Tag: Android OS

Peter Kafka interviews MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman on Apple, Android, Facebook

Peter Kafka: You’ve complained publicly before about the difficulty in supporting multiple flavors of Android for your apps. But this year you’ve expanded the number of Android handsets you’re supporting from 6 to 11. Did you ever consider not working with Android at all?

Bob Bowman: The short answer is no. But what we have done is that we don’t support every Android phone. Because at some point, it’s diminishing returns. The Android user typically is less likely to buy, and therefore the ROI on developing for Android is different than it is for Apple.

via Interview With MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman on Apple, Android, Facebook | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD.

I think that when you give away the OS and sell the hardware at massive discounts that your will attract a certain kind of customer. The kind of customer who wants more FREE.  Where's the profit in that?

Android security? Let users figure it out.

But Google can't lock down Android completely, nor does it want to. That leaves room for more mobile malware creations to make their way to users' phones in the future. For end users, it means the burden is on them to be vigilant with app installations and security. via More DroidDream Details Emerge: It was Building a Mobile Botnet.

How are consumer going to decide what a malicious app looks like in the Android Marketplace?

Google isn't evil

Kyle Baxter and clarifies his earlier blog post about Android.

When I wrote my piece explaining Google’s Android strategy, I wasn’t trying to vilify Google or explain why readers should abhor them; rather, I was trying to explain what they’re doing. I personally dislike their strategy (trying to commoditize your competition’s greatest advantage and then make money through advertising strikes me as lazy), and I think mobile devices will be better off if Apple’s paid market succeeds versus a web-like, advertising-based model, but that’s not evil. It’s just different than what I think is a good strategy and what will, in the end, be beneficial for users.