@deb

When I first read the headline I was prepared for a VERY different article. It reads Android Makes me Cry! Then I read the first sentence about Anidel's exclusive use of Maemo, and testing Android 1.6, and I was sure that it was going to be placing Android against the firing block.

I was shocked to find out that he really liked Android, and the article wasn't a bash-fest. It also wasn't a nokia bash-fest either, though more a plea for Nokia to step its game up.

Android is also gaining adoption at a rapid pace due to some very clever OS implementations to make these phones fast on mobile systems. By all indications, this will increase yet again with the latest version with features like hardware acceleration and UI remodeling. I really like the teams incremental approach to improvement rather than Nokia's tear-down-and-rebuild strategy.

I've always liked the idea of software optimization. These iOS and Android devices are proving that mobile hardware is more than capable of running most of the applications that we need from day to day. New advances in optimization are making these things run flawlessly on these tiny systems, and perhaps in some cases better than they do on much larger laptops.