List of Hate - Derogatory Android Expressions you never want to hear again...

[Jalarm]

The number 1 thing that ticks me off is people who refer to all android devices as DROIDS!

I had my Evo out and about and someone randomly walked up to me and said "Oh is the that the droid phone on sprint?" That does annoy me.

That pisses me off so much. My friend called my Xoom the Droid tablet, almost killed him.

 

[slackerjack]

My Grandfather used to say the same thing about Color TVs.

My Mom used to say the same thing about Cable TV


What will the next generation of kids say?


Now granted, 3D has a hell of a way to go before it is ready for prime time use on a cell phone. But I bet one day it will be very useful.

15 years ago if you told someone that one day they would have the internet in their pocket 24/7 they would think you are crazy.

Who knows what's next.... but I do like your idea of a 3D toaster. Hmmm, I better get the patent on that so I can start marketing it.

Ya but both your mom and grandads generation watched movies in 3d and agreed with me and dropped support/interest just like our generation will. I guess its like socialism...every generation picks it up from some book, pursues it...then realizes its worthless and leaves it behind....hopefully one day well realize that turds belong in the toilet...but that's just me

Jack

 

[rip14]

Ya but both your mom and grandads generation watched movies in 3d and agreed with me and dropped support/interest just like our generation will. I guess its like socialism...every generation picks it up from some book, pursues it...then realizes its worthless and leaves it behind....hopefully one day well realize that turds belong in the toilet...but that's just me

Jack

Stereopticon ----> Blue and Red Glasses @ movies ----> Active shutter @ home ----> Angry Birds flying off of your phones screen. Now that's evolution

 

[Officerpolabear]

That pisses me off so much. My friend called my Xoom the Droid tablet, almost killed him.

I know, sometimes, I wish it was a different phone that got Android going besides the Droid because now everyone calls every single android phone a 'droid'.

 

[Droid800]

So here's my point, you point out some things that were not necessarily Honeycomb:

"Buggy and Laggy" - two different issues, if you're talking about:

Force Closes - Yes, there are bugs...again, I revert to my earlier statement regarding the fact that Honeycomb isn't officially six months old yet - it's going to have bugs.

"Laggy" - if you are referring specifically to the lag between portrait and landscape (which I'm assuming you are, but please correct me if you are wrong" then again, the onus isn't on Honeycomb, but instead on Tegra2 - the screen scaling will ALWAYS be an issue given the platform. You'll see what I mean when other HC tablets sans Tegra but with other DC solutions (which will happen). Again, I'm guessing again that this is what you mean, but would be happy to consider other points of reference and I apologize If I'm off base on this one.

The lag isn't an issue with tegra, because 3.1 fixes it. Its because the 3.0 release was a sloppy, rushed, mess of an OS.

MicroSD support - Fine I'll grant you this one, though 3.0 was out for what - two whole weeks before 3.0.something came out? The fact that it's not enabeled on the Xoom shouldn't be considered - as the Asus tab managed to ship with working SD card support pre-3.1, which means Google may not have made it instantly accessible in that build of HC - but Asus managed to get it running (along with XDA) - meaning that support functionality was there. Given my position on SD card support, I'm probably not the best person to argue this either way - I think all tablets should ship with 8-16gb of storage and call it a day, I tend to "cloud" everything so the extra storage means absolutly nothing to me.

Launching a major product, that introduces a new OS into the market, lacking a major feature that the hardware itself supports is a MAJOR omission. It is by its very definition launching something that wasn't ready for primetime. (And the reasons why it wasn't included back that up)

Flash - Again, not the fault of the OS - this was simply an Adobe issue - they weren't ready at launch - and so what? Flash makes browsing the internet no less possible or impossible - it wasn't promised at launch, and it came out a whopping one month later. Try being an Apple fan and hearing "Never" over and over again. The fact is, the browser was perfectly useable without Flash (probably even somewhat faster given how much of a dog Flash is) - Flash is a nicety - but it's not like you couldn't surf the internet without it.

Nope. The lack of flash was entirely on Google. Its what happens when you launch a new OS when it isn't ready.

So there you have it - Honeycomb at launch was perfectly serviceable, there were bugs and features took time to become active - explain to me how this was different from ANY OTHER O/S launch from the beginning of time. To quantify it as "not ready for prime time" is as obtuse as saying that we shouldn't have released the original Xbox until Xbox live was enabled (a full year after the initial xbox launch) because it wasn't ready.

Serviceable is very different than being ready for the market. Everything you've described makes honeycomb not ready for primetime. The difference between this and other OSes, and the Xbox example, is that honeycomb was launched into the market incomplete. It wasn't that it was lacking features to come later, its that major portions of the OS were literally not finished in time by Google, despite the hardware capabilities being there. They pulled it ahead and ended up not making their deadlines. Those things are more noticeable than simply missing features, because the hardware very clearly has the capabilities to match the software, but the software is missing them. The Xbox comparison doesn't make any sense either, because Xbox live was never a part of the ecosystem from the beginning.


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[srkmagnus]

The Droid reference is just a testament to Verizons push to market Android.

 

[Droid800]

The Droid reference is just a testament to Verizons push the market Android.

And how weak and ineffectual all the marketing before it has been.

 

[Jalarm]

And how weak and ineffectual all the marketing before it has been.

I'll give Verizon credit though, they marketed it really well.

 

[MegaSoundwave76]

I just tell everyone I know this diddy if they call my Thunderbolt a "Droid" phone:

Every Droid is an Android, but not every Android is a Droid.

Even my wife tells that to peeps now (but she has the Dinc2). LOL

 

[Dark Wizard Matoya]

The Droid reference is just a testament to Verizons push to market Android.

Absolutely. Verizon's marketing push with it's DROID! battle cry was so successful that "Droid" became associated with Android as a whole. It can get annoying to hear all Android phones referred too as "Droids", but it's understandable.

 

[Verdes8891]

Funny story about the DROID name, I live near Motorolas headquarters. I ran into a guy who works for them and said shortly after the droid line came out alot of people were let go from Motorola's marketing department because they originially did not want it to be called the droid because it sounds to manly. They didnt think the female population would care for it too much.

 

[Dark Wizard Matoya]

Funny story about the DROID name, I live near Motorolas headquarters. I ran into a guy who works for them and said shortly after the droid line came out alot of people were let go from Motorola's marketing department because they originially did not want it to be called the droid because it sounds to manly. They didnt think the female population would care for it too much.

I'm female and I like the Droid name. Then again I'm also a nerd who isn't interested in the things most other women are interested in, so I'm probably not representative of the female segment of the population.