iPhone users envious of Nexus One
09 Jan 2010 // 12 comments // Mobile Development News
Last night we attended the It Won’t Stay in Vegas party and ran into some of the top bloggers. I was lucky enough to meet two people who have inspired me to start blogging, Leo Laporte and Justine Ezarik. I know both are big iPhone users so I had to get their opinion on the Nexus One.
Leo told me he really liked the design and had already ordered one. I asked him if he was willing to switch from iPhone and he responded he is still waiting for the Android Market to mature. Several of the apps he uses are not available on Android, but hopefully that will change soon.
Check out Leo’s weekly podcast This Week in Google for the latest Google and cloud computing news.
Justine (or iJustine) is known as the iPhone girl. I never thought she would consider Android, but she is so fed up with AT&T (dropped calls and cant send txt) that she is ready for a new phone. She played with my phone and said it was awesome so maybe she will come over to the dark side.
Spot any other iPhone users with the Nexus One? Let us know.
Related Posts
View full post on Android and Me
Tags: all, Android, Android Market, android phone, android phones, Cloud Computing, computing news, Droid, droid market, droid phone, envious, Google, Huawei, ijustine, ijustine nexus one, Iphone, Justine, Justine Ezarik, leo, Leo Laporte, leo laporte iphone power case, leo laporte nexus, leo laporte nexus 1, leo laporte nexus one, leo laporte podcast "nexus one", mainstream media, Nexus, nexus one, nexus one case, nexus one function, nexus one laporte, night, Opinion, Party, Phone, Podcast, proxy, Smartbook, Snapdrag, Snapdragon, snapdragon power, Start, stay, U.S.Hands, User's, Vegas, Won, www, www.youtube.com, Youtube.com
This entry was posted on Saturday, January 9th, 2010 at 8:33 pm and is filed under Mobile Development News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
He’s spot-on about Google’s approach to technology, and it’s a shame everyone’s reading it as “[my Android phone] isn’t an emotional experience, my iPhone is”. It’s a lot deeper than that–Google has always been one to put practicality and function far, far ahead of form. Look at any of Google’s products–they’re a kludge once you start looking at the little things, and those little things add up. Google Docs has folders. Gmail has “labels”, which act as tags. Reader has folders and tags. Voice has neither. When you’re going from one product to the other, it’s a very frustrating experience to have to learn new rules–especially when this is all coming from a big company that should know a thing or two about consistency.
A lot of it comes down to the old form-versus-function theory. Google’s got function, obviously. Unfortunately, “function” is only part of design. Form makes function accessible, usable, and emotional.
iPhone is bad for your brain it’s fucks it up !
all those iPhone crackheads are brain washed
need iPhone …. aaaahh … cant live with out it !!
they are all braindead thanks Apple !!!
Yes, that article about being attached to his iphone and nobody being attached to their Android phone is bs. what it sounds like to me is he can’t fathom anything being as great as his precious iphone. It’s more denial from the Apple sect.
On topic, one of my iphone buds is seriously considering the N1…he may even buy it before I do. So that’s saying something. Of course I have three other iphone buds who probably never heard of the N1, nor do they want to.
I have a Ne×us One and I can tell you that I am definitely emotionally attached to this wonderful phone and as a matter of fact I was attached to my G1 before this as well and still think of it foundly. So to say only iPhone users are attached to their device and nobody else is just comical. You ever try to pry a Crackberry out of its owners hands? LOL GOodLuck!!! Ahahahaa
Yes, but is there really much merit to that post? Are those issues really that important? Is there really no emotional attachment between Android owners and their phones?
I think that post is full of crap, personally. There is plenty of emotional attachment. There is plenty of UI goodness – hell, it’s really tough to top Apple’s UI skills but I still think Android’s capabilities and interface are better than most.
That BGR post is just a fanboy bitching about little things, without seeing the bigger picture.
i have an iPhone 3gs en monday i,m going to get my nexus one
i cant wait. i tested a lot of phone,s in 2009 to compaire NeXT to my iPhone
the G1, magic, galaxy, hero, tattoo and the Htc hd2 i think this time
i Will sell the iPhone and keep the Nexus one
i,m sorry for my bad english i,m from THE Netherlands (Amsterdam)
THE weed en hooker capital of the world !!!
Doesn’t exactly sound like they are envious. – And then there’s this to consider – http://bit.ly/67Hr2Y
I am/was a HUGE iPhone user. I’m still admittedly a big apple fanboy but my Nexus One will be arriving in the mail on Monday. The only things I will miss are the iTunes sync, the iPod, and the safe environment of apps on the app store that I never needed to be cautious of downloading malware from.
My friend is the same way. He’s had all the iPhones and has seen all of my android devices and this is the one he said he would get but keep both. He likes apple products for music and still favors it over android but like I told him he will switch over completely one day.
Kevin Rose tweeted that he got a Nexus One. http://twitter.com/kevinrose/status/7533865458
Every iPhone owner I’ve showed the Nexus to has been envious. I’d say that Apple do the beta thing just as much, they just are not honest about admitting it.
in credit repair…
Credit where credit is due – I could not have put it better myself….