Re:App Store: I'm out
by mattmaroon on Sunday September 14, 2008 @02:50AM
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Being on a phone with a dedicated keypad will help more than any software. Android's strength is largely not software. The software only has to be passable, and there's no way the Alliance will let it not be that.
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Are you serious? All Android is is software. It just happens to support a lot of different types of hardware, and the first phone has a dedicated keyboard. And saying it will help more than anything is certainly a matter of your opinion.
At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is the experience-- a combination of the software, the hardware, and the network.
Re:App Store: I'm out
by mattmaroon on Sunday September 14, 2008 @06:25PM
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It's mostly hardware/network though. People buy phones for many different reasons, which necessitates many different form factors. For instance, someone who actually used their phone as a phone would be ill-served by an iPhone, but not by some Android units. Same with people who do a lot of emailing/texting.
So I didn't really mean the keypad specifically.