Thread: BBC: Android 2.2 release
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shiningsadness is offline shiningsadness
2010-08-12 , 22:16
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I don't get this infinite trumpeting of Google's Android as the hottest fuzz around.
No one in this thread has been trumpeting Android. It's just pretty clear that Android 2.2 implements Flash 10.1 fairly well, and in the face of press like this from the BBC, Nokia has clearly dropped the ball. It's nice to see Google seriously updating Android's featureset on phones after they've been out for more then six months. Owning a N900, it gets real stale hearing talk of unofficial N900 support for Meego coming soon... Can we hear just something about the operating system that is on our phones right now? It hasn't even been a year yet since the first device with Maemo 5 came out and Nokia's support seems nonexistent.

So when I see this kind of raving about "Android this Android that therefore I'm such a sucker to have the N900" I must feel that we're sliding towards a "cultural degredation" in terms of having multiple OS's around.
And "cultural degradation" of OS's? This cultural degredation is just the consumer moving on to the OS that gives them the features they want. That makes sense when you $500 for a phone, and then it loses support in six months. I cannot afford to love multiple OS's, it is too cost prohibitive. And I am not about to complain how degradation is hurting Nokia. I'm quite sure the biggest phone company in the world can sort that problem out!

It's always about finding just one OS instead of liking many, and because Android is American it receives inherently more attention. God knows in Finland we trumpet Nokia's achievements like nobody else's (well we used to before it became hip to diss Nokia). This makes Android inherently the only viable OS in many (American blogger) people's minds.
Is the whole "American" thing really that necessary? I got a N900 and I'm American, although maybe idealism got the best of me in that purchase... Android isn't just sold in America and I don't think the dude in the BBC video was American. Nokia sells everywhere too, but when you aren't competing feature wise with others then there is a problem. What is becoming apparent is Nokia's lack of support for Maemo. I love the community here, and it is nice to see how much you believe in the N900. I just don't like any giant corporation enough to ignore the inferior support given to this device when compared to the other big name players. They didn't give me this device for free. And in this deal, I'm starting to feel like I really was the sucker...

P.S. That stutter seemed to only be present when starting and zooming the video, the phone seems to be doing a very good job for it running out of the box. I can't just zoom around on the page with flash videos on the N900 without problems and that's with a 1.15 ghz overclock.
 

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