It is much simpler than that. Tinkers like the slashdot crowd don't pay for apps unless they have too. they go I can do that, and then make some crude knock off 6 to 24 months later if they feel like it.
By catering to the tinkerer crowd google is cutting it's own throat on app sales. Why do you think that most downloaded apps for android include a decent web browser and keyboard software. Those should be basic apps that should have been done right at the beginning.
Apple however caters to the 90% of users who don't have time to waste on doing crappily themselves. While I can code my own apps, as well as fix my car, and rebuild a computer in my sleep. It isn't worth my time to do so.
Now having said that I am still waiting for a wifi only tablet. the iPad is close but I only want a 7" screen. Since google doesn't support the market place without 3G I guess i will have to code my own apps(tinker) as google doesn't care about me as a potential customer.
Anyone can answer your question. Google does not want you using Android anywhere where they can not track what you are doing and have the ability to push the Android user more advertising. With Android it is all about advertising.
Unfortunately for Google I am in the group that hates unwanted advertising, especially if it is served to me digitally on my dime at 3G data rates.
I want FREEDOM FROM ADVERTISING that costs me money or time!
I have a very sophisticated way of blocking advertising from the telephone system, in TV shows, and as much as possible in the Internet connection. I would never spend a dime for anything given away by an advertising company if it would cost me to use it. There is no way to get away from that cost of paying for advertising data delivered with Android and their free apps heavily loaded with advertising. I can completely avoid advertising with careful Apple app store choices and the iPad.
Angry birds sucked. That is why it was free on android. Android users won't pay as much for crap as Iphone users will.
Angry Birds is such a hit on Apple that there is now a Angry Birds movie. a new Angry Birds TV show and a whole bunch of new Angry Birds variations being release this spring to go along with the theme of the Angry Birds movie.
Fortunately for the creator of the Apple hit Angry Birds, life doesn't revolve around your Android experience.
Yes, apparently it's difficult to make money off software that doesn't get "heavily used". It's a feature.
I don't want 500,000 apps on my phone. I want about 20, and I want them to work really, really well. This has implications for the software industry.
I have 759 out of a possible 3,500 I could load onto Apple. As you say this choice really "has implications for the software industry."
The funniest iTunes reviews are the ones where if an app is bad or really low quality the frustrated user will typically write "If I wanted an Android app I would have bought an Android phone!"
Ouch, the reference to Andorid is a low blow in an App review!
To Apple's credit they try to pull any review that mentions Android.
Michael Dell (10/6/1997): ""What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders," Michael Dell said before a crowd of several thousand IT executives. [http://news.cnet.com/Dell-Apple-should-close-shop/2100-1001_3-203937.html#ixzz1CccaByog]
And ju
Saturday morning I was walking out of local Quick Trip with an iPad under my arm when a man stopped me and asked how I liked it. He told me he had been out of work for nineteen months after he was laid off by Dell. In August 2010 Citrix hired him to help support Citrix products on the new wave of Apple iPads that were being sold to their corporate customers.
For him and others like him Apple in 2010 has been the rescue from financial disaster. He now has a job he loves and is proud to tell everyone else about.
> Mobile Windows didn't have such glaring problems with malware stealing from the user.
That's mostly because statistically, there weren't enough Windows Mobile users (or PalmOS users, or Symbian users, for that matter) to be worth the time of organized crime.
The problem with Android isn't the fact that the source is available to peruse, it's the fact that manufacturers and American carriers do their best to make upgrades as difficult as possible despite Android's open-source Linux roots. An exploit like this barely gets a yawn from Nexus One users, because someone will update it before any real exploits based on this ever become a problem. In contrast, owners of American Samsung Galaxy S phones will be shitting bricks, because we're still waiting for a fucking kernel that works with Froyo. Or at least leaked CDMA loadable kernel modules compatible with a 2.6.32 kernel so we can build our own without losing basically all the hardware drivers it needs to work properly.
Sidetrip: Unlike Windows, Linux makes no effort to maintain a stable ABI between versions. Simplified a bit, this basically means that a loadable kernel module (the Linux analog to a hardware driver) that's built for a 2.6.29 kernel will probably crash and burn on a 2.6.32 kernel. The official Linux party line is that it makes it harder for manufacturers to keep drivers proprietary, and motivates vendors to release source for their drivers so it can be automatically rebuilt for each new kernel release. The cold American consumer reality is that the Android Emperor is nude. The Nexus S can't do 4G on T-Mobile, is fundamentally incompatible with Sprint and Verizon, and AT&T's slow, capped, expensive 3G isn't even a real option. We're stuck with an allegedly-open operating system inextricably bound to hardware that's more locked down and proprietary than an iPhone, and all we can really do is hope some of Linux's core developers also own Android phones and are starting to really, really feel some of the ABI pain themselves on a daily basis.
