Our tablet will be better than the iPad

Chang Ma, LG’s Marketing VP, on its “surprisingly productive” Android tablet
http://j.mp/9V0fsr

My lovely Droid crashes twice a day, reminding me the days when I had to reboot my Windows machine. I won’t mention the precision of touch because you won’t believe me until you experience it yourself.

The lesson learned here is that I never get what I want or need, just have to make the choice on compromises.

After filtering out all the garbage, e.g. opinions (whatever happened to journalism?), I was somewhat shocked and disgusted.

First of all, I’m all for enforcing laws, but not if it means handing over my rights protected by the Constitution. I find it offensive that I have to prove my nationality because I look the way I do. I know it’s not easy living in US when “you don’t look like they do”, and this is one more way to make it worse.

Growing up right across the Hudson River, July 4th meant watching awesome fireworks and BBQ. I used to get excited about celebrating America’s independence, which for me, used to mean freedom, liberty, and equality of all men. I firmly believe that those ideals are dead as we move closer to socialism, but that’s another conversation.

I don’t know when it changed, but I now believe that I’m not and will never be an “American”. Why? For one thing, my wife got harassed by a lady in supermarket who told her to “go back”. I get compliments because I speak natively. If you’ve been to Korea, don’t ask me about certain places because I don’t know.

Sad, isn’t it?

Well, Happy Birthday America, and I just pray that you don’t do what you did to me to my children.

Are you that stupid?

If you think about it, Google put the best phone on the market on the network nobody’s using. It is a phone after all, and they could’ve made a killing picking up all the people pissed off with AT&T, including me. Trust me, it’s not about advertising when my family knows about Nexus One.

The way I see it, it’s not the Nexus One that will kill iPhone, but it’s the AT&T in US.

Just released Droid phone from Motorola is a new challenger in dethroning the iPhone. Well, is it?

As far as I see it, it’s no longer about the iPhone. What will kill the iPhone is not the phone, but the network it’s on, AT&T. I had no choice but to get a Blackberry from Verizon so that I can in fact use the phone functionality. I still have iPhone as a music and video player.

What about the apps?

Any apps that require a network connection simply does not work consistently enough to be useful. I found that my Twitter client and the Facebook app do not work unless I’m on WiFi. If this is the case, why not just go with iPod Touch?

I see more and more people divorcing iPhone, and like me, carrying two phones. The timing is perfect for Motorola and Verizon to take over. It’s really up to the leadership of Verizon and Motorola, and that’s the biggest problem. The leaders in both companies do not possess a half brain required.

If you bank with TD Bank, you’re probably going through the same thing and I urge you to change your bank to others. I currently have business accounts with PNC and CapitalOne. They both offer same services and pricing as TD Bank (Commerce Bank).

On another note, do you really trust a bank that can’t handle computer system? What does that say about their system in the world of electronic transactions? Aren’t you concerned about their security? As a programmer, if the system can’t operate correctly, that usually means that security was never addressed. How can you think about security when you can’t get it to work?