While iPhone and iPod has captured people's attention for some time now, I've always been apprehensive of making a big jump to either product. On the one hand, it has all the niceties of a *nix based system but on the other, it's sort of a perverted form of *nix. DRM, tyranical policies, and closed-development have, in my opinion, hampered the product's attractiveness to many would-be adopters. Couple that with a rapidly crowding network and it just hasn't appealed to me.
Enter Android. It has the potential to be everything iP* is and then some. For starters, it's open source. If the community doesn't like something, they can change it. It's working marvels for Ubuntu as popularity of the OS grows and the same will be true for Android or similar *nix micro distributions built for handheld devices.
While Android isn't perfect yet, there are more apps starting to show up and a stronger base of support for developers which should help increase that rate. We're also starting to see devices hit the market which are taking advantage of the OS such as Archos's new releases out last month.
All in all, I'm excited for Android.
Enter Android. It has the potential to be everything iP* is and then some. For starters, it's open source. If the community doesn't like something, they can change it. It's working marvels for Ubuntu as popularity of the OS grows and the same will be true for Android or similar *nix micro distributions built for handheld devices.
While Android isn't perfect yet, there are more apps starting to show up and a stronger base of support for developers which should help increase that rate. We're also starting to see devices hit the market which are taking advantage of the OS such as Archos's new releases out last month.
All in all, I'm excited for Android.
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