{"id":159773,"date":"2010-01-09T21:31:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T02:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.androidguys.com\/?p=12616"},"modified":"2010-01-09T21:31:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T02:31:06","slug":"android-and-iphone-a-tale-of-two-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/159773","title":{"rendered":"Android and iPhone: A Tale of Two Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On what should have been a quiet Saturday, a pair of reviews\/articles showed up online that provide an interesting counterpoint to Ray Walters’ The Android Army is Rising<\/a> post.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, we have Jason Kincaid’s The Switch From iPhone To Android, And Why Your First Impression Is Wrong<\/a>, appearing in TechCrunch. Mr. Kincaid makes what should be an obvious point, but one that gets overlooked a lot — your past experience has an impact on your view of the present. The crux: long-time iPhone users will need some time to get used to Android, and off-the-cuff reviews don’t give reviewers that kind of time. This is no different than if, say, I were to try a Palm Pixi for a day or two and offer up a review, as it would take me more time than that to truly appreciate the differences between WebOS and Android.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, we have “Boy Genius” (not sure his real name) and Google Android Personal Thoughts<\/a>, appearing in his Boy Genius Report blog. This article shreds Android to bits. Some of his complaints are valid and oft repeated in Android-land, such as the limitations of the Android Market. Some of his claims are unprovable (e.g., “No one gives a crap about their Android phone, there\u2019s zero emotional attachment” with nary a sign of a statistically-valid survey to back up the point). Some of his claims may be provably false (e.g., much of his rant on the icon sizes is false for Android 2.0.1, and I can replicate the experiment on the 2.1 SDK once it arrives).<\/p>\n

The thing that struck me the most about the two pieces, though, were their respective tones. The pro-Android TechCrunch article was calm, professional, and fairly succinct. The anti-Android screed comes across like the worst of the “Android Army” rants that Mr. Pogue complained about — I can almost feel the spittle coming out of my monitor. Had the tones been reversed, I would have been upbraiding Mr. Kincaid. As it stands, Boy Genius is welcome to reach his target audience however he wishes.<\/p>\n

The point is that, for Android to succeed, we need more sane discourse and fewer rants and diatribes. This is why I railed against those launching personal attacks and spamming Android Market comments in the Cyanogate mess from 2009. I know that the “Android Army” modus operandi<\/em> is sexy, and I’ve been known to brandish a verbal gun myself from time to time — I am trying my level best to improve. But ordinary people will not be impressed with an unruly mob, if that’s what Android fans come across as.<\/p>\n

We can do better than that. We have<\/em> to do better than that.<\/p>\n

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