Comments on: gOoops (Beta)

By: Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:27:58 +0000

Definitely Google’s behavior on this issue is pretty strange and I do believe the developers must be worried about this attitude. But I don’t think this wrong move means that Android has no chances and all the developers will quickly move to iPhone simply because iPhone’s platform is not perfect and has its own flaws as well.

By: Zealot

Zealot — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:01:38 +0000

I am no fan of the iPhone or the Apple Cult, trust me. I don’t own one and won’t own one. I know there are many problems with he iPhone (as with any device) and it makes me crazy the way he media and apple fans revere their “jesus phone”.

That said, this was a stupid move by Google and left many developers feeling lied to and betrayed. Google behaved as if they were the only game in town…it should be clear to them by now that they are not, and if they don’t change direction they won’t even be in town, let alone in the game.

Hardware vendors are also getting sick of Google’s delays and partial code. I am sure that is why the rumor of a Google branded handset was floated again this week.

I still think Android could be amazing…but Google’s behavior all around is worrying me.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:09:13 +0000

So u saying apples Iphone 3g is better :P
My god how blind sided are u, android will take a while cause it has to be compatible with a phone to work ;)
apple doesnt have that problem.. but then again they are stuck with the same screwed up phone for evaaa

By: Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:31:02 +0000

Pretty clear summary of the situation but still I can not agree with you 100% about the first part (the Android one, I mean). The developers may be frustrated about the recent events but there are plenty of things for them to complain about Apple’s platform as well (we have had a comparison published by Cyndy, link under my name) so I would not have been so sure Apple is all good and Google is all evil, really.

But the situation with 23andMe is more disappointing. Even if not illegal, it still looks rather strange and even when the company was initially launched, I had my concerns about it since via the direct affiliation between the two companies Google will have genetic information about us and I am already uncomfortable about everything Google already knows about me.