I liked this rant, Why I Hate
Android, at the Paris Lemon website about why you can hate Android
because of the false promises Google used to develop and sell the
phone, and not because you don't like choice.
Google may have had grand plans that were subverted in order to make
the Android a business success. Still, if you can ignore the crap
Google had to do, then you can look for the positive in Android.
I decided to come up with a list of reasons why even a fan of the
iPhone can look favorably on the Android. So without further ado here
my top ten:
- Competition is good for new ideas. Competition leads to new ideas
as each company tries to stay ahead.
- Competition keeps prices low. Monopolies get away with charging
high prices because the consumer has no choice.
- The better the competitor, the harder Apple has to work.
Professional athletes don't get better by competing against amateurs.
When you are at the top of your game, you need an equally strong
competitor to challenge you.
- Apple gets to be the underdog again. It can be hard to root for
Apple when it is crushing all its competitors. Now that Android has
passed the iPhone in volume, Apple can reclaim the underdog title, even
if it is making more money than anyone else.
- The bigger the smartphone market grows, the more people who will
one day switch to using an iPhone. Growth of the iPhone sales hasn't
peaked yet.
- All the imitation helps the labor market by employing lots of
lawyers for all the legal battles.
- Android gives developers a place to sell their apps after they are
rejected from the App Store.
- At least people who don't want an iPhone aren't stuck with Windows
Phone 7.
- You'll know it's time for a marriage counselor when your spouse
buys you one for your birthday - unless you asked for one.
- Once more companies customize the Android code, as Amazon did for
the
Kindle Fire, we'll have more products to choose from instead of
just smartphones. Apple's just one company that can't make everything
(or at least they shouldn't).
Google is a greedy company that has no moral compass about
taking over other's hard work so it can sell advertising. Google took
many of its ideas from Linux, Oracle, Apple, etc. I don't feel bad when
another company wrestles away control of Android with their own custom
offering.
At least these new devices won't be stuck using a stripped down
version of Widows (Windows
Embedded) like they used to be. The joke was getting the blue
screen of death on heart monitoring equipment. Now we can get Google
hosted Viagra® commercials when we buy an Android-powered pill
dispenser.
That's my list. It's not enough to get me to buy an Android phone,
but I respect your right to buy whatever you want.