Put another way, here's a more technical summary of the problem:
* Samsung has released source to its kernel and loadable kernel module drivers, but the LKM source won't build against any known 2.6.32 kernel due to missing dependencies.
* The.ko modules themselves were built against the ABI of a specific build of 2.6.29 that changed enough with 2.6.32 for most of them to crash and burn if you try using them with a 2.6.32 kernel.
* Froyo and Gingerbread have dependencies on the 2.6.32 kernel. You can cobble together a FrankenBuild that sort of works with a 2.6.29 kernel, but it'll never be a True Froyo/Gingerbread, and will always have bugs hidden below the surface veneer.
Metaphorically, an American Samsung Galaxy S trying to run Froyo is kind of like a laptop that shipped with Windows 98 and a winmodem. The unfortunate user upgrades it to XP himself, then discovers that the winmodem only has drivers for Win98. Through some miracle, the winmodem drivers have their "source" released, but that source requires a thirdparty library called LunexantProprietaryLib that isn't included, and won't build without it. After lots of hacking, the user manages to cobble together drivers that will allow the modem to limp along at 9600 baud by pretending it's an older version of the chipset, but getting it to do 56k without official drivers is hopeless. And if, by some miracle of god, a never-released copy of drivers for XP get leaked despite the determination of the manufacturer to keep it unavailable through the perverse logic that fucking their customers will somehow encourage them to buy a newer model from the same company that screwed them less than a year earlier (instead of buying one made by just about ANYBODY else), the user discovers that the drivers needed for 3D acceleration have the same problem as the Winmodem, and it's back to square one.
What Google really needs to do is define an ABI thunking layer and require that any a
Mobile Windows didn't have such glaring problems with malware stealing from the user.
That is only possible by virtually every Tom, Dick, and Harry with mental problems having a copy of the source code that they can examine for flaws that they can exploit.
Then you have another group with mental problems saying no one should expose the danger as that damages Android's reputation and users will avoid it. Duh? Of course they should avoid it until the danger is completely eliminated or someone writes a good antivirus anti Trojan app that can root out the danger.
The Obama Administration wants an' Internet Kill Switch' too. I just received a note that new legislation will be introduced soon to give him those remarkable powers.
I bet that then every other government will want their own Internet kill switch too.
When the day comes that the US President has to protect the country by shutting down the Internet, the amount of pain felt by business, and even the government itself will be immense. For all to accept that painful action, the threat facing the US will have to be enormous. I can think of only one situation of social upheaval that could take the US by surprise.
Can't agree more with you. . Businesses don't care about the logo, they care about the results.
That is the whole point of this article. Apple is in the cycle of replacing Microsoft in the Enterprise. Failure to recognize this will get many unceremoniously displaced from their current employment. Don't be a loser, pay attention to what is happening.
Just like the dumped Xserve, it was a dinosaur that was easily replaced by cool running energy efficient Mac Minis.
Apple handed Microsoft a huge weapon to which fight this battle, the sudden cancellation of the Xserve with no real replacement. Now whenever Apple goes after the enterprise market Microsoft can point to this and say, "Do you really want to risk introducing a device into your enterprise that Apple can discontinue on a whim leaving you with no easy upgrade/replacement options? Apple has done this in the past and will do it again"
Boy are you slightly misinformed!
From Dr. Bill Wiecking at this weeks MacWorld...
One school in Hawaii has demonstrated, the Xserve platform is a dinosaur.
The HPA Energy Lab in Waimea, Hawaii, replaced all of its Xserve servers with Mac Minis, and now the lab uses hardly any juice.
“The entire lab uses less power than a blow dryer,” said director Dr. Bill Wiecking, speaking here at Macworld.
According to Dr. Wiecking, an Xserve in sleep mode uses more power than a Mac mini HDMI going full blast on all cores.
