On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Anil <[email protected]> wrote:
> that they control it, are not quite sure how to profit from it. It is > Not clearly stated business model in the ecosystem makes this ecosystem untrustworthy and risky for investment. > Can you write an app on Android that couldn't have been written on the > other OS'es? Does a user with an Android phone have a better day than > Some apps can't be written for other mobile OS as they don't have eg. push and/or home screen widgets. What is nice on Android is quite well designed Java API that is quite easy to learn and (potentially) good supply of nice programs if good business model setup in win-win mode. What is frustrating for me is unbalance between nice designed platform and API (nice from my point of view), nice integration with other Google services, bad quality of ecosystem services and quality of related services (Android Market is buggy, some Google Android apps like Google Listen are nice ideas but bad sw quality - I mean this weekend incident). Another danger from user's point of view will be that Android will start to be full of annoying ads (I don't think that context ads on the web a ads consuming data connection on small screens are the same) so users will go to another operating system. These all the risks make me a bit nervous about huge investment to Android. Any Google's statements would reduce uncertainty. Have a good day Tom -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Hubalek ([email protected]), http://android.hubalek.net/ http://facebook.com/thubalek, http://twitter.com/thubalek http://www.linkedin.com/in/thubalek -- 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.
