Anti-Android Sentiment And My Refusal To Rant
Last week I spiraled into what I admit was little more than an Android fanboy rant, provoked by an article suggesting Microsoft was much more worried about Apple than Android in regards to competition for Windows Mobile. Criticisms of the rant included the following quotes:
- “Lame”
- “you are acting like a little child that is cheering for is favor team!What happen with being objective???”
- “I would point out how you’re such a fan boy…”
- “lacked maturity, objectiveness and class”
This time around I’ll provide only the facts… and if you choose to rant in my absensce, by all means pummel the comment form. The passages below are from a BNet article called “Android Boosted By Blind Dogma”:
HTC’s G1 is the only handset on the market running Android, so it may seem unfair to hang Android on the basis of a single piece of evidence. Richard Spence, a developer with Bluetrail, argues that “the time to judge Android is when there are a number of handsets out there, particularly the Sony.”
But many developers complain that Android runs slowly and has a fairly poor user interface, which is a serious disincentive for developers looking to hook users with a hot new app. Ruby developer Tom Insam noted that
the browser just isn’t up to the standard of the iPhone’s. The Mail app is awful. The web browser seems to sometimes open new windows, and sometimes reuse existing windows when following links…. [and] the on-screen keyboard is sluggish.
*Biting my tongue* There’s more…
William Volk, CEO of mobile app vendor Playscreen, said the Google Checkout experience for purchasing apps is “unacceptable to the vast majority of Android users.”
And finally:
Despite this, Android enjoys a sort of cachet among the tech crowd, which Kerr attributes less to its actual attribute than to the antipathy many developers feel towards Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Nokia’s Symbian. “The whole thing stinks of religious dogma, as with the old PC/Mac/Linux wars…There’s way too much emotional opinion floating around, resting on blind dogma,” he posted on a professional mobile developer forum.
I won’t say anything. I won’t make a single point. I’m just putting it out there that people feel this way about Android. I’ll let the unlame, unchildish, objective, unfanboy, mature and classy readers of Phandroid analyze and conclude however they see fit.
The floor is yours…