Sadly your right. I had high hopes for the ZuneHD, technology wise it was thing of wonder but they half assed the app store, screwed potential developers and basically killed any potential excitement for it before the device really even had a chance to get off the ground. Most of their "innovation" seems to be reactive rather than proactive, add in their absolute paranoia about controlling their skewed "perception" of the device (they did the same with the 360 which is why it still has no browser or keyboard support) and mostly everything they have come up with lately has been DOA.
Whoa hold it. I had to reread your post for a second as I thought 'why are you talking about Google Market Place and Android in this thread'? Wow, I see the similarity to the failed ZuneHD!
I think their worst feature is that they seem to delight in waiting for a fair amount of cash to build up before just deciding to yank an account. Basically just stealing the money.
I love android, it's a fantastic mobile operating system. But google's market is just annoying to me in a lot of ways. Especially when people tend to portray it as both a bastion of freedom and an open place where the benign leadership actually cares.
What you an others developing for Android fail to realize it is not in Googles interest to have apps with high return exactly like Apple does where an Apple user can spend hours with out seeing an ad or revealing what he is doing at that instance and his location. Googles life blood is advertising. They do not benefit unless Android is shoveling it out or giving them feedback they can sell to others about the Android user.
The Android Market Place while controlled by Google can never be an equivalent to the App Store with the exact same high quality content. You will always find far more 'free content' in the Market Place under Googles control. They could care less if it is any good.
All Google wants from Android is the amount of time a user is using these Apps that feed information to Google and allow them to serve ads back.
You have a free Android OS controlled by an Advertising Company.
Operators that ship android don't need to distribute the Google version of it. They can take the open source version and add a mail, maps and app store application of their own.
Android is open. Google's android version has a few restrictions.
It is already being done.
There are versions of what had been Android with no Google apps of any kind in it. The hardware is coming from China and Korea.
HTC currently makes a few different Windows Phone 7 devices. I'd really say the only manufacturer that's betting hard on Android is Motorola.
You post was a relief. HTC just publicly reported that carriers told them to build a lot less Android. Android was producing churn from those unhappy with the hardware and OS. You really have to pay big bucks to get any kind of decent Android hardware whereas Android was promoted for anything including the low end junk. Carriers want happy, stable customers, so that is why they all want the iPhone. Next up is the similar Windows Mobile 7 ecosystem that should replace Android in the carriers affections during 2011.
Verizon is offering to buy back Androids from some disgruntled customers if they switch to the iPhone ($200 debit card for your POS Android). Big Red will do what it needs to do to hold onto its base.
T-Mobile is making similar noises compared to Verizon, they are now hoping for a T-Mobile iPhone5. That leaves the fragmented Sprint network as the sole untouched Android playground.
Agreed, Firefox has been on a horrible decline since version 2.0, the last thing they need to do is continue that trend.
Nowadays I find it slower than it's competitors, and I find it less stable, every once in a while it just crashes. It also seems to have horrendous memory leak issues, if I leave it running overnight it's not unusual to find it chewing up 2gb of RAM in the morning and I've even seen it edge pretty close to 4gb on one occasion. Even IE never does any of these things for me nowadays.
The best thing they can do is take their time and produce a release that's of the quality of 2.0 because if they release yet another release that's yet another step back in terms of stability and performance then they're really going to start reversing their trend towards being the number one browser globally.
I have had it with FireFox and earlier this week I sent an email to all my associates recommending they do as I did and get rid of it lock stock and barrel. I have found the things I liked about FireFox are available in Apple's Safari and Safari extensions are actually better implemented.
Oh please! Linux has had 15 years and you STILL can't give away enough of the thing even at a cost of $0 to get beyond 1% You think MSFT pays guys like me hidden checks to sell Windows boxes? Nope to paraphrase an old campaign slogan its the apps and ease of use stupid which thanks to some bad design choices royally suck in Linux.
Do you realize you are expressing the same problem with Android [Linux] which is going to experience an explosive collapse in spite of the United States biggest Internet advertising agency's desperate efforts to get cellular to use it?
HTC has already reported cellular carriers are telling them they have too much Android. Android isn't making them many happy customers so deadly churn is increasing.
You have to literally buy the most expensive Android hardware available to get a decent experience compared to the iPhone4.
Cellular companies now want less Android in future products.
The Catholic Church has their very own International Vatican Bank to launder money.
That is the only way to go. You don't have to worry about the Swiss Banks, other greedy governments, or Wikileaks with your international funds hidden in the Vatican Bank.
