Comments on: Android – Dream or Nightmare?

By: Costa

Costa — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:02:48 +0000

I have to say as far as G1 is concerned it is a case of wait and see. In a few months time we will all have a better picture of the impact it is likely to have in the market place.

All the best

Costa

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:11:21 +0000

I was far more excited about android when the iPhone was still a completely closed platform. If I were still carrying a pda and a phone, I would probably be crying out for a version without the phone so that I could have a device with endless tweaking possibilities.

From a consumer standpoint, the G1 would have to be amazing enough to make me ditch the year that is left on my AT&T contract, and right now it is just not that thrilling.

By: Melonie

Melonie — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:11:46 +0000

Rene, please email me at hlmbus@gmail.com so we can share ideas.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:27:30 +0000

@Melonie and Rene: Unfortunately I don’t have a better answer yet. ListPro is a very complex program and we’ve been working with some folks to help us get it put together. I do have a shorter term solution that I’m looking at but again, I just don’t have dates and ListPro is (as mentioned) so complex that I don’t want to make promises about it. Sorry!

By: Nibb@

Nibb@ — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:12:53 +0000

I totally agree, people are just to impressed with Google and have turned their lives to things like Gmail and other online services. Dont get me wrong. Webservices are great, but just like the other gusy said, i dont want all my personal and even business information living up in the Internet on a datacenter owned by Google. I want to have my data with me, always, control it, modify and sync it with my PC on my hard disk not on the Google ones. It seems Google wants to adopt the idea that PCs and now phones should just be terminals to connects to all their services. I dont want them controlling my data, and im sure companies will also see this is a worry more then a solution. People dont even have a clue that when they use gmail or the new chrome navigator on the TOS it says they own every bit data of you pass trough their services. Dont be evil? Wasnt that the slogan for Google? One of the reasons i own and love eWallet is because i control all my confidential data with it on my PC and when im on the move its goes with me. Its even on our companies webservers to sync on the move. I dont think there will be a future for this kind of softwares if Google just starts launching similar services. And again. Noooo. I want to control my data. Its my at the first place. If i cannot store it where i want i feel im renting it or im asking permission to use it. People want control not to lose it.

By: René

René — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:46:15 +0000

@Melonie

I allready did buy something else.

I got no answer to the same question you have. Only that it is in development. Still there are no pictures and no due date. Alas, because eWallet is eye-candy and I espect the same with Listpro.

By: John

John — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:15:34 +0000

Well was too getting mixed reaction about the Android G1 and this posts really tells what are the good and bad things about this smart phone.

I really like the design and functionality of what I heard so far. Haven’t gotten the time to analyze it down to the wire. However, it won’t be as popular as the i-phone because the promotion wasn’t carried the same way and the hype wasn’t all the same and I guess it didn’t have “Jobs” backing it up.

Now one of the thing that yo mentioned here that different carriers can set different prices. I feel it could be a good thing cause that will create a competition amongst the carriers and then the price will come down eventually benefiting the end user. but this just could be a wishful thinking too.

John

By: Melonie

Melonie — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:57:42 +0000

What’s the latest on Listpro for iPhone? – getting desperate to use my files and starting to look at other possible options on app store.

By: James

James — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:44:01 +0000

Hopefully the store is more of a mobihand type thing – many carriers can brand it, but it’s still effectively the same store beneath.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:33:13 +0000

I always welcome competition, but for now i think the Android will mimic Linux in the early days:

We will see many, many, open source apps that do the same thing. If apple has 20 tip calculators in the iTunes store, Android will have 100 – none of them great until some consolidation occurs

We will see the Linux version of DLL hell – shared libraries but different versions used to develop different apps and there will be conflicts on which one should be on the system

Data security – I don’t know about anyone else, but i want control of my data. I don’t like the idea of my contacts, calendar, email, etc. all living in the cloud, out of my control. I would rather sync with a PC.

Platform variety – this can be a bad thing. There is a reason MS dictated what defined WM Pro and Standard for years. If Android can run on anything, users will have inconsistent experiences and maybe poor experiences.

Eventually it will be a great device, but it will take time and some false starts along the way. My 2 cents. If nothing else, this will help Apple and MS become a little more open in what users can do.. I hope.