TechCrunch is definitely not on the Android bandwagon. (Emphasis is all me.)
This will be the first of many Android phones, and it won’t have the benefit of being designed soup-to-nuts by one detail-obsessed company. It will take an army of Android phones across many carriers and countries to start to seriously challenge the iPhone.
And frankly, it is difficult to find mobile software startups excited about making Android apps at this point. This is a platform war. If there are no compelling apps for Android, nobody will buy the phones. All of that could change the instant that an Android phone is on the market, but my sense is that most developers are taking a wait-and-see approach. (Especially since very few of them have access to the latest Android software developer kit—a sure-fire way to frustrate and alienate them).
As an actual consumer I’m following the potential Android v. iPhone wars pretty closely. I want a phone that gives me access to the real web, applications and my email in a way that the iPhone does now, but am reluctant to go through the hassle of switching plans, etc. Not to mention just feeling uneasy about “giving in” to the Apple/AT&T driven hysteria. And yes, I realize not buying a perfectly good and useful product because I am queezy about how much people love it is a completely irrational reaction.
I’m also impatient to join the 21st century. T-mobile (my current carrier) and Google are going to have one shot to get me to stick with them and go with Android — and that will be the phone they come out with this Fall. If it doesn’t match the iPhone for functionality they’ll lose me.
So, I would agree with Arrington on this — if the apps aren’t there from the start I’ll jump to the iPhone. I’m not going to wait around for shit that Apple can deliver today.
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Paranoid Android
TechCrunch is definitely not on the Android bandwagon. (Emphasis is all me.)
As an actual consumer I’m following the potential Android v. iPhone wars pretty closely. I want a phone that gives me access to the real web, applications and my email in a way that the iPhone does now, but am reluctant to go through the hassle of switching plans, etc. Not to mention just feeling uneasy about “giving in” to the Apple/AT&T driven hysteria. And yes, I realize not buying a perfectly good and useful product because I am queezy about how much people love it is a completely irrational reaction.
I’m also impatient to join the 21st century. T-mobile (my current carrier) and Google are going to have one shot to get me to stick with them and go with Android — and that will be the phone they come out with this Fall. If it doesn’t match the iPhone for functionality they’ll lose me.
So, I would agree with Arrington on this — if the apps aren’t there from the start I’ll jump to the iPhone. I’m not going to wait around for shit that Apple can deliver today.
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