Julian Assange and his Internet cronies would have already been found hanging by the neck from various Italian Bridges as obvious despondent suicides if they threatened the Vatican Bank with WikiLeaks.
That's what the Amiga fanbois kept saying as Macs and EGA-capable PCs were steamrolling over top of them.
When it comes to games, Andriod's "just work around the garbage collector" is the OS that's in denial. People have been trying to make games in Java for 15 years and other than some random stuff like minecraft it's just not going to happen.
Geeks need to get the word out as to why Android sucks as a game platform. Maybe Google will rewrite Android.
I guess my "let me prove you wrong with wikipedia" skills just aren't elite enough to warrant such a feature. In over 2 years of having a personal/work smartphone, the number of times I have said "here, use my phone, it works out here" (to people with "superior technology") has VASTLY outnumbered the occurrences which I have muttered "drat, can't download that right now, I'm on the phone".
TRANSLATION
I used and outdated cellular network therefore I can't download while I am on the phone, this isn't AT&T.
Here's to hoping. I'm an Android guy myself, but I always welcome more competition! That is, of course, assuming this is what Verizon has planned for tomorrow. If it isn't, the outpouring of douchebaggery online will be quite entertaining:)
I found those stupid Verizon Droid commercials entertaining.
I love the special treatment our new Verizon iPhone users will receive. That is fitting with Verizon finally moving to a world class smart phone.
Look at those Android prepaid phone reviews on Amazon. A lot of pain with those orphaned Android phones that exemplify the crap flooding the low end market.
People love them compared to a non smart-phone but that doesn't justify having to deal with Android on that hardware. Some do not even realize it is also flaws in Android itself that is causing them so much pain and poor battery life.
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It is much simpler than that. Tinkers like the slashdot crowd don't pay for apps unless they have too. they go I can do that, and then make some crude knock off 6 to 24 months later if they feel like it.
By catering to the tinkerer crowd google is cutting it's own throat on app sales. Why do you think that most downloaded apps for android include a decent web browser and keyboard software. Those should be basic apps that should have been done right at the beginning.
Apple however caters to the 90% of users who don't have time to waste on doing crappily themselves. While I can code my own apps, as well as fix my car, and rebuild a computer in my sleep. It isn't worth my time to do so.
Now having said that I am still waiting for a wifi only tablet. the iPad is close but I only want a 7" screen. Since google doesn't support the market place without 3G I guess i will have to code my own apps(tinker) as google doesn't care about me as a potential customer.
Anyone can answer your question. Google does not want you using Android anywhere where they can not track what you are doing and have the ability to push the Android user more advertising. With Android it is all about advertising.
Unfortunately for Google I am in the group that hates unwanted advertising, especially if it is served to me digitally on my dime at 3G data rates.
I want FREEDOM FROM ADVERTISING that costs me money or time!
I have a very sophisticated way of blocking advertising from the telephone system, in TV shows, and as much as possible in the Internet connection. I would never spend a dime for anything given away by an advertising company if it would cost me to use it.
There is no way to get away from that cost of paying for advertising data delivered with Android and their free apps heavily loaded with advertising. I can completely avoid advertising with careful Apple app store choices and the iPad.
Life is good.
Angry birds sucked. That is why it was free on android. Android users won't pay as much for crap as Iphone users will.
Angry Birds is such a hit on Apple that there is now a Angry Birds movie. a new Angry Birds TV show and a whole bunch of new Angry Birds variations being release this spring to go along with the theme of the Angry Birds movie.
Fortunately for the creator of the Apple hit Angry Birds, life doesn't revolve around your Android experience.
Yes, apparently it's difficult to make money off software that doesn't get "heavily used". It's a feature.
I don't want 500,000 apps on my phone. I want about 20, and I want them to work really, really well. This has implications for the software industry.
I have 759 out of a possible 3,500 I could load onto Apple. As you say this choice really "has implications for the software industry."
The funniest iTunes reviews are the ones where if an app is bad or really low quality the frustrated user will typically write "If I wanted an Android app I would have bought an Android phone!"
Ouch, the reference to Andorid is a low blow in an App review!
To Apple's credit they try to pull any review that mentions Android.
Michael Dell (10/6/1997): ""What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders," Michael Dell said before a crowd of several thousand IT executives. [http://news.cnet.com/Dell-Apple-should-close-shop/2100-1001_3-203937.html#ixzz1CccaByog]
And ju
Saturday morning I was walking out of local Quick Trip with an iPad under my arm when a man stopped me and asked how I liked it.
