T
he iPhone has been a huge success over the past year. The things effectively bring handheld computing to the masses. I of course would not be talking like this if I did not own one.
I like my iphone a ton, the immediate access to the web and my email is brilliant beyond belief. One example of why I like this was when Neil and I were on our way to chicago, and out in car GPS decided to start on fire. Without the iphone, I would have missed my exit and stayed on the gridlocked expressway wasting probably more than an hour of our trip. This was all thanks to the Iphone’s gps simulating cell triangulation, and the google maps application for the iPhone! yay!!!
Now, google has seen the potential of a small computer in your pocket, (clearly! a device to send advertisements to everybody everywhere!!!) and they decided to create their own platform called android. The first android phone was released today, called the HTC G1.
The G1 was released with a lot of the (potential, google is making it up to 3rd party devs to write more of the software than apple did) features as the iphone. There is one (hardware) feature that is RATHER ODDLY MISSING – a headphone adaptor. Of course this was priority for apple when creating the iphone, but google was thinking about people using its phone as a mobile media platform as well, they added an amazon music store that allows you to download DRM free music on the go! Why in the world would they not add a headphone jack is well beyond me…
One other questionable choice that I see is there is no program for the PC with which the G1 will sync. Handset backup is most definitely a desired feature, so I am not so sure about this either.
Why google why?
(should I google for an answer to this question??)
