Hey Guys, First, I want to apologize for the lack of coherence, or paragraphs (sorry Al), I've had a pretty minimal amount of sleep this week :P. To Carl, I fully acknowledge the iPhone shortcomings and the grant potential for Android, it's why I'm, perhaps blindly, an uber Android supporter. However, what I was actually trying to get at, which thankfully has been addressed by Paper and Bradley are the shortcomings, the specific features, functions, and usability that Android lacks. Even if you feel it is fully functional in your opinion, what is the next big feature, the next step in Android development, what you would love to see in Android, its next wild feature that may not even be supported by today's technology.
It seems to me that Google, which has in my opinion the ability to create an OS three times as good as Apple's, has been dropping the ball a bit on Android, which in turn ruins its reputation, regardless of it's actual functionality. I can't begin to postulate the cause of this lackluster performance, however, personally I think it's that Google has no incentive to make it the best it can be because it makes no direct source of revenue (Al, the 30% isn't supposed to be for profit at all, but rather to clear up the costs of the transaction and corollary costs, so that Google breaks even). A view of a Google search on an iPhone equally profits Google as a Google search on an Android powered device. However, it could be argued that Google wants to be able to control the means that its users and customers access its product (an explanation that also gives reason as to why they developed Chrome). While I'd love to discuss Google's economic incentives and overall financial plan, that must be saved for a different thread. It was my intention that this thread would be a source where people invested in Android could list what features, functions they wish to see in Android, along with all other ideas as to what Google should do. If you were the Android project manager, what would you do, what ideas would you push, what issues would you resolve. Furthermore, it was meant as an area that Android developers could collaborate, critiquing, contributing to, and refining others' ideas. Healthy debate is good, and eventually if it becomes a large enough source of ideas for Android, it'll be noticed (or I'll send them the thread) by Google engineers working on Android and make it much simpler to implement the ideas. As Android developers, you know more about this than the average luddite, and in the spirit of open source, we must come together to work with Google and make Android everything we can imagine it to be. Thanks for all the activity, Schiffres --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
