Android inside!
AndroidGuys posits that Android’s lack of certification requirements will bite Google in the butt when it finally launches Android. The theory goes like this: anyone can install and run Android. You or I could make a GSM phone in our basements, pop Android on it, and go nuts. There is no “certification” program nor is there any particular requirement for usability. Joe Chinese-OEM can pump out any piece of crap, put the Android logo on it, and go nuts. No questions asked. This means that any piece of crap phone can run Android and, because price is often the number one driver in phone purchases, your first Android experience will probably be on a low-rent phone.
Then look at the iPhone. QA out the wazoo, red hot apps, a great GUI, and a cute package. Even Symbian has some QA, which means you won’t get a bum implementation on janky hardware if Nokia has anything to say about it. While I can’t get behind the theory “Android will be on bad hardware, therefore iPhone wins,” I can understand the huge risk Google is taking in letting the average OEM have at their operating system with no oversight. Oh well. I always said the project was a dud.
unix : computer
Android : phone
Q&A = Questions and Answers
QA = Quality Assurance
Did you intend to say QA?
yeah, you’re right. QA.
You are an idiot. You should read B4 you write. The 1st hardware happens to be from mobile phone giants HTC; not to mention that as long as your not complete Muppet, you will be smart enough not to buy crap. The i Phone is innovative only in the screens touch sensitivity and marketing the letter “i” to losers. The GUI is almost entirely jacked from spb’s mobile shell and the look of it is not a selling point. I think its ugly for example. Mailing your phone away to charge your battery, no MMS…not built in that is, sucky phone quality, OS on lock down, these are actual important shortcomings of the device. Windows mobile phones are slow out of the box, but when you hop on xda and hook up a cooked rom and download from the endless sea of free apps, IT DESTROYS…. even the i Phone. If you ask someone what they would want and presented the list on paper and not in a package, they would choose a WM device ever time. But when you say, look at this cool looking apple product with little gimmicks that go nowhere and the letter i, people go stupid and buy buy buy. Jobs is a marketing genius and he can sell you jerks anything eg: i turds, i vomit, i urine, losers….. start your wallets.