Mercury News Article: Why we'll all soon forget about Google's Android

**Priz** · 10-12-2008, 06:56 PM

http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci...nclick_check=1

Read this today in the paper. Had some good and bad points. I don't agree with him, but I think it's still an interesting read to consider.

**angeland** · 10-12-2008, 07:05 PM

Link won't work for me.

**pinaytoy** · 10-12-2008, 07:13 PM

here you go.......

http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_10681936

**insight spinner** · 10-12-2008, 07:21 PM

I'm sorry, I find these types of articles tiresome and repetitive. Of course he makes some valid points, others not so much. I find in my field that many leaders of organizations and agencies are far from visionary. further, vision and success are distinct. So it wont' do to examine the feelings of industry analysts, leaders or successes when you are dealing with something from outside of their element. The majority will always, invariably, discount that which is different and plays by a new set of rules.

Case in point, the author cites the failure of a Google social marketing effort as evidence that Google innovations fail. I don't know, but from what I've seen from the outside, Google is in it for the long haul and for something more than profit (as long as they are making good profit). When your business operates by a different set of principles, people just don't get you.

Android, being developed cooperatively under a different set of values, is something some folks don't get.

I appreciate and give props to you and everyone who keeps us informed about Android press from all sides, but for those who don't get Android and what it represents...please just focus on what you understand. Don't try to forecast what you can't comprehend. Succeed or fail, their opinions just don't add up.

Honestly some mediocre ideas make it and some fantastic ones don't float. Android may become a huge success and Android may fail, true. And it may be the short-sightedness of folks like Mr. O'Brien that inhibits the growth of this platform, but I for one don't think that will be the case.

**hoobashoot** · 10-12-2008, 07:22 PM

"And while developers are often annoyed over Apple's restrictions for iPhone applications, having fewer apps to choose from is better for consumers"

What!?!?!?!?!?!? I think this guy had really strict parents.

**Cricketman** · 10-12-2008, 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by hoobashoot

"And while developers are often annoyed over Apple's restrictions for iPhone applications, having fewer apps to choose from is better for consumers"

What!?!?!?!?!?!? I think this guy had really strict parents.

Wow. Where's the fun in buying something if you can't compare two products and buy the better one? That's like saying having only one candidate run for President is better because the people won't be confused on who to vote for.

That's crap.

**DesignDawg** · 10-12-2008, 08:46 PM

Yeah, and he based a large part of his proof on the "fact" that only people in the US have heard of Android. His proof: some Chinese dude he met hadn't heard of it. WAY TO GET A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE! Random Chinese dude is the gold standard of global awareness, right?