android

Another reason to like the iPhone: the much maligned Apple App Store at least has one advantage - they keep developers from being bad:

"A recent test of prototype security code for Android phones found that 15 of 30 free Android Market applications sent users' private information to remote advertising servers, without the users being aware of what was being sent or to whom. In some cases, the user's location data was sent as often as every 30 seconds."

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/092910-android-privacy.html

I got ticked at Palm enough for this in the past...

Change in mobile operating systems over the last quarter:

Apple: Up .3%

Microsoft: Down 4%

Google Android: Up 4.3%

Go google!

http://hothardware.com/News/Android-Crushes-the-Competition-iPhone-Stand...

Finally - multitouch!

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/02/apple-google-multi-touch-android/

I think this is more-or-less right-on.... I'd be a much bigger Android advocate if they'd made it easier to access lower-level things and install arbitrary programs.  I realllly don't want to buy a phone I have to hack to get working the way I want

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/why...

I think the iPhone was a step in the right direction, but I think the coming waves of linux phones will be the real deal :o)

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/40326/118/