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By: Firegirl

Firegirl — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:55:43 +0000

If you browse any of the Android forums, there are a lot more iPhone converts than you think.

And I think more of the problems with the Droid are software related and not hardware.

But I guess part of the fun for me is the fact that the Droid is not perfect. But the OS and app market are completely open, so we can come up with our own solutions. Can't do that with and iPhone. It's fun to fix something and really contribute to making something better...

By: Ratnok

Ratnok — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:36:16 +0000

It's funny how "fanboy" is somehow deemed to be more insulting for "fan", which is just shorthand for "fanatic." "Fanatic" meaning: marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion. So in that light, let's just call them "fans."

By: Chopper

Chopper — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:02:37 +0000

Vinny, you are a fanboy.

By: @dommafia

@dommafia — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:27:14 +0000

well said Vinny. Tone down the fanboy accusations, leave it to fanboys to spew it around, not you android guys. Keep it classy

By: dommafia

dommafia — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:24:18 +0000

hey vinny, great reply.

By: Mike aka MonolithTMA

Mike aka MonolithTMA — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:32:14 +0000

I used to be a hard core Apple fanboy, but their business practices, which I won't go into here, have led me away, along with other OS's that have become really solid in the past few years, and now I'm platform agnostic, though I am typing this on a Mac Mini. I've never had anything, but a passing interest in the iPhone, but just love Android. I installed it on my Sprint HTC Touch and it ran amazingly well, with a few glitches because it was not even close to officially supported on that phone.

My friends that have Droids love them, one is a hardcore Mac user and the other Windows.

Regarding the word "fanboy", is it like the "n word" in that one fanboy can apply it to others? Platform devotion, whether with computers, video game consoles, or phones, is about the closest thing I've seen in my life to religious devotion. In many instances "fanboy" is incredibly accurate, I should know, I used to be one.

By: Vinny

Vinny — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:39:21 +0000

Okay...

#1: They list Android 2.0 as a plus, not a minus. Their criticisms of the marketplace seem a bit overwrought, but it's no worse than slinging the word "fanboy" around.

#2: Almost all of the criticisms are, and rightfully so, directed at the hardware itself, which having played with a droid (for more than the two minutes this reviewer probably did) aren't that far off. He certainly isn't the only one who isn't thrilled with the camera and the keyboard. Motorola definitely was trying for something with this design, they just failed at it. That's not a knock on Android, it's a knock on Motorola. Hell, ask Leo Laporte who's done nothing but praise the Droid to high heaven, but he's dinged it for the keyboard and camera multiple times.

It isn't iPhone fandom that made this review, and it actually seemed pretty balanced. The Droid is far from perfect, and it deserves to be criticized for its shortcomings, most of which are in the category of mediocre hardware, not the Android OS itself.

Incidentally, before you warm up that fanboy label and prepare to stick it to me, I have a Nexus One, a phone I ordered 2 minutes after it was announced, and one that I've already sold my iPhone 3GS for; just so you're aware of my lineage.