Overlooking updates and new applications?!

[bizarro_stormy]

Why don't any of these people doing in-depth reviews (cnet, WSJ, etc) realize that most of their gripes and "flaws" can and most likely will be eliminated with either software updates and/or new applications!??!?!

[New World]

Why don't any of these people doing in-depth reviews (cnet, WSJ, etc) realize that most of their gripes and "flaws" can and most likely will be eliminated with either software updates and/or new applications!??!?!

The reason in my humble opinion....they're not too familiar with Android.

[bizarro_stormy]

exactly, I think people should be a little more familiar with the technologies/products/concepts that they are reviewing -- Not even just in the G1's case, but in a lot of reviews, I see fundamental flaws in the way they go about reviewing them and end up sending out a lot of skewed information. :\

[happyandyv]

I see a maddeining amount of direct iPhone comparison, and not taking the G1 as it's own product. People grouping the G1 and the android together as a single product as well, when you need to detail a certain amount of seperation in order to truly capture the intent of both things.

I for one am not reading any more reviews if I can help it. I knwo what the iPhone does, Iknow how much I love it. I know it has soe major major problems for me, all solved by the Android. I know that when the iPhone came out it had many many problems that have in a period of many months now been solved, so give the G1 time.. I ono.. Yay post 100...

[cmaceachen]

Because they are reviewing the product as-is, not as it may be in the future. If they did that, every product review would be glowing.

Criticism is important and will help the product get better. My G1 is on the way, but I have no illusions about the fact that it will have problems at first and some of those problems may not be fixable via an update or 3rd party solution. Remember all the reviews of the 1st gen iPhone? Of course they were mostly positive but there were also issues expressed like the glaring lack of 3g and lack of 3rd party apps. Those have been fixed because enough people made it clear what they wanted.

[Big Al]

Because they are reviewing the product as-is, not as it may be in the future.

Ding Ding Ding! Android is all about what you make, not necessarily how it comes out of the box.

[nogdolan]

I think that is the power with Android, It is Open Source!! Yes there will be developers who make applications for it, but I think you will see alot more of Joe Geek who get tired of waiting for a certian type of functionality or will improve on what someone else made. Once this OS goes viral there will be no stopping it!!

[bizarro_stormy]

Don't misunderstand what I'm getting at...Obviously they are reviewing the product as is, but they could also easily say, "but all of these shortcomings have the potential to be fixed with software"

I totally agree with cmaceachen in saying "Those have been fixed because enough people made it clear what they wanted." BUT I feel that too many tech common people (people not in the know, or only know what they hear) are being misinformed/ill-informed and will make judgments based off of that -- I want this platform to be as successful as possible and these reviews aren't getting it off to a good start

anyone get what I'm saying?

[nickmgray]

The reason in my humble opinion....they're not too familiar with Android.

I find it a little hard for people to be familiar with Android since this is the very first phone in the history of humanity (alients not included) to use the Android OS. The flaws that people are pointing out are directly related to the basic Android OS that is installed on the phone.

I know a lot of us know that the android Market is goign to be key in making the OS more operable and complete, but that does not mean that Google has left out quite a few things from the OS that they should have included.

[happyandyv]

Don't misunderstand what I'm getting at...Obviously they are reviewing the product as is, but they could also easily say, "but all of these shortcomings have the potential to be fixed with software"

I totally agree with cmaceachen in saying "Those have been fixed because enough people made it clear what they wanted." BUT I feel that too many tech common people (people not in the know, or only know what they hear) are being misinformed/ill-informed and will make judgments based off of that -- I want this platform to be as successful as possible and these reviews aren't getting it off to a good start

anyone get what I'm saying?

Yes. Where as they are giving the G1 with Android the feeling of total massive Failure, they should be giving it the benefit of the doubt and be saying that this is a starting point for google's OS and these are some improvements they would need to see in order to truly consider the platform an answer to mobile web or even the iPhone.

I only know what I read. I don't have any inside sources or friends working for any of the tech 50 or anything like that, but I know enough to know some serious fanboyism when I see it. I think the initial stature presented by the iPhone makes it a supreme device for fanboy defense. In that I mean for people to take defending it and comparing it personally to heart. A big part of this is the stats of course, in that the average iPhone user is a male 25-35 (these are off the top of my head, fuzzy memory but close) with an income of $65,000 or over; on top of that it is hands down a revolutionary device.. It kinda makes me sad though that people seem to have shut themselves off to other things (or at least a lot fo the reviews read that way).

It looks liek maybe our open source platform, has created some proprietary responses..