{"id":1773,"date":"2012-01-09T09:43:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T19:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2012-01-09T20:02:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T06:02:41","slug":"new-mobile-meme-get-on-the-android-hate-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/new-mobile-meme-get-on-the-android-hate-train\/","title":{"rendered":"New mobile meme: Get on the Android Hate Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed what may be a new mobile meme: The Android Hate Train. It started percolating with complaints about fragmentation, vendors tossing hideous custom interfaces which obscure Google&#8217;s own native Android UI, and notes about slowing market growth. TechRepublic posted an item recently that I commented on yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/08\/why-android-tablets-failed-wait-a-minute\/\">Why Android tablets failed? Wait a minute\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, this piece by venture capitalist Antonio Rodriguez is making the rounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/an.ton.io\/blog\/articles\/2012\/01\/09\/android-as-we-know-it-will-die-in-the-next-two-years-and-what-it-means-for-you\">Android as we know it will die in the next two years and what it means for you<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s with this Android Hate Train that seems to be gaining steam during CES week? I&#8217;ve got my own personal beefs with Android. But, its current market domination can&#8217;t be denied. And, it seems like it has enough steam to keep moving forward. Then again, I might have said the same thing about Palm (Palm OS devices, not webOS), Nokia and RIM BlackBerry a few years ago.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Addendum: Here&#8217;s another addition for the Android Hate Train from former TechCrunch writer MG Siegler: <a href=\"http:\/\/parislemon.com\/post\/15604811641\/why-i-hate-android\">Why I Hate Android<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed what may be a new mobile meme: The Android Hate Train. It started percolating with complaints about fragmentation, vendors tossing hideous custom interfaces which obscure Google&#8217;s own native Android UI, and notes about slowing market growth. TechRepublic posted an item recently that I commented on yesterday. Why Android tablets failed? Wait a minute\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-mobile-devices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-sB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}