Comments on: Android amazes stuffy BBC: “I say, jolly good!” says reporter

By: Forest

Forest — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:40:30 +0000

“any company with money and a general understanding of technology can create a phone OS”

I won’t disagree. However, you need to think of how google might view things.

It seems to me that google realizes that we are leaving the era when phones are seen as appliances, where functionality and hardware are one package, and entering a new era when phones are seen more as computers.

Imagine if every computer hardware manufacturer had their own operating system. Computers would be much much expensive, difficult to learn and use, insecure, and incompatible with each other.

Do you can see what we stand to gain if many or most phones ran some variant of Andriod or some other stable, standard OS?

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:32:49 +0000

You guys are idiots. Americans mock the British and the British mock Americans back. It’s not a fucking big deal.

By: drdrew

drdrew — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:06:44 +0000

As a member of the American Race, I’d just like to say, “I’m not racist, I hate everybody equally.”

By: Chris Mossom

Chris Mossom — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:16:45 +0000

Right, so it’s the English AND Irish you stereotype, nice piece of lazy journalism.

By: mnit

mnit — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:15:24 +0000

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a race as “a group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc.; an ethnic group”

So, yeah, they are.

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:44:25 +0000

The English are a race?

By: mnit

mnit — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:39:27 +0000

Are you just feeling really, really racially ignorant today John, or are is this your standard fair?