I can see both points here. T-mobile have done what cell operators have always done, which is lock as much down as they can and treat the customer like an idiot, possibly even a criminal. They're morons... we understand that. However in developing an OS for mobile devices like this Google and the top level Android devs do need to understand that if (when) crummy implementations of Android hit the streets then customers are going to come crying to them...
Android shows tremendous promise, which is why I (against my own better judgement) became and early adopter and chose the G1 over the iPhone. Most of the time right now I regret that choice. I'm hopeful that things will get better. From my perspective (IT literate end user but no coder) it's unfortunate that HTC were allowed (yes allowed by Google) to get the first outing of Android badly wrong. The tiny amount of internal memory, the terrible camera, the quiet speaker, the small battery, the poor keyboard... I could go on. I understand that people here will want to hold their hands up and say "Not our problem.. we just make the OS" but unfortunately Google the G1 has your name on the back of it and all over the marketing literature and posters. In the UK T-mobile are selling this as a viable functional alternative to the iPhone. It isn't, at least not yet. That's T-mobile's fault and they shouldn't be doing it... but Google ought to be turning the screw on them because it's the name of Google, and their fledgling mobile OS that's being trampled into the mud because as far as most consumers are concerned Google are entirely responsible for the G1. It's early days and I for one am looking forward to the Cupcake update hitting the network. It looks like quite a few significant shortcomings in the OS will be sorted. I do have some long term concerns about the G1. Unless I pay big bucks I'm stuck with mine for another 18 months. Is it likely to get further significant OS updates? What's the process for that? (e.g. is it down to the Android devs, HTC, T-mobile, all three?) Will I ever be able to store apps on the SD card? I understand that Android isn't the G1. But most people don't and the big worry is that if enough consumers are burned by the G1 (quite literally, they get pretty warm) then that Android logo could become a sign to avoid. Not what us open source advocates would like. We may all grumble at Apple's total locking down of the iPhone, but at least the first OS version was in a healthy state at release. Android just wasn't - too much left to the community, terrible (I mean really, possibly the worst I've used in years) e-mail client... I could go on. Anyway... What am I doing. It's Christmas. Not the time to be writing long messages here. Have a good time one and all. Stay away from the code, enjoy a great time with your significant others. and well done one all the work so far. It's all good stuff really. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
