Steve
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The advantage had with the iPhone is exactly that; its a phone. People desire the item, rather than the OS, and therefore mass Android adoption will only take off when we have a substantial number of manufacturers offering the OS.

We all know this is going to happen, with the likes of Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola all on board, but there is going to be no big rush to purchase an Android supported handset.

Now the so called impending ‘Google Phone’….now that could create the surge of market share Android needs to be truly mainstream, and drive adoption and investment in developing for the Android Market,

Google isn’t interested in selling anything top-notch to the end-user as much as having Android on all phones. They just want to have their in-house apps to collect your info and sell some ads.

Their customers are advertisers not you.

1) Wait until Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile for the first time in the history of this platform start introducing handsets (like HTC Hero, Moto Blur, Samsung Moment, and Moto Droid) for the first time on national US TV and there is a buzz finally for the product and they actually start to sell well because you can walk into a national US store (like best buy, walmart, verizon, sprint, tmobile stores) etc and then discontinue something when people finally see it as an iphone alternative..

SMART VERY SMART!

Until Apple releases their next version. And then the Android makers release their new version. And the leapfrogging continuesad-infinitum.

Yawn.

It’s *the whole package*. The iPhone experience is polished. Android’s isn’t. Until then all the whining and postulating isn’t going to change the success of Android as a platform. Yeah, they will have some volume, but like all the other iPhone killers Google will continue to miss the mark.

AT&T has been adding more subs per quarter for three in a row and Verizon stayed “#1″ by buying Alltell. Who are they going to buy now? Phones matter and they screwed up big time by passing on the iPhone.

And all you guys enjoying your Android phones need to send Steve Jobs a thank you. Verizon wouldn’t be offering an open phone like Android if they absolutely weren’t forced to by Apple and the iPhone. My how quickly the digital elite (ha!) forget that Verizon until very recently were the biggest jerks when it came to restrictions and fees on their phones. Talk about fanbois, everyone bought into Verizon’s network nonsense and overlooked the fact that they were getting screwed on smartphones (wifi? What’s that?). I’ll take an occasional dropped call – a few times a month isn’t that big a deal – vs. all the utility I get from the iPhone ecosystem. Heck, when I grew up you actually had to go to a phone in a fixed location – sometimes even public pay phones (oh the humanity!) to make a call and somehow we survived. Why we even went whole hours without talking to friends or family (the horror!).

Verizon is far from perfect; AT&T and Sprint work at my house but the big V is a no show. Just like there are areas where AT&T doesn’t work and Verizon does – all carriers are very location specific. I have traveled quite a bit in the US since owning an iPhone, and I find the fuss over AT&T’s network is vastly overblown – esp. when you balance it against of the rest of the iPhone experience. If you think about it, it’s pretty bad that Verizon’s only real counter is “but but but our network is better! So there!” With “better” being 100% subjective depending on where you are. If you are at my friends parent’s house in Ohio, neither AT&T nor Verizon work. America isn’t Europe or Japan – we have significant land mass. We also aren’t some late to the game country who skipped wired phones and have been building out our primary phone system as a cellular network. Infrastructure build outs are neither cheap, easy or fast. I would love to see Verizon get the iPhone if for nothing else then to see their network collapse. They have been so historically restrictive on their handsets that’s how they have been able to prop up their network performance. Bring it on Verizon – get some devices that actually encourage data usage and let’s see how you scale – tough talk is pretty easy when you have a comparatively light load.

Speaking of traveling, have fun with that Verizon phone outside the US. Then again the vast majority of the US population doesn’t even have a passport let alone leave the country. Sigh….

I have no love for AT&T – they certainly have their faults and with all carriers it’s the lesser of the evils. But I think AT&T get’s far too little credit for taking a (at the time) humongous chance with the iPhone. Until the iPhone, phones (at least in the US) were made for the *carriers*, not the consumer. The iPhone was the first to change that, and that more then anything is no doubt why the big V dissed Apple in the first place. Dinosaurs….

You can hate on Apple or AT&T all you want, but everyone is benefiting from the changes they brought to the US cellular industry (still kicking and screaming, BTW)

Well let’s see, Apple doesn’t license their OS out, neither does Palm. Windows Mobile is going down in flames and Symbian isn’t exactly a spring chicken.

Winning by default – not exactly a vote of confidence there, is it? But hey, who knows – maybe now consumers will be focused on meaningless checklists of features and unpolished user experiences. I mean it worked well enough before the iPhone, right?

What? Oh, wait….

Gameloft isn’t leaving Android completely. They’re just reducing investments as those developers are better off on the iPhone. 40000 percent is alot.
There’s nothing stopping them from shifting focus back and forth where the dollars are.

Personally I think by the end of next year or 2011 we’ll start seeing significant storage space for apps on Android phones and that generation of buyers will be installing more.

My God, don’t they think that this trend is going to reverse. As a tech worker in Washington DC, all I can tell you is that I CONSTANTLY have conversations pop up as soon as I pull out my Iphone that all say the same thing: “yeah, it’s a nice phone, but I wish it was on Verizon, and I don’t think I could type emails without a keyboard”

The sales of the Droid are going to continue to be strong. People love Verizon, and the word of mouth on its major capabilities, like the Google Navigation app, are going to sell this phone and make Android famous. My brother bought a Droid, and I am frickin jealous after riding in his car and seeing the turn by turn in action as it broadcast directions by temporarily lowering the volume on his pandora player.

Wake up! This operating system is finally getting the hardware it deserves, on a network that blows ATt&T’s bs out of the water. The Droid can make phone calls! I think that alone will sell it over my damned Iphone. (3 dropped calls at least per day)

android rules where it counts

Had I not been completely underwhelmed by the low quality of the gameloft games I bought (3 out of the 4 I bought didn’t even have an Exit/Quit button/menu item etc. Not that it really needs it if the app dies gracefully, but it was something that stuck out to me. One of them was really awkward: you could change the options of the game but only after you started playing, thereby having to restart.

What doesn’t make sense to me is their attitude of “well, if we’re not going to sell 400 times this amount then we’re not gonna sell ANY here.” Hey, $5.00 may be less than $20000.00 but it’s more than $0.00.

Gameloft = FAIL.

I’d be curious to see the rate of refunds. Something the Android Market does that the iPhone Apps Store does NOT is give users the liberty to return the app and get a refund within the first 24 hours, no questions asked. In this way the Market is friendliest to the user–not to the developer community or even to Google. In fact, it IS harshest on the developer, but it’s the best feedback loop to date! If people don’t like the product, people get to return the product, and the developer needs to go back to the drawing board if people don’t buy the product or return it in droves.

It’s about time someone showed up and splashed cold water on the face of lazy developers who think they can get rich on millions of micropayments for substandard product.