Was the android experiment a failure?

I will preface this ground breaking article by proclaiming myself both an Apple-fan and a Google-hater. I do like some Google stuff like YouTube and Google-fiber, but let’s save why I dislike Google for another time.  This preamble would not be complete without my declaration that I have never even owned an Android product. However I am willing to stipulate for the record that Android is as functional, useful, utilityish and versatile as Apple’s IOS and possibly more so in many cases. (Albeit quite ugly)

Dumb and not cute
Dumb and not cute

Android has been a phenomenal success. The sales are incredible and they have become #1 while hurdling the obstacle of being second-to-the-party. Android adoption continues to grow and everyone agrees it generally gets better and better. This doesn’t sound like a failure.

Dream big!
Dream big!

The Android experiment was not built just to be a competing operating system to IOS. It was novel, an open platform to be built upon and improved upon by major manufacturers and anyone with a good ideas. That was the experiment, can we build a better OS by making it open to the world. On a basic level, the failure becomes clear when we look at how everyone prefers pure android and not the garbage affixed to it by Samsungesque manufacturers. But the disappointment is greater than that. The same independent (non-Apple) developers who made the iPhone a significantly better device by adding their ingenuity via applications were now supposed to take Android to the next level. Many of us had hoped for more than phones, we wanted the OS to infiltrate technology. Here, It’s free, now go make something great!

We got shit from 3rd party people, nada, zilch, zero. Android is a full OS, it could be stripped down and combined with a crap screen and pottered into a fridge, or you can add to the OS and attach it to a robot. Android was a major ingredient for many new technologies and no one cared.

3rd world like China
3rd world like China

I want some kid in a third world country on a castaway 2009 MacBook and Android to build the next big thing. We got enough from the Amazon, Google and Apple think factories. Instead I see IOS getting more like Android and Android getting more like IOS. Are all the great minds wasting time thinking up new addictive games for my phone.  Enough with the apps engineers.

5 thoughts on “Was the android experiment a failure?”

  1. Just tried listening yo Security Now (after a long hiatus) its not listenable. Nothing against Gibson but having him gas on without someone activity listening , clarifying, interjecting etc… hurts the show. Not a fan of Padre, but at least he tried to pay attention.

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    1. It is amazing Steve lets Leo take more than a small amount from that show. The best downloaded/YouTubed episodes were hosted by Tom, probably because of topic to be fair hough. One was Bitcoin and I forget the other. But Leo is no more useless on any show other than SN.

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  2. The mods kick out loving fans. Chickenguy got kicked, I saw janisku get kicked, creamycornguy got kicked and I just saw dddd get scolded by padre for asking what the topic was in preshow.

    Why do they treat fans like this. Why do they want a chat room that just praise. It is so creepy in there now. It feels like you’re a child be cajoled into an unmarked van. Lots of fake lines with fake smiles.

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    1. I got banned too, just because I called somebody “lazy”. Geez. I didn’t say the N word… You know, “num nuts”. Lazy is still allowed by the FCC.
      Mods are out of control. That’s a good name for a band actually.

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