Comment Ruining the one really good thing about the G1. (Score 1) 116
It has Android on it. That was about the only thing that made the G1 phone interesting. The HTC hardware is solid, but nothing groundbreaking. The BREW store has always sucked, because of Qualcomm's unreasonable barriers to entry for developers. They stuck with their gated community of content and buy-before-you-try for years and just figured it was the natural order for most of their users not to care about mobile phone apps.
Arguably, the Java-based Android OS is bad for app performance compared to BREW's native C code. But if you want an exciting console for people that are relatively poor (emerging market), then its fairly obvious to have something like Android Market or iPhone App Store that is full of freeware, shareware, and amateur projects.
