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There isn't an Android John Gruber, and that's great news. (Please don't take the rest of this too seriously) This is the Windows and MacOS fight played all o
by parennoob 13y ago
There isn't an Android John Gruber, and that's great news.
(Please don't take the rest of this too seriously)
This is the Windows and MacOS fight played all over in the product space. Apple is the Cathedral. They have one device, one OS, and say "take it or leave it. We will give you these features and this UI. If you don't like it, bugger off". Gruber reinforces that worldview. A lot of people have horrible experiences with Apple customer service, but their complaints get swept beneath the benevolent "We have gorgeous typography and know what's good for you" image.
Android, on the other hand, is the Bazaar. Rife with a bunch of cheaper devices, some of which are top-notch systems stamped with Google's seal of approval which can more or less match the iPhone, and others that are miserable tiny pieces of junk, but can somehow still run Android 1.3. You won't have anyone talking about them, but you will have people running them. They may be miserable running them, but the price point and the "good enough" quality keeps them going to Android.
There's two possible outcomes -- either Apple succeeds, and we all start using iApproved iDevices, or Android succeeds, in which case we will all be using vastly different devices, but running various versions of basically the same OS, which Google will have to add massive backward compatibility to.
Which do you want?
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- MBCook 13y agoIs it really great news? Android is definitely the bazaar, different OEMs try just about everything under the sun. There is lots of choice. But that doesn't mean there can't be someone out there clearly advocating for their view of Android's future direction. Not everyone needs to (or possibly should) follow it, but it does seem odd to me that there doesn't seem to be a person with some consensus around them trying to influence the platform. It seems like a gap in the blog market.
- parennoob 13y agoI feel like blogs about community ROMs, running Android on random devices, running other stuff on Nexus devices, etc. are the blog market. Just like Android devices are varied in their capabilities and what people use them for, blogs about them are scattered and varied. Ever heard of a coffee machine running iOS? http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/06/10/android-based-coffee-brewery/ http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/06/10/android-based-coffee-b... Chaos is the Android philosophy, and absolute order is the Apple one. Gruber is akin to the high priest of Apple's philosophy, while Android by definition has none.
- anko 13y ago> Chaos is the Android philosophy, and absolute order is the Apple one. Heard of entropy? So basically you're saying that android is tending towards dissipating any useful energy.