out of all their books. Those in cramped apartments find they can get rid of all the old publications and just go with the iPad. This allows them to reclaim all that space books formerly took up.
I think there is a four month waiting list among businesses that scan documents for these people. That is yet to take hold in the USA but it could be an extremely profitable venture for someone interested in a new startup near a big city.
Instead of fighting the Apple iPad, why not take advantage of the needs it creates.?
Yes, you can do far more on other devices, but a lot of people will never do more, so it is not necessary. There are a lot of applications where a finger touch screen simply works better than a keyboard. Given a little bit of Voice-to-Text a lot of people would hardly ever need a keyboard.
BINGO
I use voice to text all the time for fast input to the iPad while walking around. A quick paste to where I need it with a tap tap, tap..done.
I can not do that with anything else except with maybe an iPhone.
The existing Android 2.2 tablets are orders of magnitude more complex than the Ipad.
You say that as if it's a good thing.
The Android tablets are already heavily fragmented which adds to their complexity. Complexity != Power
As already pointed out the iPad is so powerful that real people enjoy doing what they want everyday.
It is telling that in the hallowed halls of political power they ban the use of laptops but recently approved the use of the iPad ( in more than one country).
Britain added the stipulation they were not allowed to use Google.
Quoting Apple's insanely inflated battery life figures is going to get you no credit. It for one is lucky to get three to four hours in practical use.
I could give up browsing/. when I see a typical misinformed post like the above quote. I have an iPad that can still easily beat 9 hours off the battery after ten months use. This isn't your Daddy's net book or laptop with an exaggerated battery life. The iPad display is over twice as big as those Android seven inch devices. You would think the Androids would get at least twice the battery life on a dinky seven inch screen instead of a lot less!
The only real contender in the next wave of tablets seems to be RIM's PlayBook. The videos out so far are pretty amazing -- dare I call it revolutionary?
It steals all the best of WebOS in terms of UI and the hardware is top-notch. It's smooth and responsive even when multitasking wtih several CPU intensive tasks.
It really makes the Streak 7 and Xoom tablets, which feel like an incremental upgrade to the iPad, seem outdated.
If the iPad 2 doesn't bring something new to the game, we could see a major shift in the tablet market this year.
How come it can not do BlackBerry email when it is a BlackBerry device? You need to mate it with a BlackBerry phone. The iPad does email in spades and it doesn't need an iPhone.
You forgot an option - he actually wants a phone for something more than toying and tweaking.
I've had an Android phone for a year, my contract just expired and I used that to get an iPhone 4 instead.
The problem with Android does not come from Google, they did a decent job engineering the OS (except that maintaining their own kernel was a big error), and it basically works fine The problem comes from most phone manufacturers (actually, all except HTC I think), which just see Android as a free meal (and a way to increase their margin). They just wrap a bunch of ugly code as glue for their phone (binary blobs and lots of other crap) and ship it. Then the phone companies add their own layer of crap-apps on top of it.
The result you get is a phone that mostly works, but with unexpected slow downs, crappy drivers and weird device behaviors. You're not even guaranteed to get android updates, which increases fragmentation (well you know... it costs money, why support a phone that has ~already~ been sold?)
Of course it's open source, so communities can create their own OS. And you get an OS in constant beta state with half the components working (you wanted bluetooth, camera and radio? wooooooops sorry bro, next update maybe)
Apple, on the opposite, must have at least one completely psychotic quality checker behind each dev's backs. The polish they give to their system is incredible. It just works. Now my phone rings when I phone to someone, the screen does not stay unresponsive for 30s when I want to end a call (crappy proximity sensor, gah...), or freeze unexpectedly for 1s when scrolling or doing basic stuff. I actually ~enjoy~ using it.
It is truly sad that Slashdot moderates good points like this down to nothing because it isn't cult like devotion to Android. These are valid points that should be considered by all. Android is a advertiser created OS that Geeks like to play with. Currently it really is a poor choice for the end user who isn't a Geek if they expect to have an Apple experience.
