As per your request on Twitter, comments posted to the blog rather than tweeted.

You took what could have been an insightful Op-Ed piece on Android vs iOS and blew it like a cheap hooker on main street. I understand you were probably shooting for shock value, but instead you cheapened yourself. Take the shoddy attempt at eliciting an “OMG! *gasp*” reaction out, and you have a readable, thought-inducing article.

Anyone can gain readers through flashiness, shock value, and shiny stuff, but even that gets old after a while. If you really want to grow this site, keep more of the tone presented in the final 90% of the piece.

If not, all you’ll ever amount to is the “Slap-Chop” of tech sites.

michaelwpg

Well said/put Michael. Thanks

The whole first hit analogy really goes for all technology. I own an iphone 4, just switched from Verizon on which in the last two years I owned a BlackBerry 8330, then a tour, the a storm 1 then a storm 2 then another tour then a Bold. That was just my business line, on my personal line I had an 8130 ( don’t judge) another curve, then an Eris then a Motorola Droid, then an Incredible and finally a Droid X. ( the X and the Incredible where review units). I’ve also owned an iPhone 3G, 3GS and now an iPhone 4. With every new piece of hardware, I agree UN-boxing is like a drug. Then within days its just another phone. They all, in some capacity, has Internet, email, messaging, a camera, etc. They all had pros and cons some where better overall others where not at all. My point is this, to say any one device or company is hands down better, worse or other wise is irresponsible as a blogger, as a consumer. The fact is all technology has flaws, the iphone 3g, 3g s, 4 whatever has problems, BlackBerrys have problems, Mac’s have problems, Windows has problems…etc…. You get the point. Because this is a cellular blog I won’t get into the OS wars. Its all a matter of what you want to do and what you want to it do it with. Yeah android is customizable, but it’s not as open as google would make it seem, if it was, getting root access would be as simple as opening a terminal, and typing su in the command line, and poof “rooted” Apple is even worse, but at least they are open with there “closed-ness”, I won’t even go to BlackBerry and Windows 7 not sure if any of this makes sense and don’t get me wrong, I’m not criticizing your opinions, thats the beauty of it. To each his own. As far as the post goes, come on man, keep it classy, opinion pieces are great, but not when you come across looking like an ass…Regardless, I will continue to stop by when the headlines catch my eye and my interest and at the end of the day…. I suppose that’s the ultimate goal. Cheers,
John

Also I agree with Michael. The last 90% od the post is great. The first 2 lines, not so much.

Yea, it was a bit eccentric. But, nevertheless he got his point across.

As per your request on Twitter, comments posted to the blog rather than tweeted.

You took what could have been an insightful Op-Ed piece on Android vs iOS and blew it like a cheap hooker on main street. I understand you were probably shooting for shock value, but instead you cheapened yourself. Take the shoddy attempt at eliciting an “OMG! *gasp*” reaction out, and you have a readable, thought-inducing article.

Anyone can gain readers through flashiness, shock value, and shiny stuff, but even that gets old after a while. If you really want to grow this site, keep more of the tone presented in the final 90% of the piece.

If not, all you'll ever amount to is the “Slap-Chop” of tech sites.

michaelwpg

Well said/put Michael. Thanks

The whole first hit analogy really goes for all technology. I own an iphone 4, just switched from Verizon on which in the last two years I owned a BlackBerry 8330, then a tour, the a storm 1 then a storm 2 then another tour then a Bold. That was just my business line, on my personal line I had an 8130 ( don't judge) another curve, then an Eris then a Motorola Droid, then an Incredible and finally a Droid X. ( the X and the Incredible where review units). I've also owned an iPhone 3G, 3GS and now an iPhone 4. With every new piece of hardware, I agree UN-boxing is like a drug. Then within days its just another phone. They all, in some capacity, has Internet, email, messaging, a camera, etc. They all had pros and cons some where better overall others where not at all.
My point is this, to say any one device or company is hands down better, worse or other wise is irresponsible as a blogger, as a consumer. The fact is all technology has flaws, the iphone 3g, 3g s, 4 whatever has problems, BlackBerrys have problems, Mac's have problems, Windows has problems…etc…. You get the point. Because this is a cellular blog I won’t get into the OS wars. Its all a matter of what you want to do and what you want to it do it with. Yeah android is customizable, but it's not as open as google would make it seem, if it was, getting root access would be as simple as opening a terminal, and typing su in the command line, and poof “rooted” Apple is even worse, but at least they are open with there “closed-ness”, I won’t even go to BlackBerry and Windows 7 not sure if any of this makes sense and don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing your opinions, thats the beauty of it. To each his own.
As far as the post goes, come on man, keep it classy, opinion pieces are great, but not when you come across looking like an ass…

Regardless, I will continue to stop by when the headlines catch my eye and my interest and at the end of the day…. I suppose that’s the ultimate goal.

Cheers, John

Also I agree with Michael. The last 90% od the post is great. The first 2 lines, not so much.

Yea, it was a bit eccentric. But, nevertheless he got his point across.

i thought the article was tongue in cheek and enjoyed it. thanks.

i thought the article was tongue in cheek and enjoyed it. thanks.