No Offense, But You Are An Idiot
A year ago we called Pandora’s Tom Conrad a village idiot…. an hour ago we admitted we were wrong but promised to continue calling out those who deserve the wrath of our criticism. Didn’t take long. I’d like to give a big old Price Is Right Welcome to Jason Hiner from ZDNet and TechRepublic… COME ON DOWN!
In what can only be considered supremely idiotic, Hiner has just published an article that completely craps on Android with a barrage of baseless criticisms that seems to conclude Android will fail if it continues in its current direction. Has this guy used an Android-based phone for more than a few minutes? Does “user error” count as a flawed mobile OS because perhaps the guy just wasn’t bright enough to turn the phone on before using it? Maybe he forgot his unlock code?Try a making a big circular G pattern.
His unique tone of arrogant ignorance would be best illustrated by copying/pasting the entire article, but here are a few tidbits that will give you the taste of total tech-tardation. First, talking about the Google Ion:
I recently got a peak at the Google Ion, the second generation Android smartphone, and while the hardware-software integration is better and the UI has improvements, the application performance is still poor and much of the software is simply too sluggish and buggy. It feels like beta software. In fact, Google would have been better off naming the platform “Beta” rather than “Android” since beta is such a regular part of Google products. Unfortunately, beta isn’t “good enough” for smartphones.
Hardy har har hilarious. Android seems to be “good enough” for many millions of people already… and the most exciting thing about Android is the users, platform and market are getting bigger and better every single day. Apparently Hiner had a problem with Android the day it launched:
Let me start by saying that Google’s move to create its own smartphone platform (Android) was a mystery to me from the beginning. It was unnecessary. Google could have simply focused on creating great mobile software and search products for all of the main smartphone platforms and it would have accomplished its primary goal, which was to create a mobile platform for AdWords.
Oh. My. God. Are you kidding? Android being announced in the first place is half the reason mobile innovation has enjoyed such vigorous acceleration in the past 2 years. And perhaps Google should apologize for thinking beyond the confines of your little search box, but I’m pretty sure they’ve got some amazing opportunities to expand their business beyond the realm of what some people (ahem, ahem) believe possible. Android, Chrome, Docs, Voice… Google has some amazing opportunities lined up but maybe you’re right – they should fire everyone and put the bulk of their time on making Google.com render better on mobile phone browsers.
Yeah… you’re right… Android is so dumb. What a waste of time Google has with this Android thing…
I must admit I borrowed the title from my sister who seems to preface offensive comments with “No Offense, but…” assuming she can then avoid all blame for making the insulting comment in the first place. I think its funny. I don’t like to be rude… but I certainly have my moments of sarcastic dickishness. This is one of them:
No offense Jason Hiner, but you are an idiot.