Google really needs to step up and spend a lot of their wealth in fixing the darn ecosystem for everyone who bought into the Android idea. That is the whole point of this story is that real world developers have not delivered and will not until they are guaranteed a lot of money. The approach Google is now taking is that they will fund them for future results if they work exclusively for Google. None of this where dual developers discover it is far easier and a greater pleasure to program for Apple than Google. Elite Google selected prima dona programmers need to remain happily well paid and fixated on developing exclusively for Google. Use that pile of money to buy their loyalty.
From the user standpoint I think that is fair and a hopeful sign that Google will clean this stinking restroom surprise up.
As far as I can see, American Express has not made an Android version of their app.
PBS, ABC Player, ABC News, TED Mobile, CNN app and the NPR app are some I am not sure about, but you can check the android store and let me know if any is there.
As for games, sorry but there are a LOT of games for the iOS that are not available for Android and very few the other way arround. Most of the Android games that are not available for the iOS tend to be copycats of popular iOS games. But lets talk about big names: Dead Space, Infinity Blade, World of Goo, Plants Vz Zombies, Infinity Blade, Rage, Call of Duty: Zombies, and many more. Better question ends being: What games are available for the Android that are not available for the iOS?
The biggest missing Android game is Civilization Revolution for all of us that have played Civilization for decades.
The iPad version is rather nicely done with good graphics and there is a small screen iPhone version, but no real Sid Meir Civilization version for anything Android, not even an old Civ 1.
It is stuff like that which kills Android as a reasonable choice for gammers who want something to diddle with in their spare time. The other is I want to kill someone if I see a pop up advertisement anywhere in a game. Pop up ads are for third world inner city losers who will not pay at least $0.99 for a game!
I really haven't had much use for the Android marketplace, but I did decide I wanted to check out what Angry Birds was all about. Going into the marketplace and searching for "Angry Birds" returned an absolute mess of results. As a user, I shouldn't have to weed through all of the crap to find a well-known application, especially since Google is first and foremost a search engine company.
Hey, write an Android app for finding the correct Android Angry Birds app in the Android MarketPlace. That would make life nice for the rest of us.
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This is apparently the original article. ...
I'm with the Motorola-is-stupid crowd on this one. They are a hardware/telecom company, not a software company. They have no demonstrated track record of developing a competent, competitive smartphone OS. Short of buying Palm's WebOS, which maybe they should have done
That said, I wish MOT well because a little competition is good for the consumer. I would prefer that they work on perfecting their tablets and smartphones in the Android space, however. The Xoom is a great first effort. Why not tweak it until it's flawless and best-of-breed? Why not help Google improve Android in the areas where MOT feels it's deficient? For a lot less money and resources than developing their own proprietary crappy OS, they can be very competitive
Methinks Motorola is not thinking this through very clearly. Then again, it's just a rumor.
Does any body notice a pattern?
Nokia rejects Android in favor of Microsoft Winows Mobile 7.
HP rejects Android in favor of a web OS.
HTC decides to build Windows Mobile 7 in addition to Android to be safe.
Motorola, a leading Android manufacturer, let's it escape that it's premier Andoid Tablet isn't doing all that well so they are not planing on manufacturing it past June 2011.
Motorola is having difficulty keeping the secret it wants to use a Web OS instead of Android which is the subject of this thread.
This week Goggle let's it slip that the Chinese are producing crappy Android phones and tablets that increasingly are giving the Android brand a bad name.
Blogs and pundits start talking about the quarter million Android that were burnt by hackers rooting the hardware right from the Google marketplace. Other developers discover their apps are being copied and sold in that same marketplace, not mentioning the sheer volume of Android app piracy is taking money away from them every day.
Some Android manufacturers now face over thirty lawsuits demanding compensation for technology infringement.
This is all good news for the future of Android?
How?
Why then is anyone surprised all the larger hardware manufacturers are now working on a 'PLAN B' instead of betting the farm on Android past 2011?
The spare diesel generators had to be placed 2 -3 kilometers inland, on a hill, not on the shore near the nuclear plant. And connected to the plant by 3 kilometers electrical cable. This way the generators would not be damaged by a tsunami.
