Comments on: Nobody Cares About Android

By: Pandora For Android Is Coming! | Android Phone Fans

Pandora For Android Is Coming! | Android Phone Fans — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:59:11 +0000

[...] for Android is on the way. This is significant for a number of reasons, but it all starts with a Phandroid article from August 2008 that I highly suggest you read – it is the definition of [...]

By: Tom Conrad

Tom Conrad — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:53:18 +0000

Here’s a bit more on what I really think about all of this…

http://tomconrad.net/2008/09/12/android-what-i-really-think/

By: phandroid.com

phandroid.com — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:56:27 +0000

Holy crap, Tom… rarely does someone step to the plate like that. Bravo. Sometimes I fall into the same trap on the opposite side with, “Android will be the best thing since electricity,” ideology. Its equally irresponsible to overlook the challenges and hurdles that face Android which I know I have done on several occasions, even if out of pure hope.

Thanks for swinging by to comment. Glad to hear that you’re rooting for Android, even if you think its an underdog. In my opinion, when you consider the movement that Android represents, all the more reason to root!

By: Tom Conrad

Tom Conrad — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:00:40 +0000

I’m the village idiot in question — it certainly was a stupid thing to say and wish I hadn’t said it. The entire event was an exercise in hyperbole and I fell right into that trap. The truth is that I’m hopeful about Android, but i fear that at least in the US the purchasing behavior of the consumer (where they vastly prefer carrier subsidized phones) and the walled garden behavior of the carriers (where they seek to control everything they possible can) may prove to be considerable obstacles to the “openness” of Android. Hope I’m wrong. It’s also true that other attempts at cross-phone platforms (J2ME, BREW, Windows Mobile) often prove to be incredible difficult for mobile devs due to bugs in the underlying chipsets and firmware that the OS doesn’t directly control. Here again would love to see Android do better than these other attempts.

One thing I know for sure: Google is an incredible company and they have a dream team of sorts working on Android. If anyone can do it, they can.

Tom
CTO @ Pandora

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:15:35 +0000

@D,

I don’t get it. You’re bashing the iPhone, and at the same time you don’t care about Android. Have you SEEN the URL of your browser window? Why are you here? For example, I’m here because I’m interested in what the future has to offer in terms of the best technology of cell phones. The top phone, as far as almost everyone’s concerned, is the iPhone. WM, Palm OS, and RIM’s OS don’t seem to cut it against Apple. So if Google can release an OS to compete with Apple’s, and they get a phone worthy of the potential, it could be the iPhone’s best competitor.

If you’re not interested in cell phones, that’s fine, but I think most of us here are.

By: D

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:10:21 +0000

Personally – I do not care about Android. If you are getting into the cell phone industry and don’t realize it’s all about sex, drugs and rock and roll – you will fail. The iPhone is prime example. It can be buggy – it just has to be advertised with the latest in bad college music and you have set a trend.

I mean seriously… anyone ever used OS X… it really is for the computer illiterate. Giant, bulbous, cutesy icons that bounce when clicked upon?

No one is going to flock to Android but a bunch of nerds that make for a small percentage of consumers. When someone installs Android on their iPhone and Apple is OK with it, then you will see Android hype.

Call me a moron or a village idiot if my point of view doesn’t match yours.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:28:44 +0000

I think it’s funny that he used the buggy firmware line as an example of Apple being better than Android considering the problems that the 3G iPhone is having with their buggy firmware.

By: TareX

TareX — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:13:25 +0000

The iPhone is amazing. If Android is just as fluid, functional and beautiful (please be a prototype), then the Android Dream can never lose this battle.

By: C-Rex

C-Rex — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:37:26 +0000

As long as it has GPS and google maps, I’m buying one.
I’m buying NOW -for up to $300, and I’ll figure out the rest (gmail, gcalendar, some other apps I don’t even know I need yet) later.

I want it, I want it now. lol :)

By: winandmac.com

winandmac.com — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:52:35 +0000

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By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:25:04 +0000

You know it’s one thing for someone as involved in the mobile web industry to be a little pessimistic with all the Android hype, there is a lot of high expectations with the software, but to say no one cares? This guy just brought all his credibility into question.

I don’t want to sound like I’m bashing Apple fans in this, but doesn’t it seem like this guy is genuinely upset that someone dare bring something out to compete with the iPhone? There are definite holes with the iPhone where Android can and does fill (Open dev, no lame NDA’s, different carriers, more phones, etc just to name a few).

By: plusminus

plusminus — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:13:06 +0000

“…some village’s idiot whined…”. Nothing but awesome !! :D

By: Karl Martell

Karl Martell — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:07:41 +0000

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/193/503059337_075f1471dc.jpg

David Hornik, partner, August Capital

After the “raise your hand” question you’ll see him falling back into his seat… ;)

Also made me laugh some days ago :D