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Why Android 2.0 is going to be a very big deal

techradar.com — Android, it seemed, would kill the iPhone, monster Windows Mobile, cure cancer and bring your ancestors back from the dead.

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  • peterjmag, on 11/04/2009, -3/+37HOW DARE YOU INSULT PANCAKES LIKE THAT!
  • AndroidG12, on 11/04/2009, -10/+43Android > iPhone
  • RoroCo, on 11/03/2009, -1/+33Did this article start off fairly strong and finish very weak? Like pancakes?
  • fmorel90, on 11/04/2009, -2/+25My guess is Android will take over phones like Windows took over PCs.
  • TheLoneWolf071, on 11/04/2009, -0/+17I love the google programmers. The sense of humor they have is great, just look at the Constants defined in the Accelerometer(I believe it's under SensorManager) They have a setting for it to be a tricorder(as a joke, but they have it marked as a "TODO" as well as gravitational constants for a lot of weird places.
  • czarcasm, on 11/04/2009, -0/+14Theyre not refining Adroid?

    Thats the context of that statement.
  • hitemup054, on 11/04/2009, -3/+15you know what he meant
  • wizardfingers, on 11/03/2009, -6/+16Android is a bit like Windows, no its not.
  • Phatlip012, on 11/04/2009, -0/+9It's inevitable that the Android app store will grow as more Android phones are released. Think about it. You're a developer. Do you write an application that can run on a platform available on a multitude of different devices and carriers or the iPhone which is one device- one carrier?

    Why do you think Windows has more software than OS X? The higher the market share an OS has, the higher the number of applications you'll see.
  • falcon3ds, on 11/04/2009, -1/+10iphone fanboy rage ENGAGE!! it's nothing like you say, watch a droid video on utub and stop drinking the coolaid
  • PCMichiana, on 11/03/2009, -1/+10... it wasn't the revisions of Windows that caused it to take over the earth, it was brilliant marketing... I thought that was obvious.
  • DJBONEZ, on 11/04/2009, -1/+9Most of the android articles I have read in the past few weeks have all read the same way. You get the big exciting title of "Why Android 2.0 is going to be a very big deal," and then you get through the first 5 sentences and realize you have been gypped of the precious time it took to read those measly sentences.
  • zer0mass, on 11/04/2009, -0/+6"has an e-mail application that's actually worth half a *****"

    I like Gmail.
  • zer0mass, on 11/04/2009, -0/+6If Verizon is selling enough Android phones then I think they would tell RIM to ***** off.
  • MeccaYdna, on 11/04/2009, -0/+5there's already more than 10 thousand android apps out there. Seems more than just a handful of developers have latched on.
  • psychoace, on 11/04/2009, -3/+8How does it not match the apple app store when you admit yourself 99% of it is crap and useless. I think the Android has a much better "good" apps to "bad" apps ratio then the iPhone does. Also by saying the OS is crap because of the software is BS anyways cause you still need something to run before you even start the software. The more features you add to the backbone of the system the better the apps will be. And the Android OS is a lot better then the Apple OS any day. Until it can multi task I find the iPhone OS to be archaic at best.

    I will say one thing that's kinda off topic. The people made the iPhone not Apple. The phone is minimalism at it's best. A screen with a bunch of icons and that's it. It's the apps other developers created that made the iPhone so to praise Apple for it is pretty senseless. That is like praising Jesus for saving your life when you know it was actually the doctors that did it
  • Spanq, on 11/04/2009, -0/+5So?
  • thisthatwhat, on 11/04/2009, -0/+5Ultimately, we all win when we have choice. Having Android as a choice is great. However, having Android take over as the only choice is not necessarily the best thing. Look at how much we love Windows.
  • orbz, on 11/04/2009, -1/+6Sounds like Desktop Linux, eh?
  • michael0310, on 11/04/2009, -7/+12*Android> iPhone OS
    You were comparing two completely different things.
  • eatporktoo, on 11/04/2009, -0/+4Here's the big news: it might ACTUALLY be the year for Linux next year! Just not on the desktop...
  • MacHarborGuy, on 11/04/2009, -0/+4it also has a fingerprint sensor that triggers a "chica-chica-ca" sound when any cast member from the original Star Trek series touches it.
  • zer0mass, on 11/04/2009, -0/+4Do any of you people actually use Android?
  • ampdj89, on 11/04/2009, -0/+4*Android
  • czarcasm, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3Black and GUI?

    Yes.I.did.
  • brundlefly76, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3As an iPhone developer, I am praying that Android takes hold.
    I am sick and tired of my Apple overlords and am looking forward to open development.
  • HotLeper, on 11/04/2009, -1/+4When will droid be available on the AT&T network?
  • zer0mass, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3"But a developer creating for Android -- unless Google changes their model, is going to deal with multiple form factors and platforms and carriers that want this but don't want that. Verizon won't want them to have an app store and will want to sell ringtones. All this goes to a market that doesn't demand a premium and is a low cost commodity, where someone might just spend $5 extra for a personal organizer."

    Verizon doesn't have a choice, with the Droid anyway, as to weather or not users get a Market. The Droid is a Google Experience Phone and the carrier will have to support what ever Google wants on the phone under the "Google Experience" contract.

