By mitchp
via techcrunch.com
Published: Sep 10 2010 / 16:38
This past weekend, I wrote a post wondering if Android was surging in the U.S. market because Apple was letting it? The main thought was that by remaining exclusively tied to AT&T, Apple was driving some users to choose Android, which is available on all the U.S. carriers. In the post, I posed a question: if it’s not the iPhone/AT&T deal, why do you choose Android?
Comments
James Williams replied ago:
While I welcome open debate, this article is from a person who claimed that Android was big ONLY because Apple let it due to the iPhone being AT&T only .
Linkage here to that drivel: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/05/apple-android/
javawerks replied ago:
Actually, I found this article to be most interesting. I had no idea that US carriers where tuning Android in an effort to limit choice of the average user. It's a worthy read, less the author's odd bias. The comments are enlightening as well.
Topnotch replied ago:
Yep I totally agree. Pointing out the evil deeds of carriers who deny customer choice on a supposedly open platform doesn't mean that Android is deficient as a development platform but that the carriers are deficient in morality.
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