He told me he had been out of work for nineteen months after he was laid off by Dell. In August 2010 Citrix hired him to help support Citrix products on the new wave of Apple iPads that were being sold to their corporate customers.
For him and others like him Apple in 2010 has been the rescue from financial disaster. He now has a job he loves and is proud to tell everyone else about.
> Mobile Windows didn't have such glaring problems with malware stealing from the user.
That's mostly because statistically, there weren't enough Windows Mobile users (or PalmOS users, or Symbian users, for that matter) to be worth the time of organized crime.
The problem with Android isn't the fact that the source is available to peruse, it's the fact that manufacturers and American carriers do their best to make upgrades as difficult as possible despite Android's open-source Linux roots. An exploit like this barely gets a yawn from Nexus One users, because someone will update it before any real exploits based on this ever become a problem. In contrast, owners of American Samsung Galaxy S phones will be shitting bricks, because we're still waiting for a fucking kernel that works with Froyo. Or at least leaked CDMA loadable kernel modules compatible with a 2.6.32 kernel so we can build our own without losing basically all the hardware drivers it needs to work properly.
Sidetrip: Unlike Windows, Linux makes no effort to maintain a stable ABI between versions. Simplified a bit, this basically means that a loadable kernel module (the Linux analog to a hardware driver) that's built for a 2.6.29 kernel will probably crash and burn on a 2.6.32 kernel. The official Linux party line is that it makes it harder for manufacturers to keep drivers proprietary, and motivates vendors to release source for their drivers so it can be automatically rebuilt for each new kernel release. The cold American consumer reality is that the Android Emperor is nude. The Nexus S can't do 4G on T-Mobile, is fundamentally incompatible with Sprint and Verizon, and AT&T's slow, capped, expensive 3G isn't even a real option. We're stuck with an allegedly-open operating system inextricably bound to hardware that's more locked down and proprietary than an iPhone, and all we can really do is hope some of Linux's core developers also own Android phones and are starting to really, really feel some of the ABI pain themselves on a daily basis.
Put another way, here's a more technical summary of the problem:
* Samsung has released source to its kernel and loadable kernel module drivers, but the LKM source won't build against any known 2.6.32 kernel due to missing dependencies.
* The .ko modules themselves were built against the ABI of a specific build of 2.6.29 that changed enough with 2.6.32 for most of them to crash and burn if you try using them with a 2.6.32 kernel.
* Froyo and Gingerbread have dependencies on the 2.6.32 kernel. You can cobble together a FrankenBuild that sort of works with a 2.6.29 kernel, but it'll never be a True Froyo/Gingerbread, and will always have bugs hidden below the surface veneer.
Metaphorically, an American Samsung Galaxy S trying to run Froyo is kind of like a laptop that shipped with Windows 98 and a winmodem. The unfortunate user upgrades it to XP himself, then discovers that the winmodem only has drivers for Win98. Through some miracle, the winmodem drivers have their "source" released, but that source requires a thirdparty library called LunexantProprietaryLib that isn't included, and won't build without it. After lots of hacking, the user manages to cobble together drivers that will allow the modem to limp along at 9600 baud by pretending it's an older version of the chipset, but getting it to do 56k without official drivers is hopeless. And if, by some miracle of god, a never-released copy of drivers for XP get leaked despite the determination of the manufacturer to keep it unavailable through the perverse logic that fucking their customers will somehow encourage them to buy a newer model from the same company that screwed them less than a year earlier (instead of buying one made by just about ANYBODY else), the user discovers that the drivers needed for 3D acceleration have the same problem as the Winmodem, and it's back to square one.
What Google really needs to do is define an ABI thunking layer and require that any a
Android, the Windows of the smartphone world.
Mobile Windows didn't have such glaring problems with malware stealing from the user.
That is only possible by virtually every Tom, Dick, and Harry with mental problems having a copy of the source code that they can examine for flaws that they can exploit.
Then you have another group with mental problems saying no one should expose the danger as that damages Android's reputation and users will avoid it. Duh? Of course they should avoid it until the danger is completely eliminated or someone writes a good antivirus anti Trojan app that can root out the danger.
Brace yourself.
The Obama Administration wants an' Internet Kill Switch' too. I just received a note that new legislation will be introduced soon to give him those remarkable powers.
