pretty sure this should fall into the "is a good thing" category...

Maybe this is a new feature in Android 2.x. But the list of applications you get when holding down the home button is not "running applications" but simply a list of recently started applications. When I leave an application and it has no active processes then it won't show up in the process list. So, I'm quite sure it's not running.

Fire up something like advanced task killer and see what your memory utilization is like. He has a point, getting an app to "close" in the sense that it's not running and not hogging memory is a problem with Android.

My comment is probably not worth too much not being a developer at all but I am an iphone owner and I must be honest the Nexus one does look pretty interesting.
I'm also an Aussie and the Nexus one isn't coming here unfortunately due to incompatibilities with Telstra (the most evil company around, sadly they do have a good phone network)

I will say most of his stuff is meaningless to me but as a hardware junkie, his 8'th point about the amount of target platforms, inherant in the nature of an open platform like android is a bit of a concern.
There's always positives and negatives in open and closed systems and this is a pretty distinct point, the question is though, what's the solution and who is going to get on it fast?

I'd like to see it solved because I do quite like my iphone but sadly I finally cracked the shits with it being so locked down and jailbroke it. It's better now but I /shouldn't have to/ .... would like to see an open platform at least be 1/2 as popular as the iphone.

We'll see I guess..

First off, it's not a compact car.

I think you missed the the one defining feature it has over a Corolla that's the whole reason for buying the car.

It's a different target market.

New tech = expensive. Get over it. It always will be. Do think we always had $500 laptops?

I don't think you read the article properly. Despite your undying love of google forcing you to accept everything from them (i'm liberally assuming here), there some legitimately complaints. The ammount of mini apps running around go directly against the idea that's been creeping around of making applications run on less files, like Mac application structure, or so i've heard, does, while the running applications it's a very valid point. The main point to be taken of is the fact that everyone and their mothers will develop handsets with different quirks, which can easily ruin the OS as applications will not "simply work", as they do on Symbian or the Iphone. Either Google sends down the hammer of standards, or the OS is doomed.

priced in cents/mile comes out to $480=48000 cents right?

or do you work for these guys? http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/09/0625245&from=rss