Funny story. I loved smart phones. From the first Palm with cell access to the Treo 270 and 650. I bought the first iPhone and then spent tons of time in IRC wo

Funny story. I loved smart phones. From the first Palm with cell access to the Treo 270 and 650. I bought the first iPhone and then spent tons of time in IRC working out with a large group how to unlock it as my company paid for T-mobile, not ATT. I loved my iPhone and had a few. At some point I bought a Galaxy Note. I loved the HW, but hated the OS. Did the whole custom ROM etc, but it was just never as clean as IOS. About this time I was at a small party at a friends who used to work at Google. There was the normal crowd of techies from most of the major players in the valley. I was talking to a few friends about how much I disliked the Android experience. There was this guy there that I did not know. He starts asking tons of question zeroing in on why I disliked Android, which came down to the lack of interface guidelines between apps and the like. This Q&A went on for like 30 minutes. At the end I asked him, “why do you care so much?” He said “Sorry, we have not been introduced, I am Andy and I run Android at Google.” The thing that impressed me very much was the depth and detail of the question and his understanding of what my issue was. He said at the end “you are right, we can do better”. Nice guy.