I bet that then every other government will want their own Internet kill switch too.
When the day comes that the US President has to protect the country by shutting down the Internet, the amount of pain felt by business, and even the government itself will be immense. For all to accept that painful action, the threat facing the US will have to be enormous. I can think of only one situation of social upheaval that could take the US by surprise.
Book them Dano.
Can't agree more with you. . Businesses don't care about the logo, they care about the results.
That is the whole point of this article. Apple is in the cycle of replacing Microsoft in the Enterprise. Failure to recognize this will get many unceremoniously displaced from their current employment. Don't be a loser, pay attention to what is happening.
Just like the dumped Xserve, it was a dinosaur that was easily replaced by cool running energy efficient Mac Minis.
Apple handed Microsoft a huge weapon to which fight this battle, the sudden cancellation of the Xserve with no real replacement. Now whenever Apple goes after the enterprise market Microsoft can point to this and say, "Do you really want to risk introducing a device into your enterprise that Apple can discontinue on a whim leaving you with no easy upgrade/replacement options? Apple has done this in the past and will do it again"
Boy are you slightly misinformed!
From Dr. Bill Wiecking at this weeks MacWorld ...
One school in Hawaii has demonstrated, the Xserve platform is a dinosaur.
The HPA Energy Lab in Waimea, Hawaii, replaced all of its Xserve servers with Mac Minis, and now the lab uses hardly any juice.
“The entire lab uses less power than a blow dryer,” said director Dr. Bill Wiecking, speaking here at Macworld.
According to Dr. Wiecking, an Xserve in sleep mode uses more power than a Mac mini HDMI going full blast on all cores.
“Not a lot of people know that,” he said.
There are always rumors that Mobile Me will get much better, perhaps this year.
All it takes is for Apple to flip the switch in Maiden NC on their new billion dollar server.
Sadly your right. I had high hopes for the ZuneHD, technology wise it was thing of wonder but they half assed the app store, screwed potential developers and basically killed any potential excitement for it before the device really even had a chance to get off the ground. Most of their "innovation" seems to be reactive rather than proactive, add in their absolute paranoia about controlling their skewed "perception" of the device (they did the same with the 360 which is why it still has no browser or keyboard support) and mostly everything they have come up with lately has been DOA.
Whoa hold it. I had to reread your post for a second as I thought 'why are you talking about Google Market Place and Android in this thread'?
Wow, I see the similarity to the failed ZuneHD!
I think their worst feature is that they seem to delight in waiting for a fair amount of cash to build up before just deciding to yank an account. Basically just stealing the money.
I love android, it's a fantastic mobile operating system. But google's market is just annoying to me in a lot of ways. Especially when people tend to portray it as both a bastion of freedom and an open place where the benign leadership actually cares.
What you an others developing for Android fail to realize it is not in Googles interest to have apps with high return exactly like Apple does where an Apple user can spend hours with out seeing an ad or revealing what he is doing at that instance and his location. Googles life blood is advertising. They do not benefit unless Android is shoveling it out or giving them feedback they can sell to others about the Android user.
The Android Market Place while controlled by Google can never be an equivalent to the App Store with the exact same high quality content. You will always find far more 'free content' in the Market Place under Googles control. They could care less if it is any good.
All Google wants from Android is the amount of time a user is using these Apps that feed information to Google and allow them to serve ads back.
You have a free Android OS controlled by an Advertising Company.
Operators that ship android don't need to distribute the Google version of it. They can take the open source version and add a mail, maps and app store application of their own.
Android is open. Google's android version has a few restrictions.
It is already being done.
There are versions of what had been Android with no Google apps of any kind in it.
The hardware is coming from China and Korea.
HTC currently makes a few different Windows Phone 7 devices. I'd really say the only manufacturer that's betting hard on Android is Motorola.
You post was a relief. HTC just publicly reported that carriers told them to build a lot less Android. Android was producing churn from those unhappy with the hardware and OS. You really have to pay big bucks to get any kind of decent Android hardware whereas Android was promoted for anything including the low end junk. Carriers want happy, stable customers, so that is why they all want the iPhone. Next up is the similar Windows Mobile 7 ecosystem that should replace Android in the carriers affections during 2011.
Verizon is offering to buy back Androids from some disgruntled customers if they switch to the iPhone ($200 debit card for your POS Android). Big Red will do what it needs to do to hold onto its base.
