…and they will look at you as if you were speaking an alien language. You might want to do that, why would they?
3) Tethering, hum…….. can’t do that either out of the box.

To be honest, I don’t know what tethering is or why I’d want to do it. I’d look it up, but as far as I know it doesn’t stop me from getting on the internet or using a phone.
4) Did you forget flash?

Flash for mobile has been quietly abandoned by Adobe. Along with Silverlight and MS.
5) Being able to install any app you want

This is exactly what the article was talking about, people want apps that work well. They’d happily install whatever that does the job reliably. They don’t really care how many apps they could install, they only want one. Giving them five options means they have less chance of choosing the best one.

I read the Paradox of Choice and it profoundly changed my thinking. I have always been a proponent of choice, choice and more choice. That book shook my convictions to the core. It’s not that we’re stupid or need to be educated. It’s about the way our brains work.

Open is the dogma of the web right now. And, as Mark Twain once said: “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” Well, that’s exactly what I’m doing. I’m pausing in my belief that more choice is always the better choice and reflecting on the very many examples of closed corporations that are doing as well as, and in many cases, much better than, their open competitors.

I suspect the debate on “open” v. “closed” is far from being decided. Or even understood.

First as other have mentioned already, what would dell, gateway, hp, acer..etc have to do is there was only one operating system? They tweak what’s loaded on top of the operating system, so this has already been proven that it’s worked and is going to work.

The bottom line I see is that with andorid you can do things you cant’ do with the iphone. You have to jailbreak (hack) the iphone to make it even remotely a decent phone. Here are just simply things iphone just can’t do

1) Multi-tasking is something iphone users are not aware of. Can’t listen to pandora in the car while GPS is running. Let alone I won’t bring up how horrible iphone’s navigation system is comparing to andorid using google maps for their gps navigation.

2) Tell an Iphone user you want to save a 600MB iso file on their iphone, since you don’t walk around with a thumb drive (can’t do it)

3) Tethering, hum…….. can’t do that either out of the box, while android just downloads a free program and in 5 minutes your tethering. You can even turn your new android 2.2 into a wifi hotspot. So you can use your laptop, ipod and anything else that needs internet while your on the beach. Iphone users probably don’t even know what I’m talking about.

4) Did you forget flash? You might think Flash sucks, but it’s already our android.

5) Being able to install any app you want like a big boy, like you do on your computer. Iphone users were excited when they finally were able to use another browser like Opera LOL I wish I was kidding, while there’s half a dozen in the market for android.

If those aren’t enough reasons, now you are able to go to any carrier, so you can save a lot more monthly buy going to another carrier.

Nobody has google TV to my suprise. Sony, Lotiech and a few other companies are going to start using android on their television. Just go to youtube and type in google TV to learn more about it. Now you have a operating system that’s on the phone that some of the cool apps, you’d like on your TV, like weather, clock widget, stocks, the browser you want. Now game developers can develop games that can possibly be played on your cell phone and your television without heavy changes in development.

I know your an iphone user, but come on!!! This reminds me of when Steve Jobs was defending his iphone and how you can’t install any app unless it’s approved.
This is one of Iphone’s biggest downfalls is their signed approved apps. Steve Jobs stated it’s because he doesn’t think a kid should be able to get porn on a phone like they can’t with the android. Open up the iphone and go into their market and type in adult, stripers…etc, so for one thing steve is just making excuses and second, why would anybody install an app when there’s a browser and a kid with any platform can go to any adult site?

These silly things are what is killing iphone. This is why iphone is going to end up like OSX with 5% of the market at the end.

While the original iphone was innovative, what has apple done since. IPAD? are you kidding me? just a bigger iphone, and in my opinion nothing special, and way over priced.

Apple is the master of gaining a following and holding them with new slightly better devices. While I have the up most respect for apple and their products, and there is something to say for simple products that and just work. They limit their potential by their controlling practices on the devices and software.

All in all this article brings a weak point from what I would guess is someone stuck in a iphone contract, while all the new android devices come out that clearly trump the current iphone. Good luck with AT&T where the service is getting worse not better…

A) problem with different standards in screen size? this just mean we need better coders! E.g. if you develop a website, you still have to cater for IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome + all the different resolutions. So in the same way, people can do that for android?

B) if there is a need for more testing to make sure apps are compatible on all android phones then it just means more jobs for testers/developers?

C) every 3 months in real life = 1 year of internet time, or so I’ve heard….. which means technology will always keep improving. If you live in Asia and have known some phone fanatic freaks, you’ll also know that they change phones like cloths! If you like a phone and have the cash for it, then buy it! If you’ve just recently bought a phone and want a newer version of it, then just sell your current one and top up a little bit for the better version. At the end of the day people who want what they want will find a way, envying other people who have better phones and not doing something about it is just a way of being whiny.

I feel that the comparison of iphone development and android development is something like asp.net programming vs php. Developers can charge up to £700 a day for programming asp.net and it’s so much easier to program than php (think going rate is around £100/day)? But people still choose php because of the clean code and its free? I feel that when a lot more people are on android phones, the demand for android developers will increase and they will cost a lot more than iphone developers coz its so easy to program for iphone.

The list goes on and on……

Not only are there multiple names for the same device. Again taking HTC as an example the HTC Magic is better known in the US as the MyTouch 3G. There are a number of examples like this and while this is not uncommon it does splinter mindshare for the average consumer.

Apple has iPhone, and can build mindshare by just having one brand. When you have multiple names for the same device, and on top of that multiple devices, its hard to generate much brand loyalty.

I think despite these shortcomings, the sheer awesomenesss of the Android platform combined with sweet hardware is overcoming this strategic error.

* native C API closed to 3rd party developers, only Google can make C apps
* system updates come from carriers, and often don’t come at all
* Android v1 devices still outselling v2 even 6 plus months after v2 shipped
* copycat design and engineering by Google leads to handset makers paying patent license fees to Microsoft and getting sued for patent infringement by Apple
* devices are hastily put together and lack refinement
* lacks consumer usability
* bulk of sales on closed networks (Verizon, Sprint) where open standard iPhone can’t run
* low battery life
* no enterprise features, still can’t play in corporate with iPhone, Blackberry
* malware