Blog
Contact Us
I have an iPhone and for the most part I love it. I like the interface, the seamless access to music and all the apps on the AppStore. I don’t like the shortcomings, such as the lack of cut and paste, no video capture, lack of landscape keyboard, etc… Many of these will be addressed soon with the 3.0 OS, which is already in public beta. We have created six apps for the AppStore ourselves and we know and love Objective C. But what about Android? I’ve heard a lot about it, especially when the G1 launched, but I’ve never personally used it or seen it in action beyond some POC work by some of the developers on my team.
That is about to change. Google did a very smart thing, which at first I thought was very generous, then I realized was a brilliant move to buy mindshare. They gave all 4,000 of us a free Android phone just for coming to their conference. But we weren’t 4,000 random people. We are thought leaders and developers from all walks of life that know enough or care enough about Google to spend a couple of days learning more about it. Even with this “Google Centric” crowd I saw a lot of iPhones and Blackberries and very few G1’s. But now all of us have a free Android phone, and not only that but it is unlocked and we have a SIM card for 30 days of voice and data access.
I’d say the odds of all of us trying out some development on this platform just increased dramatically. I’m curious to see what comes out of this or what types of skunkwork apps my team can put together now that we have a spare phone we can actually try things out on.
Tags: Android, Apple, google, Google I/O, iPhone