T-Mobile is making similar noises compared to Verizon, they are now hoping for a T-Mobile iPhone5. That leaves the fragmented Sprint network as the sole untouched Android playground.
Agreed, Firefox has been on a horrible decline since version 2.0, the last thing they need to do is continue that trend.
Nowadays I find it slower than it's competitors, and I find it less stable, every once in a while it just crashes. It also seems to have horrendous memory leak issues, if I leave it running overnight it's not unusual to find it chewing up 2gb of RAM in the morning and I've even seen it edge pretty close to 4gb on one occasion. Even IE never does any of these things for me nowadays.
The best thing they can do is take their time and produce a release that's of the quality of 2.0 because if they release yet another release that's yet another step back in terms of stability and performance then they're really going to start reversing their trend towards being the number one browser globally.
I have had it with FireFox and earlier this week I sent an email to all my associates recommending they do as I did and get rid of it lock stock and barrel. I have found the things I liked about FireFox are available in Apple's Safari and Safari extensions are actually better implemented.
Oh please! Linux has had 15 years and you STILL can't give away enough of the thing even at a cost of $0 to get beyond 1% You think MSFT pays guys like me hidden checks to sell Windows boxes? Nope to paraphrase an old campaign slogan its the apps and ease of use stupid which thanks to some bad design choices royally suck in Linux.
Do you realize you are expressing the same problem with Android [Linux] which is going to experience an explosive collapse in spite of the United States biggest Internet advertising agency's desperate efforts to get cellular to use it?
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/06/23/technology/personaltech/1247468111534/the-iphone-4.html
HTC has already reported cellular carriers are telling them they have too much Android. Android isn't making them many happy customers so deadly churn is increasing.
You have to literally buy the most expensive Android hardware available to get a decent experience compared to the iPhone4.
Cellular companies now want less Android in future products.
.
Not to worry.
The Catholic Church has their very own International Vatican Bank to launder money.
That is the only way to go. You don't have to worry about the Swiss Banks, other greedy governments, or Wikileaks with your international funds hidden in the Vatican Bank.
Julian Assange and his Internet cronies would have already been found hanging by the neck from various Italian Bridges as obvious despondent suicides if they threatened the Vatican Bank with WikiLeaks.
Really? In order to beat h.264, you have to be significantly better, and h.264 is pretty darn good.
Memo:
Uninstall Opera
Uninstall Google Chrome
Repeat for each desktop
We will not have some greedy ad agency tell us that we need to use FLASH and stop using h.264.
future innovation and change will generally come from Apple.
That is why it makes more sense to buy Apple today instead of the stuff from the copycats who take months and then years to get it right tomorrow.
That's what the Amiga fanbois kept saying as Macs and EGA-capable PCs were steamrolling over top of them.
When it comes to games, Andriod's "just work around the garbage collector" is the OS that's in denial. People have been trying to make games in Java for 15 years and other than some random stuff like minecraft it's just not going to happen.
Geeks need to get the word out as to why Android sucks as a game platform. Maybe Google will rewrite Android.
I guess my "let me prove you wrong with wikipedia" skills just aren't elite enough to warrant such a feature. In over 2 years of having a personal/work smartphone, the number of times I have said "here, use my phone, it works out here" (to people with "superior technology") has VASTLY outnumbered the occurrences which I have muttered "drat, can't download that right now, I'm on the phone".
TRANSLATION
I used and outdated cellular network therefore I can't download while I am on the phone, this isn't AT&T.
Perhaps that means they will compete for business and we consumers will win?
Let's see: Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Legion are competing for your business, and you think that you might win? MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA
Funny
Very Funny!
Here's to hoping. I'm an Android guy myself, but I always welcome more competition! That is, of course, assuming this is what Verizon has planned for tomorrow. If it isn't, the outpouring of douchebaggery online will be quite entertaining :)
I found those stupid Verizon Droid commercials entertaining.
I love the special treatment our new Verizon iPhone users will receive. That is fitting with Verizon finally moving to a world class smart phone.
Oh really?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=prepaid+android+phone
Look at those Android prepaid phone reviews on Amazon. A lot of pain with those orphaned Android phones that exemplify the crap flooding the low end market.
People love them compared to a non smart-phone but that doesn't justify having to deal with Android on that hardware. Some do not even realize it is also flaws in Android itself that is causing them so much pain and poor battery life.