Am I the only engineer who realizes it? Am I that talented?
Any person can pull this up in Google maps. Look closely. the whole complex is built on a very steep man made hill next to the Pacfic, well above tsunami levels.
The only reason to site the generators elsewhere would be it is too dangerous to place them any closer at this time due to radiation and/or radiated heat.
Good job again google. That's why you're on top.
Obviously they are on top in distributing Malware to mobile devices.
What I want to know is why did it take Google five days to respond to this new Malware?
Why isn't every app scanned for this stuff before it goes live in the Google Market Place?
Any script kiddie in the world can create a new bad Android app by running DreamDriod package kit.
This sounds just like the crap that threatens Windows where some evil genius made it super simple for anyone to create malware.
Google needs to be more like Apple and Microsoft and block this stuff before no one wants Android.
"it might be best to take your device to your carrier and exchange it for a new one"
Yeah good luck with that.
There may be far more returns than expected. The story has doubled in size as Google has now killed over fifty apps from their market place according to one mobile security firm. That firm has a detailed breakdown off how the malware works. One user just reported Google killed an app he downloaded a month ago, so this has been going on for awhile.
It is not the carrier's problem. It is an Android problem.
If you want to really be absorb, blame Obama and the FCC for not protecting you from cyber criminals instead of Google who made it possible in the first place.
"nega-laser"
I think the prefer vernacular is African-American-laser
Laughing - that is an interesting politically correct name for this technology.
Overpriced? Really? It's $99. Why don't you just post "I hate Apple" instead of trying to pretend to put reason behind your post. $99 is cheap and AppleTV works very well for what it does.
Apple TV is also found in enterprise too as a handy wireless connection for keynote (ppt) presentations.
It is so small you can easily pocket it.
I recommend ASL users to use it too for group meetings. BTW ASL users will be in high cotton when the iPad 3G has FaceTime like the iPhone.
When will Google TV become a gaming platform?
Finland's Nokia is lost. It is now turned into a patent troll. Goodbye to technologies like Webkit, Qt, MeeGo, welcome to Win7 mobile. Surrender, surrender.
Unfortunately their patents spell trouble for Google. Apple will probably make peace with MS and Nokia combined by cross licensing certain intellectual property. Google by contrast has little of value and lots of money to give up. Android may become too expensive for them to continue with.
It is interesting to read the reasons Nokia as the worlds biggest phone manufacturer rejected both Google and Android and picked Microsoft. Competing manufacturers may be reconsidering their options now for the same reasons.
Android was a big loser today. For some that hasn't sunk in yet. Think!
The take away from this thread is that Android users are second class citizens in the world of OPEN SOURCE.
Nokia had the better OSS project and that is now for most purposes dead.
Today's Nokia announcment was a stunning blow to OSS on mobile.
Point, I told everyone a least a week ago this would happen, but few would listen.
Why would you not have your cellular phone with you?
Because I do not OWN a cell phone. They're a huge fucking ripoff and until they get to the point where it's a reasonable price with vendors that aren't asshole oligopolies I will not get one.
Google has an Android for you.
Get with their program.
Make it feel stylish and suckers will buy any crap you shovel at them!
Is that the secrete design theory of an Android phone?
If my wife wasted $175 on an Android tablet thinking it would be like an iPad, she would find she was now an ex wife.
Besides what that says about your relationship and marital skills, you seem to make the assumption that my wife thought it would be like an iPad (or even that I might want an iPad!)
I got MORE than what I wanted, I love my Android pad, I use it every day, and it is exactly the device I expected and more.
Why would I want to pay $499 for something I don't want, when $175 exceeds my every requirement, including many requirements that the iPad does not even meet?
My bad.
I forgot others do not have my high expectations in a wife or even a tablet.
To Date not one tablet competitor has been able to meet apple's price point by a significant margin
I mentioned last November that I would get a notepad when the 10-inch Android models hit the $175 price point.
With that specification, I had one waiting for me under the Christmas Tree, 2010.
