We could talk about the specific effects of increased battery drain, CPU Usage, heat generation, etc., but I think at this early stage our biggest concern is Androids reputation.
Everyone knows this is early days for Android, and given the credit crunch carriers are not being as free and easy with their money as they have been, so if Android gets a reputation for being slow and unresponsive (which was the main side effect quoted in that thread), it's unlikely carriers will want to adopt it as the OS for their higher-end 'phones. Yes Android is cheap to implement, but if it means a string of customers bringing back the $300+ phones because they're performing like a 90 year old at a break dancing competition, that isn't good. Al. Disconnect wrote: > I agree that there are bad apps out there, but "damaging" implies it > will do harm to more than Android's reputation. (FWIW I also had > issues with locale, although I didn't show the systemic problems > others saw - I just had it starting up and chewing up a ton of > resources occasionally, then bailing, even though it was flagged as > disabled.) It is annoying, and a fairly large bug in the app, but by > that same token 'camera' is a much more damaging application.. > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Locale seems to be doing a lot of damage to Androids reputation; > > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/fa79b405ecb5fb51 > > (read the whole thread, you'll see how one app can cause a lot of > problems). > > > Disconnect wrote: > > Damaging applications? Examples please? > > > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Robert Barrett > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: > > > > > > Whatever Shane. If the application is garbage then it deserves > > negative > > comments no matter how critical. There is a lot of garbage > there and > > people who pay for the G1 and take a risk downloading these > sometimes > > damaging applications have that right and they know what > they are > > talking about. > > > > Robert > > > > > > -- ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