    Also I'm not too sure what you are trying to say about the premium in the Market, but the costs involved are not bad. Most apps are under $5. If you develop an app there is a one time developer fee of $50 and Google gets 30% of your profits. I'm pretty sure there is some sort of carrier profit sharing worked in there. Either way it is profitable, for everyone, sustainable, and affordable for the consumer. It is similar to the Apple system just no approval process, which is good for both developers and consumers.
  • shotgunefx, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3That's sarcasm right?
  • zer0mass, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3There is a good chance it is exclusive to Verizon. But Moto is releasing many Android phones and one if bound to be on AT&T.
  • psychoace, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3How doesn't the iPhone fall under these same follies? Apples iPhone is updated every year with new hardware. Meaning last years iteration is now a weak link. Developers have to either move on and utilize the new hardware and it's extra speed and features like some games are doing now or act like all that extra power doesn't exist and keep treading with that minimal setup the previous generation has had. Then we have to remember there is a slower iPhone before that. iPhone 2g can't even get all the features of the 3.0 software. So what do you say to that? Upgrade right? Well guess what Android market can get people to upgrade just like the iphone market. Right now most phones other then the g1 are running at about the same speed and if necessary developers can make software for certain phones or MID's. It's not that hard to say "Hey this app runs best on a snapdragon cpu". You act like each Android device is so completely different that you have to rewrite code for each version but in fact the standard that the Android OS is running on allows for the same app to run on different hardware without any hard work being done by the coder.
  • willdelaney, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3You do realize that Android had only been out for just over a year right?
  • Techrocket9, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3I wouldn't be surprised if AT&T's sell its soul contract with Apple for the iPhone prohibits Android.
  • HotLeper, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2Where can you buy an google phone? I have heard much about it...but have not seen such
  • MeccaYdna, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2that's certainly a mouthful
  • EtherGnat, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2There is a GSM version, although it's not called the Droid, which is a Verizon trademark. You could probably import an unlocked version, but it would cost you. Otherwise it's only a matter of time before AT&T gets the "Droid" or something similar.
  • MScrip, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2I hope more Android phones come to every carrier. But, if Verizon, let's say, has 4 Android phones... then 3 Windows Mobile phones... and 4 or 5 Blackberry phones... is that good or bad?

    Assuming Android is the most amazing thing ever... will RIM demand that Verizon *not* carry so many Android phones so that Blackberries get their fair share? Or is that the spirit of competition?
  • zer0mass, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2Multi tasking is key. There are a lot of Android apps that work in the background doing cool things or interacting with other apps. None of these could ever be ported over to the iPhone until it has multi tasking.
  • massentropy, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_devic ...
  • fandyllic, on 11/04/2009, -2/+4Buried. Almost no actual information in this "article".
  • VitriolAndAngst, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2No, it was playing hardball with the computer manufacturers forcing them to put Windows on every box or NOT to be able to get a competitive price on Windows.

    I think it's pretty clear that Microsoft has always been absolutely lousy at marketing. Their last ads were about how much cheaper their computers can be -- great news to Dell who is cutting margins from Netbook sales and the only winner is the Windows which costs more than the box.

    What Microsoft did right was support Developers and create a market for them to make money in. How does the Android accomplish that? It's trying to be Linux for the cell phone and there are no stores or even a Red Hat or Ubuntu version that is compelling. What resolution and how much RAM is available for an Android app?
  • zer0mass, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1Well the T-Mobile 1.5 Cupcake update was like that. 1.1 and 1.6 was fine. Also the third party mods of 1.5 did not lag. T-Mobile really dropped the ball on that update but those issues have been fixed.
  • EtherGnat, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1"Do you write an application that can run on a platform available on a multitude of different devices and carriers or the iPhone which is one device- one carrier?"

    Don't take this the wrong way, but most developers don't care how many devices and carriers their apps run on. In fact that just makes the app more difficult to support.

    What they do care about is how many apps they can sell (or give away in the case of free software). There's a bit of a correlation between the two, but they're two separate issues. I definitely think the market share for Android devices is going to be increasing, though. Especially if they can keep coming up with phones like the Droid (which I'll be buying on Friday).
  • falcon3ds, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1did u miss the part when he said "everything on the phone is really snappy"
  • JayD16, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1Android is a bit like crude oil...
  • ThirdPrize, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1rad!
  • EtherGnat, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1"At the same time, who has a more robust software selection? Windows or OS X. Windows does. Why? Because, Windows has the capability of running on a multitude of different devices."

    Windows isn't just popular because it runs on a multitude of different devices (and Linux runs on more hardware than Windows).

    For every example you can provide a product with more models selling better I can provide a counterexample. I don't care how much you try and justify it, the number of models is a HORRIBLE metric for gauging how popular an ecosystem will be.

    Yes, what you're saying is simple. It's just wrong.
  • DanielPhermous, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1Oh, great. Way to jinx it. :P
  • zer0mass, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1"actually android 2.0 will simply be an update for most people."

    It is possible I will be running 2.0 on my G1. So I didn't need to purchase anything new and yet I will have the latest and greatest features.
  • ButchersBoy, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1I don't actually understand a word you said.
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