I laughed as I walked by the iPad displays in Best Buy over the next few days, with prices of $499, $599, $649. iPad, baaah.
I could have had 3 Android pads for the price of the CHEAPEST iPad.
You guys just need to find wives who can shop!
(maybe I should have ended that sentence at 7 words.)
If my wife wasted $175 on an Android tablet thinking it would be like an iPad, she would find she was now an ex wife.
i'm not sure why this is marked as flamebait, the word evil perhaps?
It's sensible for Apple to sell at or below cost, since other manufacturers don't have the established content market.
If Apple sold at or below cost we would have a $250 10" iPad 3G.
Apple doesn't sell anything at or below cost. They do not have too and as a result they make money hand over fist.
I bet your retirement fund has Apple stock in it now. Apple is the darling of Wall Street investment firms.
For most of us we have a direct vested interest in Apple continuing to dominate their markets by making the most money possible without buying market share by doing something foolish like giving away the farm just to say they sold more than some other manufacturer.
Are you high? 14.8 million tablets in 8 months isn't impressive? For a product that entered the market as a first gen device. Really?
Most analysts put the 3-5 million as an optimistic prediction. You have no idea at all.
IPad sales are limited by how many can actually be built each week. Once that bottle neck is removed then we will see explosive sales.
No need to weep for Samsung and their failed Android tablet. Samsung's profits also include the fact they manufacture more than half the components used in the iPad.
You make a good point about the iPad reducing the weight of books and paper by displaying documents so well.
In Japan there is a shortage of scanners as students are making PDFs out of all their books. Those in cramped apartments find they can get rid of all the old publications and just go with the iPad. This allows them to reclaim all that space books formerly took up.
I think there is a four month waiting list among businesses that scan documents for these people. That is yet to take hold in the USA but it could be an extremely profitable venture for someone interested in a new startup near a big city.
Instead of fighting the Apple iPad, why not take advantage of the needs it creates.?
Yes, you can do far more on other devices, but a lot of people will never do more, so it is not necessary. There are a lot of applications where a finger touch screen simply works better than a keyboard. Given a little bit of Voice-to-Text a lot of people would hardly ever need a keyboard.
BINGO
I use voice to text all the time for fast input to the iPad while walking around.
A quick paste to where I need it with a tap tap, tap..done.
I can not do that with anything else except with maybe an iPhone.
The existing Android 2.2 tablets are orders of magnitude more complex than the Ipad.
You say that as if it's a good thing.
The Android tablets are already heavily fragmented which adds to their complexity.
Complexity != Power
As already pointed out the iPad is so powerful that real people enjoy doing what they want everyday.
It is telling that in the hallowed halls of political power they ban the use of laptops but recently approved the use of the iPad ( in more than one country).
Britain added the stipulation they were not allowed to use Google.
The Galaxy Tab and Streak 7 absolutely trounce the iPad in the "Big Sack of Shit" category.
That seems to be the honest consensus at Engadget.
Quoting Apple's insanely inflated battery life figures is going to get you no credit. It for one is lucky to get three to four hours in practical use.
I could give up browsing /. when I see a typical misinformed post like the above quote. I have an iPad that can still easily beat 9 hours off the battery after ten months use. This isn't your Daddy's net book or laptop with an exaggerated battery life. The iPad display is over twice as big as those Android seven inch devices. You would think the Androids would get at least twice the battery life on a dinky seven inch screen instead of a lot less!
The only real contender in the next wave of tablets seems to be RIM's PlayBook. The videos out so far are pretty amazing -- dare I call it revolutionary?
It steals all the best of WebOS in terms of UI and the hardware is top-notch. It's smooth and responsive even when multitasking wtih several CPU intensive tasks.
It really makes the Streak 7 and Xoom tablets, which feel like an incremental upgrade to the iPad, seem outdated.
If the iPad 2 doesn't bring something new to the game, we could see a major shift in the tablet market this year.
How come it can not do BlackBerry email when it is a BlackBerry device? You need to mate it with a BlackBerry phone. The iPad does email in spades and it doesn't need an iPhone.
