Jan
13
Free? You couldn’t pay me to use this shit. #att #android #wtf (Taken with instagram)
Debris and detritus
Feedsite dumping to tekniklr.com, my real home on the wired.
Posts tagged android
Jan
9
"4G"
Danny Sullivan notes the difference between the iPhone 4S and the Galaxy S II Skyrocket on AT&T. Both are actually running on the same network, but the Galaxy gets the all-important “4G” moniker.
Except that it’s bullshit.
As Sullivan points out, the iPhone and the Galaxy are getting the exact same speeds. That’s because AT&T’s network is actually HSPA+, which the iPhone supports but refuses to call “4G” even though AT&T does.
Why does AT&T call it 4G? Because they were one to two years behind their competitors in rolling out an actual 4G network. In other words, when all hope fades, lie.
In AT&T’s parlance, real 4G is “4G LTE”. What a fucking joke.
Why I Hate Android
Why do I hate Android? It’s definitely one of the questions I get asked most often these days. And most of those that don’t ask probably assume it’s because I’m an iPhone guy. People see negative take after negative take about the operating system and label me as “unreasonable” or “biased” or worse.
I should probably explain.
Believe it or not, I actually don’t hate Android. That is to say, I don’t hate the concept of Android — in fact, at one point, I loved it. What I hate is what Android has become. And more specifically, what Google has done with Android.
Brilliant essay on why Android is evil. Spoiler: it’s not because it’s bad!
Oct
28
the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
They fail to mention when your shitty Android hardware can’t actually handle a forced software upgrade and becomes more crash-prone as a result, like what happened when my Motorola Droid got upgraded to Froyo. Hate Android.
The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…
(via chavtasticjinx)
Jul
4
My Droid has been so buggy and stupid and terrible recently that I can’t wait until Verizon gets the iPhone so I can have fun destroying this POS in some as-of-yet undetermined but rest-assured horribly violent way.
