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Android FTF. I used it, and it was pretty terrible. If you think the iPhone is slow...
by dcurtis 18y ago
Android FTF. I used it, and it was pretty terrible. If you think the iPhone is slow...
- mattmaroon 18y agoMaybe we should give it a chance to launch and iterate a bit.
- unalone 18y agoYou're talking to an audience of people that decide something's win or fail the day it comes out. Good chance being persuasive here, even if your point is accurate. And comparing these two services is stupid. They're entirely different, they have two different business strategies. Apple and Google are not competing directly, and that'll be reflected in the developers who flock to either side (or to both).
- dcurtis 18y agoYeah, of course. But it was very slow. And the interface wasn't nearly as polished as the iPhone's. I don't know how much iteration will help them.
- mattmaroon 18y agoBeing on a phone with a dedicated keypad will help more than any software. Android's strength is largely not software. The software only has to be passable, and there's no way the Alliance will let it not be that.
- dcurtis 18y agoAre you serious? All Android is is software. It just happens to support a lot of different types of hardware, and the first phone has a dedicated keyboard. And saying it will help more than anything is certainly a matter of your opinion. At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is the experience-- a combination of the software, the hardware, and the network.
- mattmaroon 18y agoIt's mostly hardware/network though. People buy phones for many different reasons, which necessitates many different form factors. For instance, someone who actually used their phone as a phone would be ill-served by an iPhone, but not by some Android units. Same with people who do a lot of emailing/texting. So I didn't really mean the keypad specifically.