You forgot an option
- he actually wants a phone for something more than toying and tweaking.
I've had an Android phone for a year, my contract just expired and I used that to get an iPhone 4 instead.
The problem with Android does not come from Google, they did a decent job engineering the OS (except that maintaining their own kernel was a big error), and it basically works fine
The problem comes from most phone manufacturers (actually, all except HTC I think), which just see Android as a free meal (and a way to increase their margin). They just wrap a bunch of ugly code as glue for their phone (binary blobs and lots of other crap) and ship it. Then the phone companies add their own layer of crap-apps on top of it.
The result you get is a phone that mostly works, but with unexpected slow downs, crappy drivers and weird device behaviors. You're not even guaranteed to get android updates, which increases fragmentation (well you know... it costs money, why support a phone that has ~already~ been sold?)
Of course it's open source, so communities can create their own OS. And you get an OS in constant beta state with half the components working (you wanted bluetooth, camera and radio? wooooooops sorry bro, next update maybe)
Apple, on the opposite, must have at least one completely psychotic quality checker behind each dev's backs. The polish they give to their system is incredible. It just works. Now my phone rings when I phone to someone, the screen does not stay unresponsive for 30s when I want to end a call (crappy proximity sensor, gah...), or freeze unexpectedly for 1s when scrolling or doing basic stuff. I actually ~enjoy~ using it.
It is truly sad that Slashdot moderates good points like this down to nothing because it isn't cult like devotion to Android. These are valid points that should be considered by all. Android is a advertiser created OS that Geeks like to play with. Currently it really is a poor choice for the end user who isn't a Geek if they expect to have an Apple experience.
Google really needs to step up and spend a lot of their wealth in fixing the darn ecosystem for everyone who bought into the Android idea. That is the whole point of this story is that real world developers have not delivered and will not until they are guaranteed a lot of money. The approach Google is now taking is that they will fund them for future results if they work exclusively for Google. None of this where dual developers discover it is far easier and a greater pleasure to program for Apple than Google. Elite Google selected prima dona programmers need to remain happily well paid and fixated on developing exclusively for Google. Use that pile of money to buy their loyalty.
From the user standpoint I think that is fair and a hopeful sign that Google will clean this stinking restroom surprise up.
Netflix? Hulu Plus?
As far as I can see, American Express has not made an Android version of their app.
PBS, ABC Player, ABC News, TED Mobile, CNN app and the NPR app are some I am not sure about, but you can check the android store and let me know if any is there.
As for games, sorry but there are a LOT of games for the iOS that are not available for Android and very few the other way arround. Most of the Android games that are not available for the iOS tend to be copycats of popular iOS games. But lets talk about big names: Dead Space, Infinity Blade, World of Goo, Plants Vz Zombies, Infinity Blade, Rage, Call of Duty: Zombies, and many more. Better question ends being: What games are available for the Android that are not available for the iOS?
The biggest missing Android game is Civilization Revolution for all of us that have played Civilization for decades.
The iPad version is rather nicely done with good graphics and there is a small screen iPhone version, but no real Sid Meir Civilization version for anything Android, not even an old Civ 1.
It is stuff like that which kills Android as a reasonable choice for gammers who want something to diddle with in their spare time.
The other is I want to kill someone if I see a pop up advertisement anywhere in a game.
Pop up ads are for third world inner city losers who will not pay at least $0.99 for a game!
That's not true, they have fart apps for Android.
And a zillion Android wallpaper and ringtone apps. You don't need a $200 smartphone and another two year contract for that crap.
That is like programming "Hello World" (with advertising) a million times over and saying look at what we have.
I really haven't had much use for the Android marketplace, but I did decide I wanted to check out what Angry Birds was all about. Going into the marketplace and searching for "Angry Birds" returned an absolute mess of results. As a user, I shouldn't have to weed through all of the crap to find a well-known application, especially since Google is first and foremost a search engine company.
Hey, write an Android app for finding the correct Android Angry Birds app in the Android MarketPlace.
That would make life nice for the rest of us.