For those of you who still don’t know, Android is Google’s operating system for handheld devices like mobile phones and tablets and stuff like that.
People like Android, so do I. Its popularity owes much to the availability of loads (literally loads) of free applications for the users and a diverse powerful support for developers.
I’ve got some reservations against Android though.
Firstly, it launched after the success of Apple’s iOS, which makes it a copy of the Apple’s successful idea. By the way this reservation of mine isn’t restricted to Google. All modern full touch, finger operated handheld devices and their operating systems got their inspirations (if not idea-clones) from the iPhone and iOS.
Secondly, it’s foolishly flexible and hardware platform-independent. It has been ported to countless types and forms of devices. From various mobile phones (of various form factors made by various competing vendors) to numerous breeds of weird and good tablet computers to Acer’s Aspire One Netbook PC to even iPhones and God knows what else. I’m sure somebody out there must definitely be trying to port it to a toaster or a juicer or his bedside lamp. I would actually like to have it in my electric beard trimmer. Same issue is the reason why most of the apps flooding the so called Android market place are lame and lousy. Unless Android does not enjoy being restricted to a certain hardware package, its apps would always suffer from the generalization-syndrome. You see, things should be a little specialized here. At least for the sake of dignity! What sweetness would somebody feel seeing a substandard stupid Chinese tablet running the same version of Android that his sophisticated HTC phone runs on?
I suggest Google should close things a down a bit. They should start manufacturing their own hardware or should at least standardize hardware for Android… case closed!!
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